Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — The Latest Wonder. [ARTICLE]

The Latest Wonder.

The readers of the Traveller haye been made acquainted with the wonderful inventions of Professor Bell, by which musical and vocal sounds can be and have been sent over the electric wires, but few if any are aware of the wonderful results which are sure to follow these improvements in telegraphy, A few nights ago Professor Bell was in communication with a telegraphic operator in New York, and commenced experimenting with one of his inventions pertaining to .the transmission of musical sounds. He made use of his phonetic organ and played the tune of “America,” and asked the operator in York what he heard. “I hear the tune of ‘America,- ” replied New York; “give us another.”

Professor Bell then played “Auld Lang Syne.” “What do you hear now?” “I hear the tune of Auld Lang Syne, with the full cords, distinctly,” replied New York. Thus the astounding discovery has been made that a man can play upon musical instruments in New York, New Orleans, or London, or Paris, and be heard distinctly in Boston. If this can be done, why can not distinguished performers execute the most artistic and beautiful music in Paris, and an audience assemble in Music Hall, Boston, to listen? Prof. Bell’s other improvement, namely, the transmission of the human voice, has become so far perfected that persons have conversed over 1,000 miles of wire with perfect ease, although as yet the vocal sounds are not loud enough to be heard by more than one or two persons. But if the human-voice clan now be sent’ over the wire, and so distinctly that w hen two or three known parties are telegraphing, the voices of each can be recognized, we may soon have distinguished men delivering speeches in Washington, New York, or London, and audiences assembled in Music Hall or Fanueil Hall to listen. —Boston Traveller. If it is dishonest to pay debts in silver coin what is congress proposing to coin that fifty millions of dollars in silver for? What is it to bo used for? —lndianapolis Sun.