Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1886, Page 11

ll 5 P THE “TITERARY EXECUTOR,” What Resalted from the Ton Great Haste of General Ad:m Badeau, GRANT'S DYING DENUNCIATION, Badean's Claims Indignantly Dise puted by Men Grant Famity - A Bed Scene the ath- Philadelphia Times: Among the clos ng events of General Grant's Jife is a sick-room scene, in which General Adam Badeau, at one time military sceretary the general, was the principal figure Great surprise is expressed by friends who were close to General Grant in his } last moments that this occurrence has not been made publie long before this and that Badean has been permitted so long to continue to pose in the war lit erature of the country as the friend and literary leg of the departed com mander. Badeau, who i Ne by birth, turned up in April, 186 mp on the staff of On the stall of Gene a8/ chief topographi James H Y, N a graduate of West Point in 1860 had been v to do duty in that with General Grant movement on Vicksburg in the dircetion of Oxford, Mississippi, in November and December, 1862. Subsequently attended the he movements of the army of the Tennesse against Vicksburg, 1s topogr engincer accompanied General Grant in the preliminary movements of the armics of the military division of the Mississippt. It was through ( ilson lean beeame connected with G that Wilson knew t he did, and intro- :ommended him for Wilson’s skill as phical on the staff. topo aphical engineer had attracted the at sntion of the commanding which fact gave weight to his efforts m behalt of Budean. About January, 1861, 1 nstailed dquarters a8 part of ( nt's I'rom I and aid-de- camp to the gene of the army, when he wus placed on the retived list. BADEAU ABROAD. After General Grant beeame president 1 him to appoint him ary ration at London and to onsul gencralship at London. This consular post, with Paris and Liverpool, had alw: arded as among the most de ) the gift ot the government. y they were bet- Pecunis ter than a diplomatic mission. These office re, considered as the legitimate of important The wdeau to e, there- fore did not meet with a very cordial re- ception from the press and amnog the dozen or more War governors, ex-sena tors and ot who iiad been relegated to private life, and thought that they had a pre-emption ht to such plac He was nominated and confirmed never- theiess, and during President Grant's torm did very much as he pleased. When General Hayes became president, one of the eurliest subjects brought to his atten- srmances at s determined tion w. Badeau and his e London. His removal w upon ‘‘for e,”” but withheld through the personal solicitation of ex- ent Grant. times that administration had cided 10 get rid of him, but through General Grant's wfluence receded. THE LIF . . Finally the of darop, and Goneral” Adam Badeau found himself functus oflicio, civilly king. When he returned to New York b benefactor. G as the world knows, was iong-suffering toward those whom he had trusted. was apt to,overlook many things m which he might re- sible in others. Badeau arly conceived the iden of turning his attention to the preparation of a muli- tary life of General Grant. At that time the general no idea of writing lus own recollections and for that renson acquiesced 1n according facili deau, The gencral ga certain papers and other opportunities to 0 on with his Iabors properly and intel- igently. He had nothing, however, to do with the preparation or the work, Badeau was the sponsible author, and whatever returns came out of the enter- prise were to go to him. The first vol- ume of Badeaun’s work was published in 1867, and when he went to London he wus said to have c with him a uantity of documents that ought not_to Aave left Washington, The succeedin volumes, however, were not prepare until after his return to New York. The work from divers sources of information was not made a pecun , owing to Badeau's own condi ms that this _literary effort g he *big head” to such en extent that he insisted on terms with the vublishers wh de rived them of any interest in pusiing it- They accordingly permitted the enter. prise practically to go by default. The volumes had a'restricted sale, and when it became known that Ge Grant would himself prepare the memoirs of his military life, the autobiographical work superseded the work of the biogra- al pher. THE PL ATURE ANNOUNCEMENT, In the carly months of 1t uring those days and weeks of suspense when the whole countr momentarily exvee! ment of the mortal dissolution of the great captain of the age, Badeau was an occupant of General Grant's residence, He had a room there and his books and papers were there. He might have been said to have been one of the family, The crisis in the general's illness had been reached, In br 88 anxioty Mrs, Grant, his idolized daughter Nellie, his the physiel stood by the couch of the dying he For a moment 1t was thought that he h passed away, It nad been whispered, “He is gone.” With indecorous haste, without stopping to verify the first announcement that death had come at last, General Badeau, who was in the house, hastened down stairs, Rushing excitedly out upon the front steps he hailed tho viglls of the press, who had long held watch upon the menns of egress from the mansion. in a state of great agitation he announced that General nt had just died, and that he had made him his *‘literary ex utor,"" As the world knows, General Grant did not die at that time, Fut rallied suflicient- ly to meet many of his friends and re- g many letters of congratulution upon mpr and the world were r the announce- & LB GENERAL'S WRATH, 't time atter this rally Gen- d for the newspapers, Une having been handed him he opened it and bogan to read. Hi rosted upon the accounts of his supposed fatal attack. His atte was specially at tracted by the statement that General Grant, before his death, had named Gen- eral Badeau his "hh-r:\rj' executor," This the gencral pronounced u falsehood in overy respeet. He was gre and excitod, but calmed him: could ase n really made the statement :lwflk-r i was simply an himself or inference rawn from his hasty appearance and premature anuouncement of the gen- eral's death to the reporters at the front tops. A friend of tho general was dep- utizad to make the investigation. The reporters present all agreed in the fuct shat General Badeau had biwmself declar- ~——AMES PLACE. UNDAY, AUGUST 8 WITHIN HALF A BL.OCK OF 1886, ~TWELVE PAGES, LINE DEPOT IS NOW BEING BUILT — - \ Now is your time to buy a lot in this popular addition. The ground is as level as a table and ready for buildings. 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Lots inClarendon,Catalpa Place Melrose Hill, Hanscom Place, Ames Place, Dellone’s add., Red- ick's Grove,75x 142 —Good house Convent st. $7.000. You can besides being surrounded by such neighbors. No lots, remembe as you can get. AHANES, 1507 Farnam street. ILILASSDATLK Houses rapidly spring up in this addition, $15O TO 175, And bought for $15to $20 down, balance $5 to 88 a month, is Lo BTG AT, Especially when the groand is situated as beautifully as Hillsdale is— an excellent class of houses and w can be found as near to the Belt Line, and with such prospects of @ rapid increase in value, as HILLTL.SDAT.E: Money is made by such investments, and money is saved by such terms LHDNLES, 1507 Farnam street. ed to them that he had been named Gen. Grunt’s “literary executor.”” This infor- mation was conveyed to General Grant. Having it from undoubted sources, he sent for Badeau and without prelimina- ries asked him by what authority he had 1 announced as his “literary execu- ' Badeau, nonplussed by the sud- denness of this unexpected interroga- tory, tried to wave the matter off as one of ‘the unauthorized statements of the press. The general asked um whether he had not conveyed the intelligence of his supposed death to the members of the press on the street. Badeau endeavored to evade that, but \llmn being narrowed down to a direct reply admitted that he had given out the premature intormation of his death. **And,” added the general, “1 nave_satisfactory proof that you an- nounced yourself as my literary exccu- tor, which was false in “every particular and a breach of faith, 1 command you to leave my house, never to enter it again.” General Badeau, overwhelmed by this withering rebuke, left the house. lf’is books and papers were packed by servants and sent to his address. GRANT'S PAPERS. After” the exit of Badeau Genera Grant's feeling of indi ion over this affuir scems to have known no bounds. It rankled in his mind, For days in the midst of his sufferings he brooded over it, making notes meanwhile of the tolerance he had shown Badeau; how he had tried to make aman of him; how he had re- proved him in hopes of making man of him. These memorada were written out by the general himself, and addressed to hmlm\u in the form of an episolary reprimand. The original of this letter is preserved. A copv was sent to General Badeau, It is claimed by General Badeau thut he has many of General Grant's papers from which he will work up erinl. His future operations will de- termine with the family of General Grant whether to tuke legal” steps to recover them, General Badeau partof the time wiis simply an employe in the e General Grant and when * preparin mlitary life was merely permitted ox- amine the general’s papers to guide him in his work. If any papers were ab- stracted or copied for other use the dis- covery of the fact will be likely to lead to legal prosecution. When Grant allowed him the use of certain papers he never expected such violation of confidence. Badeau claims to have the original of General Grant’s aunouncement of General Lee's surrender, This 18 correct, and came about i this manner: After the sur- render of the confederate forces by Gen- eral Lee, on April 9, General Grant started back on horseback, accompanied by some of lus staff and a small escort, for Burkville, about thirty miles distant, where he intended to take the cars for City Point, Havingridden some dhstanco it suddenly occurred to the general that he had not formally announced ths sur- render of General Lee and his army. Reimng his horse, he dismounted and, asking one of his staff for some paper, sat down and wrote a telegram officially in- forming the government and country of the event. The wires ot the field tele- rraph were stretehed along the roadside. The dispateh was sent and soon the coan- try knew of the erowning act of the eam- paign in Virginia. Badeau asked permission of the gon- eral to make a copy of the dispateh, al- lowing him to retuun the original and wire the copy. Tt is presumed that G en eral Grant gave assent to this. If (en eral Badeau has copies of any other papers, unless he ean show authority for thoir possession, he has them in violation, itis charged, of the confidence of his former chief. He has had no access to any documents nor to the family since about April, 1885, It was asserted that Badeau had a contract with General Grant in regard to certain literary work General Grant never admitted any sue! arrangement. The family have never been able to sce the contract, and none is believed to o Judicial proccedings will elicit that fact it the allegation is re- newed. It was observed that at the funeral ccremonies at Mount MeGregor and at New York that General Badeaun was not wmong those who nad been near to the departed chieftain in his militar awil life and were his mourners with his family around the catafalque and the grave. Raxvoren. pdr il Freaks of the Lightning. An English boy, 14 years old, who has been working for George Watt, Mountain City, Canada, was struck by lightning July 5th and instently killed. ” His boots were tornoff and found five feet from his body. During a sovere storm near Macungie, Lehigh county, Pa.. July 27th, Amaudus BORROWED PLUMAGE. chase such an outfit as we could furnish , it would cost her not less than $1,500. We charge her $500 he don’t wear the dresses often enough to do them any se- sious mj\n'{. and at the end of two months she has had her full of the finery, and wonld not wear them a second sca- son if she owned, while we have our ¥500 and our outfit dnmaged probably $250 worth. She has saved §1,000: wo have had a profit of $250. Ain’t that right? Our New York house has unlimited capi- tal, and branches here and other cities. Now here is another instance whicn act- ually occurred i Philadelphia_not long Hored Finery at Seaside and Moun- tain—Elaborate Toilets at Small Cost. Phiiadelphin Record: There is a curi- ous brokerage business carried onin a suite of well-furnished rooms in a prom- inent offico building on Walnut street. There is"'no ‘sign out and no display made, bu}'tlwru is a frequent coming and goig” of well-dressed ladies, and every mdieation of a flourishing busi A’ brisk little man, with an off: f n Defenderter, ‘. farmer, was® struck by | jund mantier'and a profusion of jewelry, | 220: A lady who has a very fair fortune lightning and instantly killed while work- | is“the manager ot the establishment. | Was about to take atrip to Europe. She ing in his field. _ Five or six farm hands | 1Ti nesistints are all women. for the | proposed to travel on the continent, and who were working with him were ren- | 11100 is thit agency of a New York house | to do it in good style, but as cheaply as dered unconscious for several hours. which make! business of hiring out | possible. But the cost of a wardro! George .. Pringle, a wealthy farmer | costly dresses for summer, ¢ or | fine dresses, which she thought noces living about eight miles from Shickshin- | mountain wear, and even to parties who | sary, made her hesitate, The outfit she ny, Pa., wasinstantly killed by bghtning | are makiiig a trip to Europe. The busi- | desired would cost her, in addition to the March 19. He was overtaken by a storm | ness of hiring out gentlemen's dress | every day dresses nceded, about $8,000. and was struck by the fatal bolt while in | suits for'' balls and parties has for | The upshot of the matter was the act of crossing a stono wall. The | yoars boen 'an every-day thing, and | that we furnished ber the out- deadly flash was the only one that oc- | a fair proportion of the elaw-hammer | fit, new, made to her order, curred during the day, and was all the | ¢oat: n at mixed gatherings are hired | charged her $3,200 for the use of them fonrteen weck most as good esses netted us more than they cost, more surprising on account of the cold- ness of the weather In Attleborough, My ses back Since then those d got the d new. from the costumer. The renters of these garments drive a very ¢ rofitable trade, often in less than a month etting the full July 29, a tene- ment house owned by 'Fred Fogg was | price of a first-class broadcloth suit from | and we sold them to a_customer recently wrecked. The lightning struck the ehim- | its hire, and the garments are very littie | for $500. He will use them for one night ney, running down to the roof, tearing | the worse for wear. A well-known Ninth | ball room ‘rents.’ or for the making up the ridgeboard and shingles up, and en: | street costumer has now in his possession | of faney dresses. No one knows nowa- tered the building in~ its downward | a favorite suit, which is yet good for a | daysin the society of a richly dressed course. Bennie Packard, aged 22 years, | year's hiring, for which he paid $35, and | Woman whether “she be rich” or not, a hack-driver, was instantly killed. He | Which in less than ten months has net- | Whether her splendid toilet is her own or was found lying against the door. The | ted hum $65. Equaily as common a thing | has been hired. The sea side resorts, 1d especially Long Branch, Saratogn nd such places, ave crowded with ladies who are sporting hired finery, and_the diamonds and jewels which flash from their bosoms and arms are paid for at so much a week for the season. 0 you rent out jewels also?’ o, we leave that to the fashionable jewellers. There is not a jeweller in this city, probably, who has a lurge stock and cabital enough, who does not, as a com- ractice, rent out jewelry by th he week or by the month. Of is an expensive luxury, this hir- ewels. But it is done by the rich A young lady ad, or has an in- vitation to a swell ball, 1f her parents ave known to be responsible, will go toa joweler and nire a diamond necklace or a diamond charm, or something of that sort which she cannot afford to own, and for a few dollars can look, for one night at least, as resplendent as an cmpress. If | shoe on his right foot was torn into pieces, s underclothing and outside garments torn from him, and he was nearly nude. or two occasions. They can hire a ball- The 18-year-old daughter of James [ room dress, shoes, stockings and lace Bean, a farmer living near Copley, Pa., | shawl, which would cost §200, for from was to have been married Saturday 1- | #5 to $25 a night. If they are known they ing, July 17. She had a favorite Jersey | are not required toleave a deposit: other- cow which she ealled Daisy, and \\‘hluK the price of the outfit is left with the she always milked herself. During the | costumer, to be returned when ce dress afternoon the girl took her milk pail and | comes back. started for the barn. *‘L ain goiu‘[]' to milk “*Such outfits,” said a man who has Daisy for the last time,”” she said to her | been in the busine n this city for ten mother, as she went out the door. While | years, “arc often hired by brides and Miss Bean was 1n the barn wilking | bridesmaids, ana for a consideration we lightning struck the building, and the | often ma pecial costumes of the most bolt killed both the girl and the cow. costly churacter tor such occasions. By During a terrible thunderstorm on the | this means at half cost a bride may be night of July 25, i icinity of Ot- | rigged up as fine us though she were an tawa, Canada, o fearful tragedy was en- | heiress, We take the dresses back and acted in the cottage of Joseph Goderau. | use them to hire out to other parties who The latter’s aunt, who had ‘died the day | are not particular about absolutely n previous, was being waked up by some | costumes, and thus make a fair profit,” is the renting from evening to evening of ball-1oom costumes for ladies who can't afford to buy expensive dresses for one ing of and often by the poc who is about to get ma noighbors and relatives, when a bolt of | One costumer in the city, who does a dont as g lightning descended the chimney, and | very lurge business in a quict way for the | She has Do (R f:;‘ "'{“,-.’""-"' l',‘" » striking the coffin, which was near the | fashionable people, has in his possession a‘-""‘?'.k-h, N okt gL Samonce Q¥ fireplace, shattered it to pieces. Two | $25,000 worth of dresses, robes, shawls | dopositing that amount for the security of the stores, pay a rental of $3 or §5, and the next day ‘got back the $100 de- posited. This is done every day, and jew- young men who sat near the corpse were instantly killed, and six others who were in different parts of the room were seri- and other female finery which 5 come to him in various ways, Many rich peo- ple, he says, scll their ball-room dresses ollers are, of vonrse, glad to got trade of that sort. They run no risk and the profit is great. The whole business isa gzood deal like borrowing money from a pawnbroker at an enormous per cent. a month, and it 15 getting to be almost as common. In Paris and London the pra tice is such a matter of fact that no gre ‘bones’ are made of it, and very little se- crecy observed. The nobility are cspec- inlly guilty of the practice, and oid fam- ily jewels which have been sold for years are vegularly hired upon great occasions and worn to disguise the unhappy e to which the family excheguer has been reduced, ously affected. While erossing the Iron hill, Colorado, July 4, George Edwards was struck by lightning. It was considered fatal, but ho is now recovering slowly. His case is a yuost remurkably one, and is attract- ing considerable attention from seientific wmen. Edwards after the flash, remained unconscions for fully fifteen minutes be- fore recciving assistance, The lightning struck him on the left cheok, knocking out a number of his teeth. It then passed diagonally across his breast to the right side, thence to the feet, coming out of the right foot, having passed entirely through the foot, leaving a hole very sim- ilar to one made by a bullet. His eloth- ing was torn into fragments, particles being found a distance of 200 feet from at the end of a season, They will not use them a second season, and get back A part of the cost in this way. These dresses are lired out to less particular people, who are thus on special occas- ions able to appeor in finery as elaborate and rich as that of the most elegant ladies of West Walnut street. This sort of second-hand dressing has been common for years past, but the business of furnishing such costumes has grown rapidiy w thin a short time. The alnut street broker’s business,to which reference has been made, is, howeve good deal in advance of this. He hir out his stock for months, and wiil furnish a female tourist or an idler at the shore with a complete wardrobe of dinner dresses, afternoon toilets and ball-room D Getting Rid of a Book Agent. Santa Rosa (Cal.) Demoerat: A ladyin the spot, and one of the boots, both of s, which she takes away with her | this city, who has a l;ul:umn of liking | which were torn into shreds, was found | in the big Sa and returns when the | her jokes, perpetrated one on a book sixty feet away. Immediately under- | tour or the season is over. agent on a recent that he will long | ath where Edwards was standing the ground was torn up for a considerable distance. The hghtning’s course alon, the body was shown by a black strea one and'a half inches wide. The worst rosult is the injury to the lung, the imme- dinte effect being a severe hemorrhage, by which a quart of blood was 1ost. —In addition to these injuries the surface of the body was ulmost completely covered with blisters, the result of the severe burns. This, it is said, is the first au- thentio instance of a person being in- jured by a stroke of lightning at an al- titudo of over 10,500 feet, and where por- remember. About 10 o'clock one morn- ing the ngent, & young man of perhaps twenty-four years, approached the aforo- said lady’s residence, on Third street, and ringing the bell, waited patiently for the summons to be answ Little did he know what was in store for him; if he had he would have given that house a wide berth. Soon the door was opened by our lady friend, who, upon noticin the book (family Bible), already opene n the agent’s hands, while the face above it was wreathed in asanctimonious smile, assumed an artistic expression of counte- nance, and, squinting her eyes behind it¥” the dapper “How do you mang little broker was aske “Very ensily. We have in New York hundreds of dresses which ere practic- ally new. Some of them are entirely new. A lady customer who wants to spend two months at the scaside comes 1n and tells us what she wants. Perhaps it is four fine deesses. Ordinary wa kmg and lounging dresses sho has. ~We don't hire such” It would not pay We take her measure, and if we can fit her, even by altering the dresses we bave on hand, we fix | her up with one two elaborate ball.rcom outfits, a sons affeoted internally, as Mr, Edwards | through, for her steel-ribbed spectacles, screeched dinner dress and so on, as sho may . rather than asked, “What'll you baver” was, are not instantly killed. desire. If she should attempt to pur- The agent said: not like to have a nice family your parlor table?” *No, sir: table, indeed! ‘Think that’s the for 'n Bible, hey?” The agent was somewhat startled, but being a sharp fellow, discovered that he had made a ke, and adopted other tactics. Ile d her if she would not like one to read, if not for ormamental purposes Then came the rtler. “‘Young mun,” she said, ‘I have got a bible that I have used for 200 years, and I know overy word of it by heart, from begining to end.” This statement was accompanied Dby robust gesticulations and awful grim- aces of countenance. The young man began backing off, and when she haa concluded remarked that if she had a bible he, of course, could not sell her an other, At the foot of the steps he pansed and turning around asked the lady if she o e had read her bible for 200 The “Madam, would you Bible “for : purlor place eurs han startled him. She to whom it was sult of this question more directed started toward scrcnchinf out h I him, almost former statement, and concluded by asking him if he doubted her veracity. He of the bible bolted for the front gate on the keen jump, giving one backward glance after getting on the outside. He called next door and told his experience, concluded by asking how old “‘that woman'® was. The neighbor appreciated the joke, and soon after called on her friend. They have not got through laughing over the disconsolate book agent yet. This is a fuct. s A Ruined Wall Street Man, New York Correspondence Brooklyn Union: It is remarkable how men pop n Wall street, and then disappear, generally disappear, I may remark, They are soon forgotten. = To name the men who have gone down with a crash would make too long a list. One year ugo Henry N. Smith was a great figure in Wall strect. Now he 18 never heard of nor thought of. He is ruin beyond the possibility of recover: ed, beeause he oweslso much or'can pay up. Yet he haunts the There 18 the old fascination to It has been said once dabbled in could never leave the ticker until he was driven from at, but he could not exist out of its clatter, It was not sur- prising to see him walking up Wall the otlier afternoon, but it was like mect ing a stranger. He had been keoping in seclusion, Te did not look much as he us»d to. He wasin his prosperous day one of the best dressed menin the stre He always cut a rather ridiculous figure, to be sure, with his pudgy body and bow legs, but his garments were of the most expensive cloth and the most stylish cut; hisshoes were polished until they shone like a mirror, and bis hat, usually a tall one, was without a speck in sammier, ar i winter as glossy as 1f from tho hatior's hands His linen was inupaculate, and he was in every way the pink of perfoe- tion street, lure lnm to the ticker. that the man who had s famous fifty pairs of trousers gave him & chango & day for nearly (wo months, He had about as many coats and vests, and he never wor Suit two days in succession, nor even o whole day he sure to make a before dinner. Except in the summor, when he was usuaily at Long Branch, he appesrea at the Windsor hotel in the eveuing, strutting up and down the tiled floor nnil swinginga natty cane. When I passed him the past week he was clad in a suit that was poor in fit, ugly in color, und nothing extra in qua ity. His hat was a sort of distorted bill cock in shape, and & oross between paving-stone and a soft-shell crab in color. He, of course, is able to 1 fortably on the prop wife's name, but' he and it was not eusy his unbecoming atiire. and as he walked up the stre paid any attention to him. Only a short year before half the men in Wall strees hung ou his words and regarded him almost with awe. In times past he has made and lost wmillions on the figures jotted down on the tape, but now he can only look at them and guess which way the market is going without being able to gamble on the figtres. change alone, no one A NEW ELECTRICAL FORCE. Tho Phonopore ard tho Remarkable Res sults of Its Working. : AN ENGLISHMAN'S DISCOVERY, Solving the Problem of Telogeaphy and Telephony on an Open Circuit, 1t has long been known, says the Lons don Times,that if a telephone be inserted a wire sity near to a line of teles graph wires every passing telegraph ous vent will produce noises in the telophone, although the telephone wire is perfootly 'd from the telegraph wires. These noises are termed “induction noises,* and they constitute one of the groatest obstables in the way of long -distance teles phony., Engaged in investigating the phenomena of influetion; with the view to tinding measures of obviating its efs fects in telephones, C. ngdon Davies has had ocension to examine it under. great ty of conditions, both at and abroad On a very long telegraph wi haps one of the longest direct wives the world—from Amstes to B Y trong currents were used, ing so powerful an eRect_on a n ing telephone as to lead Mr, Davies thesis that the so-called *‘indu ed by some form of e force which might be separated from rents, and which would pass i through insulators impassable rents, and further, that if this were new series of instruments might be structed for the employment of ; force, and which, moreover, could be inaction in company with curront. truments on the sanie wire. The of research thus indicated has been severingly followed by Mr, Davies, has, after long and patient rese: to the completion by I.lml of n varioty ¢ instruments of apparently great pr cal utility, LN’ rw'qmtli’ rfnmn llu us by Mr. Davies at his office In don. Those remarkable results they duce speak for themselves The re produced _constitute nes oblems in mathematienl physics wi ve not yet been solved, 0 form of clectri force which finds fre passage through them appears to always capable of being associated sound, The name “phonoporic impulse® I hevetofore been given to the fore and that of “phonopore” to the in ment, k- insu sion of phonoporic impulses. A ber of wires, separately insula bound together into n kind of :led upon a bobbin, It was found the phonoporic impulses passed fn through the insulation from wire to while currents could not pass at Anotl f: ascertained by Davie of great imports it solves the problem of nd elephony on an o nt. When one end of each wire insuluted sq that there was no cul the attention of the phonoporie im continued unaltered. The manner which the phonopore is applied to construction of telegraphic and e phonic_instruments 15 practicall sime. Its exterior form s similar of an induction coil. The impu are generated i primary circuit of. proved cons! on, and over it is i place of asecondary eivewi pore of two wires, . ea throughout its length and at one end, other end being connected to the line, = When the instrument is a'telegraph number of phonoporic impulses generate in the transmitter per second is r by tions of an organ rees circuit, Another 1me rate of vibratio r at the distant eclectro-magnet, and impulses from~ the mitter iSo 1t to vibrate. Twoli hammers touch the receiver reed mpicte alocal relay cirenit when still, but break it whenes brates, thereby setting in any required instrument in - ol with any battery. When the ph is used in constructing a telephone . in reed in the primary cirenit of ansmitter is replaced by miere ntacts, and a velephone is receiver, The series of phonopoves ready completed includes a other subsidiary instrument, both telegraphy and telephony, as well as provements in known processes and forms of signaling instruments constitute a long list. Having described the basis of Davies’ ingenious invention and the nature of the instruments devised by his for carrying it into cffect, we will turn to the results of \mrklng as witnessed by us, and which some very remarkable features. phonopore telegraph _ transmitter bv an ordinary Morse key, iver sets an action an ol ounder, printer, or other graph instrument, so that an, ist can use it at once. On phonoporic line, or open cireni hown to work the Morse ¢ stated resistance of 275,000 ohms line v of less than six volts, n ordinary telegraph o battery of i v v ired, 5 The phonopore telephone transmitter. was shown to bo equally powerful, On the open eircuit, with o Lattery of twe Leclanche cells and used without the sid iphragm, by simply speaking 1o hons we found it to transmit the 11 round, and clear through the stance which may be said to equivalentto & wire round the earth, But the great importunce of the phono: : fact that it can be wor with the ordinary teles graphs. Euach phonopore ins uz m s Iine is conneeted to it by two terminal serews, and it breaks the conducting-ling nit. The ciremt can be restored by nneeting an ordinary telegraph instea. ment to the sume terminal serews, 3 two classes of instruments can be in cther, yet their ive Dt as separate s if ME on separate wires, sed pra ally, this. means that the phonopore. the government % have provided for the six-penny telegram system at the expense of & hing like tenth of the cos 3 constructed 4o 1o noises made by telegraphs in teleplione y telegraphs have been worked simultancously with satisfuctory phouopore telephones on v sume wire. ‘The telegraph noises ave s0 various in their ure, and are pro- longed under such varying condtions, | thut' the construction of phonopores 1 deal with them all must peee ly bea work of time. Other phonopores serve 1o conncet wires, 5o thut puonoporic ims 58 from wire to wire while the currents are retained in th 5. A new form of sj i p‘whioh Sonsiive or 8] ing Names are set in g phonoporie impulses. telegr being a hgr' the simultaneous wor | graphs on the san detail in construc has been dou v tuned to plac mn front of an phonopor Phon u&mn!s have b modify t stion by T9thnale The shonsne question n. Looking wt and what it nf)uud f the upplieations of the nopore system would seem to be cay J of almost indelinite extension,