The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-11-08
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IN EDlsoN,s LABORATORY.

No One Substance Organic or Inorganic
but Can BE 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 sparks
which fash, 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 rave 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 netne world huil
in their innermost depths. Space and
strength fail lis in the enumeration OF
tLlat endless catalogue here
tortoise hung.
An alligator stuffed md other skins
OF i'll shaped fishes.
The bones of birds aud animals, featl-
ers, hides. teeth and horns, many sufi-
GENTLY grewsolne il form to suggest the
pe~rainbulations of the nocturnal mare.
Shining metals. lucent crystals. varie-
gated Numerals. 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 a 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 saclting 10 IL gussaiuer fabric,
such as might well have been drawn
through the golden ring of the fairy
prince. These are fanked by metallic
sheets of every description. while the
floor Is occupied by ii 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 unclassiti-
able litter OF trade devices is lying
loosely around. A sa%nguinary meat
chopper impedes our path in one direc-
ton, and an ice cream freezer in another
offers its softer suggestions of summer
nights and luscious sirnps. while pick
axes, saws, coffee mills, wheelbarrows.
ladders and what not bewilder our lin
tied visual scope, Specimens of hu-
man manufacture, not only tie limited
appliances of the past, but the perfected
outcome OF the present. are fully repre-
scented, but III d p~rofusion which forbids
anything but them most superficial survey.
1t has been well said, in summing up
the whole heterogeneous supply, that it
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 a
locomotive, the materials entering into
the manufacture of which could not be
furnished from this storeroom. Gas
sier's Magazine.