The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-04-19
Coming Inventions.

What more can be einventcd?" asked
an enthusiastic citizen on Saturday.
after listening to the talk over the line
rom here to New York.
why we have only begun, replied
! gentleman who had paid some atten-
tion to the subject. Ito talk six hun
dred miles or SO is nothing. Why, YOU
lust wait ten years and | well tell you
what You will see.''
well, let's hear YOU now,
I In the first place the present Morse
system Of telegraph will have entirely
passed away. Talking will be SO much
more rapid and accurate"
+" Yes. | admit that
Well, that IS not ALL There win be
perfect network Of telephone commu-
nlcation, and it will be yery cheap.
But that viii not be all. BY the pay
ment Of very small sum the father in
Northern Ohio can stepto the telephone
station at the township center and call
up his married daughter, who many
years ago emigrated to Dakota. As he
talks he will look into a finely adjusted
mirror that stands before his face, and
IN that mirror he can see the face of his
beloved daughter as she talks to him.
She, at her end of the line, of course,
will observe the countenance clearly and
distinctly also. The conversation will
run something like this:
- You seem to be little pale to-day.
father. Are you as well as usual?'
4" Why, yes, | guess | ami all right
How are the babiesP
Oh, Sally was sick all night and
don't seem to be just right this morn
ing Here she is (holding her up TO the
telcphone). You must excuse her ap-
pearance. Her face is not very clean;
| have been so busy that have not had
time to wash it, and she has been play
ing around and got this apron very dirty,
too.
Sally is all right, amt she, little
onep How grandpa does wish he could
take her in his arms. He can see her
very clearly, though. think she looks
more and more like her mothers folks
rs she gets older, don't youpi
Eyes, we all agree on that; William
has insisted almost ever since she was
born that she was mothers girl But
here is Henry and John; both want to
see and talk with grandpa minute this
morning
"'Bless their souls, grandpa wants to
see them, too. Let them come to the
phone
And so the conversation will 90 on,
and all for ten cents
sBut that will spoil the United States
mail What will be the use of writing
letters when we can talk that wayq'
'sThere will be none at all. But this
telephone business viii be run by the
Government, and the price of communi-
cation will be kept down to the mini
mum. When we think that we can now
talk over line six hundred miles long,
and hear what is said, do you think that
is expecting very much? Who would
have believed that such thing as
telephone was possible ten years agop
l tell you, | am not speaking at random
in what | have said above. Through |
with wonders are wep Why, man, we |
have only just begun. We have got to
study up some means of rapid transit
by which newspapers at any rate can be |
sent from one part of the country to an
other much faster than now. News |
will get very old before full descrip-
tion of it can be sent from one part Of |
the country to the other by telephone.
Men are now studying the problem of
electric locomotion, and in ten years it |
will be an accomplished fact. This is a
fast ageg Ha, ha! This is an ox-team-
and-coyered-wagon age compared to
what is coming. Twenty-Five miles per
hour for an express train! Bah! who
will be willing to wait for that; we
shall spin along at least at the rate of
thirty or forty miles minute when
there is any necessity for SO doing. Not
possibleP Why, man, YOU are a
skeptic! any thing is possible to the
modern Yankee mind and genius. We
can do anything we have mind to and
we will. -
The man who thought the inventors
had got to the end of their string
walked away in reflective mood
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