yroscope to keep a
platform perfectly horizontal, no matter how rough the sea was. Upon
this platform he was going to mount a telescope to observe an eclipse
off the Gold Coast of Africa. But for some reason it was never
completed.

"Pasteur invited me to come down to the Institute, and I went and had
quite a chat with him. I saw a large number of persons being inoculated,
and also the whole modus operandi, which was very interesting. I saw one
beautiful boy about ten, the son of an English lord. His father was with
him. He had been bitten in the face, and was taking the treatment. I
said to Pasteur, 'Will he live?' 'No,' said he, 'the boy will be dead in
six days. He was bitten too near the top of the spinal column, and came
too late!'"

Edison has no opinion to offer as an expert on art, but has his own
standard of taste: "Of course I visited the Louvre and saw the Old
Masters, which I could not enjoy. And I attended the Luxembourg, with
modern masters, which I enjoyed greatly. To my mind, the Old Masters
are not art, and I suspect that many others are of the same opinion;
and that their value is in their scarcity and in the variety of men with
lots of money." Somewhat akin to this is a shrewd comment on one feature
of the Exposition: "I spent several days in the Exposition at Paris. I
remember going to the exhibit of the Kimberley diamond mines, and they
kindly permitted me to take diamonds from some of the blue earth which
they were washing by machinery to exhibit the mine operations. I found
several beautiful diamonds, but they seemed a little light weight to me
when I was picking them out. They were diamonds for exhibition purposes
--probably glass."

This did not altogether complete the European trip of 1889, for Edison
wished to see Helmholtz. "After leaving Paris we went to Berlin. The
French papers then came out and attacked me because I went to Germany;
and said I was now going over to the enemy. I visited all the things of
interest in Berlin; and then on my way home I went with Helmholtz
and Siemens in a private compartment to the meeting of the German
Association of Science at Heidelberg, and spent two days there. When
I started from Berlin on the trip, I began to tell American stories.
Siemens was very fond of these stories and would laugh immensely at
them, and could see the points and the humor, by his imagination; but
Helmholtz could not see one of them. Siemens would quickly, in
German, explain the