Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — Peculiar Violin. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar Violin.

Abram Moses, a violinist of Baltimore, is the possessor of what might be called a barometric violin. Some time after Mr. Moses bought it, he noticed that at certain times it exhaled a strange and subtle fragrance, like an aroma of Oriental incense. Later, he observed that this fragrance was noticeable only when the weather was about to become damp. He obtained the yioiifi in Paris some yearfl ago when he was studying there. f

A hawk can spy a lark uj>on the earth almost exactly the same color at twenty times the distance at Which it is perceptible to a man or dog. A kite soaring out of human sight can still distinguish and pounce upon lizards and field mice on the ground, and the distance from which vultures and eagles can spy their prey is almost incredible.