New-York tribune., 1886-05-23

always as IL turned ont subsequently, up 70 DIS
income The young and inexperienced & ior!uno m
hunter is sometimes reireshlngly amusing hon ~,
inability to conceal in ordinary conveIsalion ime @
Thoughts which must certainly be uppcimps' III MS
mind A friend o. mine happcned to mention III inc
On nncle of his who had left two daughters. In
cidentally he remarked that the young ladics
would come to Washington to spend me WINTER, ,,T
The word was scarcely out of my friends mouth
when the fortune-hunter inquired anxiously: Dld
the old gentleman cut mp well I
Congressman Rsden t. Bennett and Congress
man W. II. IL. Cowles look enough like each other
TO bc called the two Dromos Of the House: They
are of about the same height, complexion and
build. Each r. distinguished for the size Of his
bald pate. Each wears " chm whiskers OF about
the same length Both were born IN Is ~ and 0 n"an
Bennett the With and Cowles the With. " goes
without saving hat both served In the Confederate
Army. Both are by profession lawyers. Ihey
stood together fer the XLVillth Congress, though
Cowes was defeated aud Bennett elected. They
now occupy seats near each other ana
the question continually asked by visitors
is way of telling this If Cowics should turn ms
head IN the right direction. You will then dis-
cover a big hole In his bad head. large enough 10
lay your thumb in il. Ii IS wonnd he received IL
the closing DAYS of the fight around Richinond,
which lcf, the BRAN partially exposed a. hrst, bnt
over which the bone healed afterward. Mr. CowleSs
physicians have told him that the the least IN
usual excitement won Id be apt to Kill him. and II is
one of the standing jokes OF the gallery that he has
Congress
ton. Bennett and Cowles are fast getting the
reputation of being :" cranks.' They are fond OF
nterposinG objections on the most frivolous pre-
text Thus Cowles succeeded last week in del laylng
the business OF the House for nearly an hour by in
sising upon vote on the passage of BILL first by
count Of the Speaker, then by tellers. and then
bv the ayes " and "noes" though he knew that
the proportion of the former to the latter was
something like 200 20 s. Bsnnett Is constantly dis
tinguishing himself by introducing curious bills
and making strange motions. In the last Congress
he was nearly thrown into convulsons by Fred,
erick Douglasss marriage to a white woman. and
on the following day he brought bill INTO the.
House prohibiting miscegenaton in the District OF
Columbia.
things sometimes The other day my attention was
drawn 10 petition filed with the Register or Ills
by Ilenry {. Strong for letters of administration
TO the estate of one Lanceot II. Everett supposed
70 be dead. The petitioner stated that Everett left
New-Orleans in 1867 to go TO England Since his
departure, he has not been heard from. and it is
supposed he persisted in n shipwreck. Everett. it
appears filed certain models III the Patent Office on
June q, 1866. Strong considers himself his heir
exposed TO view and in danger and are liable to
become the means of depnvinG the United States
Of most important evidence in TN" pending tele-
phone suit against the Bell people. lie Therefore
pravs that in order to preserve and perpetuatc the
testimony the models he placed i'll his cuso o1y.
subject To the orders of the officers of the United
States. ] was curious 10 know what these " most
important model might be, and hunted up the
specifications under which letters patent had been
granted to Lancclot Hope Everett In his applica-
tion he states himself what he claims for his in
vcutOn. quote the exact language, for nothing
else would do Mr.. Everett justice:
"Two Photographic locmanauds mounted by
acOngOttic battcTics-names implying machines
which generate intelligent sounds. while they com
munlcatc TO the spiritual sense of hearing through
the nervous papllp of the ndcX-fngcr and thumb
tips and through the acoustic trumpet If the
external ear. being the natural parts of the body
which have direct Relationship there with. that
persons who are deaf and dumb and blind rising
q lQV nh or rom
dlstances-Inay hear and hold converse together bv
means Of thcS' locmanauds and copper wires at
tachcA Thereto"
Rut enough of This. will only add that in n sep
araie paragraph Mr.. Everett explains that the
name of his machine is composed Of Greek and
Latin words and syilahles Of words. Certainty
"Locmanaud casts "Pan-F Flcc'rc' far into the
hale as Gar rs beauty Of name l. concerned thorch
as yet 1t has not made aS much noise in the world.