Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-25
AN ELECTRIC CARRIAGE.


were like the Queen of Shebaa at Jerusalem
mo more spirit of doubt in them. And
even the capacity for wonder seems to be
paralyzed for awhile. By the common
verdict the greatest wonder is Professor
Elisha Gray's telautograph, or long dis
lance writing %reproducer, to use q rough
translation. The sender of a letter uses
m ordinary pencil to which two small
cords are attached. The receiving pen is
a capillary glass tube of ink. And by a
complicated process which, in my present
state of knowledge I shall not attempt to
explain, every motion of the writer's
pencil is reproduced by that ink tube.
There is no laying of mistakes on the
operator. If one whose early education
has been neglected, complains that
mummy is tite," why ''munny is tite" at
the other end of the line, and in precisely
the same handwriting. It really does not
lack much of being a miracle.
You can write any way you like, Greek, |
Sanskrit or shorthand if you know how, /
and all the accents and pothooks will re-
appear. Even these lines of mine, war
ranted to produce profanity in any print
ing office in Christendom, would reappear
with all their dips, spurs, angles, varia-
lions and sinuosities. The tremulous agi-
tation of the lover in a letter of proposal,
the alleged backstroke of hesitation by a
writer who is telling a lie, the delicately
sounded letters of the dilettante who is
more nice than earnest, all %reappear with
truly u~nscrupulous accuracy. I shouldn't
think Of using the thing myself. 1t would
be like anticipating the judgment day.
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The women take great interest in the
cooking department.. And small wonder,
for cooking remains the one drudgery Of
woman for which science seems to have
given little or no relief. There are cleo.
trical ovens made of wood and lined with
asbestos to prevent radiation of heat. In
each is an incandescent lamp and through
q door n can note the process of cooking.
Wires check the passage of electricity and
thus produce heat, and one can raise or
lower it at will or turn the heat this way
or that. Instead of turning the turkey
over when one side is roasting the faster
the Ptolemaic system of the universe, by
produced; instead Of the old spit, turning
the meat before the fire, the fire goes
around the meat. And to crown all, the
lady who operates it insists that even now
electricity is cheaper in q city than coal or
wood. Well, in the language of the
''amen corner" ''May the Lord grant itr'
There are all sorts of curious household
and kitchen appliance on the same line.
There is a flatiron in which q perfectly
even heat can be maintained. There is a
cloth cutting machine in which the cut
ting knife follows a line marked out for it.
There is an electric incubator in which is
enough to make a hen ashamed of herself
by the percentage Of eggs from which
chickens are Matched. There is an %elcctrlcl
boot-blacker. There are devices to regis
Ter the speed OF q ship, a wagon, a car ora
running horse. In short, everything Is to-
go by electricity in the years to come.
There is to be no smoke and very little
noise; the kitchen is to be as nice as 8 par
lor and labor is to be an art, our wives are
to be always cool and clean and good
humored and run to meet their husbands
with rosebuds in their har'' Irving), ana
the only law in the household is to he the
law of love, Hal-lee-loo-yah!
But when a man walks out of there ana
looks northward and sees the great pail OF
smoke over Chicago, and when he gets
down there in that tangle, of RAILROAD
tracks and is distracted by the bang ana
roar, and considers that all the nice things
of electricity are only to be "after
awhile, he almost feels resentment at the
next generation. "What has posterty
ever done for u.s." as Sir Boyle Roche
asked, 'that we should do so much tor
themp" Truly, posterity will have a NICE
time at our expense, and why can we noS
devise some way to get part of 1t now
But on second thought l will not com,
plain of posterity. At all events we shan
have the responsibility of their being here
and 80 let's do the best we can for 'em.
j. H. BEADLE.
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