The Dillon Herald

An English inventor has produced an instrument which he calls a sexaphone, and which, he declares is an infallible discoverer of sex. It consists of a pith ball suspended at the end of a piece of magnetized steel and copper wire with a wooden handle at the opposite end. If it is a male creature the pith ball rotates steadily. but if held above a female the ball swings backward and forward like a pendulum. The instrument, according to report, has been tested successfully on rabbits, mice and other animals, and the inventor claims, that it will tell the sex of eggs. The English opponents of woman suffrage argue with laughter that the sexaphone furnishes the most complete scientific proof of the incapacity of woman for the ballot. It shows, say they, that the man is an all around creature while the female merely vacillates.