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Show Edl lion's Democratic Ways. Edison is a count, a millionaire and the most famous living inventor. His present wealth, which amounts to many millions, is as nothing compared to what it will be in the next few years; but he still works away in his laboratory, and comes forward to greet you in just such a suit of clothes as he wore twenty years ago. As compared with Edison's dingy little shop of twenty years ago, out at Menlo park, in which he used to eat Ms bread and cheese seated on an old packing box, talking over the work in hand with bis two or three workmen, the present surroundings are fabulously luxurious. Everything shows unbounded means, which may bo the case when we remember re-member that his famous laboratory costs $200,000 a year to maintain. But the master mind is still the same. When he works it means work for his men. In the old days at Menlo park it was no uncommon un-common thing for him to remain at the bench for forty-eight hours at a stretch, sending one of the boys for crackers and cheese when he felt hungry, and not giving np until his assistants had actually fell asleep standing np. Today he is just as interested. Pittsburg Dispatch. |