... per of is ‘Was paid, was likewise in request, may be sack realised. Oats were also cold, and oatmeal not of an extensive nature noted 6d per load dearer. ‘and pu In other articles ...

... musical scale. The plan proposed gives to the last stroke of each hour a different musical sound, according with one of the natural notes of the gamut Thus, at one the morning, the clock would give the sound of la, the lowest tone of the base clef; two it would ...

... played three pieces of music, of about five pages each. Bv each of these pages he gained 1,365 francs. For a bar fr., for natural note 6 fr., for sharps and firts 3 frs. each, for quaver one franc and a half, for a semiquaver sous, for a deiuisenrquaver ...

... of the Ckrtmirlr state* that among the singing birds in his garden and shrubbery i» blackbird, which, addition to hi* natural note*, repeatedly ends bis song crowing like bantum cock. StarriißDsoißE SatsiOK*.—The b'lfioais •ho acasinn* brought to a Saturday ...

... Bird. —An inhabitant of Stourbridge possesses canary which, liaving been kept in a cage hung in a yard, mingles with its natural notes the call of young chickens, the clucking of hens, and the chirping of sparrows. Correctness of Terms.—Dobb, the portrait ...

... geometric series, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048; each term which thus becomes a representative of the natural note do (except the first five terms, which vibrate too slowly to produce musical sounds) every term being the octave of the ...

... Gardeners' Chronicle states that among the singing birds in his garden and shrubbery is blackbird, which, in addition to his natural notes, repeatedly ends his song by crowing iike a bantam cock. Molloy, the veteran pedestrian, and his son, seventeen years age ...

... hi to. His voice, either from our getting more accustomed it, because it has really mellowed, seems to possess, in the natural notes, more breadth and roundness than when was here last; and his charming falsetto sounds, possible, more pure and liquid than ...

... sliade when compared with the subject of our notice—a common starling, which has been taught not only to lay aside its natural notes and sing various airs with great exactness, but to chatter away with all the volubility and much of the quaintness of an ...

... to provide myself a fresh mess for breakfast. The sun having just risen induced it to commence its morning song, but the natural note (blen-blcn) of this bird was almost lost amongst tbe multitude of the sounds it was then producing. The croak the crow ...

... to the full compass and power of the nightingale. The effect was most pleasing, although, of course, not equal to the natural notes of this bird, not one of which he retained. Indeed, man birds are almost, if not entirely, imitative, and, in defau I of ...

... venture to suggest that should read the wryneck fife,” alluding to the bird called the Wryneck (in Kalin, Tor quill a), the natural note of which may, for aught I know, shrill and sharp, like the sound of the instrument in question.” have been almost tempted ...