The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-24
rs OF THE heavens
Mars Inhabited by Race of Beings
Superior to Us.
THE HUMAN BODY EXAMINED
II Is Made Up Of a Mass Of Crawling and
yoraeious Parasites Results of
Glance Through the Elec.
tric Eye.
snecial to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Kingston, Pa, Oct. %.
Fourteen years ago a young man IN
this place was standing in an exposed
house during a severe thunder storm,
There came a binding flash of light"
ming which entered through an open
window, stunned the young man,
crashed through a mantel into fire
place on the opposite side of the room,
and spent its force in the ground un-
derneath When the young man re-
covered, his eye rested ON peculiar
sight. Before the storm a CHINA
placque had stood, snow white, upon
the mantel. Afterward, its crystal sur
face was marked by an angular streak
of black, as ii piece of charcoal had
been drawn zig-zag-wise, across the
placque. An examination of the
PLAGUE showed that this black marx
was literal portrait of the path de-
scribed by a fash of lightning. IL
could not be erased. 1t was burned in
tile china. a vivid memento Of the dy-
ing storm.
This peculiar circumstance set the
young man to thinking. He had always
been of an inquiring turn of mind, but
the mystery of that electric photograph
puzzled him and he decided to master
it, 1t took him fourteen years of pa
tent and incessant study to DO so; OF
experimentation with crude tools and
under great disadvantages; Of steady,
persistent and self-denying toll, often
performed amidst the jeers of persons
who lightly pronounced him an en-
thusiast and a "crank." But the young
man at last succeeded, and in doing so
added new and far-reaching fields Of
inquiry to the domain of modern sci
ence.
The Instrument Exhibited.
That investigator was Professor
Jesse c. Coles; the result of his
inquiry is comprised In an instru-
ment called the Electric Eye
of which The Tribune, more than
year ago, printed a partial descrip-
tion. AT the time of this former pub
lication tile professor had not per-
fected his mysterious mechanism to
the degree which he thought would war
rant public exhibition. He promised,
within a few weeks, to explain by actual
demonstration much that seemed in
credible. An attack of illness, ending
in blood poisoning kept him from the
redemption Of this promise until last
Saturday night, when party of Scran-
tonians came to Kingston as the guests
of Dr. d. b. Hand and were accorded
an evenings observation of the "Elec-
Att. h., a
glimpse at Mars, then in unrivalled
brilliancy in the eastern heavens.
The things about to be related We're
seen, one after another, by six adult
persons who had not previously par
taken of SO much as a drop of Sus"
Quehanna river water; they were seen
in an atmosphere originally surcharged,
so far as the majority of the party was
concerned with profound skepticism;
they are the cold, uncolored facts Of
the matter, told in the accurate Ian
guage of exact description, such as
would pass as first class evidence in any
court Of law; and yet those who read
this article will not believe it.
Looks Like Magic Lantern.
The Electric Eye" in the cOnstruc-
tion of which Professor Coles passed
the greater part of fourteen years, hav-
ing often no better tools than a jack
knife and pair Of pliers, inappearance
resembles AN ordinary stereopticon,
doubled in size. 1t stands upon box
like frame and is mounted on small cas-
ters. 1t has, at one end, projecting
nozzle into which has been inserted a
boWl-like. translucent china eye. At
the opposite end there is n small ap-
erture about the diameter of a half dol
1a, tIp111ul, ttsbiah tho hahnIlap Looks
in order 10 perceive the wonders with
in On the top of the case of the mech
anism, there is a small glass cap, an
inch high and crowned with a small
disc of brass, having an opening the
size of the eye Of fine cambrlc needle,
over this minute aperture, brass wire
depends. At various points alongside
the body of the box which forms the
mechanism's main part, and also par
alel to the forward nozzle, and con-
Meeting with the interior of the box at
one end and, at the other end, with the
nozZles outer terminus similar wires
stretch. On one side Of the main box
there is crank-like handle, which com.
municates with the Eyes" interior.
This handle is like the handle to a
windlass, and by it the inventor, with
evident eXertiOn, gears the internal
economy Of his appliance up to the de-.
sired degree of wonder-working actiVi-
ty. At several points there are knobs
and buttons which connect with the
stored power of the Eyes" interior
and assist in the regulation of its vis-
ual flights.
Pollywogs and Leeches.
The first experiment of the evening
consisted of an examination of ordin-
airy rain water. Under the caves of the
professors house stood a barrel partly
full of stagnant drippings. One of the
visitors fetched tumblerful, which to
all appearanceswas as clear and as pure
as the most crystalline spring of water.
"A common pin was passed to half its
length into this water. The pin was
then lifted up and on its point held a
smaliglobule Of water probably as large
as grain of fine table salt This wa
ter was placed over the minute aper-
ture which was likened to the eye of a
cambric needle, and not more than one
twentieth Of the water reached the in
terror of the Eye" An electric cir
cult was then formed, the gearing crank
was screwed up until from the mechan-
lsm's interior came a sound like the
ticking of wheezy clock. Ten seconds
later the room was partially darkened
and the visitors We're invited to take
look at the professors aquarium"
In the interior of the mechanism q
vivi1 light shone, of a peculiarly soft
and vet distinct power. 1t resembled
bottled sunlight, and that is what il
was, according to the professors state.
ment. In the glow of this illumination
the spectator beheld globe of water
easily two feet in diameter. partially
filled with most beautiful vegetation
like moss and small shrubs. Swim
ming about, at perfect ease, in this ex-
panse of spore-filled fluid were hun.
dreds of little micro-organisms, mag.
nihed so that some seemed as long and
as large as the familiar tadpole of ones
boyhood days. Several were even long.
er than this, approximating in size the
ordinary leech. The great majority OF
these living, swimming beings were
smaller than this, however, and looked
like enlarged editions of what boys cal
"wigglers" that inhabit rain water
when Ii has stood for several days ex.
posed to the suns rays.
Beer Not Fit TO Drink.