Scribner's magazine . not be ruined, you mustadmit, by a tax of four orfive cents for an hours hear-ing, and the fees of the wan-dering author will be rela-tively important by themultiplicity of hearings fur-nished to each house in thesame quarter. Is this all? By nomeans. The phonograjDhyof the future will be at theseiwice of our grandchildrenon all the occasions of restaurant-table willbe provided with its phono-graphic collection ; the pub-He carriages, the waiting-rooms, the state - rooms ofsteamers, the halls andchambers of hotels will con-tain phonographotecks for .__the use o
Scribner's magazine . not be ruined, you mustadmit, by a tax of four orfive cents for an hours hear-ing, and the fees of the wan-dering author will be rela-tively important by themultiplicity of hearings fur-nished to each house in thesame quarter. Is this all? By nomeans. The phonograjDhyof the future will be at theseiwice of our grandchildrenon all the occasions of restaurant-table willbe provided with its phono-graphic collection ; the pub-He carriages, the waiting-rooms, the state - rooms ofsteamers, the halls andchambers of hotels will con-tain phonographotecks for .__the use of travellers. Therailways will replace theparlor car by a sort of Pull-man Circulating Library,which will cause travellers to forget theweariness of the way while leaving theireyes free to admire the landscapesthrough which they are passing. I shall not undertake to enter intothe technical details of the methods ofoperating these new interj^reters ofhuman thought, these multiplicatorsof human speech ; but rest assured.
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