Phonograph Edison

■ Mr. Edison, na a young telegrnph operator at Mempliis, was known for the quaint drawings with which, in odd leisure niomcnts, lic illustrated the Southern presa reporta. Oue habit was to convert the taila of his g's and y'a into faces, with the most ludicrous cxpressions imaginable. Another liabit was to draw a railroad curve around a Lili, with a train of cara at full speed; on the ñrst car was a T, on tho second Y, and so on until Tyler, the signatura to the report, was spelled out, and on the last car, barely perceptible u-onnd the curve, was "30," or fiuis. ïhis continned for some time, unlil a Memphis editor published a paragraph praising in the higliost terms the beauty of Ihe sketches, but objecting to them on the grouud that the printers took up toa mucli time ia adniiring them, and in trying to flnd ppropriate onts to represent them. .'his was the laat of the " il lustra tod )ress reports," aa Edison waa exceedngly sensitive. Who knowa bnt that if ie had turnod his atfcention to drawing :o might have j-ivaled Nast? In Paris black goods are faut bc ing