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means of conduction. The employment of 

 wires is rendered unnecessary by reason of 

 the presence of the vito-magnetic fluid which 

 operates in restoring the disturbed equili- 

 brium. Magnetic currents are therefore not 

 essential to this phenomenon. 



A wonderful exhibition of this power was 

 recently observed at Rochester, N. Y. In a 

 telephonic exhibition in this city, the musi- 

 cians were located in Buffalo, sixty-eight miles 

 distant. While PROF. JOHNSON was engaged 

 in preparatory practice during the afternoon, 

 the notes from Buffalo were distinctly heard 

 at the same time, in a city business office, at 

 some distance from the hall of exhibition. 

 Yet the wire used by the Professor, and that 

 employed in the private telephone, were at 

 no point less than ten feet apart. The same 

 phenomenon was observed during the prog- 

 ress of the exhibition in another locality, 

 the two lines still being no nearer than ten 

 feet to each other. 



The Character and Virtiie of this Element 

 may not be Mistaken. 



It is this vito-magnetic element, and not 

 some other ingredient, that renders the at- 

 mosphere so sympathetic, and responsive, to 



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