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Show BOTTkED TALK. A BI'EAKISG FHONOafiAPH AT WOUK. Were the veracious Munchaueen in utlundaiicu at au tXDibition which wua uiveu yealeriiay m the Philadel-I phia Lncat 'lelegraph company'u otlice, Third aLd Clieatuut Blreeta, ut' 1'roleBHOr ThomaB A. EJiaon'a marvelous marve-lous invention called the apeakiny pbouograph, he might have tiiumph-autly tiiumph-autly s:iid 'I tuid you bo" with reference to at leant oue ol bia yarns the Btory of his journey by post from rit. L'eternburfj Quriuy a winter oi uncommon seventy. "Finding my-Bt-lf iu a narrow hine," he narrates, "I bade the postilion give signal with his Unm u.hL uiher trHVelura unht iiul nioet utt in the narrow puarue. Jde blew with all his migbt, but Lib endeavors were in vain; he Cult Id not make the horn sound, which was unaccountable and rather uutortuuate, for booh alter we fuund another coach coming thautber way." Alter telliDg how he got the vehicle and horses around the obstructing Learn, by carrying them under hia arm, ouu at a time, over the ience, through pari cf the field, and then over the fence, again the coubcieotious cbruuiulfr continues: con-tinues: "We arrived at the inn wuera my postilion aud 1 nl'reBhed ourselvtB. He huug the horn on a peg uear the kitchen fire; Imuon the otbsr iide. Suddenly we beard a tereng! tereng! tent! Icng! We looked around and now Itund the reasou the postilion hau not been able to sound bis horn; hie tunes were frozen in it, aod i'ii in out by thawing, plain endUf-h, i,d much lo the creditoltha dnvur, au that iho honest fellow entHrlained ub fjr sometime with a oucceaaivu variety of tunes without putting his mouth to the horn." Yesterday's exhibition, lo Bav the least, was equally as remarkable as thft one ddHcrihsd hv Brnn Mun- cbatiBen. It demoustrated to the entire satisfaction of seme of Philadelphia's Phila-delphia's moat intelligent citizens, who were present, that a person can, AO to speak, bottle up any quantity of bis vocal utterance, and, at tbe end of an indefinite period of time, cause tbe "bottle" to reproduce it exactly as it originally came from his lips. WHAT THE THING IS. The instrument was operated principally by Mr. James Adams, the lnventor'srepietieutfttive. Mr. Adams, a highly-intelligent Scotchman, with a Blrong!ymarked Scotch accent in biu Bpeecb, has been for five years the aaBiutfint of Professor Ediaon in the latter' eleotrical and oilier experiments. experi-ments. The machine occupud no more space than would a Webster's Unabridged, and its construction appeared ap-peared almost as simple as that of a housewife's cofiee mill. It was a fac simile of one which Professor Edison is now constructing and which iB to have a capacity of forty-eight thousand words. Mr. Adams, before the preformaoce began, thus explained the instrument: instru-ment: "In this gutta-percha mouthpiece mouth-piece is a very thin diaphragm, made of tin-type metal. The vibrations of tbe voice jar the diaphragm, which haa in its cenue, underneath, a finu steel point. Around this brass cylinder, which, you see, is closely and finely grooved by a spiral, 1 wrap a sheet of tm foil. 1 shove the mouthpiece mouth-piece up until tbe ateel point touches the tin foil, just above the first groove on tbe lefi. Turning tbe cylinder with thiB crank I talk into the mouthpiece, mouth-piece, Tbe diaphragm vibrates, causing tbe Bteel point to perforate the tin foil, leaving little holes of different diameters and resembling the old Morse telegraphic' alphabet. The cylinder moves from Ielt lo right until the steel point has gone over the entire length of the Bpiral. 'J hua we have, as ii were, a Btereotype plato of the voice. From this plate a matrix iu Bulphur (tbe most desirable substance sub-stance lor the purpose) can bo formed, and jears from now there can bo taken from that matrix other plates capable of tbe same work which you will presently see ilm one perform. COMING OUT OF THE "BOTTLE," "Now I turn tbe cylinder back lo me eiaruug pmuu, iu uruer iuhi iuc steel point may go over tbe perfjra tiona which it made when 1 talked into the mouthpiece. Thealeo! point, kept down by a rubber Bpring underneath under-neath the diaphragm, trips from hole to hole, causing tbe diaphragm to vibrate as it did when I was talking into the mouthpiece. This causing a corresponding opening and clrsing of the vaivee of the diaphragm the works, intonation aud accent are reproduced with perfect accurary. It would be impossible for any human mimic to do it bo well. Tho Bmall end of thiB tin funnel ia fixed in the mouthpiece to keep the reproduction from scattering. Now, liBlen." Several gentlemen, evidently supposing suppos-ing that they would not be able to bear without having their pars close to the funnel, were putting their heads near iho instrument, but Mr. Adams told them that eucb a proceediug was uuneces3ary, as they could distinguish the sou odd well enough at a distance. Mr. Adaruo, having wrapped a sheet of tin foil around the cylinder, spoke into the mouthpiece in a voice ol ordinary pitch and time, but with distinct articulation, meanwhile slowly and regularly turning tho crauk, Lbe folluwing : Jact and Gill wont up tho hill To get a b'jcl.'Bl of water: Juck lell down and brokn hi crown And Gill camo tumbling ufer. Having reset the cylinder and fixed the luunel in the mini (tip: tee he turned ibe crank and the di.iphragra repealed the rhyme, Dut only kb distinctly dis-tinctly as he had utteri d it, hut with so periect a mimu-ry of Hie S-otcu acci-nt as to cause a general outburst of laughter, in which the geuial oper ator heartily joined. THE TAI.KINO MACHINE FUNNY. C;iu ing ihf ntid point to prorp.u! Irom ibe i niling nt "Jack and Jill," Mr. Adnms ttginu put his mouth tr the diaphragm and uttered in more varying toner-, wuicb had a ruuti from HlinriBl a Mn(i-r u p lo a bCruech mg Mjprano, 1 1 i fallowing: H-iPii! floo.ilri! Ya-hoo! ineii'im ua g in tho IliihliY! J se nU'lifd my nt.mt) upon tho widl -A 'J thui nuitiu wtid KoburL Lan-dr Lan-dr y-.y-y. Pr'ci voi is FrancaiB? Bprcchon sie DcutBLhV Turning the crank backward until tho RLeulpuiDt touched Lbe beginning of "Juck und Giil," he again gave the forward motion. 'I he diaphragm' elocution of the rhyme was on thih oucat-ion as good as befote, and lbe second con iiloni era lion of utterance was delivered by lbe vitirating metal with nil the cliartu-ieribtica ol tbe op uratui 'h t-jteuliuioiiri and recitation, ivr Litf sukH ot noveky the stei point wtiH iu w caused to go along tbe perforated per-forated Bpiral while Mr. Adams whistlttil, yelled and shouted all eorU of ridiculous things into the mouthpiece. mouth-piece. As a reault the bit of metal strongly uflt cted lbe risible muscles of the audience by something like this: Jack and Gill wont "Choose ill" Up the hill To gut a butket "0, wipe off your cbinl" 1 Of water. j 1 Broke hid crown Fuller, r1oen yuur nio'hur kr.ow jour out?" And G li " Ya-ho ! Pro boltlod myself, Fdieon" Caina tumbling after. Undo! buoplttl 'dhul up!" yn-hoo! "Go big lour head I" M inte..n years in the Bm-iiltl "j'm a" SiTtUchrd my name "a jolly liLbnrin," Upjn the wail. And tnnt "Prom Uub.in town 1 cme," ime whs "Ha, ha, hu!' ' Eobort Landry -y-y. Piirh-z vous Fraueuis? "Go hire a hull!" Sprcclien sio Dculnch? "O, give us a rial!" The effect of this was too ludicrous h,c deacnpiiou, and for a time all bunds were uucoutrollably merry, diving put on and caused the steel point lo perforate a nt w sheet of tin foil, again apeakiug "Jack aud Gill" into tbe instrument, Mr. Adams made the point travel backward aud lbe diaphragm reproduced the recitation, recita-tion, bc-r!"ning with tbe last word, "alUr," .0 ending with the, first word, "J.'.rk." In ibis way the operator oper-ator amused bis audience for an hour. He became boiirre, but the instru-menl instru-menl did no'. There is no electricity about the epuaking phonograph, and, like bo many other great inventions, its con-fctruction con-fctruction is so simple aud its operation opera-tion bo easily understood that a ptraou seeing it would probably ask himself, "Now, wbydidn't I think of that?" 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