THE TELEPHONE AS A GALVANOSCOPE.

Kumara Times, Issue 667, 16 November 1878, Page 2

THE TELEPHONE AS A GALVANOSCOPE.

M. D'Arsondal has compared.. the telephone with the animal nerve, as an indicator.of electricity, and states that the .poorest, telephone, is at least a hundred tini»\s more sensitive than the .nerve., lu the silence of the night he .has'.heard the telephone vibrate'when the induction coil was removed to a distance fifteen timet greater than that of the minimum nervous excitation, in.dictting, according to the law of.inverse squares, a sensibility more than 200 tunes greater. He regards.the telephone as the best of all galvanoscopas, i;otlr for feeble electric variations, and fir fi-eVtle continuous (currents.—" Com ptes Rendus." *'.,"'.

BACK,#R()M THE GRAVE. \ A st,oiy remiii>lia<j; lis of the title of Alt' DavreilV melodrama is given Joy the. Paris' correspondent of an English pHjter. A. short time ago the wif* of a niason nt Nirues, while looking ;for some linen:' in oue; of 'her husband's boxes, name upon a woman's Wkull. She , at oncei lvqiifsted her husband ,to inform her how he came in possession of such a minster object, and .when he told her ifowas. a souvenir of ,his nrst ? wife she begged him" to get i id. of it, after tsoi.ne hesitation, he consented to ,d<>. The story got bruited about in the viljiiijre,- ) ,: t md on its coming ,to"the ears of the ijolice the nip-stm was prosecuted for ."violating a burial place." The case was heard before the local tribunal. From the evidence it appeared that the accused, hearing that the remains of his Mist wife, who died in 1871, were to be disenterred, induced the mayor of his village to allow the gravedigger. to give him..a part of the body, to preserve it as a souvenir. The gravedigger brought: hiiii.the sknllj rolled up in a piece of cloth, and this the t mason piously-preserved in a box. .Thetribunal, holding that the accused had not been guilty of any sacreligious act, acquitted lain, and this declsidu has been confirmed by the of Appeal' at Nimes. ..." , : ... .V"