（三月八日）
下所记电话发明家贝尔博士逸事一则，亦天下无不可为之事之一证也。
It is seldom that an inventor sees so fully the complete fruition of his labors as in the case of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. In 1875, he first talked a short distance of a few feet over his epoch-making invention, the telephone. Last week he spoke to his assistant in his first experiments, Mr. Thomas W. Watson, clear across the American continent. Mr. Bell spoke in New York; his voice was clear audibie to his hearer in San Francisco, a distance of 3,400 miles. This development of the telephone in longdistance use brings it again before the public as one of the greatest wonders of a marvelous era of invention.
〔中译〕
世上之发明家，很少有像亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔博士那样能完全享受到自己的劳动果实。1875年，他第一次用他的创世纪发明——电话，向一个只有几英尺远的地方讲话。上周，他与他的首次实验的助手——托马斯·W·华生先生通电话，声音清晰地穿过美洲大陆。贝尔先生在纽约打电话，他的助手在三千四百英里之外的旧金山，清楚地听到了贝尔的说话声。在此奇妙之发明时代，远距离电话作为一项伟大的奇迹，终于问世了。