Page 127 PATENTS APPLIED FOR AND PATENTS GRANTED

A.D. 1886 October 26th. No.4784 
SUTTON , Henry, of 31 sturt street, Ballarat, in the colony of Victoria, music seller, for
"Improvements in electric circuits for telephonic purposes"
Designed to enable the usual battery attached to the transmitter to be dispensed with, and in place thereof the necessary electric current is derived from a circuit composed of a gas main or service pipe and a water main or service pipe, such circuit being connected with a telephonic transmitter known as a battery transmitter, or the circuit may be formed of either the gas or water main when connected with an earth plate capable of conducting electricity   (drawings none) (Lapsed)

This is just one of Henry Sutton's patents and it is of local rumour that Alexander Graeme Bell visited Ballarat and conversed with Henry Sutton before the advent of the telephone in America, as we know it.

There is also evidence that an attempt was made to transmit the Melbourne Cup to Ballarat in a graphic form, well before the term television and Logie Baird was even considered.

Page 159 PATENTS APPLIED FOR AND PATENTS GRANTED

A.D 1887, October 20th. No. 5389
SUTTON, Henry, of Ballarat, in the colony of Victoria, music seller, for
"An improved process of converting a photographic image on a gelatine surface into a relief or intaglio printing surface."
If the image be a negative, the printing surface produced will be an "intaglo", if a positive, the printing surface will be a "relief".
The feature of the invention consists in this, viz, that in a gelatine plate, swollen by immersion in water, and submitted to a gradually increasing temperature till the gelatine begins to melt, the parts bearing no image melt and are drawn by capillary attraction under the unmelted portions so as to reproduce the photograph with all its light and shade   (drawings, none) (Granted)

Note: Henry Sutton was a prolific Ballarat inventor and a member of the Ballarat Mechanics' Institute.

We may also claim, from the above, that Henry Sutton is the father of photo-lithography.

Page 147  GOOD WOMAN'S SOUP
INGREDIENTS- 1 quart of white stock, 1 white-heart lettuce, 1 thick slice of cucumber (the length of which must equeal the breadth, so that a square block may be cut), a little tarragon and chervil (these may be omitted when not procurable) , 1 oz. of butter or good dripping, the yolk of 2 eggs, one quarter of a pint of cream or milk, salt and pepper.
METHOD- Wash and shred the lettuce finely, cut the block of cucumber lengthwise into thin slices, and the slices into match-like strips. Melt the butter or dripping, and fry the vegetables for about 5 or 6 minutes, then add the stock, salt and pepper, and boil slowly until the lettuce is tender (10 to 15 minutes). Beat the yolks of the eggs, add them to the cream or milk. Let the soup cool slightly, then pour in the yolks and cream, and stir until the soup thickens, but it MUST NOT BOIL or the eggs will curdle.
time- About 40 minutes. Sufficient for 4 persons.

Or perhaps you might like to try The Cow-Heel Soup (1 cow heel), or Cucumber Soup (with mulligatawny paste), or Eel Soup (1 pound of eels), or Giblet Soup (the giblets of a goose, turkey, ducks, or chickens)
There are other Mrs. Beeton's books in the collection, and also a biography, book no.1313 'Mrs. Beeton and her husband by her grand niece' by Nancy Spain, published 1857

Foreward
By Dr. Earle Page, of Grafton, Member for Cowper in the Federal House of Representitives.
"The claim now being made by Northern New South Wales to be given control of its own affairs is one that has been made by every people in history which has felt within itself capacity to self-government, and which believed itself capable of enhanced progress under sympathetic, intellegent, autonomous administration...."

The text of the booklet concludes on page 54
"Even if the Federal Convention in 1921 fails to bring the desired relief there is every probability that a continuance of a strong Northern movement, reinforced by similar movements in other states, will assure further Federal Conventions, the outcome of which must sooner or later be a drastic revision of the present unsatisfactory system of Federal and State Government. "

The above is from a booklet produced by the Daily Observer newspaper of Tamworth. Folded inside this copy of the booklet are eight pages of unsigned handwritten notes, possibly the text of a speech.

Extracts from page 68...
"(Seekamp) was the frail but determined little fellow whom Lola had baited. Told she had threatened to thrash him with her new whip, Seekamp picked up his own whip and strode into the bar of the United States Hotel. As the Ballarat Star then reported:
Madame lola entered from a side door with a short light whip in her hand, and walking quickly up to Mr. Seekamp, who it seems was not altogether unprepared for something of the sort, as soon as he recovered himself from the rapidity of the attack, used his riding whip in return, and for a short time the combat raged with more than Trojan fury......"

This is but a taste of the story of Lola Montes, who was an entertainer and 'woman of the world' in her own right, and Henry Seekamp, who, in Ballarat, less than two years before had written:-
"The Australian flag shall triumphantly wave in the sunshine of its own blue and peerless sky over thousands of Australia's adopted sons... Go forth indomitable people! gain your rights, and may the God of creation smile down propitiously upon your glorious cause" 
Inspired by such thoughts as these, the miners organised the only armed rebellion in Australia's history, the Eureka Stockade... (page 68)

We have moved to our new dental parlors
Three doors below City Hall
Note: For obvious reasons I wish to impress upon the public of Ballarat and surrounding District that my only address in this city is 213 Sturt Street, three doors below City Hall, on the ground floor.
Our recent guarantee of 2000 pounds should be sufficient proof that the quality and perfect fitting of our 3 pound 5 shillings sets of teeth are of the highest order procurable in any part of the world.
Our extractions are always absolutely painless.
Remember only one
W.E.THOMAS
Modern American Dentist.

Extract (page 1)
'Painted on the canvas in primitive colours was a life-sized portrait of The Elephant Man. This very crude production depicted a frightful creature that could only be possible in a nightmare. It was the figure of a man with the characteristics of an elephant.(November 1884)'

(Page 4) 'From the brow there projected a huge bony mass like a loaf, while from the back of the head hung a bag of spongy, fungous looking skin, the surface of which was comparable to brown cauliflower...the osseous growth on the forehead almost occluded one eye. The circumference of the head was no less than that of a man's waist. From the upper jaw there projected another mass of bone.....'

Treves arranges pleas for public funds for support to The Times and (page 13) 'enough money was forthcoming to maintain Merrick for life without any charge upon the hospital funds.'

(page 23) 'The height of his social development was reached on an eventful day when Queen Alexandra - then Princess of Wales- came to the hospital to pay him a special visit.'

The Elephant Man died in bed in April 1890.

Treves provides a more detailed account of the medical condition with papers in the British Medical Journal, Dec. 1886 and April 1890.

Extract(page 3) 'The two most celebrated charts hitherto published of the southernmost part of South America , are those of Dr.Halley, in his general chart of the magnetic variation, and of Frezier in his voyage to the South Seas. But besides these, there is a chart of the Streights of Magellan, and of some parts of the adjacent coast, by Sir John Narborough abovementioned, which is doubtless infinitely exacter in that part than Frezier, and in some respects superior to Halley, particularly in what relates to the longitudes of the different parts of those streights.'

As subsequent events, outlined below, show; George Anson could well have done with an accurate chart.

Book No.
Longitude
Longitude
Author Dava Sobel
Published London:Fourth Estate 1995