Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1883 — Telephones for Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Telephones for Farmers.

American Farmer. To make a good and serviceable telephone, good from one farm house to an other, only requires enough wire and two cigar boxes. First select your boxes and make a hole about a quarter of an inch in diameter in the center of the bottom of each, and then place one in each of the houses you wish to connect; then get five pounds of common stove pipe wire, make a loop in one end and put it through the hole in your cigar box and fasten it with a nail; then draw it tight to the other box, supporting it when necessary hetout'oord. , You can easily run your line into the houseby boring a hole through the glass. Support your boxes at the ends with slats nailed across the window, and your telephone is complete. The wri er has one th't is 200 yards long and cost forty-five cents, that will carry music when the organ is played thirty feet away in another room. The impression that Germany is free from the curse of distilled liquors because the German are so partial to beer and light wines, is corrected by the fact that in Prussia alone the annual consumption of whisky and brandy amounts to $52,000,000, or $2 per year for woman and child. The total expenditure of the people for liquors, beer and tobacco, is about $270,000,000 or $lO per capita, annually.