The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-05-13
LACONICALLY L TOLD.

Philadelphia Times: Joe Parson was
a Baltimore boy, and little rough, but
withal good-hearted fellow and brave
soldier He got badly wounded at An.
tietan, and thus laconically described the
occurrence and what followed to some
people who visited the hospital.
"What is your name?'
Joe Parsons"
"What is the matter?"
Blind as a bat, sir; both eyes shot
out"
AT what battleii'
"Antietam.
''How did it happen!"
81 was hit and knocked down and had
to lie all night on the battlefield. The
fight was renewed next day, and was
under fire. 1 could stand the pain, but
could not see. / wanted to see or get
out of the fire. waited and listened
and presently heard man groan neal
me.
'Halloo!' says I.
'Halloo yourself, says he.
Who be you2' says [.
Who be you?' says he.
a Yankee, says L.
We'll, I'm Reb,' says he.
"What's the matter, says [.
Ny legs smashed, says he.
Can you walk?' saysI
No. says he.
Can you see, says I.
Yes, says he.
Well, says 1, you're a rebel. but
I'll do you little favor
What's that?' says he.
My eyes are shot out, says 7, 'and
if you'll show me the way I'll carry you
out, says l.
All right, says he.
:" Crawl overhere. says I; and he did.
. Now, old Butternut, says I, get
on my back, and he did.
Go ahead, says he.
" Pint the way, says ], 'for 1 can't
see blessed thing.
" Straight ahead, says he.
''T'he balls were fyin' all around, and
trotted off and were soon out of range.
Bully for you, says he, but you've
shook my legs almost off.
6 Take drink, says he, holding up
his canteen, and took nip.
&c Now let US go on again. says he,
kind o slowly and took him up, and
he did the navigation and l did the walk
in. After l had carried him nearly a
mile and was almost dead, he said: Here
said: 'Halloo, Billy, where did you get
that Yank"
where are we?' says |.
In the rebel camp, of course, says
he; and d-n my buttons if that rebel
hadn't ridden me straight mile into the
rebel camp. Next day McClellan's army
advanced and took us both in. and then
we shook hands and made it up; but it
was a mean trick of him, don't you think
so?"
GAS companies breathe easy again
According to the .Sientifc american
giving the result of an investigation by
Henry Morton, Alfred NJ Mayer, and B.
T. Thomas, Of the Stevens institute of
Technology, Hoboken' into the econo.
mic value of Mr.. Edison's horseshoe ell
ectric lamp as compared with gas, five
pounds of coal gas will yield % cubic
feet of gas, which, if burned in five gas
burners of the best construction, will
give from 20 to - candles each, or 100
to 10 candles in the aggregate. Twelve
Edison lamps produce 120 candles and
the five gas burners produce 100-110 can
dies with an equivalent expenditure Of
fuel. If each apparatus and system
could be worked with equal facility and
economy, this wonld of course show
something in favor of electric light; but
when in fact everything III this regard is
against the electric light which demands
vastly more machinery, and that of a
more delicate kind, requires more skill
full management, shows more liability to
disarrangement and waste, and presents
an utter lack of the storage capacity
which secures such vast efficiency, con-
yenience and economy in gas, then this
relatively trifiing economy disappears or
ceases to have any controlling import
ance in the practical relations of the sub
iect.