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THE PHONOGRAM ing of a cock, the quacking of ducks and the discordant note of the guinea fowl. He bought some blank records and secured all the novel results he wanted. Then another idea came to him. He exchanged his instrument for a much finer and larger one, and after a number of trials obtained a fine record of the clucking of a mother hen and the peeping of her brood of chickens. Then he went into the woods, dug a large hole, par- tially filling it with brush and arranged the Phonograph in the hole, so that by means of a long spring and a self-re- turning mechanism of his own invention the record would run continuously for nearly half an hour. A powerful resonator made the sounds nearly as distinct as the original. The apparatus was completed with an alarm clock arrange- ment, so that the instrument could be set in operation au- tomatically at any hour desired. The effect was startling, when suddenly there would be heard, apparently from a heap of brushwood, the excited clucking of a mother hen and the answering peeps of her brood of chickens. Mr. Skillings surrounded the place with fox traps and set the machine to begin operations several hours after sun- set. It worked to perfection. The first time it was tried two foxes were trapped. From all appearances they were rushing in upon the supposed defenceless brood, forgetting their usual cunning. The scheme worked again and again until nearly all the foxes in the vicinity had fallen victims to Skillings 1 genius.—From New York fVor Id. The Phonograph is the next thing to the real thing. —Openkzr. ' One half the fun of owning a Phonograph is making your own records. — Orann