Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — Limit of Hearing. [ARTICLE]

Limit of Hearing.

It has been found by Dr. Tait that the ear in women can perceive higher notes—that is, sounds with a greater nuihber of vibrations per second—than the ear in men. The highest limit of human hearing is somewhere between forty-one thousand and forty-two thousand vibrations per second. Few persons have e iual sensibility to acute sounds in both ears, the right ear usually hearing a higher note than the left. The lowest continuous sounds have about sixteen vibrations,per second. A 'farmer was invited to a party at a country squire’s," one evening, when There was music, both vocal and instrumental. On the following morning he met one of the guests, who said, “Well, farmer, hpw did you enjoy yourself last night ? Were not the quartets excellent ?” “Why, rea’ly, air, I can’t said he, “for I didn’t taste ’em. But the pork chops were the finest I ever did eat.” Dr. R. Butler, Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, says: “St. Jacobs Oil acts like magic.”