THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. 



delicacy of the ear and auditory nerves, which enable us 

 instantaneously to interpret any one set of these vibra- 

 tions, amidst the many other sets of air-waves arising 

 from various sources which must be continually crossing 

 and intermingling in apparently inextricable confusion. 

 The phonograph, whether as illustrating the ingenuity 

 of man or the marvellous perfection of our organism, 

 will certainly take high rank among the new inventions 

 of the nineteenth century. 



