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Show if Tin: ni.ix iii,n'iior. Hi A few dayaago the Hell telephonu H' utentixlred nnd thu dlaiovrry be- Icamu tho property of tho public. It apranglnto popularity and geiioral utu with greater raildlly than any other 9 purely tilentlflo development uf I JJTf which thoncorda furulah Inlormallou. IHl; It ahould be rememburol tlit the LHjkl jKiople'a caaclty for nbtorblng tho HJlC wouJorfulhal beu aa wai euppoaud IHK welhulgh exhuuttod, ho far an rulutu.1 tu IJJI'j the auulhlliitliuuf tlmo and apace, by Hjjj tho Llectro-inignetlo trlograpb, and Hjilf 'but thu. thu pottll lllty of vople Hlj many mllea apirl ujuvera lu with HJI euch other plainly through the eamo lm agiuiy waa of ntceaalty rrcelved with HJ more or leaa credulity. Hut it came, it BJl , euw, It conqueroJ uot In thu alow IBjf uni mraiured niauiur of ou.lruie HJf inlltUiB gemrally, but at oore, in. K ttiutuueuualy we nmyaj; alult many Bk there be a majority, o think who HU long till u ceaaud to woodaratitn d Vl Cot to looking upon It at oue of thu jHJi mattera-ol-courae ol our day who do HJffi not even now under. land the principle jBT! upon which it work. B'j Although from aluioat thu begluulnir l tho Hell Telephone company havuliul i ' to light for llfu In the ci-urta, their HJ proflta bavu bueu to vaat thut thu auma hIlL K'IwhV thua lost amount ta no more by aim-jarlion aim-jarlion than n mrre margin. It Ian caie of mllllona gained and thcuranda lotl. Onuof the tultaagaloit them li allll (ending, although brought aeven yeara ago. Thla waa by Attorney General Oarlandand wat designed to aet aside theatint It la now In tho United Hlatea Hut rcrao Court and will necea-aarlly necea-aarlly peilah through Inanition noth-Ing noth-Ing to live on. It Ihuaamounta to a rnitnwttcm victory or the monopoly. Wu are advhed that another telephone tele-phone patent will expire next year, but even then tho Held will not be open for frro competition. While whatiakuownaa Iho llerllntr latent contlnurt In force, tho opportunity ol othera to competo with the Hill com I any will he limited. Krall Uerlltier pplled lu 1877 for a patent on a micro pho a transmitter. The Hell tekphoue la of high utility at n receiver, the llerllntr microphone la an excel lent transmitter, and tho two lorru lomplitu system. The llerllntr Invention wu luught by the Hell Coniaii) lu 1S7J. The nppllcatllu for a patent waa aulTiired to leiialu lu abeyance for marly fourteen tart, during which Interval It la charged that the drawluga nnd imdele were turrcpiltlcuily altered. I'lnally lulSVl thepiteut was Issued, nnd unleai court procfcdluga are morn successful than they weieln tho Hell case half the telephonu Invention will remilu pro tected by a patent until 1U. It should bv kmwu In thla cimiectlou, however, how-ever, that the goverumout ht.su suit (ending toret aside thlapitent, for aeve. ral reuonand C'ongnss will be asked for a special liw glvlnj Iho casoire. cedencelnths riupromo Court, pond Ing which the (too trlepHoalo aonipe lltlou which many lookud for with the expiration of the Hall pitent li not l kely to bo enjoyed. |