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The old doctor was swaying backwards as he spoke, and his voice rose and fell with the motion, as the tone of a phonograph when the door is opened or shut.
Uses of Electricity.% Till Brush invented his arc light and dynamo, the sole practical use made of electricity was in the field of telegraphy. But now in rapid succession came the many forms of electric lights and electric motors; the electric railway, the search light; photography by electric light; the welding of metals by electricity; the phonograph and the telephone.
He saw how they hung them carefully, so that they might not wrinkle, in the dryers. He saw them emerge, glowing, from the tub rooms. And he waited, the fever of cleanliness burning in his eye. His turn came. He had waited more than an hour, reading, listening to the phonograph and the electric piano, and watching. Now he saw his chance and seized it.
Albert was mounted on his latest hobby, and in a few minutes, although he could only use one arm, the phonograph, which stood on the table near the safe, was ready for its work of reproduction. Albert started it. 'Follow me, follow me! It began to sing the famous ditty in the famous voice of Miss Edna May. 'Stop that! cried Hugo, and Albert stopped it.
It was a new Philip Harris, sauntering in at noon with a roll of pictures a box of sweets, enough candy to ruin the ward a phonograph under one arm and a new bull pup under the other. The pup sprawled on the floor and waked happy laughs up and down the ward and was borne out, struggling, by a hygienic nurse, and locked in the bathroom.
"Well well!" cried Elizabeth, "hast lost thy voice, man?" "My liege," murmured the bewildered savant, "the date this document " "Is dated in 1898," said Droop, solemnly. "This here bike and phonograph won't be invented by anyone else for three hundred years yet."
"Well, yes, Janie, I did think of going out for a little stroll in the forest," answered the bunny uncle, talking like a phonograph. What he meant was that he was going for a walk in the woods, but he thought he'd be polite about it, and stylish, just for once. "Don't forget your umbrella," went on Nurse Jane. "It looks to me very much as though there would be a storm."
"You see, I know how it feels to be waked up at four in the morning by the teamsters piling out of their bunks; so I built a separate bunk-house for them. The men work too hard to have their sleep broken into that way. And another thing I built a couple of big rooms onto the office where the men can play cards and smoke in the evening. I ordered a phonograph, too.
AT the opening of the Electrical Show in New York City in October, 1908, to celebrate the jubilee of the Atlantic Cable and the first quarter century of lighting with the Edison service on Manhattan Island, the exercises were all conducted by means of the Edison phonograph. This included the dedicatory speech of Governor Hughes, of New York; the modest remarks of Mr.
In the vault, and again in the flat, his life had been in danger; he had suffered the ignominy of the ruined sale; he had come to grips with Ravengar, and let Ravengar go free; he had listened to the amazing recital of the phonograph. And, finally and supremely, he had experienced the greatest stroke of joy, ecstatic and bewildering joy, of his whole existence the news that Camilla lived.
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