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166 THE PHONOGRAM A NOVEL INTERVIEW. By Mr. Openeer. I called on my friend Colonel Kilo-Watt the other morning, and found him in a jolly good humor. Hit real name is K. L. Watt, but he is such a storehouse of energy that all his friends call him Kilo-Watt, out of respect for his untiring horsepower capacity for work. Here’s the story he shot off in explanation of his glee. “It’s a good one, Openeer,” said he “and I have you to thank for making me a Phonograph enthusiast. You see my stenographer was called away suddenly just after lunch 1 yesterday, and before I could get hold of another one in walks my office boy announcing, George Potkins. Potkins! by all that’s holy! the very man whose talk 1 wanted to take verbatim. 4 Tell him I’m busy—come to-morrow.’ No use. Boy came back; Potkins must see me to-day. Instantly I thought it all out. I went to the door and sung out *1 can give you just exactly three minutes Potkins—I’ll be ready for you in a moment; 4 and I put my hand up to my ear as if I was deaf, to catch his answer. ‘All right Colonel’ said he ‘ I’ll boil it down.’ ‘ Huh ? ’ said I ‘ you’ll go down-town ? ’ ‘ No ! no ! ’ he shouted in my ear ‘I’ll f>oil it down—make it short—I’m in a hurry myself.' Now it happened my friend Murray had just returned my Phonograph that morning. He had borrowed it about a week ago to take out home to entertain friends, and we had played over some of the records he had made with a new extra sensitive Fletcher diaphragm with which my mach ine was equipped. There it stood on the table; it Wat the work of but fralf a pioment tp wind it up to its