The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-02-20

tie prejudiccd against chemistry,
though he had never done himself any
great harm, except when he lost his eye.
well, az was saying, Mrs. Van Wag-
cner was nightly opposed to the elec-
trio light, and nothing could induce her
10 wear one ON her head. She compro-
missed by wenring a light fastened TO
her waistbelt, but she complained that
IL was OF ,."ry little use when she want
"a to read or sew Gimme an old-fash-
ioned kerosene lamp every time she
Used to say. Some day this yer cleo
.tricityMill blow up and ltill the whole
.of u.s. By @the way did you ever notice
that women always believe: that cleo
tlicity is liable TO explode? j remem-
Der that when we had electric bells put
into our house in New Berlinopolisyillc,
my aunt, who kept house for me, used
10 warn the servants never to bring a
lighted candle anywhere near the wires
for fear of setting the electricity on fire
and blowing up the house. Say what
you will for women, you can't honestly
say that they have scientific minds.
"Fhcre was one thing that troubled
the professor. He had his electric
lights rugged up in the top of his hat,
as believe i told you. This was all
right when he took his walks abroad,
but it wasn't quite so convenient in
the house, Every time the professor
wanted light he had either to call the
maid, or his daughter, or his wife, or
else he had to put on his hat. Now he
bad a fashion of reading in bed, and he
found it mighty awkward to go to bed
with his hat on, which was what he had
to do if he wanted a light to read by.
One day happy thought struck him,
and he told his wife that he had solved
the problem of his headlight at last.
"A glass eye isn't of very much use
except for show, and this was reflec-
ton that had always annoyed the pro-
lessor ever since he began to wear
glass eye. He now saw his way to make
the eye useful and to give himself the
most convenient light that man ever
had. His idea was to make glass eye
with an incandescent fiber in the mid
die of it, and to run it by a storage
battery in his waistcoat pocket. So he
went to work and, being a very ingen-
ious workman, as well as a man brim-
full of science, he turned out a glass
eye that couldn't be distinguished from
a natural one, so far as appearances
went, and that had an electric light of
siX-candlc power in the middle of it.
at was the biggest success that the
professor had ever had. Wherever he
went after dark that eye was blazing
away and lighting UP the path. When
he wanted to read there was his light
in just the handiest place it could pos
sibly have been. The fine wires that
ran from it down to his waistcoat
pocket were concealed under his hair,
so that hardly anybody would notice
them, and when he wanted TO put his
light out or to turn it on, all he had to
do was to put his finger and thumb
into his pocket. Then again the thing
operated like dark lantern, for when
ever the professor wanted to turn his
light off in hurry and without fun
bling for the button in his pocket, all
he had 10 do was to shut his eye. The
light would keep on burning behind
the eyelid, but it wouldn't be bright
enough TO attract attention.
The day the professor got hisnew eye
light oworking order his wife wasn't
at home, having gone out TO spend the
day and evening. He lit himself up
early in the evening, and, keeping in his
m,he wasn't seen by anybody. When
night came on he went to bed early. SO
as to enjoy the luxury of reading in
bed. He took the storage battery out
of his pocket and put ii under the
pillow, and, when he stretched himself
out in bed, with book in his hand and
his eye blazing away with six-candle
power, he was about the happiest man
in all New Berlinopolisville He read
and read, until he began to get sleepy,
and then be put down his book and
thought over a lot of scientific things,
till he accidentally fell asleep. / told
you he could close the lid over the
eye If he wanted to, but as
q rule he didn't close that lid, but slept
with il open. Mrs. Van WAGNER came
home In the course of time, and natural
~ went up TO her bedroom. She was q
strong-minded woman, who was about
as likely TO steal sheepas to faint away,
but She admitted afterward chat when
she entered the room and saw the pro-
fessor's eye blazing at its level best She
came nearer dropping on the floor than
She had ever done before. However,
She pulled herself together and woke
thr professor up. She never said just
how She did it, but It's my idea that he
was walked up more sudden than man
was ever walked before. She told him