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Page 26 - The first station, called Utica, was a small one where I generally sold two papers. I saw a crowd ahead on the platform, and thought it some excursion, but the moment I landed there was a rush for me. Then I realized that the telegraph was a great invention. I sold thirty-five papers there.
Page 123 - Family Record"— a registry of sayings, reminiscences, etc., by members of a family in their own voices, and of the last words of dying persons. 6. Music-boxes and toys. 7. Clocks that should announce in articulate speech the time for going home, going to meals, etc. 8. The preservation of languages by exact reproduction of the manner of pronouncing. 9. Educational purposes; such as preserving the explanations made by a teacher, so that the pupil can refer to them at any moment, and spelling or...
Page 30 - Cassius M. Clay will enter the army on his return home. The thousandth birthday of the Empire of Russia will be celebrated at Novgorod in august. "Let me collect myself," as the man said when he was blown up by a powder mill.
Page 115 - Thomas Alva Edison: a much too ingenious invention as it proved, being nothing less than a telephone of such stentorian efficiency that it bellowed your most private communications all over the house instead of whispering them with some sort of discretion.
Page 27 - The next station was Mount Clemens, now a watering place but then a town of about one thousand. I usually sold six to eight papers there. I decided that if I found a large crowd there I would correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers by raising the price from five cents to ten. The crowd was there, and I raised the price. At the various towns there were crowds. "It had been my practice at Port Huron to jump from the train at a point about one-fourth...
Page 214 - I never felt better in my life than during the five years I worked here. Hard work, nothing to divert my thought, clear air and simple food made my life very pleasant. We learned a great deal. It will be of benefit to some one some time.
Page 27 - It had been my practice at Port Huron to jump from the train at a point about one-fourth of a mile from the station, where the train generally slackened speed. I had drawn several loads of sand to this point to jump on, and had become quite expert. When I approached the outskirts of the town I was met by a large crowd. I then yelled: "Twenty-five cents apiece, gentlemen! I haven't enough to go around!' I sold all out, and made what to me then was an immense sum of money.
Page 27 - At the various towns there were crowds. "It had been my practice at Port Huron to jump from the train at a point about one-fourth of a mile from the station, where the train generally slackened speed. I had drawn several loads of sand to this point to jump on, and had become quite expert.
Page 122 - Letter- writing and all kinds of dictation without the aid of a stenographer. "2. Phonographic books which will speak to blind people without effort on their part.
Page 129 - About 1 1 o'clock at night word was received from President Hayes that he would be very much pleased if I would come up to the White House. I was taken there, and found Mr. Hayes and several others waiting. Among them I remember Carl Schurz, who was playing the piano when I entered the room. The exhibition continued till about 12.30 AM, when Mrs. Hayes and several other ladies, who had been induced to get up and dress, appeared. I left at 3.30 A,M, "For a long time some people thought there was trickery.