Eames, Emma

opera-singer, born in China in 1868. Her parents were natives of Boston, where she afterward lived. Went to Paris (1883) for the purpose of study, and made her début there at the Opeга (1889); made a brilliant succe in New York as one of Abbey's company, especially as Marguerite, in Faust; was married (1891) to Julian Story, an artist and son of the sculptor, W. W. Story. Ear of Dionysius. A large funnel, or shell, with flexible tube, for concentrating sound; a kind of ear trumpet: so called from a device of the Syracusan tyrant, Dionysius, to enable him to hear in his palace the prisoners in his dungeons. Ear'-cockle. ( Agric .) The name of a curious disease in wheat, in which the grain becomes blackened and contracted and mealy within from the presence of myriads of worms belonging to the genus Vibrio . The little animals are extremely tenacious of life; and though apparently reduced to dust, when steeped in warm water for a short time, and afterward dried for many months, they recover their former activity. The disease not only impairs the value of the wheat, but the little worms are very annoying to the miller from filling up the pores of his bolting-cloths. The affection, also called Purples , is local, and quite unknown in many parts of the U. S.