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Willlamstown, Mass.-Harry Augustus Garfield of the class of
'85, son of President James A. Garfield, was ELAINE GOODALE
EASTMAN They say the shyest woman in America is Mrs. Elaine Goodale Eastman, the poet, who long worked for the Indians in the West, and then interested gossips very much by marrying one of them--a Dartmouth graduate, however. Her intimate friends it is who declare her shy; to the stranger it simply seems that she is as distant and untalkative as the statue of Liberty in the bay. She is statuesque in more ways than one, for her features are classic in cut. She likes Indians, Indians in general, and one of her intimates declares it is because it loosens her tongue and puts her at ease to encounter a greater taciturnity than her own. Her very beautiful five-years-old daughter, by the way, shows nothign of the inexpressiveness to which she is entitled by her father's race and her mother's idiosyncrasy, but is very bright and constant chatterbox. Source: Springfield Republican - May 28, 1897 Republican Compiler ( Gettysburg , Pennsylvania ), July 11, 1827 Stockbridge, Mass. , June 14. Rail Road Among the useful improvements in the mechanic arts, the one we are about to mention, invented by our respected townsman Mr. Richard P. Morgan, stands preeminent. This invention is an improved Railway Carriage, which so reduces friction, that one horse, may draw, with perfect ease up a level road fifty tons. Mr. M. has proved this fact both upon a small model and upon a wagon, and if any advantage was had, it was in favor of the latter. We believe in all the experiments made by Mr. Tredgold, with the pulley and weight, he never succeeded in moving more than 150 lbs. with one pound. One pound attached to this carriage and suspended over a pulley, moved quickly seven hundred pounds! It will be exhibited in Boston . Friction is obviated at the axels by means of four additional wheels, which operate as rollers on the ground axle – the friction wheels move one round only, in going a quarter of a mile. We have seen this invention in operation, and fully believe that it will place rail roads on a ground where Canals can no longer come in competition with them. We conceive this to be one of the most important improvements ever invented, and, we think it is not too much to say, will eventually supply the place of steam, on level roads, in all countries; as the expense of this Railway Carriage is comparatively very small. (contributed by N. Piper)
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