Show THE NEW PHONOGRAPH io The Democratic and Popullstlc national na-tional committees should lose no time in sending to England for an invoice of tho new great phonographs s a trial of I one of which was recently made In Brighton England It is i l said to carry the human voice over most astonishing astonish-ing distances According to the Railway Rail-way and Engineering Review It produces pro-duces sounds with an Intensity which makes words to be distinctly heard for a distance of ten miles and upon water wa-ter to a farther distance Inside the trumpet there Is a small and delicate piece of mechanism that looks something some-thing like a whistle This Is the tongue of the machine Instead of the records re-cords being taken on wax in the usual manner a sapphire needle Is made to cut the dots representing the sound VIbrations vi-brations on a cylinder and when the needle travels over the metal a second sec-ond time the vibrations cause the whistle whis-tle to produce a series of air waves and tho machine thus becomes a talking talk-ing siren which transforms the human voice Into q deafening roar That is something worth making a note of The person who visits Niagara for the first tlmo Is usually disappointed because the mighty earthshaker makes no more noise The scientists explain this by asserting that the fiat country around Niagara furnishes no heights against which the wave sounds can break and give off their bottled thunders thun-ders But suppose this new phonograph phono-graph were to be set up somewhere on the prairies say in Nebraska suppose sup-pose the whistle were to be elevated in a way to1 carry the sound off so that It would break against the Rocky mountains moun-tains who says that the world would not catch the majestic echoes In such a case the spellbinder would not have to leave home Rather all that would bo nccessaryv would be for him I to make a morning a noonday and an evening speech and the Republic would take it in No I torchlight processions pro-cessions necessary no bands no hall rent all that the world would need would be to stand on their toes as men do when they fire heavy guns to save their car drums and listen |