The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-04
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Both poison, but one nov "a, a.
much as the other. Henry hnttls
the papers recorded, took rom gn,ch
ON an apothecary's shell q nquia
II IL was not II Ought nave 49, .ach
Al would have saved a life. but
80 a M argument TO use Nhicn wni
hr;ng Mr.. Clafin back to life. Inc papo''
aru5e 20 the fact that once ne nau ptoP
a,tv. he was a man Of means. men =
made his fatal mistake In the Wes.n
a,er street drug store yesterday moiAhns
he was bereft OF his former means
II Lnew him very we'll in his days OF
-osn.ritv and adversely. Let US DO
aaharitable regarding his s~hortcominss
When me had money his hand always
,.an, down into his pocket at the call OF
charity. His money helped TO ouha
churches and buy organs. lie ehuOIseu
for his supposed-to-b be trienos' Anos0
friends betrayed him. Many u mah ~
providence today owes q measure Oh ms
success TO the help extended In dollars anu
cents by Henry A. Clafin. he wsss MAJ
~ generous impulses. He had q heart, ana
when adversely came ne TOOK nis
like a man and never whimpereo'
Common sense and law.
The unfortunate man VINO wen
to work on the staging OF the boston
store yesterday morning mao no
that before the sun set he wouio ue
dsad. The warning cry for him to avoid
the danger of the falling beam caused MIN
to sten from life into death. "Too BAD,
saws the world, and then on goes the pan,
Drama of life. Admitting all TINS, VIII
Won in the name of common sense inior"
me wbv n law unqualified or in any way
|, modi6ed il allowed to exist without a as
! s~enting voice which necessitates the nun.-
A inc mn the coroner before q BODY may Do
, romovedP In a case of murder or assault
perhaps it is proper on account OF VIII
{ nesses and the like, but there
seems TO be no real gooo
0 reason why as was the case some tim since
a a dead child should remain on the track
20 further frenzy an ~sgonized mother OF
4 as was the case yesterday the narrowing
o snectacle of q dead man should lie pieeo-
ing in a public street because the law ssys
: he cannot be removed until viewed py the
"a coroner. IL the coroner mas gos 70 y,
thropoh the form OF "viewing the body
d let him do so at the morgue o, away L..
the public gaze. A man with MS mead
emf onen bleeding like an OK Ii not an In
snirins sight, and making an exhipition
~ him until the coroner arrives ADD
= nothing to the admiration OF o law tina
requires 1t.
l. When Edison was laughed at.
X Inst previous to the opening OF Tn
z Werld,s Fair, Mr.. Edison, the great genla
who has electrified the universe ana rev
authorized c~entennarian the wa
interviewed in regard to what IA IN
NJ. tended as q portion of his contribution Il
a. the way of something which woul
astonish and dumbfound the potentste
of the world who should visit Cnicago o
- that occasion.
os He replied that he was at work upo
no .omethine which had consumed years {
bis time but which he hoped to have
readiness by May 1, 1893. the openir
his date. At the time everybody wanted
ter know what It was, but Edison kept the
as guessing. He applied for the space On
there was 90 much delay In the prelimi
aries that he finally gave it up. What W
E.. itY everybody queried, and wn'
.rs. the Chicago Tribune came 0
m with o four column er'is
her explaining what it was, the people
erst took IL az O burlesque, and tn
,argbed and joked about II. The idt
thew remarked, of Q maj presnming to .
that he could photograph q stage fuii
nerformers and transmit their eve
=. movement with such q degree OF exa'
ness AZ to have them recognized py TN
'e1' friends. After the laugh had died aw
nothing more was heard OF the wonder
wonder which was to defy all the kno
ing laws of science and the principles OF Oh
ton, tricity for the time being.
or q
tho ~ -
There is q shrewd Scotchman mp
Westminster street at 2S9, who mas o
an admirer of the great electrician II
ton the first. He has exhibited his pho
the graph which, In itself, Is q most wono
kin SuI Invention, one of the localities WI
n gained favor being Cape Town, 80
Africa. Az wonderful ss the phonogr
2 in was. the kaleidoscope Is more wonde
v In vet. IL Is the invention which was u
in presented at the Worlds Fair above
avor ferrod to. II 10 10 toy. 1t Is a scie1
ac curiosity giving one q real
ton of what geniuses oil the I
-. son kind can accomplish. Already m
a.iVe people have not only satisfied THEFT 9
'sen' osity but have been dumbfounded to
. one ns ceiye in miniature photograph, anil
and human beings made TO repeat te
lie oy means ot 49, siona made a,
,age movements Wulcn snoy -,
uase; time their exhibition was noted. TIT
. ""1 hibition Of the kinetoscope VIII All
not only the curiosity seeker but tn
teIlectual observer who realizes wn
& truly great and wonderful thing 1t Is.
~ place of exhibition has been GROW
since the opening, and the longer
mains the larger the crowds Will grow
La r, a. q meritorious exhibition.
use OF r..dsra Of this column will remel
was ,hat the last thing in this store OF tn
alt Of hih,,,or Kind lasted Just one day
5heri- ar.n,ng when I commended the polio
ty, by ,hsIr rrompt action in closing up
COURT fake. Happily the present exhibitio
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