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

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