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DISPATCHING TRAINS BY TELEPHONE AND PHONOGRAPH. Mr. Thomas E. Clark, an old time telegrapher, now general superintendent of the Delaware, Lackawanaa and Western Railroad Company, at Scranton, Pa., has decided to run the trains on a portion of his system by telephone j and Phonograph instead of by telegraph as at present. The work of installing a complete telephone system along the line of the Morris and Essex division of the road is being pushed with all possible dispatch. It is the inten- tion of the company to equip each station with a complete telephone system to be used in the place of the present tele- graph system in transmission of orders pertaining to the arrival and departure of trains, the officials believing that greater accuracy and saving of time in the carrying out of orders can thus be secured. In order to insure safety and to record the train orders transmitted by telephone, a Phonograph will be placed in each circuit, the wax cylinder being large enough to record twenty-four hours* work.—From Telegraph Age. The Phonograph is a good listener and a perfect talker — Openeeb. METAMORPHOSED. It takes only a little thing in a translation to make it go wrong. The missionary who asked the pundit to put into the Indian vernacular the good old hymn, “Rock of ages cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee,” was taken off his feet when he heard his converts singing with pious fervor, “ Very old stone, split for my benefit, let me get under one of your fragments.”— San Francisco Wave.