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related his personal experience of this speaking telegraph at 
the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. “ In the Canadian 
department I heard ‘ To be, or not to be . . . there’s 
the rub,’ through an eledlric wire ; but scorning mono- 
syllables, the eledtric articulation rose to higher flights, 
and gave me passages taken at random from the New York 
newspapers : 4 S.s. Cox has arrived ’ (I failed to make out 
the s.s. Cox ) ; ‘ The City of New York,’ 4 Senator Morton,’ 
4 The Senate has resolved to print a thousand extra copies,’ 
‘ The Americans in London have resolved to celebrate the 
coming Fourth of July.’ All this my own ears heard 
spoken to me with unmistakeable distindtness by the then 
circular disc armature of just such another little eledlro- 
magnet as this I hold in my hand.” Since then, Professor 
Bell has been perfecting his apparatus, and we find, on the 
authority of the “ Scientific American,” that he has recently 
achieved even more remarkable success. At a lecture which 
he delivered at Salem, Mass., a reporter of the “ Boston 
Daily Globe ” sent a verbal report of the lecture to the office 
of his paper in Boston, eighteen miles distant, by means of 
the telephone. Those reciving the message at Boston even 
heard, from time to time, the applause of the audience 
attending the ledture. From the platform Professor Bell 
spoke to his associate Mr. Watson in Boston. The latter 
then sent a telegraph message in musical notes, and also a 
tune from an organ, which were distinctly audible to the 
audience. On being asked for a song, Mr. Watson complied 
with “ Auld Lang Syne,” and finally made a speech, the 
words of which were heard by all present in the hall, as the 
applause testified. Mr. Watson then returned thanks, and 
the meeting ended, we are told, by those at Salem joining 
in the national anthem, “ Hail, Columbia,” with those at 
Boston. In view of these striking fadts, it is hardly going 
too far to anticipate the time when, from St. James’s Hall 
as a centre, Mr. Gladstone will be able to speak to the ears of 
the whole nation, collected at a hundred different towns, on 
Bulgarian atrocities, or some other topic of burning interest. 
Nor need we despair of seeing Herr Wagner from his throne 
at Bayreuth, dispensing the “music of the future” in one 
monstre concert to St. Petersburg, Vienna, London, New 
York— -in short, to all the musical world at once. 
