Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1911 — GATHERED SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHERED SMILES

No Answer to. Thia. Thomas A. Edison was explaining to a reporter the’ part played by M. Branly, the new French academician, in the discovery of wireless telegraphy. The poor reporter, a little bewildered by all the talk about Hertzian waives, transmitters, volts, ohms and so forth, ventured on a question that made Mr. Edison smile. "That question,” he said, “reminds me of the city father who rose and " ‘Mr. Chairman, I’d like to know, for my constituents’ benefit, whether this here proposed hydraulic pump is to be run by steam or electricity.”*