it to his ear. It was a moment of tense expectancy. No one knew clearly the room, advanced with both hands outstretched to the bewildered Bell, amazement: "MY GOD--IT TALKS!" slighting remark which raised a laugh at Bell's expense. Then a most hungry. Several announced their intention of returning to their hotels. tall, blond-bearded Dom Pedro in the centre, the assembled judges, and even Bell himself had forgotten, that Dom Pedro had once visited Bell's raised his head from the receiver and exclaimed with a look of utter courtiers, the Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro de Alcantara, walked into marvellous thing happened--such an incident as would make a chapter in Brazilian school for deaf-mutes at Rio de Janeiro. And so, with the "The Arabian Nights Entertainments." scientists--there were fully fifty in all--entered with unusual zest down again. He did not even place it to his ear. Another judge made a Accompanied by his wife, the Empress Theresa, and by a bevy of and exclaimed: "Professor Bell, I am delighted to see you again." The this young inventor, with the pale complexion and black eyes, that he in such humanitarian work, and had recently helped to organize the first what was about to happen, when the Emperor, with a dramatic gesture, judges at once forgot the heat and the fatigue and the hunger. Who was Next came to the receiver the oldest scientist in the group, the A wire had been strung from one end of the room to the other, and while into the proceedings of this first telephone exhibition. class of deaf-mutes at Boston University. He was especially interested Bell went to the transmitter, Dom Pedro took up the receiver and placed One took up a telephone receiver, looked at it blankly, and put it should be the friend of Emperors? They did not know, and for the moment