National Republican., 1883-05-01
THE MAN ON THE AVENUE.
smnlI rnll. Almond nren nna rI,n,nr,.

Small Talk About Men and Measures.
There is nothing so disastrous for man
TO acquire" whispered my broker friend in o
burst of confidence, "as early information.
First news is deceptive in nine cases out of
ten, and is set a6oat as bait to catch gBdgeons.
The man who speculatos on early information
will 60 broke n dozen times a year. When
ever the crowd on the street learn that con-
gressmeu, members of the legislature, and
others on the inside arc trading on early
information it goes tho other way. The boys
catch members in Washington and Albany
two or three times year and skin them pretty
badly. The factors of the big congressional
pool that took hold of Northern Pacific last
year for rise were all shaken out before the
stock began to boom, and lost big pile OF
money that would never have been rsked but
for advanced knowledge Of what the Judiciary
committee was going to report. Elevated
railway stock was sold down on the Albany
crowd lately. under very similar circum-
stances, ten points. swamping half of the
legislative tricksters who set up the job.
Shun early information as you would tho
smallpox If you want to make money on tho
street,"
HNW
The fate of the wild alligators which were
charmed from their native bayous by recent
excursonists in Florida is explained. They
were not cast overheard, and neither were
they slain, as some one has limited. On
the contrary, they were lost in an + street
horse car ono day last week. The ferocious
alligators were brought into tho car in
small tub by gentleman who is described as
a tall, handsome, finely formed man, with
military bearing, and heavy, dropping,
brown moustache, a silk hat, and clothes
of fashionable cut and deposited on seat.
The car filled up and the gentleman, rather
than mako q scene trying to crowd through
with his tub of alligators, abandoned them TO
their fate. Thoy were subsequently removed
to the Office of Capt Moore, secretary Of the
metropolitan line, where they are still cared
for. They measure at least fourteen inches
in length, and can bask in the sun and bark
rs cheerfully as though they were in their
own swamps. The orphans will be kept a
day or two longer, and If the owner does not
show UP they will be sacrificed.
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Mr.. Frank L. Freeman, ono of the princi
signed to 60 into business on his own account.
When he took charge of the class of cleo
tricity it formed a subdivision of the philo-
sophical class. Now it is the largest class in
the Office, employing tho greatest number of
assistants. 1t has grown so fast that oven
with the increase in its working force none of
the applications of electricity have been as
signed to other classes. There have been moro
applications for patents filed in that class
during the past two years than there had
boon patents granted relating to electricity
in the whole previous history of the office.
Under the direction of the commissioner of
patents, Mr.. Freeman has prepared a complete
index of all patents granted relating to cleo
tricity and magnetism, awork which has been
printed by the government. He also COM
piled, and had printed and bound, copies of
all the specifications Of patents so indexed,
forming twenty-one large volumes. These
were sent to the Paris Electrical exhibition
as tho patent Office exhibit. Mr.. Freeman
was appointed United States commissioner
to this exhibition, where he also served on
one of the most important juries Of awards
af @"s
A New York wheat "bear" said to me last
evening "About week ago the New York
Tribune published page of crop reports, say
ing, in brief, that the wheat crop would be
trine short, but that the increased acreage
would make up the deficiency. My Chicago
correspondents took exceptions to the report,
and insisted that it was gotten up
for stock jobbing purposes. The Trib-
u,ie, in retaliation, attacked one of the
kickers, broker by the name Of Robert
Lindblum, styling him an lass or an
Ananas." Lindblum writes me that he will
be able to prove the Tribune's claim of tele-
graphic reports from 100 correspondents to
have been fraud and an imposition on the
public, and that the reports were written in
Milwaukee and mailed to New York several
days before their publication.