How Edison's Agent Turned The Tables.
There are sometimes amusing episodes at>the President's visits to the Paris Exhibition. He is generally followed without his knowledge by newspaper men, who getmoney from the exhibitors by promising tospeak of his visit. Some of the exhibitorshave themselves to thank for being thusfleeced ; but recently Mr Edison's agentturned the tables. After M. Carnot had heard some passages of music by phonograph, the apparatus repeated the followingmessage : — ' A quarter of an hour ago a mani styling himself reporter for the , came: and said that, us the President of the Republic was about to visit us, he was ready for 500f. to give us a long puff ; whereas, if we did not give him the money, he should not mention the visit. We replied that the phonograph was a scientific, not an industrial affair, and did not require puffing ; but we wish to inform the President of the> Republic by the phonograph of the traffic that is attempted to be mad© of his kind visits.' M. Carnot was much amused ato this exposure, especially as the newspaper named was bitterly anti-Republican.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 6
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185How Edison's Agent Turned The Tables. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 6
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