Show A GENIUS BUT POOR according to the chicago times herald prof elisha gray the inventor of the telephone Is spending the evening of his life in poverty he 4 now sixty three years 0 of f age and living in a humble bumb ae ho house use in the very shadow of the palaces of merv men ahm his genius made millionaires etke TB story is pathetic professor gray when he had aar considerable amount of money w ways thought it was enough to lask him his lifetime he spent a year w making aking m one improvement on the telephone it was bought up on sight eight it 16 r he thought this was waa denoux enough so he sent his family to europe and they spent money for pictures mhd statuary it was soon gone and they came back home to live in extreme want the professor then undertook to send autographic messages by tele telegraph grapH ix 1016 he borrowed all the money he could get from his friends and filled tethi barn full of wires and machinery machiner 11 ha became so absorbed in his idea that he 46 r his home station in ath ame cart can from chicago his mind was wag in a beir fetu letual a I 1 dream am now this genius genitis tt 20 said to have lost all his buoyancy he has closed his laboratory and spent the last year working on a bleyhl lamp when it was finished lie he ot get but little for it his financial hard luck had about crushed him |