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PEACE ON EARTH 5 GOOD WILL TO MEN. Phonograph Proclaims Peace. y London. —The news of peace was transmitted this morning to the inhabitants of Blenheim Palace, the country seat of the Duke of Marlborough, in a manner that had considerable flavor of American progressiveness. An immense Phonograph, with a monster horn attached, had been hoisted to the top of the church tower. The instrument was operated by the Rev. Aylmer Scott, the local vicar, and it transmitted the peace dispatches, word for word, so loudly that they could be heard in a radius of half a mile from the tower. When this had been done, the Union Jack was run up on the tower flagstaff and the Phonograph sang the national anthem, in which the entire neighborhood joined clamor- ously.—From the Philadelphia North American. Talking Machines Cause Spite Fence. H. E. Patterson, a designer living in the hill section of Passaic, has erected a spite fence on the line of his property adjoining that of M. Bourmann, of the Botany mills. Patterson objected to Bourmann*s children playing on the ise their noise annoyed him. Soon after this, bought a talking machine. Patterson called in n and attempted to have his neighbor arrested as person. Bourmann bought a dozen talking and set them going all at one time. Patterson the fence 15 feet high. He says he will add ten reet more. Bourmann’s children use the fence as a back stop for baseball. Editor* s Not*. —They say these were Disk Scratch-o- phones. I don't blame Patterson. Bourmann ought to have known better, lawn becai Bourmann