The Telepurp

A good story comes from Norwnlk, Ct. One day last week a gauut, slab[ sided oliap, with partidos of hay-seed ou I hi8 coat and in liis tow-colored hair, stnpped üp lö the telegvnpli office at the railroad depot and asked if Hie bttsd was : in. The operator assiired hiña íliat he j was, and his ïiiral i'riend went on to re! late that he lived up in Danbury, bad [ come doWn f'orn there that morning, and I i intonded bringing hi. bvother's dog, wliich a man in Norwicli waníed íf buy, j but had forgotten it, and wanted to know j J if the dog could be sent down frora there I j br telegraph. The man of lightning, i j seeing a gOOd chanc tot a little ( fun, at once answered : ' ' Oertainly, sir ; that is a Jöatter of daily occnrrence. AU that is necessaty for you to do is to give me a description of the dog, so that no mistake can be made ; cal agajp in about half an hour, lid the dog will be heïe," " It is a yellow dog, -wïih sttaW ears, and is about so high," said tlie Grauget, I placing his hand eighteen inches from ■ the floor. He then took his departure with the remark that be would cali again soon. Tlie operator then sent his mesj senger boy to look for a dog as near the description as possible, which he soon succeeded in flnding. It was at once brought to the office, and secured to the operator's desk by means of a piece of telegraph wire. After a little coaxing tlio dog was made to lie quietly down, and everything was in readiness for our ntral ffiend Ptinctmil to the time appoiiited he fftade his appearancc, and asked if the dWg hsd cojfie. "Iwill see," said the operator, and I stepping up to the instrument he tapped a few times on the key, at the same time, inserting his leg under the desk, he managed to step on the dog's toes, which ! caused the canine to yelp. "Ah ! he's ! coming," said the operator, and then, ' tapping niore furiously on the key, he i nt the snme time kicked the dog clean : from under the table, who, not relishing this kind of treatment, barked furiously, i and ran around the office with the wire I attached to his neck. "Fifty cents, sir," said the operator, turning around to tlie coimtrymafi. "Uncoramon nice dog, must be worth 5Ö ; büt he is the ! hardest dog I ever receited over the I wires ; he is so muscular, you see, tliat ; he broke the wire, in fact a piece of it is now attached to his neck, which he broke off." During the hole of this operation the countryman gazed oii the operator with eyes wide open and full of surprise ; bnt [ when the dog came from under the table and was seen by the countryman, that was tlie culminating point, and he was j struck with amazement. After looking j at the dog a moment or so, he said, " Say, mister, he ain't so big as he was, and he is darker, how is that ?" "Oh! that is easily explained," said the operator ; "you see the chemicals employed in making electricity of course darken his original color, and the velocity with wliich he paaned over the wire cimsed him to contract in SiZe ; but after yori exposé him to the air for a short time he 'Wiíi ioön asmirae his original size and color." " Du teil," said the countrylilai!, and, after placing 50 cents on the counter, he picked up the dog, and walked out of the j Cffice, iemarking that ' ' the man who invented thenl te3eg'1aphH must be a very knowledgable man." , .