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Show Tin? phonograph Is, at present, more wonderful than useful. But littlo has been dono, as yet, iu tho way of turning turn-ing it to practical service, but inventors invent-ors aro actively iat work to effect certain cer-tain improvements that will facilitate its working, and it is probable that when theso shall have been effected tho instrument will find many uses. When we reflect that if it had been known in the days of Demosthenes, we might to-day hear ono of the great Atheninn orator's (.rations just as it came from his lips; and by means of it speeches delivered in congress to-day may be reproduced :in tho ears of a new generation of Amerlcuns a hundred hun-dred years hence, somo idea may be formed for its capacities. No other discovery made by man carries us farther toward a condition in which the past and future come together in an all-embrncinsr now. |