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Show Delivering the Goods. Kdouard llclln, the Inventor of Phutogruph.v bj wire, said ut n dinner din-ner lu New York : "Of course, the transmission of photographs by wire wus thought out before my time. Hut my predecessors, though their theory was all right, iiiubl not put It Into practice. So nothing much came of their work, for an Inventor's backers Insist on tho prompt deliver) of the goods. "An Inventor can't treat his hackers hack-ers us Whistler, the painter, treated his hitlers. One of Whistler's sitters, you know, was in a hurry to have her portrait. Finally she said: "'Now, Mr. Whistler, you've Keu nt work on this portrait of mine u very long time. When will It he tin-Ished tin-Ished and delivered?" "'I'erhnps never, ma'am.' snitf Whistler calmly." |