The Hickman courier., 1877-11-30

A person of an inventive turn Of
mind has a very plausible plan for
making olive oil much cheaper than it is.
Most Of the oil used in this country goes
through three processes. Its FIRST appear
ance is in the form Of cotton seed oil
the next process is shipment 10 Europe;
the third transformation is its reappear-
ance in America.as frstclass olive oil.
Like all great inventions the cheapening
plan is very simple. II merely consists
in shipping the cotton seed oil directly
to the American wholesale dealers, and
thus saving the expensiva freight across
the Atlantic.
4 young married lady in this city
recently named her canary after a friend
whose first name was Charley. The
other day her husband, who didn't know
Of this, returned. and as he went up The
stairs leading to her room be was horri-
fed to hear the wife Of his bosom using
such expressions rs, You're the dearest
little fellow / ever knew, Charley
" You're a nice old boy, amt you ?"
% Kiss me, Charley" and like endeariug
words lie graspsd tAus 'onnninter Cor
support, and with difficulty was able 10
reach the door and shout " Madam"
His wife gave scream, and he started
for the william, but Of course found him
not That canary goes by a different
name now TeTe Halte Lcader.
Great excitement was occasioned at
the Clifton (England) conference on con-
fession, fortnight ago, by the sudden
and sensational act performed by Lord
RaGstock. He was sitting in a conspicu-
Gus position on the platform, in full view
of the assembly, when q trap door sud
denly opened under his chair. There
was a shrek; Lord Radstock's heels were
seen where, q moment before, his head
had been: and then, with a great crash,
his lordship I'D chair disappeared below
and the trap few back But in a few
minutes the eclipse of 80 much right
honorable dignity was explained; a con-
Juror had Just vacated the rooms and had
used this trap az a means of exit in one
of the acts.
We certainly live in a wonderful
age. Melville Bell discovered a method
of reproducing any and all sounds Of the
voice. which he called " visible speech.
Prot. Graham Bell invented the tele-
phone. by which sounds can be transmit
ted 70 distance. And now comes Mr..
Thomas A. Edison, with IN invention Of
the most marvellous kind. It registers
the tones Of the voice, and is capable OF
reproducing every sound and every word
exactly. Mr. Edison's invention is not
vet perfected, but enough has been ac-
complished to convince him that his
scheme is feasible. All recent inventions
sink into insigniGcance when compared
with this. 1t appeals 70 the imagination
as nothing else can DO. BY it, aid one
is able to hear the voice of his friend
absent or dead-as though he.were in the
room. The illustrious orators would be
present whenever one Of these instru-
ments was found, and we w8uld have 1t
in our power 10 crystalliza down for iu-
ture use the tones Of the great singers IA
the greatest operas. II is only the other
day that Professor Huxley objected TO
any form of immortality. and hereis Mr..
Edison doing for the voice, 10y means OF
a mechanical contrivance what Frederic
Harrison asserted history and traditition
and hereditary did for the soul and mind.
Sound has become immortal. Who
knows If other forms Of feeling will not
be immortalized some day through other
inventions?