The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-03-14

was lack
t---.sOo, give us a rest!'----
of woman's tears.
But comrade stood beside him while his life
-"Oh. what are yon giving usl''-Oh. cheese
sIhed s1,is away. zsss
And bent with pitying glances to hear what
-"Oh you can't recite poet try ,''-'.Lat
might say,
| upv
The dying soldier faltered. and he took that
---"Police! Police.'----Po-
comrades hand,
And he said. 81 never more shall see my
own, my
-"Oh, put him out tr'-"Oh, CORK your
native land,'
! It is impossible to describe the lu-
dicrousness OF the effect. The profess
sor himself laughed like boy. One
of his assistants told story concern
ing trap laid for well.known di-
vine who was skeptical regarding the
capabilities of the instrument, and ev-
identity had suspicion that the pro-
fessor was ventriloquist. He want
ed to talk with the mouth-piece him.
self, and see if his own words would
be recorded and repeated. A matrix
was put on the cylinder that had been
used once before. The doctor repeat
cd Scripture quotation, and to his
astonishment, it came outa follows:
He that cometh from above is above
all ["Who are you?''] he that is of
earth ["Oh, you can't preach ?"] is
earthly, and speaketh of the ["I think
you're fraud !''l earth, he that COM
eth from heaven is above all. And
what he has seen and heard ["Louder
old pudding head ri that he testifieth; !;
and no man receiveth his testimony.
["Oh, go and see Beecher!"]
''How did you discover the princi-
pie ?" asked the writer.
''By the merest accident" said the
Professor, 81 was singing to the
month-piece of telephone, when the
vibrations of the voice sent the fine
steel point into my finger. That set
me to thinking. If l could record the
actions of the point, and send the
point over the same surface afterward,
1 saw no reason why the thing would
not talk. 1 tried the experiment first
on a strip of telegraph paper, and
found that the point made an alphabet.
l shouted the words "Halloo! halloo !"
into the mouth-piece, and ran the pa.
per back over the steel point, and
heard faint "Halloo! halloo!" in re-
turn. determined to make ma
chine that would work accurate1y,and
gave my assistants instructions, telling
them what 1 had discovered. They
laughed at me. 1 bet fifteen cigars
with Adams here (Adams was lying
on the table listening to the converse
tion-Rep.) that the thing would
work the first time without a break,
and won them. I bet 50 with the man
who made the machine, and won them
also. That's the whole story. The
discovery came through the pricking
of the finger"
Here Mr.. Edison, in a deep bass
tone shouted in the instrument:
| Nineteen years in the Bastile!
| l scratched my name upon the wall,
And that name was Robert Landry,
| PerleZ vOus Francais? 81 habla ESphanOl,
Sprechen sic Deutsch?'
And the words were repeated, follow
ed by the air of sOld Uncle Ned"
which the Professor had sung.
On being questioned concerning
his telephone, the professor said: 81
went to work before Professor Bell.
Elisha Dray turned in at it, and got
out the first machine. Bells and mine
came out about the same time. The
machines are different. Bells is what
is called the magnetic telephone, and
mine the carbon. Those kerosene
lamps that you see smoking yondel
are my GORDON mandatory. pee
it from the shades, and press it into
buttone for use in my telephone. Were
it not for my Deafness, would haye
discovered the telephone eight monthf
before. While trying an experiment
my deafness led me off on a wrong
tack, and l was sloshing around on 8
false scent for months. But 1 have
produced good instrument. have
whispered into it here at Menlo Park
and have been answered in whisper
by Henry BentIy in the Western
Union office at Philadelphia"
Here the clock struck three, and We
started for the train. The Professor
returned to his machine like some de-
lighted boy, and as we left the house
we could hear him gravely asking:
"How far is it from Now York tc
Albany, from Albany to Syracuse
from Syracuse to Buffalo, from Buffalo
to Cleveland, from Cleveland to Co
lumbus, from Columbus to Cincinnati
from Cincinnati to Louisville, from
Louisville TO Nashville, from Nash
Vile to and so on ad infinitum
till we were beyond hearing.
A WEALTHY colored woman of New
Orleans was refused a room in tn,
ladies cabin of a steamer, whereupon
she sued. The case was carried to tn,
u. S. Supreme Court, and thus ans
wered the court: "Substantial eqnal
!, ity of right, is the law of the State
aud the United States, but equalit!
does not mean identity, as in the ma
. ture of things, identity in the accom-
mediation of passengers, whether col
. ored or white is impossible, unless Ou
commercial marine shall undergo al
entire change. The laws of th
! United States do not require the mas
: ter of steamer to put passengers il
, the same apartment, who would be re
pulsive or dlsagreeable TO each Other
GLASS PRINTING TYPE.
A new invention has been perfecte
in Paris-that of glass printing typ