of people, every word being perfectly distinct, and at a second trial with a favorable wind it was found that an unknown message could be taken down in shorthand at a distance of 12 miles. Over the water the sounds will carry still further, and under favorable circumstances they might easily be heard by persons on a vessel 15 miles out at sea. Placed on a lighthouse or lightship the phonograph would give a verbal warning that would be infinitely more effective than the foghorns and detonators at present in use.     The possibilities of the machine are practically endless. It will render loud selections in the open air that can be listened to by thousands of people, or it will shout news messages that could be heard high above the roar of the traffic and the thousand noises of a big city. From—The Perrysburg Journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]), 21 Sept. 1900. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.