Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1890-02-27

must remain historical and of interest,
for it was only by passing through its
long corridors and halls that they were
allowed to land upon the country of their
adoption. Castle Garden may go else
where; it may be torn down, and the
spot desecrated but the memories of its
past will ever live in the minds of not
simply New Workers, but of people all
over the country.
Writing books is now the great fad,
and everybody is trying his or her hand
at the business, and hence the great num-
Der of poor, trashy compositions that
overflow the bookstands. A few facts
CLEANED from the publishers will illus
trate to what extent the craze for writ
ing books has gone. Ward McAllister,
the great social generalissimo, has been
offered good sum to write book about
social questions. Cyrus w. Field, now
in the sunset of a glorious life, contem-
plates volume of memoirs, for which
he will be paid literally. Ben Butler is
is already engaged on volume that will
be published in the fall, and the widow
of Jefferson Davis will have her life of
the great Confederate leader ready for
the publishers in few weeks. EX-Min-
lister William Waldorf Astor, has a new
volume under way, and Nellie Bly's story
of her race around the world will soon
be spread before long suffering public.
Mrs. President Harrison has been offered
large sums of money for half dozen
magazine articles, and the widow of
Henry Ward Beecher has about decided
to edit volume of papers about her late
husband. Pauline Hall, the Casino
actress, has been requested to write a
book about comic opera, even though it
is generally known that she has no liter
airy talent. A paragraph has been 60
ing the rounds of the press that Mrs.
Grant was about to publish the love let
tiers of Gen. Grant, but this is evidently
an absurd mistake. She will. however,
at later date probably publish highly
interesting book about odds and ends of
papers, stories about famous men and
women who were intimate with her hus-
band, and bits of unwritten history about
the great rebellion. Evidently it is the
fashion to write books, or, if you can't
write, to get somebody else to write
them for you.
IuOlldS LulSOLl. lllc AlllcllCdu W1Ldlu,
has about achieved another great tri-
ton with his photograph. 1t consists
in the application of instantaneous pho
Biography to the illustration of phono-
graphic sounds. Last spring he began
exhaustive experiments with this end in
view. After many discouraging efforts
Mr.. Edison was successful. His idea
fhnf trrht hn nh
graphed from eight to twenty times a
second during his entire speech, while at
the same time the photograph was re-
cording the spoken address. The phono-
graph and mechanism of the camera
duction took place, both spoken words
and the Photographic pictures would
continue spontaneously together, and
that when the photographs were thrown
on screen, by means of the stereopticon,
the rapid recurrence of the pictures
would be such that the effect would be a
continuous one, and as the photograph
reproduced the address, the gestures and
the facial expression would appear to be
that of the living speaker. The expert
merits were completely successful, and
Mr.. Edison now has in his labartory a
large number of these dual reproductions.
AS yet there does not seem to be any
practical commercial value to the inven-
ton,
An influential German paper shows
how much the titled men of Europe are
in need of American heiresses by pub
fishing an advertisement offering tC
supply rich American women to needy
Germans Of position. All is to be
private, photographs are to be
exchanged, and the whole thing
is strictly - honorable The unit
tied heiress has been so much on the
hunt for mobiles that the transactions
have, as it were, passed into the market,
and the fortunes of rich young American
ladies are quoted upon the matrimonial
exchange. There is nothing new in the
situation. Since the days when the
world only thought of marrying anC
giving in marriage until the flood came
there has always been a marriage mar
ket; but it has been left to our own days
to make the thing into matter of adver
tisement and quotation. 1t is the low
water mark of the vulgarization of the
institution of matrimony; and, rightly
or wrongly, the proceeding has lately
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can women of fortune. Nobody car
mistake the tendency of the last ter
years in the matrimonial market 1t has
been an openly avowed barter of money
for titles; aud it has perhaps done more
than anything else to vulgarize the mar
riage ceremony, and to increase the bust
ness of our divorce courts.
The companies that insure live stool
for the voyage across the Atlantic have
been meeting with heavy losses from tn,
recent terrible gales at sea. Scarcely ;
cattleship has reached port on the Othe
side within two weeks without reporting
more or less of the animals dead and al
the rest badly battered and bruised ant
generally unfit for market. The sea il
the track of these cattle-carriers i
strewn with the carcasses of dead beeves
thrown overheard after being smotheret
in crowded stalls between decks. TIL
estimates of these losses this montl
places the figures at 1000 head. Tn
work has been so disastrous that TIL
companies have raised their rates of in
surance, and in some cases the rates hav
been as high as 10 per cent. Thus i
would cost $40 to insure steer wOrtl
500. This makes big difference in tn