The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-05
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Fotsalc by all druggists.
COOLING OFF by ELECTRICITY.
The Admirable Device of Teutonic Con.
Nnri ~ Ihn Non. Liz,

The Admirable Device of u Teutonic Con-
vert to the New Idea.
a tall, stout man of military aspect,
with a bronzed face full of fanatical in
tellectuality, hi long hair brushed away
from his high square forehead, entered
saloon on Walnut street the other dav
and called for hot whisky tOddy. He
was dressed in heavy black broad-cloth,
but did not seem to be suffering from
the heat. The bartender looked as
tOnished at the order, but being accus-
toned to strange customers he SAID moth
ing, put some water on to boil and soon
proceeded to mix the beverage. Another
customer was leaning languidly against
the bar, vainly endcavoring 10 ret even
with the weather by sucking a lemonade
through couple of straws. The tail
warmly dressed man noticed that Won
derment depicted the other mans coun-
tenanCe.
"lOu look surhrised,' he said, with
TeutOnic accent, sat mein order"
"Phats So" assented the other, with
the air of man too hot to say more.
son, dats holdings. Look, here. | vas
yuSt returned from Cape Coast Castle.
off de vest COAST of Avrica. Shall | Tell
you Something's dat shall make your for
tunes?"
81 should like to hear it," brawlod the
other, finishing his drink
"Vell, come, hat drink nit me. You
take a hot visky? No? Oh, veil, gif der
shentleman anOder limonade. Come and
cit down; | tell you all abowat it,"
Accordingly they retired to q small Ia
BILE, and over the hot whisky and lem
! onade, which were ordered more than
once at the listeners expense, the Ger
man told the following tale:
81 vas yust COON back vrom der Cold
Coast. / haf been der guest of Sir sam
uel Rowe, der Governor owat dere.
Great man, Sir Samuel, big head, all
brains. Veil, | dell yon. You vodder
| Why trink hot tings, und Why dress in
tick clodes. Ven, ! dell you. De heat
do not touch me. Pm always cool.
How? Veil, got leedle tings always
wear init me. Electric battery, vot
keeps me cool. Seew
The German pulled from ms pocket n
small round instrument, in appearance
something like an old-fashioned turnip
watch.
dots dynamo generator. Goes by
glock-work. Now look, dis gold watch
chain is made of copper wire. You sec
1t goes rount my neck. Veil, have at
| tached to it at several points oder wires.
| Dey vas connected nit fiddle refreeger.
ators in different barts oil mcin clodes
and body"
"Refrigeratorsn repeated the other
scarcely daring to seize the idea.
"Ia, dock! Heterogeneous! / vas
| vearin' ten fiddle rofreegerators abowt
me all de time, und one fiddle dynamo
| generator keep dem all colt at once. Ven
| | vas i'm New York show nv dynamo
refrigerator TO Meestcr Addison, und
he Ian ut me. Oh, veil, take de shteameI
und 90 TO England, Dots de place. Dey
buy up cferytings deroifi it's invented In
America. So ! sell IL all Offer, und den |
90 to de AFRICAN Cold Coast und sell my
liddlo dings out deere. Very soon thinks
COON back again und makes a batent
IND den hear dat dcrc vas an Electri.
cal exhibition in Philadelphia. So goes
to Washington und puys mein batcnt
und cooms back here to-day"
whats the price of one of these
things?n
"Vell, day COST four tollars to manu-.
lacturc' sell you dis Won for four toll.
lars iifty.n
The temptation to he cool and drink
hot whisky and wear thick clothes was
too great 10 be resisted. In five minute,
the electrician was richer by $3.50 and
the other man was the proud posscssOI
of the patent dynamo-Tcirigeraior.
As the latter left the bar-room h,
heard voice, with dOwn-East accent
say: "Say, Jim, put bigger bit of ice
In the next hot whisky You give mo. The
dynamo-relrigcrator Is out of order"
The purchaser and victim still wear,
summer toggcry and cliugS to straws IN
lemonade,