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Show The Museum. The recent Requisition to tbe museum mu-seum ntlract:nns o' tbo phoaoyraph and electrical pen, form quite a feuturo. Id view of llio great talk about the phonograph of late, aud the interest that attaches to it in con sequence, a good opportunity nf becoming be-coming acquaiuted with thia wonderful wonder-ful invention now pieaenta itself and may be taken advantago of .vith profit. It is reported that a telephone will BLon be iu operation also, when all the recent wonders can be seen at once. Professor B irfoot id now at work on a guiJc tj thU city, which it h expected ex-pected will shortly be published, and will be, found of great convenience j not only to tourists but to those Hvina here. In connection with the guide will bo given a museum map, and the whole thing will only cost some 50c. It is to bd hoped that the work will meet with the success it deserves. Every visit to the museum makes the conviction stronger that ano'.her and more suitable- buiidinc should be obtained for the exhibition of the m.iny attractive curiosities to be found there. Tbo present location n iu every way suitable, but the building now in U39 ia far from affording ample room for a proper display of this collection, which is no mean one. Some action should bo taken in the matter, and there are many men who oouli woll afford to aid in making thia institution as popular as its menU deserve that it should be. A good building erected, affording proper conveniences, would make tbe collected as va'uable again, while thousand of specimens now boxed away could be brought to light. By thia m3ans, not only would a laudable curiosity ba gratified, but it would rapidly become a place which peraona would visit for intellectual purposes, and for the gathering of scientific information a branch of learning which is assuming considerable consider-able proportions in our midst as compared with former years. It would, in fact, become a place where school children and the savant could alike visit with profit and pleasure, Aa thii is a matter of public importance, im-portance, and for the welfare of the public, it is one to which we shall continually call the public attention until the obviously necessary and de sirable improvements in our museum have been made. |