Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-02-07

OF these WIZARD machines, anu i may
believe something of what you have
said, though l never will believe
that she called you sweetheart even
in a song"
"Come with me-" replied Dick,
and away they went to the Office of
the Telephone Company, on Chestnut
Street, and the manager explained to
the full satisfaction Of the doubling
Thomas the wonderful powers of the
mysterious messenger Of sound.
The residence of the manager is at
Eighteenth Street and Columbia Ave-
nue., and 8 whisper three miles distant
was distinctly heard at the Office.
While the seekers for knowledge
were listening to the explanations of
the manager relative to the merits Of
the ingenious invention, a boy enter
ed with a bill for dry goods.
II don't know anything about
this" said the manager, ''however,
I'll ask my wife"
Turning q crank on q bell-call, IA
reply was soon returned, when the
manager, putting his mouth to the
tube, SAID, ''Fanny, here is a bill for
dry goods" giving the amount; edo
you know any thing about it?'
Eyes, it's all right" was the an
swer, and the boy walked off with his
money, wondering where that lnfor-
nation came from.
Then the manager whistled, "ian-
kee Doodle" for his wife on Column
bia Avenue, and the accommodating
lady on Columbia Avenue whistled it
back again with quite as good effect
AS il was SEN TO her.
Over fifty Instruments in use III
this city, and upward of 5000 were
in successful operation in the United
States on the lst of January. In
Boston there is n telephone messen-
ger company, which is superseding
the district telegraph service, the adj
vantage being in the fact that the
message can be sent to the district
Office and the messenger sent direct
from there without first gong to the
house of the patron to receive it.
There is a proposition to connect
the various ~tire-engine houses in this
city which will do away with the me-
cessity of calling out all the engines
in a district when thcrcis only a small
fire. The estimated cost to the city
for every alarm Of fire is $40, whereas,
if only those engines which are actual.
ly required were to be called out the
expenses to the city would, OF course,
be materially decreased.
llICIt y INV NI liinii NltiNii WIZ
Meeting the Fire Patrol Building with
the residence of the President, Mr..
Atwood Smith, Eighteenth Street and
DE Lancy Place, and when that gen
tleman ~retires for the night he wliisp'
ers down to the office at the Fire
Patrol, on Arch Street, below Sixth,
''Call me at six O'clock )" and SO the
officer tells bis President when it il
time to get up, without the leaSi
trouble.
BY the aid of his wonderful inyen.
ton s business man if confined to his
bed at home can take his pills regu-
larly, keep in his bed, and with one
tube ofthe telephone to his ear and
the other to his mouth, direct his
business at the office miles away, and
receive any communication his part
ner or his clerks may have to make
right from their W lips as plainly as
if he were in the Office with them.
In Germany the telephone is being
rapidly introduced into the various
military establishments, not only in
the capital and its neighborhood, but
also elsewhere throughout the coun-
try. At Dresden one of the new in
struments has been arranged between
the commandments Office and the
arsenal and barracks of the Rifles,
about 800 yards distant. An already
existing telegraph wire is utilized,
from which wires are further led IL
telephones in four rooms in the bar.
racks. The apparatus Is reported &c
act perfectly, conversations being
carried on without the slightest diff.
Guilty.
Distance is no obstruction to its
usefulnessf and if one could be utiliZ.
ed to solve the question which Beechei
and Canon Farrar have recently start
ed, how much discussion it would
save!