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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1896)
THE TELEPHONE IDEA. Vint Suggested in This Country by the Croaking of Frogs. itMthtac AkMI Dr. Cvhau, ta Csw It ia not oommoo Knowledge, eseept to thoee familiar with electrical and telephone history, that the flret tcle ibone na constructed in Bachie, Wis., ud that the inventor, Dr. 8. D. Cash Jiao. is now a resident of Chicago, says the Newt, of that cily. Hie litigation with the Bell Telephone company, extending over a period of ten yean and costing one hundred thou uad dollar, has been reported from a legal standpoint, but as it li one of Mr. Cnahman'a principle that personal reminiscences are in bad taste, be has seldom given a formal Interview. The venerable inventor, seventy-seven years of age, who built the first telegraph line in this part of the "far west," pannes hi business with more alert ness to aSahs than toe average young man. ' i i , ' In a corner of the room ia a large, won pieoe of mnslin on which ia paint ed ia thin colors a representation of a telegraph line stretching away in the distance, connected with a erode instrument, set on two logs, near which is a frog sitting by a stream. This old relic represents the telegraph line of "good cedar posts,'' which Dr. Cushman constructed west from Racine for the Sri A Michigan Telegraph company ia 1851, and the experimental lightning arrester which led to his discovery. It is a reminder of "the days when Ir. Cnahman was associated with Prat ' torse ia the pioneer days of teleg-i;-hy. On bis desk is the first tele- wm transmitter, constructed in 1861 ntv- veai. lfnr. th. rii i ; rents were taken out It is a small, oore box, with a speaking orifice and i Jtnining mechanism on the same inciple as that of the modern trans- .alitor, In 1861 Dr. Cushman undertook the instruction of a lightning arrester, his I ffxt being to take the lightning that -imck the win and run it into the ?-ound, the instrument being so eon - ::ucted that it would not interfere vita the light current used in tele graphing. This instrument wsa placed ut on the prairie on two logs and in order to know when it had operated a triple magnet with a sheet of thin iron r at the poles, similar in construction to a modern "receiver," was placed in the earner of the box. In ease the light ning passed through the instrument the electro-magnet would pull this ; trip of iron down into the range of a permanent magnet, which would re alm it until the instrument wss in spected. A similar device was placed in the basement of the building at Becine and connected with the other end of the line. One day while a thunderstorm . "n oominft no, and Dr. Cushman was watching the instrument, tne croaking of frogs was heard, thirteen miles way. This is the explanation of how - he old painting with the crude instru ment and the croaking xrog is identi ' "d with the dsmtyvof the tele phone. ' v . .. Ur. Cushman is the inventor of the f re-alarm system in use in Chicago. His patent-ofQce reports, he says, "would weigh a ton," and contain a ffl-eat number of his electrical patents. To the priority of Dr. Cushman there is said to be no doubt, -and the contest of the validity of the Bell patents be- in 1855 was at last taken to the United States district court of Boston in 1893, where it is now pending. Dr. Cushman is a descendant of the historical Cushmans who cacio to Vir ginia in 164a He was a friend of Hor ace Greeley and most of his prominent contemporaries in what might be called tee era of rapid mechanical develop ment In early life he was a newspa per reporter. Some twenty, years of iS 1'1- "- 1- - RETARDING PHVtlOAl DEOAYJ to esaus Be rulisaif as Xaarlr Without eating and drinking there is bo life; but we may select certain kinds f food containing a minimnm amount of the elements which cause the ossific blockage in the system. An English j hysician, Dr. C, F. De Lacy Evans, vho made many researches in regard to ear food, comes to the conclusion that tore fruit should be eaten, especially i nplea, grapes and bananas, they being i ich in nutritious elements. Being de ficient ia nitrogen, they are best for elderly peopleTTtheTkeep the blood i in a better condition than flesh. Flourens, in his well-known work on j "Human Longevity," cites the case of the Italian centenarian Cornaro, whose i recipe fee" health and long life was ex- j treme moderation in all things. Flour- j sns himself insists that a century is the j normal life, but the fifty years beyond, and even two hundred yean, are human possibilities under advantageous condi- j Hons. Hufeland also believed in two j hundred yean as an extreme limit r James Crichton Browne, M. D., con- cedes, in a late address, that Flourens : was right Duration of growth gives the length of life. Hufeland held that the human body grows till the age of I twenty-five, and that eight times the arovrth period wss the utmost limit of saan. But if twenty years be taken as the time of growth, eves five times that will give us a century. According to Flourens and Cuvier, man is of the fru givorous or fruit and nut-eating class ml niml, like the gorillas and other apes and monkeys. Han has not teeth .like the lions and carnivorous beasts, neither has he teeth like the cows and herbivorous ones. Intestines in the - an ore seven or eight timus '.he length the bodv: the lions Bre but three wnw m ts First Tn -raw, rf m l M IMMoverr. iles the length of his body. Ilurbiv- pressiou of the fsoe bold and com ... ous animals, like the cov.-. have in- mending. The man whom it repre ; wimes forty-eight times the kiifth of ent been dead lor 6,000 years, die body. ' od Tet tbe wooa status Is as Bo, iudgiuf bub by hi. ueth, his; J TjM tsAW totsttisss, bs-nstu'l ' " si MM w 'il.ltl ... rally and primitively fmpivorous, and I was not intended to eat flesh. Fruit is jfwriout, and apples act on the liver, j ind aro good brain food also, a they contain much phosphoric acid. .b to the effect of certain climates, erhsps too much stress has bees laid pon that. We find that Thomas Parr, vho lived in England, died in his one tnndred and fifty-third year, and was issectedbr the celebrated discoverer .( the circulation of the blood, Dr. Wil liam Harvey (who expressed no doubt of his age), was never out of his native country. Accounts of men who have lived to extreme age in Ecuador and Mexico Indicate possibilities. A cli mate that allows much outdoor living is the best far health. More depends on food thun on any climate. Exer cise, freoh r,:r to lire In snd to sleep in, waily bathing and freedom from racdi iinc ore the important things, hi July,' 1SU3, the Crtirier-Jjuruul, of Louisville, published a loop account of James Mc Vlullin, who died In Carlisle county, !Cy at one hundred and seventeen .'eon of age. When Buff on, Hufeland, riourens, and men of that class, who nod studied the subject, believed in the possibility of one hundred and fifty or two hundred yean of life, the subject is not to he laughed at, TOLD OF A PARK SNAKE. A Voueraaa's Explanation of a Wen Spot In tho Aipbalt Walk. A Central park policeman was stand ing near the entrance at 100th street and Central park west the other day looking very thoughtful. He stroked the left-hand side of his fine red mus tacne with his right forefinger and gazed in an abstracted way at the lower rims of the wheels of carriages and bi- ' cycles as they passed. 1 "What is weighing on your mind so i heavily?" asked an acquaintance. The policeman turned savagely with: i "None of your" Then he broke off I and said: "Oh, it's you, is it?" The savage look gave way to a hall smile, and. serious look came back eg8. don't think," said he. "I don't tnow. aud. what's more, I dont give s cuss." Then he stopped talking to look at his questioner through the corners ' his eyes. After a little urging and I much hesitation he told this story: tou ssked me once if I'd ever sees any snakes here in the pork, and I told you yes. That was early last spring, wasn't it? Yes, I thought so. Well, I've seen some snakes since then. May be you would like to hear about one that I've got to know pretty well? Tee? Just as 1 thought. Let us go down this walkaways. I want to show you some thing first. Here we are. Do you see this little knob or hummock in .the asphalt? Well, last spring, the first time I noticed it, it was an inch high. lou can see for yourself that it's not more than half an inch high now. What do you suppose wore it down so much V "The scuffiing of shoes on it," the man guessed. "Well, I rather think nit The feet of men don't touch the edge of this walk twice a year. Do you see that robin's nest there in that oak? Well, the first time I saw that snake it was just swallowing the last of fire eggs that had been in that nest I know that there were five eggs in the snake be cause they showed in five bunches in the snake's middle the cuss had swal lowed them whole. He was a black one, by the way, and could climb like a gray squirrel. "But, as I was saying, that snake had five unbroken eggs in him, and I was wondering about what he was going to do with them. I found out pretty soon. The snake climbed down the tree head first and crept toward the walk here, getting along pretty slow, for he was only 14 inches long, and the five eggs mode a pretty big load for him. "The snskecome straight toward this hummock here, and I was standing right here by these bushes. He crawled around the hummock several times, then stuck his head in this little hole herein the asphalt, and then drew him self up into a hump, with his tail stick ing in this little crack here only the crack wasn't so large then and then he stood up just like a letter U upside down. Then he straightened out, and down came one of the eggs on to that hummock there. I heard the shell break. The snake raised up again and another egg was broken, and so on until there wasn't a whole egg in the snake. That's what wore that hummock down, for all summer the snake broke his eggs on it" "Is that what made you think and look so seriously T the man asked, as the policeman stopped talking. "m, A . 7 woJth, ZJ, , w"naera " Zt L 'M?. J? "J " wm, uw, a ivtta juml wonaeruur If K ,,Mt'. - 1 - i - ,. ; men to be made auxiliary observers of natural niatory Here in the park N. Y. A firs-Barn Bag. Then an some bad bugs and worm in the southern forests, but than an certainly none that an quite equal ia endurance and toughness to th worm that developed himself from the great forest fires of the north west Scarcely had the fires cooled sufficiently for the ownsn to make inspection of losses when they found that this new worm had got there first and was already completing the destruction of what the flames had spared. Both standing- sua cat limners were attacked, and the ' - 0 orous meaanres have been re- i sorted to snd with only partial sue- cess mis worm seems to have evolved from the beat, and, so fsr, the cold snd snows of the winter do not appear to have affected his health or 1 mined his ! voracity. He certainly is a new and j unpleasant icaturs In the timber Ques tion, snd s nut that scientists bars not yet cracked.-Chicago Chronicls. The oldest known piece of wood k formed into the statue of an Egyptian sheik. The statue ia evidently a llke- ! " eyes are of crystal, the ex ITALIAN LEGAL FUNCTIONARIES Dbmt Osmifc Was an Poorly x-id for Task- SawlM. Ia Italy any unfortunate who owes IB per cent finds his little debt run as "by sheriffs' officers, tribunal expenses and all the manifold charges of notaries, attorneys and advocates to too per cent before he-has time to breathe or realise the situation, and the forced sales are so conducted that the property sold produces nothing for anyone except the state and the auctioneers. The state takes Its percentage first, says the Fort nightly Review, before even the credit ors, and thus is caused the avidity by which all state officials and myrmidons drag to ruin, by intrigue and extortion, a large majority of the Italian tax- paying public Note the salaries paid to the officials of the tribunals in Italy and judge if such officials an not in vited and forced to ruin the mas of the people. When a county court judge in Eng land has 1,000 or 1,000 a year, he re ceives here the equivalent of 40, or perhaps 30, per annum. All the lesser functionaries are paid in proportion. The giudiee concillatore, who answers to the juge de la paix in France, and to the polios magistrate in England, is paid sometimes at the rate of 30 per annum, sometimes not at all; the pock ets of the appellants at his court must maintain him. It can readily be under stood that all these hungry function aries of the law, big and little, live on the public perforce, and that almost any iniquity or injustice may be ob tained under their rule If money be largely enough and secretly enough ex pended. "Your Bplendor is my dis honor," said Bacon to his magnificent liveried serving men, who rose to meet him when he entered court to stand upon his trial. The Italian functionaries may say to the Italian Themis: "That we have coats to our backs and rings as our fin gen is your dishonor, for you do not pay us enough to enable us to get either honestly." Notwithstanding this i miserable pay which they reoelve. It aly spends on the administration of law 186,000,OOOf. i. ., T,000,000f more than France (ia comparison to the population) and 12,000,0001. more than England. The public who contribute all these millions get little or nothing for their money. Chinese mandarins of the second wear a button of coral red. sug gested by a cock's comb, since the cock Is the bird that adorns their breast. The third class are gorgeous, with a robe on which a peacock is emblaz oned, wnlle from the center of the red fringe of silk upon the hat rises a sap-1 phire button. The button of the fourth I class is an opaque dark purple stone, and the bird depicted on the robe ia the pelican. A silver pheasant on the robe and a clear crystal button on the j hat an the rank of the fifth elan, i The aixth class an entitled to "cm mu Biuunwierea storx and a jade stone button; the seventh a partridge and an embossed gold button. In the eighth the partridge is reduced to a quail, and the gold button becomes plain, while the ninth-class mandarin has to be content with a sparrow for his emblem, and with silver for his button. BIG PRICES FOR FURNITURE. Talk ot M Private aU of Ktch Men's Effsets. A party of auctioneere en route from Chicago to Buffalo were in the smoking room of a Lake Shore sleeper the other night telling stories. "Selling horses and farm stuff by auction is all right," said one, "but for genuine fun give me the private sole of a rich man's furni ture. When Anthony Drexel died thore were a lot of things which had personal reminiscences connected with them which everyone wanted. It was finally decided to hold a family auction and sell them to the highest bidder. The i first thing I put np was a small clock, I worth, I suppose, about twenty dollars. " '111 give five hundred dollars,' was ! the first bid. It came from a nephew, j " 'Make It one thousand dollara," in-: terjected a younger son. j " 'Fifteen hundred dollars,' replied the nephew. iiqk.n,l,MH.nJMtil..Un.. -f-,'"' """"" dollar clock for money with which he could have bought the finest clock in i Philadelphia, I never knew what the ! history of the clock was, but it must ' hare had a peculiar one. Then I put ! up a big arm-chair. It was the chair ' Drexel hod sat in for over twenty years j and it had a valuable association for . each one of the family. A married 1 XoTTL and the bidding, which opened at one thousand dollars, was spirited and lively. I finally sold the chair to An- thony for six thousand five hundred dollars. The day's sales brought in over twenty-live thousand dollars. " , "I never had anything as good as that," said another auctioneer, "but I sold the Childs effects in the same way. The chief contest was over one of those franvU,kft'hU.el(l'1 W'y""oan on farm KCU,i,v, also est ton finally bought it for eighteen mn i . . hundred and fifty dollars, and it is now , "T T ? , n""" T- , in the Ledger ofCce in Philadelphia." T ' "". " " lc"K'" , r . Collections made on lavnralile lertns. The government of Japan owns and Fir i.mnr,, :,i i ,i f .... operates all the railways in that coun- 'T' "d from this source derives a Hru" ul iw revenoes. I" the hot regions of Africa more than two thousand laborers are en- gaged in minding the tango, rai's-oad, snd in the cold regions of Siberia many thousands of Bussians are employed in the construction of the trans-Siberian railroad. Tlepbusas In Clslrvajrsnoe. M. Trouve, the well-known elect rl-1 cian of Paris, has brought out a tiny ' telephone no larger than a franc piece, and, in conjunction with Rostoff, the ! "wizard," has applied it to clairvoy ) once. The telephones attached to the ' ears of the blindfolded performer are hidden by a wig and connected by fine wires, also invisible, to a transmitter behind the screen. A confederate be hind the screen, who can see and hear all that passes, promjna him by means of Dm Mspbsas, , THE SWARMING OF THE BEfcS. Kaavlsoa Hesalnml HU Empire 1'wautr Days AfMr Lwrlug Ulba. At nine o'clock a mighty shout is hoard without "The emnerorl The emperor!" Tho palace echoes the cry, us across the bridge of the palace mid i.Iout the Seine embankment in tlmmth i i? Tuli- j 'oiies gate, thronged about t , u clam rous crowd, ami nurrouu.U-.i iy hi toldiera and his enterals, l.V.poloon. inters the courtyard. j Paris is wild with joy. Tlio votor-j .as Slug themselves upon tlm empur ir's carriage. -They seise hiii in their! :rmK. 'friMv Ami l,;,n V....1 w.n I n? him on their hiral;lt'r, I'm rash with him through thf doo'v::; i-ven to! ihe foot of the grost stiirwsc. j The palace roths iviih 1 1 : ii mts of nelsons. The owil bo.i. i :!inoui-' wrur, and the thruig ia.-i ; -.lown Sie staircase to greet h'n. N -Utile nay. progress is impnwiU-., . l'"ople ;-o everywhere, nnd riii'..;!, : .uiv'.ing t tho top of the notfle s.:.;;-.--.y of :onor, laughs as ha cheers. i; n-c. j:i1 l'eyrollos sitting Hs"...:io the rent silver statue of pac.1, ,;lmp. :a ou the end of his caeo. 1 h iace il with shouting and wet wv.h lean 'joy- .11 last a passagewny hi broken rougb. the crowd. Philip nnd M. .o Lavalatto bacU thoir way to 'i") me pnsnijc ojon, r.uJ i i, up the !:-ruor.nx Ktuirwuy, aloaj t'.u gallery ' fir.un, through the blue room and i:ta the emperor's study, amid tears .na oiu'urs uiul shouts, and tossing of hats and waving of handkorchiefs, the emperor somes to his own again. Ia iirouty days after louring Elba Ns.po U'on has regained his empire. With but a thousand grenadiers he has con luend thirty millions of people, Tho warming ot the Ueea ends In a carni lof joy. Elbridge 8. BrookB Be Found It Int. The Wife-John, didn't you feel like a fool when ynu proposed to me? The Husband-No; but I was one. -It is easy to learn something about er"rything, but difficult to learn every, 'nytl.ir." -Kmrnntm Tbos. K.;()akes, Ileiirr r, Payne, Henry C House, Receivers. UORTHERN il PACIFIC R. R. R U 5 N Pullman Sleeping Cars Elegant Dining Cars Tourist Sleeping Cars illltniKniinlla iHiloth r'arsn Grnud Furka Criiitlmton Whiuiit.a; Hflena and TTjT?nTTr tv TiriDTC n mKVJUUrl 1 ILK-U, 1 Sp TO S'ilJ!5? '!"."!". riiiiaiiihia .pJ'l'a, Km vrk -t. J ; li ll,.ln and all - - - - t ..in.. t. n,l K,.u.h "'formation, time canU, ni;ij and tickets, call on or write W. C. PETERSON, Agent, LEBANON, - - OREGON. -OR A- CHARLTON, ssL GtnL Pass. Agt, Portland. Oregon, - - - - T J ' M. 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