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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15396, 7 March 1912, Page 8

Nt ===== S5 —A. W. Sharmnn inventor of o system " Si of sending telophoiio messages by wireless, ,g lifts nioceoaod in transmitting musical notes, L , r chords, and even tunes from a wireless c . station on land to ships at sea, nnd from a one ship to another. By means of his jo invention ho cincots soon to be able to 10 furnisli ship.< wih a receiving instrument construct fd somewhat like an ordinary l( j piano, from which brass land, siting a orchestra, and piano music may be ox- [(| tracted at the will of tho oporator, miles nway. In making his experiments, Mr >,j Sharman had tlic apparatus at a land , K station, and connected with tho sand by means of metal rods. In a motor boat [ 0 over hall a mile away was the reco'vini' j instrument, from which metal pLitcs trailed in the sea Tho inventor then sont out c '. .several musical notes which were heard dis- . tinctly through tho receiving initmment m in the boat. "My country, 'tis of theo" folj,. lowed, every noto boiiuj faithfully recorded. ,jJ — Elaborate precautions wern taken in the eighteenth contury to ensure tho fitw ness of English ale. The ofßcial sugar!l, seeker was a institution. llis post, though 10 no nnecuro, required littlo brain work. Hut leather breechos wore indispensablo. [ 0 Here is his programme. "He would enter , im inn unexpectedly, draw a glass of aJo, pour it on a woodon bonah and sit .lown j in tho littlo puddle ho had made. Hore a ho would sit for JO minutes by the clock. ' Fie wo ald convorso. ho would' smoko and * ho would drink with all who asked him M to, but ho would bo very careful not to change his position. At tho end of the half hour ho would make as if to rise, nnd this w«s tho test of tho ale; for if tho .--ie wis impurii. if tho ale had sugar in it, the f tester's leather brccches would stick to tho boncli,"