Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — Edison's Speech. [ARTICLE]

Edison's Speech.

Mr. Edison has only once tried to make a speech. It was before a girls’ seminary, where he had agreed to lec-t-ure on electricity. He had engaged a friend naim-d Adams to operate the apparatus wlille he talked; bjut when the “Wizard” arose before his audience, he felt so dazed that he simply said; “laidles, Mr. Adams will now address you on electricity, and I will demonstrate what he has to say with the apparatus." "* A woman should at least lie grateful for one thing: she is never asked to be a pallbearer.