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The Phonograph. 
[April, 
the apparatus, with such marked success that, twelve clerks 
were lately able to take down correCtly portions of . news- 
paper articles from dictation spoken to them by the instru- 
ment. At a recent exhibition of the phonograph in New 
York its articulation was distinctly heard and understood at 
a distance of 425 feet from the instrument. Still more 
