Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-11-09
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No One Substance Organic OF tnorganl
but Can BE Found There.

No One Substance Organic OF inorganic
but Can he Found There.
Surely the most unique and compre-
hensive paraphernalia in the world have
been collected in the storeroom of Edi-
sons laboratory at Orange, Here are
specimens of every material which may
possibly be needed in connection with
Mr.. Edison's experiments, and as the in
ventor's ideas are generally "sparRs
which flash, red illumed, from the anvil
of the brci,." bTooking no delay in the
process of Incarnation, and as, moreover,
there are no assignable limits to the
scope and direction of his erratic genius,
the utmost skill and research have been
employed in bringing together this ma
terial basis for his research. Mr.. Edison
has challenged the skeptical to name one
substance, organic or inorganic, which
is not to be found in this unique collec-
ton. Every department of nature has
yielded its tribute to the potent wizard
not merely the superficial products IA
miliar to everyday use, but those arcana
which the ocean and neither world hold
in their innermost depths. Space and
strength fail us in the enumeration of
that endless catalogue, Here
tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed aad other skins
or i'll shaped fishes.
The bones of birds and animals, feath-
ers, hides, teeth and horns, many suffi-
GENTLY grewsome in form to suggest the
perambulations of the nocturnal mare.
Shining metals, lucent crystals, varie-
gated minerals, lie scattered in profusion;
dainty shells and coral repose among
MOSES and seaweed, fragrant gums and
spices recalling memories of the fair Babe
of Bethlehem. Chalks, resins, salts and
chemicals are heaped about in lavish
plenitude, Notwithstanding the fact that
many Of the Latter represent value of
$500 an ounce.
The collection embraces not only raw
products, but specimens of every imagi-
nable human industry. On the shelves
rest piles of textiles, ranging from the
coarsest sacking to gossamer fabric
such as might well have been drawn
through the golden ring of the fairy
rrince. These are hanked by metallic
sheets of evsry description, while the
hoor is occupied by a motley crew Of
ropes, twines, bundles of brass and iron
tubing, paper, oilcloth, gutta percha,
leather, slabs of granite, marble, slate,
etc. A general and totally unclassifi-
able litter of trade devices is lying
loosely around. A sanguinary meat
chopper impedes our path in one direc-
ton, and an ice cream freezer in another
offers it's softer suggestions of summer
nights and luscious sirups, while pick
axes, saws, coffee mills, wheelbarrows,
ladders and what not bewilder our linn
tied visual scope. Specimens of hui
man manufacture, not only the limited
appliances of the past, but the perfected
outcome of the present, are fully repre-
sented, but in a profusion which forbids
anything but the most superficial survey.
1t has been well said, in summing up
the whole heterogeneous supply, that il
comprises all the requisites of "a dry
goods, grocery, drug, ironmongery,
glass, chandlery, oil, paper, rubber,
leather, grain, hardware, stationery,
chemical and feather store all in one,
and that there is not any article known
to civilized man, from a bootjack to q
locomotive, the materials entering into
the manufacture of which could not be
furnished from this storeroom. Cas-
siers Magazine.