The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-08

pleased; his sole check was pride o
progress, emulation, as shown in tn
monthly reports. My candid i'm
preston, after 10 these many years
is that boys gauglionic nerve; hi
sensitive pole; the key to his sym
pathy, is a kilometre below his rea
suspender buttons the place upor
his pantaloons that makes the cats
cradle as he walks. Nature has pro
yided for this in making the spina
cord fork just above the locality ir
question and pass down either
thigh.
As in business when we have
touched bottom matters will i'm.
prove, I candidly believe in instruct.
ing wayward youth. one should com
mence at the bottom, Having reach.
ed the bottom of my sheet. 1 leave
the matter; as there all things be-
gin { ]? aud end. BRIC-a-BRAc.
Another Wonder of the World.
The little machine invented by
Mr.. Edison, of New York, by which
human speech is recorded, and then
reproduced at any future time, as
often as desired, with all the charac-
teristies, may be we'll classed among
the wonders of the world. 1t is
very slowly that our minds come to
accept statements. such as we have
met with concerning the phenOgraph,
but there is ne longer any reasona-
BILE doubt about the things related
of this remarkable inventions. To
scientific persons, a1d many who are
not altogether unscientific an expla-
nation OF the instruments make up,
would convey no definite idea of it's
character nor give any reason for
the effect produced. A little cyIin.
der with crank, with a piece of or
binary tin foil around the cylinder,
and sharp pointed pen or stylus
is placed SO as to touch the tin foil
in spiral groove as it goes past.
Added to this mouth piece in the
shape of watch, into which one
talks, this mouth piece has attached
to it a diaphram, which is attached
to the stylus, and the vibrations of
the human voice causes the diaphram
to vibrate and prick the tin foil with
the stylus. To reproduce what has
been spoken into the machine, it is
only necessary to run the cylinder
back, place the point of the stylus
where it began TO puncture the foil
and turn the crank. The
indentations in the foil into which
falls the point Of the stylus, cause
the diaphram to vibrate as it did in
respose to the voice, and the sounds
are produced just as they were spo-
ken at first. In other words, the
sounds are the result of vibrations
exactly similar to those caused by
the voice. Sound is but the effect
Of vibrations of the air falling upon
the ear, as we are taught, and the
Phonograph would demonstrate this
truth lift were not already establish
ed. AS to some of the blessings
which will probably come with the
perfected phonograph, we append q
portion of letter written by George
Alfred Townsend to the Philadelphia
Times. under date of April f4th.
"Said the inventor: You see all
,h0se spaces between the grooves?
Well, there is no need of all that
waste. / shall have the needle
to gain the very finest ar
iculation-point it with sapphire or
lgate, perhaps. In my perfected |
monograph | substitute for the
'ylinder q fat plate with circle,
at the center, the needle
raveling outwardly in volutes Then
can put $4,000 words easily on a
heet of tin foil" -.-.r
''That poem of. In Memoriam."
aid /, "has only about 5000
words" H aai -
"Well, can put nearly the whole
f the Princes or all that Poe has
7ritten in verse, on one of those
heets."
What then is the utiIity?"
"a THE PHoNoGRAPH AT HOME.
"Well, the phenograph will read
oetry to you. if you are sick or
our eyes are weak or you cannet
tand the light. It will read whole
ovel and re-read it, so that ladies,
ewing, can hear a story read off
ON one Of those plates. Besides,
can furnish a novel pricked in that
ay for three cents instead of fifty
ants, the price of paper novel; be-
ause the coinpositiOnis not in type,
ut in punctures. "ae " -
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THE. WASHINGTON correspondent
the New York Herald states that
ient. Schwatka, u s., A.. having
iad of the recovery OF fvarious relics
Sir John Franklin. which Indicates