The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-09
and Waldo and Eastman and Burnham and

Payne and Rogers; Newbcrry and Hunt
and Hitchcock and Winchcll may represent
the geologlsts; Anthony, Mendenhall.
Rowland, Hastings, Nichols, Dolbear, Ste.
vens, and Others, the physicists; nau and
Mason and Putnam and Miss Fletcher and
Mrs. Smith, the anthropologists Barker
and Bolton and Brewer and Clarke and
Dabney, the chemists; Riley, the cntomol.
ogists; Brush. the mineralogists; and
Brown, futile, and Harvey, &C., the mi.
croscopists.
But want to say word more OF
THE TWO BELLS
A. Melville Bell, the father, and A. Graham
beU the inventor OF the Telephony, the
son. The father is well.kept, portly gen.
tleman, not yet old; OF Scotch birth or
descent, l believe, but resident now in
Washington. He has devised what he calls
"visible Speech" system by which all
human sounds are to be represented Inv
signs that Jy their shape suggest the
exact position OF the vocal organs uscd
In making them; so that YOU NAV
be SAID to see the sound In the
sign. He gave us an evening lecture on
this subject, and seems TO be very hopeful
that this plan, which he has worked at for
many years, Will ultimately prevail; and
by 1t any one can write down nj once any
sentence heard, in even an unknown
tongue, and then another can, from this
writing, Immediately reproduce the spoken
words, though the words, and even the
ELEMENTARY SOUNDS
composing them, may never have been
heard by him. One can thus read Greek.
Choctaw, Russian, or Sanscrit on sight.
The earncstncss and the splendid enuncia-
ton OF the speaker were attractive; but TO
many Of us the main interest was in the
filial part which his "greatcr son " PLAYED,
as with beautiful subserviency he support
ed his father on the stage. and. presiding
at the blackboard, drew for him the big AS
and BIS and the curious curves that the
engrossed parent required in the course OF
his lecture.
have already referred to Graham Bells
lecture. 1t was on ga Method OF
DETECTING TIE PLACE OF BULLET
embedded in the human body" The coun-
try remembers that the plan was devised
for the case OF President Garfield and it
perhaps remembers, also, that it failed and
was even the occasion OF some rather snccr-
ing remarks. But the method is perfectly
sound one; and the story of the growth
and perfection Of the system, the meeting
and overcoming Of difficulty after difficult
ty. the trials, the failures, the sue
cesses, the new suggestions, the pa
tient experiments, and the final results,
is one full OF interest and instruction.
Especially was this true when there were
laid before us, and afterwards displayed in
convenient place, the whole series of in
strlmcntS and devices, from the rude be-
ginnings to the perfected appliance. OF
course i went up to handle and examine
| them, and had extremely pleasant inter-
views with Mr.. Bells famed assistants. Mr..
sumner fainter and Mr.. Gleason. Tried
the instruments myself, and had no diff
Guilty i'm locating with some cXactness a
ball that had been hidden in leg Of NUT
ton. which was kept in ice on the table.
have no doubt that the contrivancc will
prove Of great value.
But enough Of these matters. Let me
close up this letter and this correspondence
with brief mention OF our
LAST EXCURSION.
Through the courtesy OF the Southeast
ern railway we left Montreal early Thurs
dav morning for trip OF some 100 miles
| to Newport. i'm Vermont, n pleasant village
near the end Of Lake Memphralnagog.
! This beautiful lake, whose name helps us
to imagine it rs some PARKWAY, cool, and
primitive place, is the principal attraction
/ TO the numbers who spend the summer
| here. ON our arrival a splendid and we'll
served lunch was spread FOR Us at the
chief hotel, and then we embarked on
! the new iron steamer (namcd, OF course,
Lady Of the Lake. fora sail over the placid
waters. The lake is some thirty miles long
and from two to five broad. Mountains
and islands tut in here and there, some.
times with steep rocky sides, whose rugged
nakcdness the scraggy trees strive vainly &c
hide. and sometimes with gentle dcclivitie'
or grassy slopes that invite the wary-worI
wandercr to come and rest. We stop a
:. Owls Head Mountain House." thai
nestlcs on the bank OF the lake with the
abrupt peak rising nearly 5000 feet over II
head. We are
ACROSS THE LINE
no,v for more than half the lake is II
canada. and there is Sir Hugh Allan
summer residence. The famous Captain
Eo0o aud others make speeches, ana ONT
enthusiastic individual puts to vote TN
:. resolution" that this is the prettlest laN
in the world. We get romantic, and wan
to oet lid higher. and many OF us-ladie
As wcll-spurred on, no doubt by the uSua Il,
notice "passengers are not allowed allowed %
his deck" mount perpendilcutGr mo
der. and from the "hurrcane deck gan
unoh. trrlctcd view Of the charming ah
evcr-yarying picture. .-u.
soon we wee back again to Newport
then hv cars to Montreal; thence, mex
dav' along bv the historic Lake Champian
and past the marblc-quarries ana lnaro !.
works OF Rutland TO Albany, proud OF IL
marnifcent State-llouse; thence on III
. largest river steamer ever Dull!, an n
this Well crowded, down the classic liuC
son 10 New York; thence, after pr''
din into lis almost maddening whiri: 1"c
70 nv ouict home. Here we rest WIN Il
contrasts or comparisons to disturb Us, Il,
oven though we find those same ola dec''.
inc catiie-sheds still doing duty as our g ~
railroad depots. O' -
A Corpse Retained for Don't
| ,e u.pnuEARTED COURSE OF NE" fof
UNDERTAKEN.