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telephony for ballooning, and lost his life in attempting to fly across the English Channel. Europe, with dreams of eager nations clamoring for telephone systems, One after another, several American enthusiasts rushed posthaste to to the United States an impoverished and disheartened man. Then the of the British patent for five thousand dollars, and half the right five years a sort of scientific Billiken, that never could be of any failure. He received dinners a-plenty, but no contracts; and came back 1878, with great expectations of having his invention appreciated in his Next went William H. Reynolds, of Providence, who had bought five-eights sentences. It was not welcomed, except by those who wished an evening's Bell himself hurried to England and Scotland on his wedding tour in agent's contract in return for a right to become a roving propagandist. not found one man who will put one shilling into the telephone." Later he met a prima donna, fell in love with and married her, forsook native land. But from a business point of view, his mission was a total March 3, 1877, when the London Athenaeum mentioned it in a few careful existence. It received no public notice of any kind whatever until writes; "I have been to the Bank of England and elsewhere; and I have of these. He was an adventurous chevalier of business who gave up an service to serious people. entertainment. And to the entire commercial world it was for four or to Russia, Spain, Portugal, and Italy for two thousand, five hundred dollars. How he was received may be seen from a letter of his which has been preserved. "I have been working in London for four months," he and one after another they failed. Frederick A. Gower was the first optimistic Gardiner G. Hubbard, Bell's father-in-law, threw himself