New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-22
TOWN TALK.
PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL.


THE TESTS OF LUSAcY.-"The HamersIey will coAs
test" remarked lawyer Of much experience 10 plead
Dgs before the Surrogate "w again illustrate tho dan
ger OF having any personal pecul!artes IL you are rich
in expectant heirs The lawyers will be sure to ma II
the close affection Of the father and son, who were In
separabls companions, and who died within few
months of each other evidence OF insanity ncapac'
tatirg each from making will In Brooklyn," no
added, "they have been trying case OF man named
Chauncey whose insanity was testified TO Dy three meR
who produced three illustrations each OF which TO their
minds was conclusive OF his untness TO devise his prop
ery One Of Them physician illustrated bis testimony
by saying that the quantity Of the Same whskey
which made him drunk in the legs made Chauncey drunk
in the head. An old captain. Samuel samues-the
same who sailed Mr. Benefits yacht in the midwnter
ocean race-said little liquor made Chauncey mauonn
drunk in the tongue and he (samuelD could drink all
around him. third person knew Chauncsy wssin-
sane because toward the close Of his LIE he-aiwsys
previously penurousbecame extravagan az to SEND
bouquets of flowers to actresses such tests are TO b
applied as conclusive, who Is there will escape the
asylum or, worse fate STILL the Sun ogate's Court
autopsyp
AN ELECTRICIANS DIPLoMACY.-Thomas A. Edison
and number of other electricians happening to meet re-
Gently in the Western Union Office, discussion which fo-
lowed took the direction OF recent IN eee-
ricity Incidentally some one spoke OF the ndennite-
ness of the various terms employed to designate tho
measuremens OF electrical force and said, "Ohm, for
instance and volt and ampere what real idea OF power
do these terms conveyi Oh" said Mr.. Edison, sml'
ing those very useful terms They serve 70 conceal
orr ignorance OF electricity" Which we all know
in Us infancy
AC,vAIRY RAID AFTER A PATENTS PROFITS. Gene
raj william W. Aver, of cavalry fame in the late war;
took 70 civil life its close and went to building asphals
pavement patent issued in his name He laid lew
blocks in this subsequently paved Pennsyvania-
In Wdch nQto
stantial footing. Then of course, other persons APP
pcsred to dispute his patent right and two persons put
in a prior claim the same invention. BY the time he
had defeated them in litigation General Ayerl dseov"
erec that of his chief opponents were very active
and shire wd business men, and lie suggested to them the
merging OF all rights in company. He was to De
president and these gentlemen, Amzi L. Barber Oh
Washington and James McLain OF Baltimore, together
with General Martin T. Mcmahon OF this city, were 70
form an Executive Committee. The new company was
soon formed but the president was taken Ill, General
Mcmahon was ignored by the others Of the COMMITTEES,
and the other have been running the company ever
sipce When he got well Averill started out. cavalry
fashion, for the majority OF the Executive Committee and
on ednesday after two years search he caught tnem
In this city and served papers on them requiring them 70
produce their books in court and account Tor the pron
they have made on large contracts In various cities 10
hear Ave tell of his long legal chase Is almost Is sooo
as listening to his stories of cavalry raids
UNDERGROUND WIREs.-rhe Fra COMMISSIONERS na'e
sent the superintendent Of their Topographic Bureauto
Pittsburg to examine into the working OF an under
ground wire OF peculiar and cheap construction IN use
there There are several inventions now being tested IN
this city, General ". w. Avere is the inventor OF one
style which he says Mr. Edison and Others have been
testing The Gore Underground is cable arrangements
In which costly insulation avoided by simple Device
An experimental line from the office OF Mr.. John W.
Weed, in walLst, to a point on the Long Island
coast is being carefully tested.
OBJECTION ABLE BUILDING MATsRIAI.-Mr. Raht. the
architect while looking some specimens OF granite
and other stones building purposes, spoke douotiuy
OF the limestone which is being used for the upper
floors OF the new Mutual Life building 1t Is the sane
used in one Vanderbilt houses, and Is obectonaoe
because after rain the Of the appears TO be
s,reaked and dirty. He also spoke OF sandstone iatey
introduced here and known as the "Carlyle!" IL has
been used sparingy. but still too freely. as 1t Is very
soft 1t is brought this country In ballast aud soa