A Cheap Telephone.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3525, 2 June 1890, Page 3

A Cheap Telephone.

A good working telophone may bo rondo follows Make two tin drums six inches 111 diameter and four inches deep- Thoy should havo a heavy wiro formed in same as half a gal cup. Tho wiro should not bo less than No 9. Take raw liido tlmt lms been divested of hair, and stretch it r over tho drum while wet, and bind it It on with a small wiro; let it remain till perfectly dry, A very thin hide, such as squirrel, and cat is the best, Thick hido will not work well. Now, . to erect your drum, wire etc, having Il6t y&llb |i6kl and tip yctif insulators, which may bo made of wiro and Biwponded from arms which have been Ditiied to tho posts, bore a holo in wall where drum is to he placed, run the wire through your drum and through tho rawhide in tho contra having a button ready. Pass tho wire through the eye of tho button and back through dnjwtnd' twist tightly, lotting tho nttonigo, resting it on tho hido. Put ~%p tho wiro at tho different insulators *' '(string loop suspendors) till it reaches the other ond of the lino; then proceed to do as at first, If the wivo lias been proporly stretched,and all tho work has been done as it should bare been done, you will have a good and cheap telephono. No 18 copper wire formain lino should bo used.

The Mysterious Stranger. ' Tho following letter is said to bavo bcon recently sent by a distinguished artist in tho north of Scotland to a friend of his in Dundee Dear T. —A curious fellow turned up here the othor day, with nevor a copper or pouch to hold such an article. Ho was'nt oven in m»s, bnt lie was literally without a rag to cover himNil. '

'• Ho cither could not or would not givo his narao, find reason he would not, but kicked up s bonnie 'Howd'ye-do' until for peace sake wo had to provide him with some clothes, With difficulty we got the follow clean, and put in a respectable condition, then offered him something to eat; but lie got per«ctly furious, and would take nothing ■-»nl)ut drink, I belive the ' sowl 1 lives on drink alone. He seeuis an old fellow, too, for ho is absolutely baldheaded and perfectly toothless, fie gave Mrs X, a bonnio fright, I can. tell you; and indeed she took to her ovei the matter, and Dr Z, has in attoudanco oyor since. Tho doctor has hopes of her eventually getting over her nervous shook, but thinks that wo should see that the door be properly locked in futuro, and thus prevent such another unexpected visit. The impudent fellow lias taken up his quarters ever since his appearance here, and so far ns I can see lie is not likely to budge for some timo. I hope you and your wife will como hither as soon as possible, and adviso us what we should do with tho fellow. —Yours sincerely, etc." The receiver of the letter, Mr T., was certainly puzzled at its contents, and submitted it to a few friends for their consideration. Tho first one ho submitted it to was a public official in Dnndeo, who, after reading it said if he was the artist he would make short work of theintrudor and at once hand him over either to the fiscal or tho parochial board. Several others thought that the wuder was either an escaped lunatio Ara friend on the spree; whileabanker, A ab a lawyer, knowing that artist excelled in painting trout and their species, came to the conclusion that, whoever tho intruder was, he must certainly be a queer fish,

liHslly the lellev wm suWtleJ to three married ladies, who immediately camo to the conclusion that the who attempted to interpret the letter were a lot of doikeys, and that the strango intruder was nothing moro nor leas than a baby boy, which the artists lady had just presented him with, whieh theory turned out to be quite correct,