Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-03
though tragedian was endeavoring to affect


an audience to tears:
| soldier of the legion lay dying in Algiers.
There was lack of woman's nursing, there was
lack Of woman's tears;
But a comrade stood beside him while his life
blood ebbed away.
And bent with plying glances to hear what he
might say.
The dying soldier faltered, and he took that
comrades hand
And he said, Il nevermore shall my own.
my native land;
Take message and token to some distant
friends of mine,
For was born at Bingen-at Bingen on the
Rhine.''
While these affecting words were pouring
out the professor shouted into the funnel
several petulent ordinations. At the close
OF the verse the cylinder and its matrix were
reset, and the recitation again came out of
the funnel, interruptions and ali. as follows:
A soldier of the legion lay dying in Algiers.
- sOh, shut up"' - ''Oh, bag your
headr'
There was lack of woman's nursing, there was
lack of
l-----"Oh, give us restr' -----
woman's tears.
DRY up"'
But a comrade stood beside him while his life
blood ebbed
.'Oh, cheese away,
itr'
And bent with plying glances to hear what he
might
----' 'Oh, you can't recite poetryr' -
- Let say.
upn'
The dying soldier faltered, and he took that
comrades
---- ''Police Poicer' --- ''Po-
hand.''
lice!
And he said, II never more shall see nv own.
my native
,oh, put him out4'-- Oh, cork your
land
selfr'
1t is impossible to describe the ludicrous-
ness of the effect. The professor himself
laughed like boy.
| "To certain degree said Mr.. Edison.
}"the speaking photograph would do away
with photography. A man could dictate to
his machine whatever he pleased, turn the
machine over to an amanuensis, and let him
write it out lawyer through the machine
might make an argument before a court
even If he had been in his grave a year. An
editor OF reporter might dictate column at
| midnight, and send the machine up to the
compositor, who could set the type at the
dictation of the machine without scrap of
! manuscript. l tell you there is no limit to
the possibilities of the instrument
At this point in the conversation the pro-
lessor sat down at his table and hallowed
"Mad dogr' ''Mad dog!'' ''Mad dog'' into
the photograph a half dozen times, and
then amused himself by turning the crank
backward. Then he made the instrument
tell the old and affecting story of Archibaldas
Holden, and lay backward and laughed
heartily. We asked how soon the phono-
graph would be thrown upon the market.
''We expect to offer them for sale within
two months" said the professor. ''Ihe price
of the finest machine will be about 800 but
we shall sell inferior ones at a much lower
price. The matrices will be for sale like
sheets of music, and can be used upon all the
machines
One of the remarkable features of the in
vention is the fact that the diaphragm can
be placed i'll steam whistles and made to talk
like calllope. The captains of ships miles
away from each other at sea. could converse
with each other and correct their chronome-
tiers. The steam whistles would throw any
voice into articulated speech. With metal
diphragm in the whistle of a locomotive the
engineer could roar out the name of the next
station in a voice 50 loud that it could be
heard by every passenger on the train and by
every man within distance of two miles.
''Why,'' said the professor, ~ could put
metal diphragm in the mouth of the Goddess
of Liberty that the Frenchmen are going to
put up on Bedloe's island, that would make
! her talk SO loud that she could be heard by
every soul on Manhattan island. I could
drop one in calliope and set it a talking SO
that men could hear it miles away
Several of his speaking monographs have
been sent to England, where they have Great
ed profound sensation. Mr.. Edison saws
that he received a cable dispatch on Friday
last. offering him $4,000 and half the profits
for the right to sell the instruments in that
country.