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Show ECCENTRIC MllTE. Has Int.nlr.l and CarrlM Ilia llaa Ti.ltiilu.ua with Illiu. Chicago Chronicle: A walking telephone tele-phone caused cunstdcrablo merriment In tha business houses of Hvnnston tbo other afternoon. J. C. Chester, ot aiendlvc, Mont, was the curiosity and he carried speaking tubes nnd 400 yards of Insulated wire wound about his person and threaded In and out through his clothing. A sign up on his breast which read, "Yell 'hello' and place the reccher nt jour car," mado him additionally conspicuous as he walked from atoro to store. Chester Is an Inventor and Is dent nnd dumb. Ho snys ho Is on his way to Washington Wash-ington to sccuro a patent on his contrivances, con-trivances, which "aaslst deaf persons to hear and dumb parsons to talk." Ho needs money to get there nnd asks for assistance by means of a little tin whlsllo which Is connected by wlro to tho receiver and through which ho lisps and breathes at tho satno time Tho sound thus produced Is very faint, tiul'tbo.atactrloicurrvnti wbtcliMs'eup-plled wbtcliMs'eup-plled by a battery carried In tho hip pocket, adds to lta volume, and through the receiver resembles a Punch and Judy dialect. Cheater la a grnduato ot tho Columbus (Ohio) Deaf Muto Institute, Insti-tute, be says, and carries credentials purporting to bo signed by Prof. C. M. Pulton of that Institution. |