The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-14
The Little Stranger Which Caused
that Neuralgia.
New York Sunday Times. |


New York Sunday TimesI
A mans first impression of Menlo
Park is that of misshapen little dwarf
of village trying to appear on personal
intimacy with large depot, and getting
savagely snubbed whenever the depot
happens to be in bad humor. One of
the permanent fixtures on the platform
is young man with an overceat four
sizes too large for him, who has fits, ana
has to have plenty of room in his over
coat, for their accommodation. AS the |
representative of the Times alighted |
from the train this young man executed
low whistle, and commenced to sing a |
song abo'lt q girl with hole in the !
heel of her stocking" then broke off
abruptly, being seized with something |
resembling a convulsion, which he was |
double shuttle" Considered as an orna-
ment to the depot, the young man is not
desirable party, although success in
life is open to him as a star on the va
riety stage.
The gentle influence that drew the
representative of the Times to Menlo
Park yesterday afternoon was flying
rumor that Mr.. Thomas A. Edison was
about to put the gas companies under
personal obligation by giving up the
ghost before perfecting his grand plan
for simultaneously illuminating the uni
verse by pronouncing the word ''presto.''
1t turned out that the Professor had
taken a severe cold, which was followed
by a savage attack of neuralgia. The
doctor came and looked at him, ex-
| planned the relations of the trigerninal
| III IL
! telegraph with three wires, and observed
incidentally that in facial neuralgia
each tooth might be regarded as tele
graph station with an operator. Struck
with the beauty Of the simile, the suf
ferer recovered rapidly from the mo-
ment the doctor elucidated his theoR
of the disease; and yesterday morning
the tone of his nervous system was SO
far restored that he sat up for an hour
or more, though weak from the effects of
depicting medicines. He expected to
resume his labors in the workshop in a
few days and is now busy giving direc
tions for the building ofia new structure
one hundred and thirty-fiye feet long by
thirty-fve feet wide, which is to be used
as a laboratory.
There are those who would intimate
that Mr.. Edison's neuralgia did not
proceed from a mere cold or from any
such cause as DR.. Ward has described.
Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, Mrs.
Edison presented the Professor with a
new edition bound in baby clothes. The
baby weighed twelve pounds, and is said
to have manifested remarkable indi
cations of precocity from the moment
of fbirth. The boy kicked Justify when
they essayed to dress him, evidently
preferring the costume of Eden, and
,, performing other antics Indicative OF
|, the intellectual independence which dis
: tinguishes his inventive father. How
ever, that affair was managed after two
hours struggle, and the little fellow
greeted his parternal ancestor in the
daintiest muslin, with ruffies and furbe-
! lows, such as only a mothers fancy car
:. imagine. The Professor began to ment
from that moment. Mrs. Edison sus
poets that his improvement is due TO th'
excogitation of a plan for introducing ;
battery into the baby's lungs, and max
:, ing him cry by electricity, or for light
: ing him by some such agency. Th
. Professor disclaims any such intention
, but inventive minds will always bear
= little surveillance.
: THEY were playing at cards, when al
\ of a sudden the game was interrupted
angry words passed and the player
o rose:
' "See here, you're holding altogethe
+ too many aces"
What do you say, sir?"
a say you are swindler."
Il will call you to account for thi
objectionable insult"
Il am at your service at any time.
= "Here is my card, sir" (Throw
!, down by mistake another ace which h
i i draws from his pocket.)
~ The Austrian Government late threa
% ened to dissolve the City Council Q
" Trieste unless it should vote loyal &C
n dress to Francis Joseph. 1t was vote
A. unanimously.
n WHAT makes tramp kick at human
N ity, and feel sore all over his longitud
= is to see man walk out of saloo