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} I II ill JI HI ill ! ,iU 9 | . 1 A I • I II 4 * I THE PHONOGRAM THE TELEGRAPHONE. The latest of marvels is the telegraphone, a test of which was recently made in New York and the experts present professed astonishment at what it can do. It is an electric Phonograph. It can be placed at the end of a telephone connection and in the absence of any one to answer a call can receive the message from the other end of the wire, says the New York World. It cart also deliver any message the absent telephone subscriber cares to leave. One of the records exhibited came from Chicago. Charles A. Brown, a Chicago patent solicitor, was at the phone—that is, he had been the day before—and the Pho- nograph repeated everything he said with faithful accuracy —a telephonic description of the telegraphone. For instance, Mr. Smith, telephone No. 9999 John, is called out of the city. He expects one of his clients to ring him up during the day on an important matter. So he talks into the telegraphone, using his ordinary telephone and switching it on the other instrument. “Hello, Mr. Brown! This is Mr. Smith,” he says. “ I am going out of town overnight, but just talk into the phone what you learned about that matter we were discus- sing, and I’ll attend to it the first thing in the morning.” Then the client talks away, and the faithful telegraphone 'if *' records all he has to say. Next morning Mr. Smith has Mr. Brown’s message bright and early by switching the telegraphone on to the telephone receiver. This new apparatus differs from the ordinary Phonograph, in being electrical, where the Phonograph is purely mec- hanical. The records are taken on cylinders covered with l!