Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-08-22

the little garnet under his roof.
Another yearof constantly Increasing
business passed after the iirs;, and the
faithful lover wa enabled to sSid for
C~ochonette, his plump little c%risctte,
who had patiently waited for him TO
bring her his fortune behind a counter
il "A little second hand glove store near
the Mont de Pete. k,pt 10y one Jacques
Legros, who procured his stock from
the unredcened pledges Of the famous
pawn shop.
She came.
1t is n matter of establishment how,
after having once been stimulated. the
fertile resources of NJ. Pierre Leger were
brought into play. Combining with one
Hans Van Damschloss. an emigre from
Amsterdam, he erected and successfully
conducted a great paper mill from the
raw products of his rag business, which,
as the years went by, grew enormous in
quantity. Still later a magnificent idea
struck him. He saw" several distin-
guished American officials Of the mu.
nicipal government of New York, and
from them obtained the contract of
picking over for rags the garbage of
that great city. The other pickings in
this monopoly were farmed out to a
number of Italians, played out in the
hand organ business. This fat contract
warranted the very great extension of
the Leger 4 Van Damschloss paper
mills.
In time the Legers moved to Fifth
avenue. on which noted thoroughfare
their elegant mansion was one of the
most conspicuous ornaments. As for
Van Damschloss he had already the
early promise of having another Van
emblazoned on the Knickcrbocker book
of peerage of the American metropolis.
Upon these two men and their fami-
lies fortune smiled brightly, distribut-
ing her favors with lavish hands. The
genius of American liberty has lifted
them both far above the toiling masses
of the Old World, whence they came.
But proud America should yield them
yet more of her treasures. Ii was the
land of invention, and from the un-
fathomed mystery of further invention
they should wiring further millions of
riches,
While they We're building theirun mighty
fortunes steam power had been almost
perfected, electricity had been further
trained from simple Geographic trans
mission 10 perform Illuminating, tele-
phonic and photographic work. 1t
had been taught To vibrate ON the
tongues of the living aud lingpr on the
lips Of the dead. The genius of the
liyhynin: hal been curhel ~ perform
mental hotel and household services.
aud 10 rand the rugged hr,ast of the
mountain with exploded mine.
Bat there is one other mysterious
and sublime force in the system If
clcctYo-thosn5 .dynamicS which nan
has not yet controlled. Science has
demonstrated The fact Thar nature en-
ploys in the evaporation anl cnul'uSa-
ton Of one gallon Of water q subtle and
sublime power. capable of removing a
range of mountains. !ftlat force could
Le converted into tla comfortable -.
.senne 81 motion by man hr could move
the world, split continents for his
mighty rauHl- like those az the planet
Mars blow loaded railroad trains along
Ike Tiny feathers or >nuw.ighcs before
the fierce turnadD's blast AMI rirrUn-
navigate the globe in eighty minutes.
These are some Of the lJur' possibili-
ties of controlling but one Ilore thermo-
electro force. lIr. Konly las but 20
far toyrd with its fearful mysterigs ia
obtaining a motor pressure Of 5000
pounds To the square inch If motive
surface. His volatile and vihfatory
ether OF water is but ~ the breath Uf Il
body whose muscle is capable Of pro-
ducing the enormous pressure Of at
least Ii, 0O0, 900 pounds TO the square
inch.
Messrs. Icger and Van Danschloss
determined. alter long consultation, to
try their hands at the evolution Of this
unknown force. NJ. Lerer was really
n mechanical genius, who had hitherto
had the good luck to let his genius
alone and amass wealth by attending
to other things, contrary to the curse
Of the usual u Of geniuses, who per
ish in poverty and let posterity profit
by their inventions.
NJ. Leger maintained that Mr.. Kee-
ly's principle vas TO liberate the hydro.
gen from water under pres
sure, and To use this highly compressed
hydrogen rs his motive power. Such
accidental liberation Of hydrogen from
water under extreme pressure is alleged
by scientific men 10 cause some Of the
mysterious, terrible and tragic boiler
explosions Of the times.
NJ. Leger's plan, considered by him
self us a marked improvement on Mr..
Keely's, was TO completely remove the
hydrogen under pressure, 10 store it by
itself in the strongest steel reservoir
which mechanical art could construct,
and there. by electrical disintegrntinn.