The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-14
SOME WONDERS OF
THE SKIES ABOVE
Mars Inhabited by q Race Of Beings
Superior to Us.
THE HUMAN BODY CLOSELY EXAMINED
It Is Made Up of Mass of Crawling
and VOraciOus arasites..Re
Of u Glance Through the Electric
Eve, tho Curious Instrument In.
vented by Kingston Scientist.

ION NelnesuuN, cCl lcVf,
ne printed an article describing the views
seen the Saturday evening previous ny
two of its editors through pecuiiar m
strument known as the Electric rye, =.
the invention of Professor &. Coles, OF
Kingston The paper read by Professor
Coles last Monday morning al the Elm
Park church before the Methodist Minis
terial association having revived ihterest ,
in that instrument and in the claims OF It's
inventor, it is deemed timely to reprint
that description, which will probably be new
to many of our readers. Before doing SO
1t should be said that the original Eye mas
since been broken. and that Professor
Coles has about three-fourths cotnpieteu
a new one, much larger in dimensions anu
fitted together with superior materiais
and precision Of workmanship. He hopes
to have this second instrument done with
In a few months and then promises FAR TO
surpass the achievements OF the hrst
crude mechanism. some OF which are tx-
planned below.l
Fourteen years ago a young man was
standing in an exposed house during
severe thunder storm. There came a
binding flash of lightning which enter
ed through an open window, stunned
the young man. crashed through man
tel into fireplace on the opposite side
of the room and spent It's force in the
ground underneath. When the young
man recovered his eye rested on a pecu-
PLAGUE had stood, snow white. upon
the mantel. Afterwards, its crystal sur
face was marked by an angular streak
OF black, as IL a piece of charcoal had
been drawn Zig-zag-wiSe across the
PLAGUE. An examination of the PLAGUE
showed that this black mark was
literal portrait of the path described
by flash of lightning. 1t could not be
erased. 1t was burned in the china,
tNtl Of hl Al ~
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
1t. 1t took him fourteen years of pa
tient and incessant study to do so: OF
experimentation with crude tools and
under great disadvantages; of steady,
persistent and sslf-denying toll, often
performed amidst the jeers OF persons
who lightly pronounced him an enthus-
last and 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 c.
Coles. The result Of his inquiry is COM
Electric Eye" of which The Tribune.
more than a year ago, printed partial
description. At the time of this former
publication the professor had not per-
fected his mysterious mechanism to
the degree which he thought would war;
rant u public exhibition. He promised,
within few weeks, to explain by ac-
tual demonstration much that seemed
incredible. An attack of illness kept
hin, from, fh., Iar prfi inn nf hie
ise until last Saturday night, when a
party of Scrantonians visited Kingston
as the guests of DIR. ID. B. Hand and
We're accorded an evenings observation
of the Electric Eye" and through the
Eye" glimpse of Mars, then in un-
rivalled brilliancy In the Eastern
heavens.
The things about to be related were
seen, one after another, by six adult
persons who had not previously par
taken of so much as drop of Susque-
hanna river water. They We're seen
in an atmosphere originally surcharged
with doubt; they are the cold, uncol-
ored facts of the matter, told in the ac-
curate language of exact description,
such as would pass as first class evil
dence in any court OF law: and yet
those who read this article will not be-
lieve it.
LIKE A 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 jack
knife and Il pair of pliers, in appear
ance resembles an ordinary stereop-
ticOn, doubled in size. 1t stands upon
a bOX-like frame and Is mounted on
small casters. 1t has at one end pro-
jecting nozzle into which has been in
serted a bowl-like, translucent china
eye. At the opposite end there Is a
small aperture about the diameter of
half dollar, through which the behold
er looks, in order to perceive the Won
ders within. On the top of the case of
the mechanism there is a small glass
cap, an inch high and crowned with
small disc of brass. having an opening
the size of the eye of a fine cambric
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 parallel to the forward nozzle, and
connecting with the interior of the box
at one end, and at the other end with
the noZZle'S outer terminus. similar
wires stretch. In one side of the main
box there is crank like handle, which
communicates with the Eyes" inte-
rior. This handle is like the handle to
q windlass, and by 1t the inventor, with
evident eXertion, gears the internal
economy of his appliance up to the de-
sired degree of wonderworkifg activ-
ity. At several points there are knobs
and buttons which connect with the
stored power of the "eye's" interior
and assist in the regulation Of its visual
flights.
POLLYWOGS AND LEECHES.
The first experiment of the evening
consisted of an examination of Ordin-
ary rain water. Under the caves of the
professors house stood q barrel partly
full Of drippings. One of the visitors
fetched a tumberful. which TO all ap-
pearances was as clear and as pure as
the most crystalline spring water. A
common pin was passed to half its
length into this water. The pin was
then lifted up and on it's point held a
small glObule of water probably as
large as a grain of fine table salt. This
water 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
interior Of the Eye" An electric cir
cult was then formed. the gearing
crank was screwed up until from the
mechanism's interior came a sound like
the ticking of a wheezy clock. Ten
seconds later the room was partially
darkened and the visitors were inyit-
ed to take a look at the professors
aquarium
In the interior of the mechanism a
VIVID light shone, of peculiarly soft
ana yet distinct rower. 1t resembled
bottled sunlight, and that is what It
was, according to the professors state
ment. In the glow of this illumination
the spectator beheld a globe of water
easily two feet in diameter. partially
niied with most beautiful vegetation,
ike moss and small shrubs. Swim
ming about. at perfect ease, in this ex-
panse OF sDore-filled fluid, were hum
dreds of little micro-organisms. mag
nined SO that some seemed as long
anu as large as the familiar tadpOle
lG ones hnNhnnd do.