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and seemed to be aware of it."  In the same way he did up all our witnesses. referring sneeringly to them and I was prepared to be treated in the same way but when he came to my testimony he made several very complimentary remarks called me "an honest, straightforward witness and a scientist of undoubted reputation" and similar things he only said against me that even I may be mistaken in some particulars which I called impossible, that things which had been called impossible in the past had more than once proved possible with the advance of knowledge.
Went to Niagara Falls where I
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took supper with Mr. Zabriskie then train to Buffalo then sleeper to New York(8:30 P.M.)
ticket 10.00 sleeper 2.00
April 8. I am glad this confounded thing is all over.  What a loss of time and money for everybody connected with the long trial.
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Breakfast 0.80.  arrived home at 12. M. Charge. 1/2 day
Took a nap. spent remainder of day writing letters.
April 9.  Busy all morning in garden directing replanting of trees.  Evening dinner at Astor Hotel in honor of Dr. H.W. Wiley.  About 200 present a very successful event.  Schefelen. toastmaster. speaker. C.J. Cox, Bogert, W.C. Page, Marmiere
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