The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-11-03
IN EDISON'S LABORATORY.
No One Substance Organic or Inorganic
but Can he Found There.

NO One Substance Organic or 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.. EdlsOn'S experiments, and AS the in
vcntOr's ideas are generally sparks
which flash, red illumed, from the anvil
OF the BRAIN brooking 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. Mir. Edison
has challenged the skeptical to name Ii
substance, organic or inorganic, which
Is not 10 be found in this unique collec-
ton. Every department of nature has
yielded its tribute tOthe potent wizard
not merely the superficial products fa-
millar TO everyday use, but those arcann
which the ocean and neither world hold
IN their innermost depths. Space and
strength fail us i'll the enumeration OF
that endless catalogue. Here
4 tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed and other skins
OF i'll shaped fishes.
The bones OF birds and ANIMALS, feath-
ers, hides, teeth and horns, MANY sniff
GENTLY grewsOine 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 UNI and
spices recalling memories of the fair Babe
Of Bethlehem. Chalks, resins, salts and
chemicals are heaped about in lavish
p~lenitude, Notwithstanding the fact that
many of the latter represent u 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 sackiny to IL gossimcr fabric,
such as might well have been drawn
through the golden ring Of the fairy
prince. These are flanEed by metallic
sheets of every description. willie the
floor is occupied by II motley crew of
ropes, twines, bundles of brass and iron
tubing, paper, ollcloth, guttl percha,
leather, slabs of granite. marble, slate,
etc. n general and totally unclassiti-
able litter Of trade devices is living
loosely around. \ %sanguinary meat
chopper impcdcs our path III one dirrc-
ton, and an ice cream freezer in another
offers its softer suggestions of summer
nights and luscious sirnpS, while pick
axes, SAWS. coffee mills, whcolbarrOws,
ladders and what not brwilder our lin
llrd visual scope. Specimens of hu-
man Manufacture, not only the limited
appliances of the past, but the perfected
outcoln" of the present, are fully repre-
sentc'i, but III Il profusiOn which fOrbids
anything but the most superficial survey.
1t has been well said, III summing up
the whole Heterogeneous supply, that it
comprises all the requisites of "a dry
goods, grocery, Irug, i~romnongery,
glass, cbandlcry, oil, paper. rubber,
leather, grain, hardware, stationery,
chemical and feather store all in one,
and that there is not Huy article known
to civilized man. from u houijari, 10 a
locomotive, th" materials entering into
tho mHmut@rturr ut which could not 10
furnished from ttie ,t1r. room. -Cay
siers Magazine.