Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-05
A LOOK AROUND.

WITHIN ten years time our Fourth OF
July has changed from day of ice cream
and Roman candles and irecrackers to one
OF noise and speech-making. American IN
genuity has supplanted to a great degree
that product of the Mongol, the small IRE
cracker. Time was when the boys were
content with these noise-producers, ana
even when their ambition scared they were
satisfied with an accumulation of them un-
der barrel or some other magn1ner OF
sound. But, bless us! the boy is humble and
meek, indeed, who is to be made happy by
such means now. He wants cannon crack
ers, big things looking like section
OF paralyzed red bologne sausage and
capable of arousing the neighborhood
As an adjunct to these he must, forsooth,
have torpedoes the size OF English walnuts,
which 60 Off with the detonation OF an OLD
time shell mortar. or course he wants
rockets and Roman candles and fizzing
things that fill the night air with crimson
streaks, and children with delight. but
above all he must have noise and a good
deal of it all at once. II by any chance you
are sick in city on the Fourth, get your
doctor to give you something to move you
over day without you getting awake.
WHAT q wonderful thing this new dis
covery in photography is, which has been
made by the French savant, DR.. Lippman.
1t was announced some time ago that he
had found a process by which he could
photograph the coiors of the spectrum and
now he gives to the world the views of his
ability to photograph a bed of flowers or
any combination of colors. 1t seems in
credible at first glance and yet the color
waves which produce this result are as
tangible and efficient as agents as the waves
of sound which make the telephone COM
mercial success.
1 WONDER what mas ever become of the
process OF taking photographs in the dark.
Some years ago during course OF lectures
delivered in the chapel of the First Presby-
terian Church Prof. langley announced
what was news to nearly everyone in this
country. 1t Was that an English scientist
who was experimenting with the camera,
had discovered a process by which he could
successfully take pictures in the dark, and
that he had gone so far as to take the faces
and figures of group of dozen persons
seated in room which was absolutely dark.
1 remember trying to get some details of the
manner in which SO curious proceeding
was made possible, but Prof. Langley said
that the discoverer had asked him not to
make the process public, as he naturally de-
sired to proclaim it himself in his own way.
l may be behind the age as to this process.
but certainly do not remember ever hear
ing of its being brought to a sufficiently
practicable conclusion to be given to the
world.
THERE seems to be prospect of getting
a big apartment house in the central part of
the city-somewhere about Oakland, I be-
lieve.
IT is doubtful if there is street Of its
importance in any large city which is rs
spotted in the character of its buildings as
Fifth avenue.
JOHN GLENN, late of the Auditor Gen.
erals office and Secretary of the State Com
mittee, has located in this city permanently.
He is by profession a lawyer and will asso-
ciate himself in the future with the law firm
of Lyon, Mckee s. Sanderson.
ga WOMAN is queer thing" remarked
street car conductor. "One of them
dropped coin in my car the other day. We
looked for it, but couldn't find it. She wasn't
sure whether it was a dime or q cent. She
rode all the'way to East Liberty and back to
look for it and finally on the way in she dis
covered it and found it was a cent. Then she
uhu ~ SO OuI again 10 CQt EdSG EHu.
I AM told that firm of real estate oper-
ators of this city recently bought some
property in Scranton for about 5000. They
cut it up into lots, advertised it we'll and had
a boom sale, the result of which was that
they sold all the lots for $50, 600.
How the town is spreading beyond
Forbes street to the eastward of Craft
avenue. All the way out to Shady lane there
are signs of rapid growth, and where there
were stretches of pasture or idle fields few
years ago, there are now abundant evidences
of growth. A line of rapid transit through
that section, would soon lead to it's being
built uDon extensiyelv Waiter