Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1881 — The Mysteries of the Telephone. [ARTICLE]

The Mysteries of the Telephone.

The telephone, to many people, is still the great incomprehensible. An old gentleman came into Atwood’s market a few days ago, and while he was there the telephone bell rang. Mr. Atwood answered the summons. The old gentleman watched the operation curiously, and asked if that was “one of them telephone he had heard so much about.’ f Mr. Atwood explained the working of it to him, and, < xtending to himjtbe telephones.asked him .to put it to his ear and try it. “No, sir,” said be, frowzling* his hairs, ' Myou don’t one them things stave my ■mH 'alli&ftpieanULTb«- next day ah full of Custodivrs ffi*MMgj|ferks wjere WT W-w -tel|BK|e OMwiiyi spuWß as ffi It t'er-M----'>o gray a tifwi*. us a jotirrW, and tpe-w< -man sw-iVf’fwleMi limiutW in getting cK-er hur£r and looking htfnw tolephoue, land fiber* bought» cutolstyof happyyemlsreneJexetemaListed Son Lger to tine mre MWg.? Mere tot© re Wdpor between s.. the,:. sfed, ernoratid hfi const W it is closed and kept locked by W gbvlrflor, and is ®e div Ming line Iwo ” J&W fli of Comnieni 6/i Ixniis, bednutoe amount ofolm Wficit of State Treasurer Gates, M#beS|)assed’ @f the stated • '