Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1878 — Edison’s Baby. [ARTICLE]

Edison’s Baby.

There are those who intimate that Mr. Edison’s neuralgia did not proceed from a mere cold. Yesterday morning at 9 o’clock, Mrs. Edison presented the professor with a new edition, bound in baby clothes. The baby weighed twelve pounds, and is said to have manifested remarkable indications of precocity Arom the moment of birth. The boy kilked lustily when they essayed to dress lim, evidently preferring the costume' of Eden, aud performed other antics indie-' ative of the intellectual independence which distinguishes his inventive father. However, that affair was managed after a two hours’ struggle, and the little fellow greeted his paternal ancestor in the daintiest muslin, with ruffles and furbelows, such as only a mother’s fancy can imagine. The professor began to mend from that moment. Mrs. Edison suspects that his improvement is due to the excogitation of a plan for introducing a battery into the baby’s lungs, and making him cry by electricity, or for lighting him by some such agency. The professor disclaims any such intention, but inventive minds will always bear a little surveillance. —New York Herald.