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feasor turned the cylinder backward, Itsaid:. ¥. i .., Go to sure was iamb the j . |We at Mary that everywhere ahd Stow as white as fleecetii Lamb little a bid Miry, ( .lt;A11 this with profound gravity, if the fat^ of; the world dependjea upon the accetit And pronunciation. \ ••The instrument is bo simple iipita const ruction, and its workings so easily understood,: that one wonders; whyj it was never before discovered. inhere is no electricity about iit. It [ can I be carried kround under a man’s 4rn[h its machinery is not a fiftieth part as intricate fis that of a sewing machine. It recordB hll sounds and noises. The Professor blew in it at intervals, had the matrix recorded the sound and ip turned it. He whistled an air from the j' Grajnd Duchessi6,” and back it came cljear aft a life, and in perfect tlibe. He rang a small belli in the funnel.1 The vibratidns were recorded, and, on Resetting the cylinderl the tintinnabulatory j sounids poured out soft and mellow. MrJ Edison caughed[ sneezed and laughed! at the mouthpiece, ahd the matrixes returned the noisks true as a die. But, ihost remarkable, the instrument sent back the voices of two men at the same time, illustrate, the Professor, in a deep bass voice, recited in the mouthpiece tljie first verse of “ Bingen on the Rhine ” A matrix was obtained! the ihachihe reset, the funnel placed in position add the cran^ turned. The words came as though some tragedian was endeavoring to afleet an audience to tears: . j jA soldier of t ho legion lay dying in Algiers, IThere was lack of woman s cursing, there was lack of woman's tears. j I IBut a comrade stood beside him while his life-bjood ebbed away, | 1 I •And bent with pitying glances fo hear jwbat lie might say. ' ] . J * . iThe dying soldier faltered, and he; took that comrade’s hand, |And he said, “ I nevermore shall see my own, uav native land; iTake a message and a token to some distant friend of • ! . i -For I was lxrn at Bingen—at Bingen on the'Rhine.While these affecting words were periling out, the professor shouted ihto the funnel several petulant exclam^tionsi At the close of tjie verse the eyllinjder and its matrix were reset, and the rjjci} tation again came out of the fiiunelj interruptions and all, as follows: j jA soldier of the legion lay dying In Algiers, | i ■ Oh, shut up’” “On,hang your,head!’’There waa « lack of womau’e pursiiig, there.* m lack -i lt;- 1-“Oh,givens a rest 1” of woman's fears,“ Dry up!” ,/
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Angelica Advertiser
Angelica, New York, US
Wed, Mar 28, 1877
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