THE PHONOGRAPH AGAIN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 93, 12 July 1879, Page 2

THE PHONOGRAPH AGAIN.

. ii ; iocl that i hj Hi i ■ '. ■ i I. ■. i. invented the phonogrupb vvliili uniting toiuo oxpuninouUs

in telegiophy. It has been HMHn»O. however, for an ingenious Frenchman to discover that this is not the fact, and some other ingenious Frenchman has sent to Mi. Edison for his edification a book containing among other things, a true uid veritable account of the discovery. This book is called " Le Trocaderscope : jr A Bird's Eye View of the Exposition." It is a bulky volume, and is fidl of pictures in the highest style of French art according to Allied Le Petit, the caricaturist. The article on the phonograph states that soiueyeurs ago there lived in New York a young working-girl named Miss Brigton, of whom a neighbour became greatly enamoured. ' hie fine day the gallant young man called upon Miss Brigton while she was busy at her sewing-ma-chine and began to pour into not unwilling ears his tale of love. As he talked she sewed, and was apparently moil) engaged in stitching upon her dress a galloon of filmy metal than in listening to her lover's ardout proposals. At last, in an agony of emotion, he, cried out: —

" I swear to you, Miss lirigtou I will marry you I" Miss Brigton looked up, smiled, blushed, and stopped tho sewing-ma-chine. Light months later, according to the historian of the " Trocaderscope," the gallant young man was summoned before the court, at the instance of Miss Brighton, as defendant in a suit for breach of promise, lie was examined and cross-examined, but however ably the counsel put to him in different forms the question, " Lid you ever promise to marry this womani"' he invariably responded " Never in my life!" The veracious historian tells the remainder of the story much as follows : "One of the rascally responses threw the Amerieaness into such a fury that she was taken in a lit of hysterica and her pretty nails rasped along the galoou on the di-ess that sue wore. What was the astonishment of tho judge aud the audience to hear coming lrom the apparel of Miss Brighton a voice which distinctly articulated in the tones of her betrayer those tumble words : —'l swear to you Miss Brigton, I will marry you?" "These words were immediately followed bv the loud .sound of a number of double kisses." " Every one gazed in wonder. "The young man became very pale. "But recovering the composure he smiled and said, ' Some one of my friends in Court who is a ventriloquist is making fun of me.' " Mr. Ldisoii was in Court simply as a spectator. He did not believe in the ventriloquism, But he elevated his eyebrows with the air of a man wiio should say ' Let me see, there is something under all this.' " He bought the dress from Miss lirigtou at u large price, and hastening away with the precious vestment submitted it to a minute examination. "He drew his nail along the galloon aud it repeated anew, ' 1 swear to you, Miss Brigton,' &c, " After laborious researches he obtained proof that the little marks imprinted on the galloon had been traced by a needle, reproducing tho vibrations of the voice." " The phonograph had been discovered !"