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THE PHONOGRAM . Then there is another way in which it saves time: the merchant or professional man who resides out of the city, and cannot get to the office very early, can stay a few minutes after closing and dic- tate a number of cylinders for the type- writer to transcribe in the morning. If a stenographer is asked to stay overtime to take letters, if the business is rushed, he has to be paid extra. last issue of the Phonogram, that the majority of the people think it only a toy to be used for amusement at the sea shore in the summer, or entertainments in winter. It is surprising how few people have any idea of what the ma- chine is like. I could go on sounding the praises of the ‘‘wonderful but simple machine,” but am afraid that I have now taken too much space from some one else. Carrie E. Smith, With Shriver, Bartlett & Co Philadelphia, I am glad the Phonogram has been •started; I hope it has come to stay; it wi\lgo a g reat ways in getting people in- terested in the phonograph. I do not think the press in general gives enough attention to it; other modern inventions The pffrssTt^Hjhies of the phonograph in seem to claim a gr?at deal of their time, church are great. A minister may but one very seldom sees anything about speak into the receiver of the instrument the phonograph aside from a funny par- at his leisure, and in case of sickness or agraph now and then, and it really seems absence, supply his congregation u'ith to be a fact, as some one has said in the sermons ad libitum.