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The Weather,

The rain area and storm centre over the Southern
States was disspated yesteday leaving few scat
ternR showerA Tho storm that was developing In the
Rocky Mountains was increasing In force and IN agni
tude. and was attended by light rain Light rain may
be expected to-day In The upper Mississippi and Missouri
valleys and generally fair weather In the other satea
There was slight increase Of heat In all parts OF the
country yesterday except fall OF iO' to 20' In the
South atlantic States and In tho Northwest Al Helena
Mont, It was hut q above freezing, Cooler weather
was settling In behind the storm.
Fair weather prevailed In this city; highest oical
temperature was s2' lowest So; average humidity. 81
por cent; wind southwest: average velocity, miles
The Thermometer at Perry's pharmacy In TnE Bvx
building recorded the yenterdAy foowa,
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THINKS HE WAS sANDB4GGED.
George Paxton, Actor. Has nm Experience
With an Invisibie burglar.


George Paxton. an actor, formerly OF the Ly-
ceum Theatre. reported to the police OF ia
maica yesterday that he had been assault ted
and chloroformed by a burglar at the residence
Of Prof Emil Gerber at midnight on Saturday.
Mr.. Paxton went to bod about l O'Clock. At
midnight he awoke, and. feeling thirsty. he
went down stairs for drink OF water. As hs
approached the dining room he noticed faint
light. evidently taper. and thinking 1t WAS
one Of Mr.. Gerber's sons, said: rs that you.
Emil?' Tho only answer he got WAS blow on
the face. which stunned him. and Immediately
mouth. He remembers nothing after that.
Miss Ida Gerber asughter OF the professor:
noises outside Of the house which kept her
awake. a9d then she heard the noise Of body
brothers. who went down stairs. armed with
revolvers. TO investigate. They found Mr.;
Paxton unconseions IN chair, Nothing had
dence Of burglars visit was an open window.
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PROF. DWIGuTs E4REWEAL.
Law Students to Organize y Dwight Legal
Society.

Prols. Dwight Chase and Petty made their
farewell addresses to The senior class In the
Columbia College Law School last night.
George Crowell. President OF the class. pre-
sided. Prof. Dwight said:
"Ihave noticed In tho Harvard Lau Report
for May very laudatory article upon the
change OF system about to take place In the
Columbia school. Any one reading 1t would
suppose that the principles taught during the
last thirty-thre, years have been failure. but
although the Columbia flag may be at half
mast now think SEQ on Its folds tho motto
'Rosurgam.
ception was held. The Seniors had their final
class meeting and appointed committee TO
organize q Dwight Legal Society. They then
disDandcd % class.
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Tn. Man Under Their he'd snor.s.

GREENsBURa. Pa June 9.-Two pretty girls
found man under their bod early this morn
ing. They were Miss Ella Finney who lives
ON Oakland street. and a friend from the
GreensburR Seminary. Miss Flnney was
awakened by an unusual noise. aud arousing
her comp mpanion peeped under the bed.
His snores made the noise. The girls scream.
cd. the tramp awoke. and. as the situation
jumped through tho window. The male mem.
bers OF tho household arrived In time 10 shock
his nerves by shooting at him from the window.
The sun., 1891-06-10
TWENTY TRUNKS OF DRESSES.
Emma Abbotps Slater Selling Costume
that belonged to tho Dead Slayer.

Emma Abbotrs Slater Selling Costumes .
that belonged to tho Dead SisRer.
Mrs. Lizzie Abbott Clark. who has brought on
to New York twenty trunks containing the
costumes OF her sister. Emma Abbott the dead
singer. had o great many callers yesterday ut
her rooms In the Hoffman House. They were
principally actresses to whom Mrs. Clark had
sent invitations and who wanted to negotiate
Abbott had used In her impersonHtlons.
Mrs. Clark said last. night that she OK pected
to sell several OF the dresses together to one
boon going through the different trunks and
bringing to light the many hewildoIinR cos
expensive of tho dresses Mrs. Clark does not
expect to sell until next fall. Sho thinks she
will be busy for the next two weeks with
would -be buyers.
The sun., 1891-06-10
WIZ LOUISA EJECTED HER HUSBAND.

A Fortune Teller Had Told Her she Night
Have TO Bury Him Any Day.
John ard Louisa Rice parted month ago
and yesterday Louisa asked Justice Welde In
the Harlem Police Court to force John to help
support her.
II don't soc why q man should support o
wife who drives him out OF the house to save
possible funeral expenses" John said. He
was requested to explain.
Why. here. month or 50 ago she went to
liable to die suddenly. and would certainly not
live long. When l came homo she told me to
get out OF the house because she did not, want
any moment. and went"
Justice Welde iold RIce to send his wife ~
every week aud to keep away from her. This
leaves John ss week for himself.
The sun., 1891-06-10
KILLED by an Elevator.

Niccolo Rosats. II years old. Of 94s East
Sixty-third strset. stood at the elevator shaft
In Farrioli Il Cameron's cracker factory at 40S
East sixty-sixth street yesterday noon talking
to boy On the floor below. The elevator
guard rail and the fioor In an instant lis
neck was broken. The elevator stopped. The
men working on the floor saw him q moment
after the accident. He was still alive when
the elevator was run up and he was taken out,
but he died In o 10 minutes.
The sun., 1891-06-10
Rig Wlna storm ip south DnLo,a.

PIERRE, 8. D.. June "a terrible wind storm
struck this city at 3h +. M. to-day. 1t was ac-
companied by q blindinG storm OF dust which
left the city In total darkness The storm
lasted twenty -hvo minutes. To add to the
Rhencmsna the tempsIatare fel! from So' In
change takes place before midnight dam
aging frost Will result
The sun., 1891-06-10
All Hand. Spilled Out OF the Launch.

Electrician William Brown OF the lighthouse
service got wettinR of the Hook yesterday
morning. He was out In the naphtha launch
Bouquet. attending TO tho electric Duoys In
Gsdney,'s Channel when the engine oi the
who had charge, made an effort TO get tow
from the bark William II. Dietz The launch
iouled the bows Of the bark and was capsized.
The men Of the Babcock rescued them. The
boiler aud engine OF the launch woro lost.
The sun., 1891-06-10

CHICAGO. June 9.-Annie Allen crept up be-
hind Belle Rogers at picnic to-day and
plunged q dirk knife five times into Bellies
neck and back. The victim sank to the ground
speechless and In ten minutes was deal a
The murderer clung franticay to the police
Who s arrested .; her bsgging them not to alloyg
oolored. and were rivals for the affections OF q
dusky youth named Brownwell Jones'
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Shot Hair or tho Dogs In Town.

ZANEsvILLE. Ohio. juno 9.-Two weeks ago a
dog suffering with rabies bit several other
dogs In Dundee. and to day three OF these went
mad. keeping the entire village indoors. Then
the frightened people took TO shooting from
their windows, and tonight half tho dogs In
toWu are dead.
The sun., 1891-06-10

Reduced rates are mAts at Hotel Marlborough for
summer paiIops American and European pAna- Adv.
The sun., 1891-06-10

u.re,i Takes Second Thoueht and
r,,e,ude. Ite IL SIN President OF the
,-,.., Trustees, but He win Have to
prove It In Court-A Breezy Encounter
v.,ween tho Rival Presidents.
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which the cars move. It will not be expensive
to put down and Mr.. Edison says the streets
viii not have to be torn up as they are for the
cable. He believes it will be the street railway
for cities of the near future and says he 10 max
ing the invention for Mr.. Willard.
THE STOMACH CHEMICAL LABoRAroRY.
As we talked in this way, running rapidly
from one subject tc another, my wonder a. to
Mr.. Edison's wonderful vitality increased
As said above. though he had had only six
hours sleep in seventv-two, he showed no
signs of WEAKNESS. and his health seemed to be
perfect. What man OF fifty-.wo who reads this
paper could act and feel fresh after thirty six
hours out Of bed? Edison is ffty-two and no
looks as though he would live to be hundred.
Said he in response to my question:
II feel that Am in my prime and suppose
am better man than have ever been.
have the knowledge and experience Of the past
to go upon, and l don't know why I should not
do good work in the future."
How about your stomach" said 4.
Thomas Carlyle, You know, says he did not
know he had q stomach until he was TWENTY
two. How about your Doyou know that you
eyes" replied Nh. Edison with laush 81
am like Carlyle in that I have discovered the
fact find that have indigestion some.
times, but can easily cure myself do this
BY change Of diet Tbs stomach u chemical
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The head. as magnifed, is as big as that Of a
Newfoundland dog and il has hair standing out
from its center in all directions as though about
fifty camels hair brushes with hair two inches
long had been driven into place the size of a
trade dollar. It's eyes stand out from the head
and In the photograph each eve of this iv which
in the original was not larger than the head of
pin. Is bigger than the palm Of my hand, and
it ls made up of thousands upon thousands of
little bits of eyes fastenet! together like n
honeycomb, and Mr.. Dickson. Edison's pho
tographer, tells ME that If you will iay Your
watch, face upward, down near the eve Of n fly
under the microscope Won can read the time in
each one of these 10000 eyes.
TESTING ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Only an electrician can appreciate the won
ders Of the electrical appliances of this labora-
tory. In one large room the machines are SO
delicate that solid walls thirty feet deep have
been built under the slate slabs supporting
them. They rest on solid masonry and are so
arranged that nothing near them can affect
their motion either by sympathy or by vibration.
In one room found hundreds of these little
globes with wires o. light inside OF them all
blazing away. though 1t was the middle OF the
afternoon. These lamps. l WIS told are all
made differently for testing Every one of
them has its biography. 1t is closely watched
from hour 10 hour and the briiancy and the
time it will burn without breaking or wearing
out are carefully noted. Through this in time
1t Is hoped TO get the perfect lamp
and the perfect carbon which Will burn
forever In another room lamps were
being exhausted and filed. In another
the glass WAS being blown, aud in third
found n chemical laboratory devoted to the
assaying and reduction Of metals, and here Mr.
Edison is working away on the reduction of
iron, silver and gold.
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A KINETOGRAPH SLIP.

VIII We ever nave flying machines?''
YES. think so. was the reply, but it will
not be on any of the plans now proposed. 1
have different idea in regard to such matters,
but am not ready to experiment with them
yet"
How about the making OF fuel from water?"
Il don't believe it will ever pay,' replied Mr.
Edison. water is the ashes OF nature. There
Is nothing more like ashes. 1t took an enor-
nous cegree Of heat 10 make the hydrogen and
tie oxygen combine 10 make water and il takes
great degree of heat to revivify them. l don't
believe 1t will ever be commercially profitable"
HIS TELEPHONE TO THE Sun.
The conversation here turned to the tele-
phone and asked Mr.. Edison as to his tele-
phone to the sun. This telephone experiment
Is the biggest thing of the kind in nature
There Is IN the New Jersey mountains q vast
mass of iron,a mile long and of abou. the same
Width, which runs straight down into the earth
Tor number OF miles. "The telephone" said
Mr. Ediscn. rs, you know, made by running a
Wirc around the Top OF magnetic bar and this
machine when charged with electricity enables
US to register the sounds which come in con.
tact with IT,
We are using thisimmense natural bar O siron
OF the New Jersey mountains "a the basis of our
telephone. We have wound miles OF wire about
its top and have formed an induetiys circuit in
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will it ever be possible, Mr.. Edison" said
l, ITO take the page Of newspaper as set up in
New J DIRK and telegraph such photograph of
1t to the other great cities of the country as
could bo placed at once on an etching plate
and one setting up in this way do for the whole
country?'
Mr.. Edison thought for moment and then
said: Yes. that could be done. though don't
know whether it would be profitable, and the
day may also come when a man sitting at n
type-settin8 machine in New York may by
tapping the keys Of typewriter set up the
press dispatches by means OF similar machines
IN every newspaper Office OF the United States.
There is no doubt but this could be done now.
ana when we have perfect type-setting ma
chimes our press telegraphers can do the set
ting up of their own dispatches"
THE IRON FIELDS OF NEW JERSEY
Mr.. Edison's new processes Of iron reduction
have brought a vast deal Of new ore into the
market, and his partners have secured miles of
iron territory in the mountains near his home.
and Mr.. Edison SAYS there are sixty million dol
lars worth OF iron ore in sight lie showed me
an instrument FOR determining where iron is
1t was shaped like a compass and needle upon
it points to figures showing the Character of the
dip of the needle, and Mr.. Edisons surveyors
now make maps OF mining countries and tell
just about where the veins OF iron ore are To-
Gated. | saw such a map of a county in Michi-
gan ana It located with certainty the various
depositJ These New Jersey iron mines have.
been worked for years, but heretofore the rock
had to contain so per cent of iron OF it was no
good BY Edison's process il 1t contains %
per cent it payswell.
THE NEW ELECTRIC ROAD.
Before left looked ut Mr. Edison's street
railroad upon which he is working The car
and track are in the yard surrounding the
laboratory and the invention understand is
ready for use. 1t is intended for large cities
which win not permit the use OF overhead wire.
II will be much cheaper than the cable, but will
be more expensive than the trolley system and
1t may be used on regular railroad as well as
on u street car. Its locomotive will have i 900
horse power and it will take up the electricity
from a rail which runs along through the CEN
ter of the track and between the two rails on
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During these inventive periods Edison sleeps
In his laboratory and his meals are sent down
from his magnificent home at Llewellyu Park
Upon plain table covered with brown paper
lay the remains Of his breakfast These were
the bones 1f two mutton chops. the crumbs of
a muffin and glass fruit can in the bottom of
which was httls coffee Of the same brown
color as that liz the glass beside which Mr. Edi-
son had evidently used instead Of n cup. In
one corner of the room was a washstand with
couple of well-used towels over 1t and the re-
mainder Of the space was taken up with bot
ties, machines and other articles of an expert
mental kind. The room in which Mr.. Edison
sleeps when at the laboratory is quite as simple
and his bed is a folding arrangement which
you could buy anywhere for SIS.
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o'clock one morning few days ago. Mr.. Edi-
soE mad had no sleep for thlrty-slx
hours and during the seventy-two hours
before this he had closed his eyes for
less than six Still lie looked fresh.
and the sparkle OF his eyes and the laugh which
shOOk his frame from time 20 time were those
Of = boy He was in the midst Of one of those
inventive periods when he takes bat little rest
and works away dav and night 10 accomplish
his ends. He had left his chemicals TO talk TO me
ami he came in his shirt sleeves with his vest Of
Scotch tweed open ut the front and with his
OF all the coiors of the rainbow. These spots
were having kind of n polkaGOt dance Up
AMI down his great chest They went in and
out between his gold studs and some were
stains of yellow and the others of wax and
melted birthstone. An olOr like that of the
hell broth Of Macbeths witches came from
the chemicals in the room and all of the
roundings showed the simplicity of Its owne
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Other rooms were devoted to heavy ma
chinery, and there is hardly any kind of a ma
chine from steam engine TO pin that could
not be made in this laboratory II il Edison's
pet. The inventor Is worth millions. but he
prefers this to steam yachts coaching excur-
sions. polo and the amusements of other mil
hOnaires. and his greatest delight is in his
WORK. During our talk l asked him how he
felt when he discovered n new principle or
something important III invention. and he tod
me 1t made him happy all over and that he
grasped at it like the botanist does at new
Hover or the buSologist at a bug which lie dis
covers and knows Is new TO science.
INVENTORS AND PIRATES.
Returning to the patent system Mr.. Edison
said:
"The people suppose have made money out
OF my inventions. The truth is, have never
made one cent out of my inventions All |
have made has been out of manufacturing. Nv
inventions have not been protected bv the pat
ent Office. The companies with which / am
connected have spent millions in irving TO de-
fend them. ! have spent abou. 5000 900 myself
and | believe l would be 100000 better
off If had never taken ont a patent What I
have made has been because have underst BOD
the inventions better and have been able to
manipulate the manufacturing of them better
than the pirates. could not have made any,
thing had | not had large capital back of
me, ana tne ordinary inventor has no protec-
ton whatever. His certificate of patent il
merely certificate to the poor house. and
hundreds of inventors are ruined. They spend
all they have in getting out their inventions
and they die poor"
GREAT INVENTIONS OF THE FUTURE
'Do You think, Mr.. Edison" said /, that the
inventions of the next fifty years will be equal
to those of the last :iftyY'
Il see no reason why they should not" re-
piled Mr.. Edison. 1T seems to me that we are
at the beginning OF inventions. Weare discoy-
ering new principles new powers and new ma
terlais every day. and no one can predict the
possibilities of the future. Take eIectricity.
When We get electricity directly from coal a
lump as big as this tumbler will light and heat
whole hOus- for hours and a basketful would
run a factory whole day. In the generation
ofsteam We only get II per cent Of the energy
OF the coal. In electricity we get SO per cent
When we get our electrical power direct from
coal few hundred pounds will carry Won across
the Atlantic and "a few basketfus Will take o.
railroad train from New York to San Francisco
L believe this 10 be one of the great prob-
lens of the fnture and / have no doubt but
that II will be solved. / have been working on
il for years, but | haven't got it yet When it
does come II will revoiutionize everything. 1t
VIII cheaper everything and it will be the
greatest invention OF modern times As it is
now we have TO burn the coal to get the steam
and the steam gives us the power which runs
the dynamo and produces the electricity
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a LESSON IN BOTANY.
The Various Kinds OF Maple Trees Growing
IN the District.

HOW 10 TIL TRIM BIT THEIR LEAvrs-rHr CON-
MON SILVER MAPLE As RAPID oRowrR-rHE
srasa xArLE-rKE NATIVE AND TER INTRO
pucrp SPECIES.
Written for The Evening Star
VIE NAPLES ARE PLANTED FXTEN-
- Gvely as shade trees on our streets. both
on account Of their rapid growth and OF their
generous foliage. The several varieties are
generally easily separated BY their leaves. and
the illustrations here given will enable them 20
be distinguished
The most common form is the white. soft or
silver maple as it is variously called. Ii is the
most rapid grower of all saplins reaching q
height OF about four feet the second year from
the seed and in less than twenty years forming
trunk one and half to two feet in diameter
The tree branches freely some ten or fifteen
feet from the ground and forms q rather open
head As generally seen on our streets il does
not show to the best advantage. but IL properly
trimmed and topped when it grows too high il
is quite ornamental. The species blossoms
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WHY BoULANGER FAILED.
Part OF the Alphabet and Several digit
Were Against Him.

were Akhinst nh"
Through the labors Of an ingenious writer in
Figaro the superstitious will find Q special
source of pleasure in the life and death Of Bou-
LANCER. This writer shows that the letter b
was fatal letter to Boulanger. He died at
Brussels from bullet, through despair over
the death Of Nine. de Bonnemain. Queeney de
Beaurepaire was his accuser ct the trial which
began his misfortunes.
In something the same way 10 shown 20
have been his letter of evil influence, his hos
tile letter and L his friendly letter. But in the
matter OF numbers the hand Of fate 10 stll
clearer. Nine. de Bonnemain was born in
1855. The four figures Of this number add up
Is. She died in 1881, the four figures Of which
also add Up - He was born in 1887, aud these
four figures add mp H. He died in 1881, and
there you have 10 again.
Another article in the sams Journal shows
the death OF the general - more lamentable
from q commercial than from the political
point Of view. He calls attention 20 the num-
Der OF books and pamphlets upon Boulsnger
which the Bonlangist movement called into
vigorous and profitable life. Then there were
the pictures Of the ''brsve general" In every
conceivable garb; and here comes out . singu-
lar fact-that most Of these pictures sold 90
widely in Paris and in all France were manu-
factured in Germany, and that therefore the
profits Of this branch Of commercial Boulang-
Asiu Nesit anio btflnan pochces A. seeuss WV
the German manufacturers borrowed their
ideas for devices from the cartoons Of bou-
LANCER frequently. cartoon OF Joan OF Arc,
vercingesorix, Napoleon l. and Boulsnger on
the four aces of pack of cards a. This French
Trumps' appeared with the faces changed from
smirk to sober enthusiasm as The -Four Aces Of
France, and carried districts for Boulanger IN
the great election.
One collector OF Boulaneer relics has nearly
600 songs composed in honor OF him. The same
collector has thousands upon thousands Of pic
lures Of him. Besides medailions, brooches,
bracelets of myriad designs. there were bottles,
tobacco boxes, pipes heads OF canes and vases
bearing the brave generals features. His
name was given to various kinds Of clothes, 70
neckwear, to a brand Of wine, - Q kind Of
cigarette paper, 70 letter paper and 70 per-
fumery.
When Boulanger seR what was left Of all thess
things became q drug in the market Nov, IL 10
said, many Partisan merchants rejoice not .
little at his death, since IL has made . msrkee
for what would have been unmarketabls bad
Boulanger died in his bed.
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Handle With Care.
"Just Married. ="

and another huge white satin bow. The
groom trunk was spared a label, but the satin
bow was triila larger and more conspicuous
than the others.
The baggage agent thought the thing TOO
good to keep to himself, 80 he invited everybody
In to enjoy the joke.
Of course everybody went through the car to
find the young married couple, and equally of
course the young married couple were easily
found. and they wondered. as the people
smiled broadly when ;hey passed them, whether
they were more conspicuously married than all
the other young brides and grooms that had
lived and moved and had their beings. or
whether they were only suffering what thou
sands had done before them.
They never found out, and it is presumed
that the trunks thus belabe!ed rolled up to
some prominent Philadelphia hotel and gave
the baggage smashers a treat