The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-03-05
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Ii has been usually understood tnsl
MIR. Thomas Alva Edison invented
the phonograph while making some
experiments in telegraDhy- 1T mas
been reserved. however, for al M
eeoious Freedmen r. discover soat
this i NOT the fact, and some other
Ingenious Freachman has sent 10 Mr.
Edison fsrshis edi6eaiion a book COZ
tanning among other things q true and
veritabse account of the discovery
This hook is called lie Trocadero-
scope or, A Birds eye View OF the
Exposition
l. l. a bulky volume, and is iuil OF
pictures 10 the highest style oi
French art according 10 NJ. Alfred
lie Petit. caricaturist. The article
on the photograph states that some
wears ago there lived il New York a
soung working girl named Brighton
liz whom a n~eighbor became greatly
enamored.
Cpe fac day the gallant young
man called upon Miss Brighton while
she Mas busy at her sewing machine
and began 10 pour into her not uG-
willing ears his tale of love. As he
telked she sewed, aud wss apparent
liz more engaged in stitching upon
her dress q galloon of flmy metal
tban in listening to Der lovers arden
proposals. At last, ia an agony o.
emotion, be cried out:
Il swear to you, Miss Brighton,
will marry you"
Miss Brighton looked up, smiled
blushed aud stopped The sewing ma
chine.
Eight months later, according t6
The historian Of the Trocaderoscope,
The gallant young man was summon.
ed before The court. at the instance o
Miss Brighton, ss defendant IN e SUI
q fer breach Of promise.
He was examined, aud cross exam
. lined. but, however ably The connse
put to bin 10 different forms the ques
ton:
Did you ever promise TO marry
this woman
Never 10 my lifel' be invariably
+, responded.
The veracious historian tells thu
E remainder Of tie story mneh IS 'ol
3 lows:
] "One IF these ~rsseally response.
threw the young Americsness int'
such 8 fuzzy that she was taken VIII
T a fit OF Mysteries and her pretty nai-
. rasped along the gelloon on the ores
2 that ehe wore.
What was he establishment OF th'
audience to hear coming from th'
sppsrel Of Miss Brighton e voie'
witch distinctly aruculs;ed 10 th'
lopes OF Der betrayer those terribl'
? words:
: II swear to you, Miss Brighton,
viii marry you'll"
j These words we're Immediately fi
; lowed by the loud sonud Of a humble
of double kisses.
. Every one gazed in wonder.
d The. young man became very pale
~ But recovering his conposure h'
: SMILED sud said:
"Some one of my friends IN cour
is "a ventriloquist is making fuI
= Of me
Mr. Edison was in court simply a
S g spectator. He did not believe II
3 the rsatrloqaism But be elevated
s bis eyebrows With the sir Of a mEi
: y DO should say
Let me say, there is sometbi1;
under 81 this"
lie bought The dress from Mis-
5 Brighton az a large price. and hasten
ng away with the precious vestmen
{ and submitted il to u minute examln
alton.
He drew his bail along the meta
GALLON, and it repeated anew
: Il swear 10 you, Miss Brighton,
! etc. f,
D After lehorious researches he ob
: taiaed proof that the little marks ln
r p4~Eue,v1o4s toV eG1rvOU udu "Cc~ tieCe'
by a needle. reproducing the vibra
lions Of the vice.
The phonograph had been discov
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