Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-04-30 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MULTIPLEX TELEGRAPHY.  The development of the phonopore, which comprises a system of mutliplex telegraphy, has been watched by electricians with great interest. The phonopore, says the Daily Graphic, is the invention of Mr. Langdon - Davies, and his system of telegraphy may be described generally as the application to an ordinary telegraph line of certain instruments and apparatus which first give to a current of electricity an extremely rapid vibratory character—that is, send into a telegraph line a succession of electrical impulses so short, and with such great rapidity, that ordinary telegraph instruments are in no way affected by tie m—and then, by means of other apparatus forming part of the system, enable such pulsatory current to work relays and other telegrapbiz. instruments. And this system is carried out without affecting, or being affected by, the ordinary telegraphic signal, which may be trans. mitted Dom opposite ends of the same wire through which the ordinary telegraph service is being worked, thus trebling the working capacity of any line to which it is applied. The inventor has also perfected an arrangement for the application of the phonopore to telephonic purposes. By means of the phonopore, telephonic communication can be carried on through an. ordinary telegraph wire without interfering at all with the telegraphing. On the Great Western Railway two signal boxes, three and a half miles apart, have been telephonically connected by means of this invention, the telephone being installed on a block signalling wire—a wire which everywhere is sacred to block signalling alone, as the safety of trains and passengers depends on this communicat ion being kept free from all interruption. The system is found to answer admirably, the two services on the same wire in no way interfering with each other.  A labourer in a rougn felt fiat and Tong tme:k walked, the other day, into the Shakspere Lioeaty at Stratford, and alter looking attentively for some time at one of the custodians, went up to him an said, "I say, zur, be you Mr. Shakspere' as I've heer'n speak ov ?" The custodian explained to Hoige that he was not the gentleman referred to.  The quarterly return of agrarian outrages in Ireland down to the close of the month of March shews a total of 85 cases. These include a murder in County Clare, a murderous assault in County Cork, and a case of cutting or maiming the person in County Mayo, and the balance is made up of 22 cases of offences against property, and 60 cues of offences against the public peace, 50 of which come under the head .1" intimidation."  A volcanic eruption has occurred at Lone Montita in, near Dayton (Tenn ).A:large area of rock was hurled from the side of the mountain by the sub. terranean force. The town was badly shaken, bin no one was injured. A locomotive on the Central Vermont Company's line left the metals on Sunday and fell into the river at Des Rivers Bridge, Vermont. The driver, stoker, and a guard were killed. The rest of the train, which was crowded with passengers, fortunately remained upon the track through the breaking of the connecting bolt, although the first car hung partly over the bridge. Its occupants were so terror-stricken that it was some time before they could be safely extricated