Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-11

creasing business passed, after the
first, and the faithful lover was en-
abled to send for Cochonette, his
plump little grisette, who had pa
tiently waited for him to bring her
his fortune; behind a counter in q
little second hand glove store near
the Mont de Plete, kept by one JAG
ques Legros, who procured his stock
from the unredeemed pledges 'of the
famous pawn shop.
She came.
II.
1t is matter ofastonishmenth how,
after having once been stimulated,
the !ertileresources OF NJ. Pierre Leg
er were brought into play. COmbin-
ing with one Hans Van Damschloss,
an emigre from Amsterdam, he erect
ed and successfully conducted a great
paper 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 distinguished
American officials of the municipal
government OF New York, and from
them obtained the contract of pick.
ing over for rags the garbage OF that
great city. The other pickings in
this monopoly were tarmed out to a
number of Italians, played out in the
hand-organ business. This fat con-
tract warranted the very great eX-
tension of the Leger 4 Van Dam
schloss Paper Mills.
In time the Legers moved to Fifth
avenue, on which noted thorough
fare their elegant mansion was one
of the most conspicuous ornaments.
As for Van Damschloss he had al
ready the early promise of having
another Evan" emblazoned on the
Knickerbocker 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 had
lifted them both far above the toll
ing masses of the Old World, whence
they came. But proud America
should yield them yet more Of her
treasures. 1t was the land OF inven-
ton and from the uniathomed mys-
terJ' Of further invention they should
+ wiring further millions of riches!
/ While they are building their
mighty fortunes, steam power had
been almost perfected, electricity had
been further trained from simple teleg-
Faphic transmission to perform illum-
mating, telephone and photographic
work. 1t had been taught to vibrate
on the tongues of the living and linger
on the lips of the dead. The genius of
the lightning had been curbed to
perform mental hotel and household
services, and to rend the rugged
breast of the mountain with ex-
ploded mine
But there is one other mysterious
and sublime force in the system OF
electro-thermo dynamics which man
has not vet controlled. Science has
demonstrated the fact that nature
employs in the evaporation and con
densation of one gallon of water a
subtle and sublime power capable Oi
removing a range of mountains. II
that force could be converted into
thecontrollablees essence of motion by
man, he could move the world, split
continents for his mighty canals,
like those OF the planet Mars, blow
loaded railroad trains along like tiny
feathers or snowhakes before the
fierce tornado's blast, and circum-
navigate the globe in eighty min.
utes. These are some of the mere
possibilities OF controlling but one
more thermo-electro force. Mr.
Keely has bnt so far toyed with its
fearful mysteries in obtaining motor
pressure OF $4,000 pounds to the
square inch of motive surface. His
volatile and vibratory ether of water
is but as breath of body whose
MUSCLES capable of producing the
enormous pressure ofat least Is, 600
900 pounds to the square inch.
Messrs. Leger and Van Damschloss
determined, after long consultation
to try their hands at the evolution
OF this unknown force. M. Leger was
really a 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 course of tho usual run o
geniuses, who perish in poverty. and
let posterity profit by their inyen.
lions.
NJ. Leger maintained that Mr.. Kee
ley's principle was to liberate the
hydrogen from water under tremen
dous pressure, and to- use this highly
compressed hydrogen as his motive
power. Such accidental liberation
OF hydrogen from water under ex
IRENE pressure is alleged by scien
tific men to cause some Of the mys
FERROUS, terrible and tragic boiler ex
/ plosions Of the times.
NJ. Leger's plan, considered by him
, self as marked Improvement OF
Mr.. Keeley's was TO completely re
: move the hydrogen under pressure
to store it, by itself, in the stronges