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Show TELEGRAPH OF TODAY. - mt Fast Sending Tournament and th. Others tit Follow, phy is a different thing today from ss a little more than fifty years ago lessor Morse flatbed that first mos-r mos-r the wires "What hath God " The expert of half a century ild find the "plug" of the present potior. Iu fact, the old timer would i! more at home in a modern tele- AXI) NEW TIME W8TKPMEKJT3. ivsrnaller figures represent the present lander; the large figure the old Morse . - 1 ice than would a taker of dnguerreo-i dnguerreo-i photograph gallery. Methods, sy s-iliue s-iliue all have changed marvelously pars, . lie next half century of progress will egraphy no one can tell. It may rele- the pifjeOu hole for back number in-or in-or it may simplify the art so that 1 who can read and write may send nessages to the most distant climes. the moment, just after tho close of York city fast sending tournament, other contests arranged for early New Orleans and in Canada, oue not t is slightly puzzled to surmise along sfurther improvement can be made. York tourney displayed in use the disnees of the day, with the liest "omen operators of the east manip-Inn manip-Inn instruments. The dash and ex.-iili ex.-iili which they rattled oil tho test ins equaled only by tho accuracy tility with which Mr. Taltavall, the "took" them. Both the senders and marlo records which it will be the nmbition of those who engage in ; contests elsewhere to equal, and, surpass. But they will have to do :1 work if they get ahead of the fade by the first prize man, B. R. Jr., of Hartford, Conu. wnd and winning trial a specta- "He nodded to the tinier, and bis ra to flutter like the wing of a fly. n was so rapid that its outlines be-stinct. be-stinct. Tiuy blue sparks flew from of contact lietween the key and the The rattle of- the sounders became s one tmbroken sound. The city ' watched the countryman's quiver-with quiver-with envy. The audience burst into the judges announced that Pol-ut Pol-ut IMU words in five minutes." Uwyer Cleared His Client, ' nt death at San Diego, Cal., of 1 vn Annan, a noted criminal law-'"aS, law-'"aS, brings to mind a sensational ' coun room of which he was the cen-' cen-' me years ago. A prisoner he de- charged with killing several pe-W'Ms pe-W'Ms of poisoned biscuits. Soma fliitsand cakes supposed to contain 'Ji'Mietits were offered by the state after expert witnesses had sworn Warned poison. During Mr. Van to tbe jury on behalf of his emonstrate 08 practically as possi-' possi-' of his assertion that the food lie picked up and devoured i' of the biscuits. The audience !a ll0rw, but the lawyer kept 10,1 when ho s:it down an hour later Bellas before he made his novel prisoner wns acquitted. |