a big magnet, caused all manner of strange and uncouth noises on the midnight, for what strange reason no one knows, the babel was at its of frogs, the hissing of steam, and the flapping of birds' wings. There Whatever else the mysterious noises were, they were a nuisance. The poor human ears. There were spluttering and bubbling, jerking and rasping, meddlesomeness of electricity. problems. The fact was that the telephone had brought within hearing planet. But the matter-of-fact young telephonists agreed to lay the blame on "induction"--a hazy word which usually meant the natural distance a new wonder-world of sound. All wires at that time were running east and west were noisier than the lines running north and height. Watson, who had a fanciful mind, suggested that perhaps these telephone wires. whistling and screaming. There were the rustling of leaves, the croaking like Choctaw at the other end of the line." sounds were signals from the inhabitants of Mars or some other sociable Noises! Such a jangle of meaningless noises had never been heard by "grounded circuit." And this connection with the earth, which is really south. The night was noisier than the day, and at the ghostly hour of and curious little squeals that were unlike any known sound. The lines were clicks from telegraph wires, scraps of talk from other telephones, single, and ran into the earth at each end, making what was called a plainly a man talked into his telephone, his language was apt to sound little telephone business was plagued almost out of its senses. It was bills," said A. A. Adee, one of the first agents; "for no matter how was pursued by this unearthly clatter. "We were ashamed to present our like a dog with a tin can tied to its tail. No matter where it went, it