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An Odious Telephone

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
May
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Yount? Bmiffkins, saya the San Francisco NewsLetter, was somcwhat stirprised, but hiyhly elated, when ho received a polite invitation from old Scroggins to como and take a ernst - which meant dlnner - and tliat, too, wüen ho had spent the evening bofore In the swect society of Miss Matilda Jane Scroggins. It was needless to say that he was prömptly on baad. "Matilda Jane." said tlic old g-entloman, when the dlnner was over, "did you ever hear the phonosrillapn in tivo opoi-atiou ?" "No, pa, but I should like to," axiswered the naaiden, who wishod tü humor lier parent's acientiflc weakness. "W'ell, my deur, you shull. I bought one tlio day before yesterday. You will iind it under tho sói'a in tho front parlov. I forgot to take it up stairs last night when I lcft you and Bmiffküis conrersing ou church festivals." Matilda brought the machine, and the okl man wound it up, remarkiug that he had set it just botbre going to bed. The ihmily circle and ouo or two of Scroggiirii cronics, who happened to do present, Jistened -vith a g-reat deal of interest as it slowly revolved. "Thank God ! the oíd dovil's gone at last!" exclalmed the phonograph, in tones that sounded omazingjy like tliose oí' Sujiffkins. "I thought tho hateful oíd thiiiz would sit up all night, continued the wondeii'nl invention, in a voice that was unmistakably that oí' Matilda Jane. "Well, my owñ darling, we'll make up for Jost time. Yuni - yuni '.'■ ejaculates the rovolvinií c}rlinder, with a pronounced BiniifkLag accent. "O, dou't, darling:! Yuni- yum !"' it i)roceeded iu the torms nf Matilda Jane. that tho instnimcnt grévr incoherent and mixed pp, aa it wcre. A subduod oaculatory sound, mingled with deep-drawn sigha and occ isional whisperea prótesis in tlie Matilda Jane yo ice were all that cou ld li dis. tinguished, till it suddenly blurtod out : "Vell, I suppoae, old Sjorog will becominff down etairs with a club, uulesg 1 clear out." Another silonce, broken' by ynm yuiiH, und Ilion in a softer voic the cylindor conoluded ; "There, you must go now. G-oüd - yum - uight - yum yum. 111 iitiiko the oh[ bi.'ast ask you to diuiicr to-inoiTow - ymn - yum!" 11 y ttiis time Matüda Jaiio had liiintwl, and Smitfkiiis' luco ioukod Iike a greeu cheeaj ; but oíd Scroggins gazed upou thciu griinly, after Vhe fiiehiou otagiiveii iniage, and tbo rgst of tho i oompany soeiuod tu be ruthcr amusatÜ i than otherwiso. tímiííkhis bougbt amounüiiu ' next day, and went e.ist to look lor Edison. A hundred thousand dollars' worth of hazel uuts areshipped yeurly iroiu Turkey to Kngland.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Argus