Edison's Latest

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 340, 6 February 1889, Page 3

Edison's Latest

A report is going the rounds that ftlr Edison promises to put his latest invention, the phonograph, to a cuiious and practical use. His intention is to furnish to subscribers a talking daily newspaper. The little instrumen b will be charged with a condensation of tho news of the day, so that each subscriber can listen to it while at breakfast. The Edison Talking Newspaper Company will supply its patrons with a phonograph at an annual rental of a small sum. These phonographs can be also used to reproduce singing, piano playing, or elocution. The instrument will contain each day all the latest news, and will cover each department, such as cablegrams, political, dramatic, commercial, and monetary items. Each phonograph will be plainly marked ; so that~ the reader, or rather the hearer, can choose for himself which he desires to hear first. If a new opera has been produced the night before, he can listen to able but concise criticisms, and enjoy the novel sensation of having repeated to delighted ears the choicest passages of music precisely as they were rendered at the theatre. It was stated at Edison's laboratory thab, if necessary, 20,000 or more copies of the same cylinder oan be turned out in an hour, and these can be adjusted to any phonograph, so that 20,000 or more of these talking machines can repeat the rame sentences at once.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes wants fco know what civilisation would be without a piano. Nobody can toll, but we shouldn't be afraid to try it for a week or so. Husband : ' I tell you, ray dear, I don't have any kind of success in business, I'm afraid I have a Nemesis.' Wife: 'Well, why don't you see the doctor about it ?' Why is it always advisable to depend on catching a 12.50 train ? — Because it will bo ten to one if yon get ib. A record of 341 divorco cases in one day entitles Boston to a smile of recognition from Chicago.