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