Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-22

Edison's Experiences ~ . TelSxrapher.
"What were the real facts Of that Boston ex-
perince you had in fast receiving good many
years ago." Mr.. Edison was asked yesterday.
"Let me see; that was in 1858. l had been
working in Louisville. KY, couple Of years,
and went from there to Michigan. friend
named Adams got me place here in Boston,
and l came over, arriving here about 4:3O
o'clock, anu had to go to work at $50 o'clock.
Although it was the middle of winter came
into the office with linen buster on, for
I was very poor then. A fellow named Jack
Wright, who knew me out west, thought
to have some fun, so he posted the Office
and had New York put on an operator named
Bagley at their end of the line, with a spe-
cial of 800 words to the Journal. He had had
my end switched to table about the middle of
the room. near the managers desk. Not sus-
pecting anything, | sat down and commenced
taking 1t. Soon Bagley commenced to 'whOOp
em up, and, although was accustomed to keep
six or eight words behind in copying, thought
best to close up; especially as he commenced to
send some awful sticking stuff making Is of his
ms and contracting his words, sending imy,
for instance for immediately having to write
it out in full. Happening to look up, noticed
fifteen or twenty operators grinning behind me.
Then saw it was 'put-up JOB. and my blood
got up and l determined would not break.
Operators in New York asked over other wires
if was getting it, and would hardly believe the
replies. When l thought he had reached the
top of his speed l opened my key and said:
Don't go to sleep; shake yourself and hurry
through this!'
1.-The way managed it was this: had prac-
tised all kinds of handwriting. and found that
by kind of print hand | could write ffty-tive
words per minute and | knew there was no man
who could keep up that speed with telegraph
key, so felt safe if l could only read the tick
ing. l had no fears as to that either, as l had
read all kinds of clipped sending in the west.
Another thing that was in my favor is, that am
little deaf SO that the hum of an office does
not disturb me, and gave my whole attention
to the clicking of an instrument.
There is little experience l had out in In
dianapOs that may interest you. l was very
ambitious to receive press report and used to
sit up until the 2 a. m. press report. listening
beside the receiving operator, until after awhile
could receive it very nicely, and then wanted
to receive press myself. Naturally. when
had the real responsibility of taking it, |
bulled it bad at first as they sent at the rate
of forty words a minute. l thought the matter
over, and worked out little plan to have the
register indent some tin foil as it came in, and
then had the boy turn it through another instru-
ment, which licked it off at the rate of about
twenty-five words per minute which read and
wrote off very easily The only trouble was
that we got 80 good night from the east
about 2:3O am. while it was some time. an hour
or more later, when we gave the last sheet to
the newspapers. They commenced to growl
after awhile, and our manager dropped in on us
one morning and discovered our little game in
full blast.
By the way, there were several valuable in
ventions wrapped up in that office trick. Talk
ing of the tnfoil reminds me of another incident.
There was a tast-sendng tournament gotten up
once, in which the judges were to be at st.
Louis, and the fast-sending throughout the
state were to send from their respective offices,
to the central office in st. Louis. Now. although
have reputation as receiver. have just
the opposite reputation as a sender. and when
l entered my name in that list to compete there
great 'ha-hang over the wires. We were
given chapter in the Bible to send. and while
the other men were practising sending it, l
worked out the chapter on the tinfOil. and fixed
everything all ready to turn the crank at the
rate of about fifty or tiftytive words per minute.
getting our boys to keep quiet about it. For
some reason the contest never came off, and
did not have the pleasure of carrying off the
prize. '-BoSton Herald December a.
Grated Teeth.
TRANSATLANTIC THEM ON COCKS COMB. UNTIL.
WANTED.
Transplanting sound teeth from the Jaws of
healthy persons who could spare them to those
who needed them has been practised by adj
yanced dentists for some time. The modus
operanh was as follows: The individual with
the superfluous sound tooth and he with the
freshly drawn good tooth Immediately placed in
the cavity made by extracting the other But
it often happened to be necessary to remove
sound tooth from patient at time when no
person of whom the dentist had any knowledge
needed just such one. 1t would therefore be
lost, for only living' teeth could be made to
grow in strange mouth, and they died very
soon after being torn from their parent gums
Teeth are Giving so long as the membrane
covering the roots has any vitality. 1t has
been problem of great interest to dentists
throughout America to devise some means
by which the sound extracted tooth could
be kept alive indefinitely, until it should be
needed. and to a San Francisco dentist belongs
the honor of solving the problem. DR.. w. J.
Younger, of this city. says the Cal. has been
conducting series Of experiments, which have
resulted in the discovery of means of preserv
ing the life Of the extracted tooth. 1t is moth
ing more or less than "grating' it, as soon as it
is drawn. upon the engOrged comb of a healthy
rooster, and leaving it there properly secured,
until it is wanted Then it is cut away the
cock being placed under the influence of chloro-
form washed, and everything removed down
to the membrane, and placed in the freshly
made cavity where it Ia needed. representa-
tive of the Call was permitted yesterday to ex-
anime the mouth OF a gentleman In which there
was tooth that had been planted there week
or so before, and which was apparently as firm
as those which had always been there. 1t had
been kept alive on cocks comb for ten days,
lady. whose looks were benefited by the re-
mOyal
The Brafn-Wave Theory.
From the Baltimore American.
Good citizens In whose minds has dWelt the