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c3 Sfa gnittj gnatoflrfm ASTORIA. OREGON: SATURDAY NOVEMRPli 25. JRR7 EDLSON'S PHONOGRAPH. Mr. Thomas A. Edisoii Tells What Uis Forthcoming Phonograph Will Do. The sanitary cry of "Here's your boiled water, 1 cent a glass," is said to be heard now in the streets of Cincinnati A Pennsylvania court has decided that where all parties are residents of the same city, bank chocks must be presented on the same day they are drawn, or the xext day. If not so drawn, the risk of the bank's solrsncy is on the payee. Steasiebs cannot run at night be cause of the dense smoke on the Mis sissippi river, from VickBburg to a point 150 miles above Memphis, a to tal distance of 650 miles. The wires are burning down everywhere in the territory visited by forest fires. Judge Deadt has decided that a woman who had never resided in Or egon could not, under the statutes have any right of dower in property there unless her husband died seized of it Mrs. Anna Thorburn, of Arkan sas, sued to recover dower on a piece of property sold by her husband years ago, in which she did not join in the deed. Oub readers should bear in mind that according to a recent ruling of the powers that be advertisements of the senders' business are not allowed on mail matter; the sender can have printed or written on wrapper the name and address of the individual or firm but no designation of the busi ness of the party sending the mail matter. This is a strict and illiberal construction of a law passed nearly nine years ago, and now looked up and enforced by some smart Aleck in the postoffice department The diplomatic correspondence rel ative to the seizures of sealers in Banting's sea, which has been made public during the week, taken in con naction with the action of the govern ment in reference to the vessels and persons seized, seems to indicate pretty clearly how the question raised will be settled, though the episode has not yot been brought to a definite conclusion. The government apparently is not dis posed to assume the position that Behring's sea is a closed sea, or to as sert jurisdiction over its water be yond the distance of a marine league from the shore. Its course in relation to this question will be in line with the contentions of our earlier diplo mats before Alaska passed into our possession, and, indeed, it is in conso nance with a declaration made by secretary of the treasury Boutwell as late as 1872. In taking the attitude indicated the government will relieve itself of some embarrassment in the discussion of the fisheries controversy. "My phonograph will occupy about as much space on the merchant's desk, or at the side of the desk, as a typewriter does. It will work automatically by a small electric motor which runs nt a perfectly regular rate of speed, is noiseless, and starts and slops at the touch of a spring. Suppose the morchunt wibhes to write a letter; he pulls the mouthpiece of the phonograph to him, starts the motor with a touch, and says what ho has to say iu an ordinary tone of voice. When he is done he pulls out a littlo sheet and rolls it up for the mail. The recipient places this sheet in a similar phonograph, touches the motor spring, and the instru ment will at once read out the letter in a tone more distinct, clearer, more charac teristic of the voice of the writer than any telephone you or I ever heard. The phonograph voice is not a loud voice, perhaps not more than twice as loud as the sound you get from a good telephone, and an earphone will be necessary. This, however, may not -be an objection, lnap muoh as people do not always want to have their letters heard all over the otlice. In aiming for loudness in the phono graph, I went astray in my first experi ment; I should have tried for clcarues i. The present apparatus will satisfy any one who is half satisfied with the tele phone. Of course, there are no disturb ances in the phonographic message such as those made by induction along n tele phone wire, and as tLe apparatus will re peat the letter over and over again, it is posslblo to understand ever syllable, ven in a noisy oince. 1 was so overcome with the success of my first instrument, unisbed about six weeks u;o, u;.n. x doubted whether I could make another equally good, and I went to work at ouce to do so; my second instrument works as well as the first, and I have forty work men employed in making tbn tools for the manufacture of the first lot of tUMi phonographs. They will cost $G0 a piece. "Now for speculation as to what people may do with the phonograph. I am con fident that it will be found in the office of every busy man. I am confident that tho editor and the reporter of the fnturowill never think of losing time by writing with a pen or dictating to a stenographer when the printer can set type better from the dictation of tho phonograph than ho can from copy. I have already perfected an apparatus which allows the phono graphic message to be given out in pieces of ton words each. The printer touches a pedal with his foot and the phono graph says ten words. If he sets the ten correctly, he touches tho pedal again and gets ten words more. If he is in doubt he tries another pedal, which makes the phonograph repeat. In the future some method may be found of combining tho phonograph and the telephone that is to say, tho phonograph may be made so delicate as to take down the sound from a telephone and give it out again when wanted. As yet I have not attempted iny such thing. The vibrations of the telephone diaphragm are too delicate for use use in the phonograph. In business hard to say exactly to what uses it may bs put. As it will record and repeat any kind of musical sound, and as tho pro cess of duplicating tho phonogram, as I call my sheet of metal which has pa.-s;d through the phonograph aud becomj im pressed with certain bounds, is very cheap, tho phonogram copy of a lecture, a book, a play or am opera need cost but a trifle. 'For music I know yon will simply laugh when I toll you what I havo done with the two instruments that I linvo finished. I havo got tho plajingof an orchestra so perfectly that each intru meat can bo heard distinct from the rest; you can even tell tho difference between two pianos of difforent makes; 3 oc can toll the voice of one singer from another; you can get a reproduction of an ojvr itic scene in which the orchestra, tho ohoiuses and soloists will be as dibtinct and as ! satifactory as opera in this sort of in.nin tnre can ever bs made. Opjra bv tele phone bni been done in Pans and Lou don more or less successfully, but tho phonograph will eclipse the telephone for this purpose beyond all comparison, and phonographic opera will co-t nothing, because tho phonogram can be psed through the phonograph, if nti-Mv.;-, a thousand times in succession, and unce the machino is bought tht.ro is no other cost beyond tho trifle for phonograms. For books the phonogram will come iu the snaps of a long roll wound upon a roller. To make the first phonographic copy of a book some good reader mast of course read it out to the instrument; onro that is done, duplication to any number of thousand or million cop'es is a simple mechan.cal work, easv aud cheap. Now, just think a moment what lUHL UJfVUlS. ' surmise you ara sick, or blind. or p .or or cannot sleep. Yoa havo a ph. mograpu, and thj wnole world of literature and music is op3u to yoa. Tbj ierfect'jd phonograph is f. oing to do more for tho uaor man than the printing press. No matter where he is the poor man can hear all the great lecturers of the world, can havo all the great books read to him by trained readers, can hear as much of a play or an opera as if he was iu the next room to the theater, and all this at a cost scarcely worth mentioning I remember that when tho telephono was first announced it was said that now peo ple in tho wilds of Africa or America might assist nightly at the performances of the Paris Opera House; the wires from that favored spot might run to all pirts of the world, Well, wo have not yet got to that, although it is a scientific possi bility for tho f uturo to perfect in detail. Bat the phonograph will niako such a thing perfectly easy. Tho phonographic record of a performance at th Pari Opera Heuse can be duplicated by tho thousand and mailed to all parts of tho world. I don't know but that the news piper of tho future will be in tho shnpo of a phonogram and tho critic will give his readers specimens of tho performance and let them hear just how tho future Patli did her work, well or otherwise. This- sounds like the wildest absurdity, and yet, when you come to think of ir, why not? Havo I told you enough o make you belie e that I am joking? Well, I am nothing of a joker and this is all tho most sober kind of statement. Yt ithiu A W M f WHOLIISALE AND KKTAIL DEALER IN Fine Groceries, Provisions and Crockery, Glass Plated Ware. The Lirgest and finost assortment of S'rQsk Fruits and "E'egota.feles. Received fresh every Steamer. I think that tho phonograph will be used ! two months from now the first phono everywhere. Outside of business it is graphs will be in the market." THE rvOTED AMERICA?; ACTOR, Mr. HORDE LEWS ILWACO ITKaS. Ilwaoo, Nov. 25, '87. There are fourteen soldiers left at the Cape, who are kept busy packing up and shipping stores, etc. Sand Island is building down river, and a new spit was formed during tho last blow, extending toward 11 waco, by Smith's trap. The high tides cut in on the ocean front of the reservation tearing out the bank of logs and debris between McKenzie and North heads, and flooded out over five acres of cleared land. McKenzie's head is almost an island at present. The light honse and signal service buildings have been whitewashed and painted, but the soldiers1 quarters look desolate enough. The life crew have plenty of room now to get about in, and are putting in their time drilling and are close on to the best time ever made already. Thanksgiving Day with us was gen erally observed by suspension of bus iness an 1 labor, though most of the peop e ha 1 plenty to do making ar rangements for the fireman's ball. This proved a success as a pleasure and gratifying addition to the fire man's fnnd. 02 "3 o O .ASSISTED BV - MR. JAMES TAYLOR ANT A Brilliant Array Dramatic Artists z&S3&-?-Srt. :&- 7.r&: '.?,' -'.' t ". -T27.--7. KVjSiWfcSS' ' ' . zljJj&l &!&'' r rj- " ; ; o u BpPSHjSto.'-' GkSx wjJSgpci>A. WBBmm$&: rmA toA .. - 2&X??2i o CD 3 H ACT IL-CAVE91 TKS Y3EL9 IS M.NZ.2 Will Interpret In a Masterly Manner DUitiS' itltCHLESs 2IEL0D2JCIA, -i-3)TJ3S COUNT ore Monte (fristo WITH AT.Ti THE Superb Special Scenery, Elaborate Appointments, Eeallslic Calcium Light Effects, Costumes, Etc., or the oniGniAL pbodtjctiox, BROUGHT E3PE:iALLY WITH US FROM MEW YORK F03 THIS GIUXD PRESLNTATnri. 1 w CTQ S3 o 00 ct- fcr1 00 GO -v2 SPECIAUUCTION ! Extensive aud Valuable Real Estate Sale ! A Live Dally Newspaper.. Half a dozen more new subscribers were added to the Argus daily list during the past week but we need more, quite a number yet before the extra expense for telegraph service is made np. We are trying to secure this convenience for our local readers, but cannot afford to con tinue it nnleBS the expense entailed is approximately borne by our patrons. It is doubtful if another town the size of Port Townsend on the Pacific coast can boast a daily paper with dispatches as a regular telegraph service. "We could not here if the service had to be paid for from the east; still, as it is, the expense is one which, added to that of type set ting, editorial and reportorial work, in cidentals, &c, makes the actual cash outlay for running expenses something formidable in a limited field. The Argus has occupied the field here as a daily when there was no money in it for any one; it has served the public for public convenience alone; it has filled a neces sity as that necessity grew, and it has never thus far appealed in vain for sup- Srt. If its present venture is not cheer ily sustained we shall feel that the business community is making a sad mistake. No town can be more profitably advertised than by sending out a live daily newspaper, one that is a credit to the public from where it emanates. Port Townsend Argus 17. MARRIED. . At the Wallicut W. TM Nov. 24th V&ttinon Fredinburgand Myrtle Samp 8& by Justice 0. 0. JDadtoa. May, Bee. 1st. 2 P. I. At Holdeu's Auction Rooms. Instructed by Mr W 11. Adair, attorney In fact for John Adilr, Sr, and Marv Ai n Adair, his wife. I will offer at i ublic auci.on the following described lots In I pper As toria : Uht lots in block 8 ; lots 3. 4, and C in block 22 ; all l-i block 54 ; :il! m block Oi ; all in block 88 ; lots l. 2. 3 and 4 iu block 9J ; all In bluck 93 A favorable opportunity for prnfiUble investment on so larg a scale has nevrr before prcseutfd ite f in this city Tklauy of th-se rllinble lots are contiguous to improved property. I&ch lot is "3M50 feet, and each biock aoo feet s-quare. equivalent to 16 building lots 75 feet square in racli block. Property in Adair's Asteria is steadily ap preciating in va ue : S2.5W has recently been offered for a piece of wa'er fmntanc offered for sa'e a year as;o for 51,500. New stores aud residences are constantly poinp up iu Upper Astoria, and the street railrdad, soon to be In operation, will stimulate business. The advent of the iron horse on a steel track standard pii:i"i ml wiv va npvpr up. iht to Astoria than at the pre&eiit t me, and w hen I mat comes mere is no leiimg wnai mis property mav be worth. NOiV IS THK riXlE TO I.WVST. A warranty deed free from a'l Incumbrance to every lot. For any further particulars apply to E. C. HOLD EX. Auctioneer. -AGENCY flM.ColeiiW. OF SAN FRANCISCO. Flavel's Wharf and Warehouse, Astoriut Oregon. Cannery Supplies at Lowest Prices. Storage and Insurance at Current Kates. Banking Department Drafts on the leading Cities of the World JOHN P. McGOVERtf, B. IL Coleman. Accountant. Asent, School Supplies I. W. CASE, PIONEEB BANKER ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING. Does a General Banking Business Drafts Draws Available la any cart of tilt WerhL -THE- if Toft My STORE, Headquarter? for School Books. A Complete Line of the Official Text Books. o Prices Guaranteed Satisfactory. The Ntw York Novelty Store. LOOK! Jjn rjrjJtiVJ 5JU Jill til a. is Safe 4 M4fe inrp alii 0. New Goods, New Location Wc are now hi our Xcw Quarters ami 1 u-y opv ning a Inn ai Ho i ID lY GOODsJ that will fail 1 j tiazJo your eyes. Xrw IVoveltics in IIuIi. T5rn.s :i:ul I.n liter fiooil. rm-ivul Direct froi Kittoru Manufacturers. Immense Siock of Toys on the Way. T isoe Goods were purchased fur CAJJ. ami we v.-ili ii-M them at Sutlsfhctory Priees. We Do Xot claim to Give Goods away, but we do claim lo give full Value for Your Money. OUR LINE OF HOLIDAY BOOKS IS C03IPLETE. Look Cut for Our Plain, Simple, Ordinary Opening. Do not foruct that we hive Removed from our Old Quartets and now occupy the Fine Large More iu KlSXfcY'S KKICK Kl.TlE,laA. i3?!ffm dc Reed. Hosiery and Underwear ! WE HAVE JUST BECEIVED DIRECT FKOM EASTERN MANUFACTURKUS A LARGE LOT OF (rents', Laiies' and CMlfa's Hosiery ai Underwear. Also a full line of German Yarns, Saxony Yarns, Victoria Zephyrs, Embroidery Silks, Knitting Silks, in ai! Colors and Shades. Sole agent in Astoria for the Celebrated Drial & Co's French Shoes, and L&ixS. Schober & Mitchell's Fino Shoes. THE EMPIRE STORE W. T. PARKER. Manager. DKAIFH ly Hay, Oats, and Straw, Lie, Brici, Cement, Sand aid Plaster Wood Delivered to Order. Drajlnp, Tearalns And Express Business. STEAMER CLARA PARKER Eben P. Parker,Maater. Kor TOWING, FREIGHT orCIIAH II. R. PARKER. VVM -in"'.'. :.nhranta:i. or to 1 I. Parker. FISH (UBS Ai mm Promptly Delivered AT LOWEST PRICES IN ANY PART OF THE CITY. Fruits and Vegetables In Season. Everything Warranted as Kepresentcd. Corner Chenaniusand Benton Slreets. The New Model Range CAN in: HAD IN ASTOKIA, ONLY OF . R, KAWJGS, .Asent. Call and Examine It ; You Will bo Pleased. E. It. Tla.xrt Is also Agent for the Buck Patent Cooking Stove, AND OTIIEr. FIRST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand ifygrjqriggsassatMiiniii wncn viil wt Nb a artuwu t. ESTABLISHED 1S42. CAPITAL, SO.OOO The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of FISH NETTINGS IN THE UNITED STATES. Salmon Parse Seines. SalmJPoia" Nets. Salmon &ill Ms. t3TFish Xettlnps or all kinds supplied at the shortest possible notice, and at the lowest rates. AH made from our Shephard Cold Medal Twines. Guaranteed to bo the strongest and most desirable twino now mado especially for tho PACIFIC COAST FISHERIES. Tills TWINE is manufactured onlv bv ourselves, directlv from the raw material, and costs no more in NETTIXGS than the cheaper grades. Send for samples; also for our illustrated catalogue. Highest awards at Boston, Philadelphia and London. -American XTet and Twine Company, BSTK, MABSAtaVSETTi. - Headquarters for Ammunition. THE BEST IN THE WORLD. The Winchester Repeating Shot Cun, $25.00! A Fine Side Snap Marline Made Twist, Double-barrel Shot Gun, Box Shells and Tools, $17.50. Hpnrtins Goods, Ammunition aud the FamotiH Hwedlsh. R&asr i Our Immense New Stock Consisting of 4 CAB I.OADS of fine Artistic nndTlain Furniture, Carpets, Oil Cloth, Madras-Silk LACE AND PORTIERE. CURTAINS, Dado Shades, &c, Has Arrived. These goods were purchased direct from Eastern Manufacturers and shipped before the recent advance in freight, tho benefit' thoreof we nroposeto share with our customers. Call and See Us. CHA8. HEILBORN. INSURANCE. CAPITAL STOCK, $500,000 COLUMBIA FfflE 1 im INSURANCE CO. FRANK DRKUM ....President W. II. SMITH ...Vice-Fresldont JOHN A. CHILD .Secretary No. 160 Second St. Portland, Or. l.W. Case, Agent, Astoria, Or. Elmore, Sanborn & Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Fire Insurance AGENTS. Representing the Largest and Most Relia ble Fire Insurance Companies. All Business promptlyjand accurately tran acted. Flavels Wharf. - Astoria Oregon. $67,000,000 Capital LlTerpool & London A Globe. North British and Mercantile of London and Edinburgh. Hartford of Connecticut. Commercial of California Agricultural, of Watertown, New York, London & Lancashire of Liverpool, Enjc . Fire Insurance Companies, Represent In a capital of $67,000,000. . K. VAX DUWEX Agent. VirciniaCiffar and Toliacco Store j. W. BOTTOM, Proprieter: Water Street, Two Doors East of Olney. Flue Cigar, Tobaccos and Smokers Articles, Sold at Lowest Market Rates. PRTJIT3. CANDIES. NOTIONS,&o. Furniture and Upholstering, Mattresses Msdo and Repaired. Paper Hanging, Carpets Sewed and Laid. Furniture Sold on Commission. anor. corner Main and Jefferson Streets MARTIN OLSEN. Fire! Fire! Is one of the greatest blessings when yoa have It under control. If you build your fire in one of those Magee Ranges or oue of those Acorns or Argands at John A. Mont gomery's, you will find It a pleasure to pre pare a meal, or If you get one of those Heat ers you will find them to be clean and eco nomical and an ornament to your parlor. If you intend getting a range or a heater dont fall to look at his tock. You should call In see his beantifnl Ornamental Coal Vases. A. V. AImImEN, Has in Stock, and will open within a Few Days, one of the Finest Sioeks of GLASS and CROCKERY WARE, Ever Brought to the City. Examine His Stock Before Purchasing Elsewhere, CAPITAL STOCK - - $800,000 THE NORTHWEST Fire eft? HMTnrrlTiO INSURANCE CO. F. E. Reach .. . President J. McCraken-. . .......Vice President J. 1-oewenberg..... Treasurer R. P. Earhart .... Sec'y aud Manager DIRECTORS, JXoewenberg J. K. Gill, H. L Pittock, F. K. Arnold, F.M.Warren, J.MrCraken, F. E. Beach, D.D.Ollphant, F. Eggert No. 33 Washington street, Portland, Or. R. L. BOYLE, Agent. Astoria, Oregon. Omce at I. X. L. Packing Co. Deposited in Oregon, $300,000 ASSETS, S55.8Q1.288. Royal, Norwich-Union and Lancashire Com binatlon Joint Policy. Union of Ban Francisco. Gerraanla of New York. State Investment of California. Anglo-Nevada Assurance Corporatloa, XARIKE I58UK1KCS COVESEB BT OCR OPEf POLICOS. . Elmore, Sanborn & Co. Agents. Astoria Iron Woris. Concomly St.. Foot ot Jackson, Astoria. Or General Machinists ail Boiler Malm Land and Marine Engine BOILER WORK, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work A SPECIALTY. Castings of all Descriptions Made to Order at Short Notice. ... ... President. ........Secretary ,..........Treaaurer.. , SuDerlnteadeat. J.G.Htjstlxb,. L W. CA8X-.... JOHN FOX.. R. . LONG. Fresh Fruit, Fine Cigars. CONFECTIONERIES. Fresh Milk received daily. A fall line or CHOICE GOODS. OniUe SKMrtkT Clam - i !' "S vUi. ?- a&;W&' 1 wT jSfVi