Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-09-17
TRANSMITTING SIGNALS BY MUSICAL

in presence of the Emperor Of the French
when at Plombieres, to test the efficiency of
NJ. Sudre's plan for transmitting signal
sounds. The above named journal says:
"During the Emperor's stay, NJ. Sudre,
the inventor of what is called tezephomie, or
the art of transmitting signals and phrases
by sound, had with his wife the honor of ex-
hibiting before his majesty. Placing him
self in the middle of the saloon, he announc-
ed that he would with his violin express any
phrase his majesty might please to dictate to
him, in such manner as to enable Nine.
Sudre, who was seated at the further end of
the room, among group Of ladies, to say
what it meant. The Emperor Immediately
wrote on piece of paper the words, lie
premier qui ft roi fut um sozdat heuveur,'
and NJ. Sudre produced few sounds from
his violin. Nine. Sudre Immediately rose
and repeated the phrase word for word
Another experiment was then made-it con-
sisted in speaking the notes instead of play
ing them. The Emperor wrote, 'Plombieres
est uae viUe chernaa,st ce soir, and M. Sudre,
after reading the phrase, pronounced, with
out any intonation of voice, certain notes.
Nine. Sudre at once gave the words correct
Ily. Experiments in telephonie were made.
M. Sudre's system reduces the transmission
of signals to the three sounds expressed by
the trumpet, the drum and the cannon; or,
in the event of high winds preventing the
sounds from being heard, to three signs
The Emperor gave the order, Construct
batteries on the height and NJ. Sudre pro-
IJ,,ooI 4ho a.
Sudre at once repeated the phrase. Another
order given by Gen. Espinasse was repeated
by the drum, and translated instantaneously
| by the lady. The order, Let the artillery
paralyze the fire of the enemys battery
was transmitted by taps on the table to i'm
itate cannon, and was in like manner at once
repeated by Nine. Sudre. The Emperor
asked if proper names and the names of
towns could be transmitted by the system,
and being answered in the affirmative, wrote
the name of Nabuchodonosor some sounds
1fepsat feq5 thf eo 1f5 name aIoaa fhe Emperor ex
pressed his satisfaction at what he had wit
messed. He then graciously invited Nine.
Sudre to sing one or two morceaux, after
which his Majesty dismissed her and her
uuSUduu Will hS VI ulo uluuluCCACC.
STEAM CULTIVATION IN ENeLAND.-An
experiment has recently been made in Lin
colnshire, Eng, in steam plowing, with
Boydell's traction engine, which appears,
from the published reports, to have given
satisfaction. Several varieties of plows were
tried, the peculiar construction Of which we
cannot get at from the vague desert ptions
given of them; but it was proved that the
traction engine, with three double plows.
plowed one acre in seventy-three minutes,
or about eight acres in one day of ten hours,
at a cost, in labor and Goals, of about 81 so
while the work performed by six single
plows, with eighteen horses, in the same
time, would be only four acres and half,
and this at a cost of about $12 50-being
three acres and half in quantity, and a
little less than S. in favor of the steam
work The prime cost of the engine with
the plows complete, is estimated to be about
the same as eighteen horses, while upon the
point of wear and tear, the former would be
the most economical al-Seientifc american.
The New Orleans Crescent, adverting to
the poisonous adulteration of liquors, now
a-days, sensibly concludes:
s'Abstinence from so called liquors will
soon become necessity with those who de-
sire to live and enjoy health. The social
cup is indeed poisonous one in these latter
days. With strychnine in Whiskey, and
drugs and vitriol in brandy to give it body,
flavor and 'coloring,' the man who quafs
much of either must be made of oak, and
copper fastened to stand long"
"Well, Mr. Grizzle," said his wife, "you
needn't kick round so, and wear all the
sheets out, if you are dying!''
A dealer was discovered in the act ol
committing adultery yesterday. He was
mixing rain water with his whiskey.
Men who boast loudly that they never
show quarter, are certain in times of danger
to show none but their hind ones.
If no sins were punished here, no Provi-
dence would be believed if every sin were
punished here, no judgment would be ex-
pected.
Bion, seeing person who was tearing
the hair off his head for sorrow, said, "Does
, this man think that badness is remedy fol-
grief? p -
A lady complaining that her husband
was dead to fashionable amusement, he re-
piled, ''But then, my dear, you make me
alive to the expense"
An editor, slightly balcony, hearing a
toast given in honor of the fire department
arose and replied, assuring the conyives he
was member of the mighty engine