How to make a Tell-her-Fun-telescope about 14 old women—you can then lounge in your boudour en neg legee and know all about what your neighbors are doing and saying.

Bismarck Tri-Weekly Tribune, 4/6/1878

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The compositor that set up the tel-her-fun note which appeared in the last Tribune is in danger of dying from softening of the brain, and the proof-reader thinks seriously of suicide. We are too disgusted to reproduce the joke and try to point out its beauties, but we assure our readers that the author survives.

Bismarck Tri-Weekly Tribune, 4/9/1878