The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-08-29

!. There your engine house be said putting
ms niger on A. Hcrc's your shaft tBl. And
here's your levels drawing tho lines at G.
Now here pointing to d. the men are at
say In the engine house tAl, It's 1888 where the
men are working ID. They can't stand IT,
What makes the hcatR Tho water. That's what
makes it. Pumps are at work all the time try
ing to pump 1t out, but the wnlls and levels and
an hooks are dripping with moisture. This
water evaporatos and generates more heat. The
way TO stop II il to stop the evaporation DO YOU
SEE that little pond out there pointing 10 the
little has near the laboratory. A pint of cot
tOn-seed oil thrown upon It will stop its evapo-
ration. All right Now II they will take n few
pals Of cotton seed oil and 20 down into the
mine where the men are working ID. AMI
swash the walls with the oil covering the stand
lng water. T. ought to stop the evaporation in
the mine. The generation of heat would cease.
and the air become much cooler. believe that
II ne thing wac triod II would prove success.
OF tobacco. Mr. Edison handed musty-look
INK plug, and a triangular lump went into the
operator mouth. ne ground II once or twice.
Put on WY face. and made Wild expectOra-
" Good Lord, Tom" said he. DO you chew
such stun H. that p
The Professor was greatly amused He bent
over from the pillar and said, in a low tone "
BUY that, stewart. to keep the boys from begging
But Stewards remark had wiped the Comsiock
lode from his mind. His eye lighted ON FOX.
corner. shoot don't b,4ieve you could hit
NE NE Top OF that post, yonder, pointing forty
NHiu- away. dfllI. ne continued, turnln. u
Hriihn, get the fiile and some cartridges. and
let We have a shoot
>, Mr. Grimm produced Winchester. and the
Professor began a. shove the cartridges into the
side Of the rile, bought her out on the
plains. he said, for thirty-nve dollars. She's
factory. where hin made tho horizon a saie
background, and the Professors workmen
came out 10 see the shooting. glass insu-
lator WAS placed on gate post. thirty yards
away. The rife was sighted at 100 yards. Each
man r. to4k shot AMI AZ missed until the turn
knee as though nj mass, took long aim and
the insulator few into the air in n thousand
pieces: The schntzcniost was kept w until
III, re were no more cartridges.
The Professor has developed a passion for
the rife since ms return from the West A day
or two ago he hluzcd away at the mob OF post
and missed II. The ball whizzcd between n
Darn ana Jersey man soaring the latter Out ~
a day growth and duniOundlng the great
II was O'Clock. Col. Murphy and Mr.. stew.
art left Tor the train. Mr.. Fox and the writer
accepted an invitation TO supper. The Profess
sor lives in neat house fronting the railroad
but lew steps from his laboratory, His man
N perfect order. for thrifty housewife holds
the rrins. After "a buuntiful meal. we returned
To the labC ratory The Professor exhibited the
drawings ior liui" machine that he had in
vented for the measurement 81 vo.tair currents
oi eieciriciiy. On" oi las -urprring dis.ovor.t-
- an li!A llWt must prove "a blessing o. tine
blind. H. threw "a white powder into "A hof'I,
AMI poured a lule water on H. After mo no't.'
tur'. and wrote the wort 4 et,n IN different
sr"oi- OF letfor paper. The writing dried in 70
same n- letters in ir,,ks r,l ~, ~, 1'l 10 f
the blind The color If he writing MS a el1ar
white. and Il look.d rs though il had lsen ,rt
ont and Pasted upon th~ iaitar rotsr II
varied ia hciglt according 10 he sizing
% the paper. II the surface was smootH
and polished the letter. were boll an.
Glenn cut. They were raised So much
that blind person accustomed 10 reading
ihc manuscript With the aid y the rack used
~ VILLAIN Tres III IN writing his History d..
the S9nlaesl Of Me,Xieo, and TIE use II III;
g"rrisponi nrarlyas readily as other persons.
s s3nrfgs tn The g as HI na' f f9s tanfr e,
ing Tor the ink to dry on one II the sheets. he
mai "a singular discovery lie held The sheet
a ai I'ep req. ana inaily became Us black
hnl shlnlnf NJ rbuny. On removing II from the
o bn and looking at iGn ne ,REr9ce the ink
OIL Il mushroom, me PAPER differed rom ilat
r I,t3 , un,d ana the letters but slightly
tie paper Ike an acid. II ate the impurities II
we snrr'' ana leH the WORD Boston as trans
rIF I", AZ S, se' s,rnris,rc dsoororv o. do
i ne INK seemed 10 AZ dinerentIy On different
WTo9hs ana Il Is possible t that Mr.: Edison may
Hhl WOOD on Whlch INC INK woulq slahd OUT
50 mu'h tnat ARTISTS couli use IL IN drawing de-
AIN tRons s mi he wood ne
srhVer. Such discovery would almost put an
ell 70 WOOD engraving, ...,,o..i.
IN answer 70 an inquiry concerning ms ear
trumpet me Professor said ne had received nun
dreds 81 letters from deai persons. ne had not
yet perfected inc machine ana could not say
when he would % 50. lie needed sueh an IN
strument himself as mueh as ANYBODY, Tor ne
is terribly deal and he should drive away at II
as inst as possible.
MO megaphQne was not IN the laboratory.
This wonderiul instrument has three tunnels,
modelled after O W. The two wings are fun
nels with tubing leading 70 each ear. The cen
tire 10 a mouthpiece through which the opera
tors talk The Instrument is simply an atmOs-
pherical telephone With megaphones CONVEX
satiOn can be carried on through distance OF
from one to two miles and more
DoyOu see that house 2" said Griffin during
the afternoon. He pointed TO n cottage more
than a mile away. - Well they were talking
with mccaph0nes between the laboratory and
that house the other day and every whisper
was heard" Wa were standing on the veran1la
viii ioh commands a view SO quietly beautiful
that Mr. Edison says he saw none that sur
passed il during his Western trim Take that
clump Of woods away of yonder beyond the
grain stack and you can hear every whisper
that is uttered said Grimm The Instruments
are pointed directly at each other like two can
mons If q bee fies between them you can hear
his bumming A whisper is audible a thousand
feet without using tho speak ing trumpet and
the noise made hy walking through grass may
be- heard at a much greater distance"
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