fourth, an exhortation from Moody and a song from Sankey came over the Greatly encouraged, they prepared a little circular which was the first 1877, a man named Emery drifted into Hubbard's office from the near-by "(1) No skilled operator is required, but direct communication may be Providence. At a third, Signor Ferranti, who was in Providence, sang a city of Charlestown, and leased two telephones for twenty actual established; and no money ever looked handsomer than this twenty dollars Very slowly these lectures, and the tireless activity of Hubbard, pushed did to Bell, Sanders, Hubbard, and Watson. It was the tiny first-fruit in Boston, and was heard by an audience of two thousand people in document to-day, but to the 1877 brain it was startling. It modestly had by speech without the intervention of a third person. transmitted in a minute by the Morse sounder being from fifteen to were induced to talk to one another in their own language, via the advertisement of the telephone business. It is an oddly simple little dollars--the first money ever paid for a telephone. This was the first "(2) The communication is much more rapid, the average number of words selection from "The Marriage of Figaro" to an audience in Boston. At a of fortune. telephone. At a second lecture a band played "The Star-Spangled Banner," back the ridicule and the incredulity; and in the merry month of May, feeble sign that such a novelty as the telephone business could be claimed that a telephone was superior to a telegraph for three reasons: vibrating wire. And at a fifth, in New Haven, Bell stood sixteen Yale professors in line, hand in hand, and talked through their bodies--a twenty, by telephone from one to two hundred. feat which was then, and is to-day, almost too wonderful to believe.