Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-04
tending from 1853 to 1868, and az
such l now submit them to you with
great respect.
Very truly your obedient
Servant ard Friend,
JOHN MULLAN.
BradIey's PeralnbulatOr.

From Elbow Room" bv Max Adler,
One of my neighbors, q very en-
terprising man named Bradley, late
ly produced and patented a water
peranbula.or. It consisted of a
couple of shallow scows, each about
four feet long. These were to be
fastened to the feet; and Bradley in
formed his friends that with little
practice man could glide over the
Bosom of river with the ease and
velocity with which a good skater
skins over the ice.
1t looked like a splendid thing.
Bradley said that it would certainly
produce revolution in navigation,
and make men wholly independent
OF steamers and other vessels when
they desired to travel upon water
with rapidity. Bradley intimated
that the day would come when q
man would mount water perambu-
lator and go drifting off to India,
sliding over the bounding pillows OF
the dark blue sea as serenely as if he
were walking along turnpike.
And one day Bradley asked Sc
lect party to come down to the river
and see him make trial-trip. At
the appointed time he appeared with
something that looked like two small
frigates under his arm; and when he
had fastened them securely upon his
feet, he prepared to lower himself
over the edge of the wharf. He
asked the spectators to designate q
point upon the thither shore at which
they wished him to land. It was inn
material to him, he said, whether he
went one mile or ten, up stream or
down, because he should glide
around upon the surface of the stream
with the ease and grace of a swallow
Then they fixed point for him; and
when be had dropped into the water,
he steadied himself for moment by
holding to the pier while he fastened
his eve upon his destination and
prepared to start.
At last be said the exnarimant
would begin; and he struck out
with his left foot. As he did SO the
front end Of that particular scow
scuttled under water, and as he tried
to save himself by bringing forward
his right foot, that section OF Brad
ley's water perambulator also dipped
under, and Bradley fell.
A moment later he was hanging
head downward in the river, with
nothing visible to the anxious spec-
tators but the bottoms OF the two
four foot frigates. The perambula-
tor simply kept the body of Bradley
under the water. Then man went
out in skiff and pulled the inventor
in with a boat-hook. When he came
ashore. they unbuckled his scows.
took off his clothing and rolled him
upon an oil barrel. In half an hour
he revived, and with deep groan he
said:
" Where am II"
His friends explained his situation
to him, and then hs asked,
"What drowned me r.
They told him sadly that he was
injured during. an attempt to reyolu-
tionize navigation and to prepare the
way for walk to India.
Chow did I try to do it ?" he in
quired.
They wept as they reminded him
that he had started to skim over the
river like a swallow, with q scow
upon each foot; and then he family
said,
Where in thunder ore those ma
chimes ?"
His friends produced the new mo-
tor with which Bradley intended to
break up the steamship lines; and
when he had looked at them for y
moment, he fell back and whispered,
It's no use. I can't do 'em JUS
tice. Eight men couldn't cuss 'em
to satisfy me. But split 'em upl
Have 'em mashed into kin'lin-wood
before get well, or the sight Of
EMIL set me crazy"
Then he was carried home, and
after being in bed about a fortnight
he came out with pallid cheek, a
sorrowful heart and ideas for six or
seven new machines.
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Prof. Dufour, of Paris, has devised
thermometric apparatus, which is
so sensitive that it will denote-by
a DETECTION of the index needle Of
two inches-the change of temper
ature caused by the entrance Of .
person into the room where it is
placed.
The woman who marries does wal. .
but the woman who does not marry
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