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The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. It has handled thousands
of applications for inventions, but it would
like to handle thousands more. There is plenty
of inventive tallent at large in this country
needing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement the Press
Claims Company propose to give.
NOT SO HAKD AS IT
A patent strikes Dwsi people as an appalling
ly formidable thing. The idea is that an in
ventor muBt be a natural genius, like Edison or
Bell; that he must devote years to delving in
complicated mechanical problems and that he
must spend a fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get a new device to a patentable
degree of perfection. This delusion the com
pany desires to dispel. It desires to get into
the head of the public a clear comprehension
of the fact that it is not the great, complex, and
expensive inventions that bring the best returns
to their authors, but the little, simple, and
cheap ones the things that seem so absurdly
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed of -bringing them to the
attention of the Patent Ofllce.
Edison says that the profits he has received
trom the patents on all his marvelous inven
tions have not been sufficient to pay tne cost
of his experiments. But the man who con
ceived the idea of fastening a bit of rubber
cord to a child's ball, so that it would come
back to the hand when thrown, made a fortune
out of his scheme. The modem sewing-machine
is a miracle of ingenuity the product
a hundred and fifty years, but the whole bril
liant result rests upon the simple device of
putting the eye of the needle at the point in
stead of at the other end.
of the toll of hundreds of busy brains through
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Comparatively few people regard themselves
as inventors, but almost every body has been
struck, atone time or another, with ideas that
seem calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually such ideas are dis
missed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company make its car
windows so that they can be slid up and down
without breaking the passengers' back?" ex
claims the traveler. "If I were running the
road I would make them in such a way."
"What was the man who made the saucepan
thinking of?" grumbles the cook. "He never
had to work over a stove, or he would have
known how it ought to have been fixed."
"Hang such a collar button !' gfowla aman
who is late for breakfast. "If I were in the
business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip
out, or break off, or gouge out the back of my
neck
And the various sufferers forgot about their
grievances and began to think of something
else. If they would set down the next con
venient opportunity, put their ideas about car
windows, saucepans and collar buttons luto
practical shape, and then apply for patents
they might find themselves as independently
wealthy as the man who invented the iron
umbrella ring, or the one who patented
he fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce the people to keep track of their
bright ideas and see what there in them, the
Press Claims Company has resolved to offer a
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the simplest and. most promising
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In cash, in addition to refunding
the fees for securing: a patent
It will also advertise the inven
tion free of charge
This offer is subject to the following condi
tions; Every competitor Jmust obtain a patent for
his invention through the company. He must
first apply for a preliminary search, the cost of
which will be five dollars. Should this
seach show his invention to be unpatentable,
he can withdraw without further expense.
Otherwise he will be expected to complete his
application and take out a patent in the regu
lar way. The total expense, including the
Government and Bureau fees, will be seventy
dollars. For this, whether he secures a prize
or not, the inventor will have a patent that
ought to be a valuable property to him. The
prize will be awarded by a jury consisting of
three reputable patent attorneys of Washlhg
ton. Intended competitors should fill out the
following blank, and forward it with their
application;
"I submit the within described invention in
competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar
Prize offered by the Press Claims Company."
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETION.
This is a competition of rather an unusal na
ture. It is common to offer prizes for the best
story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the
competitors risking the loss of their labor and
the successful one merely selling his for the
amoun of the prize. But the PresB Claims
Company's offer is something entirely differ
ent. Each person is asked merely to help him
self, andthe one who helps him self to the
best advantage is to be rewarded by doing it.
The prize is ouly a stimulus to do something
that would be well worth doing without it.
The architect whose competitive plan for a
club house on a certain corner Is not Accept
ed has spent his labor on something of very
lttle use to lilra. But the person who paten U a
simple and useful device in the Press Claims
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fail to secure a prize. He has a substantial
result to show for hlg work one that wil
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simple to be worth patenting. The simplerths
better. The person who best succeeds in
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The responsibility of this comnanv rnnv feA
judged from the fact that its stock is held bv
about three hundred of the leading newspapers
of the United States.
Address the Press Claims Company, Johm
Wodderbum, managing attorney, CIS F street
k. W., Washington, l. C.
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We take this opportunity of informing
our subscribers tbat the new commis
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He is au old soldier, and we belitir
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ceive justice at bis bauds. We do not
anticipate tbat there will be any radioal
changes in the administration of pension
alTuirs under the new regime.
We would advise, however, tbat U. fl.
soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take
steps to make application at onoe, if
they have not already done so, in order
to secure the benefit of the early filing
of their claims in case there Bbould bp
any future pension legislation. Snob
legislation is seldom retroactive. There
fore it is of great importance tbat ap
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If the U. S. soldiers, sailors, or their
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The paper this month contains many
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is introduced by a paper on the Friends
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Time by the Sturn.
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tated, can be found in the northern
skies on every cloudless night. As is
generally known, tint group of fixed
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parent revolution around the north star
in every twenty-four hours, with the
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given hour as, owing to the constant
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relation to one's point of observation
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observations taken during a year and
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Deatu J Welcome.
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from a friend who had just returned
from a visit to Molokai. He suddenly
heard the joyous strains of a band
strike up in the leper settlement.
'What is it for?' he asked. The answer
was: 'Two lepers have just died in the
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BIG TREES IN FORMOSA.
They Kival the Mammoth Onei of the
Kedwood Forests In California.
In a Shanghai native newspaper are
the details of the remarkable discovery
in the southern part of the island of
Formosa of trees that rival in size and
beauty the giant redwood trees of Cali
fornia. Ten Chinese merchants ol
Foochow organized the exploring ex
pedition. The vast forests there had
never been penetrated by traders, but
it was known that the country was
broken by high and rugged mountains
that had very heavy timber. The ex
pedition started from the Chinese port
of Samalan. After seven days of hard
travel it reached the liualin river. It
found no roads, not even a trail, and in
many cases the members journeyed for
hours along the tracks of wild beasts
through heavy timber. Many signs of
natives were seen, but the savages were
too timid to show.themselves. Whether
the party succeeded in establishing
barter with them is not recorded. In
sne of the great forests treef; of enor
mous size and height were found. Ten
men, joining their outstretched arms,
were unable to clasp the trunk near
the ground. They estimated the height
at two hundred or mure feet. Another
peculiar tree bore red and white
flowers as large as nn ordinary sieve.
The forest life, from tho descriptions of
the Chinese, resembles that of the Am
azon.
One Man's Htntist.ics.
A methodical man died in Berlin a
few days ago aged 73. At the age of
18 he began keeping a record which he
continued for 52 years, and then
closed with the words: Omnia tentavi,
multa perspexi, nihil perfeci. This
book showed that in 52 years he had
smoked 628,715 cigars, of which he had
received 43,002 as presents, while for
the remaining 585,021 he had paid about
till, 483. During the same period he had
had 85 pairs of trousers made, 74
coats and waistcoats and 62 pairs of
boots, lie wore out 298 shirts and
"fronts" and 326 collars. In tram fares
he spent not far from J438. In fifteen
years, according to his bookkeeping, he
had drunk 28,786 glasses of Bavarian
beer, of which, however, 21,201 were
only small ones. For this beer and
30,081 glasses of cognac and spirits ho
spent $5,350. He gave tips amounting
to ?1,305.
A PIG-STICKING ADVENTURE.
Careers of Heven lloars Ended by .ucky
Sportsmen.
A correspondent of the Calcutta
Englishman, writing from Mozufferpur,
Tirhut, gives a description of a day'B
pig-stieking. The fourth boar proved a
tough customer. This animal, says the
writer, was a typical wild boar, sulky
and savage to a degree, breaking back
ward and backward again whenever the
elephants reached him, charging with
real vicious intent whenever anyone
neared him and when forced out of
cover using his pace to get back again,
lie totally refused to go away clear, so
t was determined to kill him in the
ass. Mr. 1J promptly got a spear
o him, which did not improve his
vicious disposition, and he charged in
savagely, only to be struck again. Upon
this he lay down and let himself be
prodded twice, making us believe that
he was dead. Hut suddenly, without
warning, he charged out and cut II.
C.'s horse in both hocks, then with a
spear still in him charged between two
elephants. Then, as Rider Haggard
would say, a strange thing happened;
for one of tho elephants, seeing the
spear sticking in the pig, pulled it out
with his trunk and threw it high over
the mahout's head. When the spear
had thus been extracted the pig evi
dently lost blood, for he lay down and
let himself be slain peacefully. After
this surly fellow's death the elephants
were taken to the smaller grass across
the "bandh." Seven lighting
boars, averaging collectively over thirty
inches each, and four horses cut wat
good enough fur one morning, and it
was a batch of sati.slied sportsmen who
sat down to Mrs I t.'s ample lunch at the
Uusrama bungalow.
Oyster Ilaaket Hlgns.
When a sailing master wishes to buy
oysters in the ports of the Chesapeake
he runs up to the masthead an oyster
basket and presently has plenty offered
at the vessel's side. Down at Chinco
teague island the basket at the mast.
head is sometimes accompanied by a
flag of concentric squares in different
colors. During the closed season for
oysters the Hag and basket indicate
that the master wishes to buy clams.
The Chincoteague clam digger worke
during the greater part of the year
and a very spry man in a spot where
clams are thick can tread out a great
many hundred in a day. Claras fetch
from one dollar to one dollar and fifty
cents per thousand at Chincoteague,
which seemB a great deal for the money
when one thinks of clam chowder at a
fashionable restaurant.
Great Marrarltv.
A rich man recently died and left his
money to three people, with a proviso
in the will that each of them should put
a hundred pounds in the coffin of the
deceased, to bo buried with him. The
legatees grumbled, but could not, of
course, decline to fill the condition.
Two of them having deposited a hun'
dred pounds each in gold iu the coffin,
the third wrote a check for three hun'
dred pounds and calmly took posses,
slou of the change.
Baiting
Powder
THE CHOLERA YEAR.
A Citizen's KemlnlBcenees of tha
Scourge Jn 1832.
jee a learned health officer of Co
.bus, O., is taking precautions
ainst cholera which he says is bound
to visit America this year," said an old
New Yorker the other day.
"Well, it's raging in Russia and has
taken hold in Germany and France, and
I shouldn't wonder if the grinning spec
ter were to take passage on some ship
and land on Ellis island. God forbid!
"I was here in July, 1832, just sixty
years ago to the month. We hadn't
known cholera before that and we have
not been troubled with it since; but you
remember some layman said it always
followed in the wake of the grip and
everybody laughed at him. Hasn't it
come true?
"I remember that in July, 1832, the
disease was raging here so that every
body was in a panic. The death rate
was 150 a day right straight along. The
disease came from Baltimore, being
brought to that port on one of the
famous clipper vessels from the Darden
elles. Thousands of physicians came
from all parts of the country to study
the disease. It was not understood well
then, but to-day, with our increased
cleanliness and improved drainage, we
would be better able to cope with it.
"In the United States senate nenry
Clay introduced a resolution praying the
Almighty to avert the terrible Asiatic
scourge, and appointing a day of gen
eral humiliation."
The old man filled his pipe and
puffed thoughtfully.
"Did you lose any relatives?' asked
the reporter.
"Father, two brothers and a sister,"
was the reply.
TOOK ONE WITH HIM.
How a Baltlmorean Treated a Tramp la
Hplte of Himself.
A well-known Baltlmorean was stand
ing at the corner of Charles and Lexing
ton the other day, says the Baltimore
Herald, when he was accosted by a
seedy looking individual, who said:
"May I have a few words with you,
sir?"
"You may, but if you want anything
I have no money to give you.."
"I don't want any money; I'm a
mechanic, but have been out of work
for over nine weeks and my wife and
children are suffering. I want you to
give me an order on some grocer for a
pound of meat and a loaf of- bread."
"If that's the case," said the gentle
man, "here's a quarter."
The stranger accepted the coin with
thanks and moved rapidly down Lex
ington street. Having nothing to do,
the donor thought he would follow his
coin and see what 'became of it. The
stranger led the way to a saloon on
Calvert street and entered without re
alizing that he was shadowed. He was
about to swallow a glass of whisky,
when his benefactor remarked: a
"I'll drink with you."
The look of amazement on that bum
mer's face was a caution, but he quick
ly recovered and together they finished
the quarter over the bar.
HE CRIED "RATS."
Aud Thereby Ite''ume the Originator of a
Most Popular Slurring Phrase.
Where do slang phrases originate?
Thousands of people habitually indulge
in the use of slang without a thoughtor
a care as to tho source from which the
vulgar phrase came, and often without
the slightest idea of its original mean
ing. Doubtless many of thom are coined
by minstrels and burlesque actors, but
often some simple incident is responsi
ble for expressions which sweep over
the country and have their use in the
mouths of gamin and the careless of
speech, until superseded by some word
equally offensive.
A few years ago, says the Boston
Globe, a celebrated polo team was play
ing a match game in one of our Massa
chusetts cities with a team from a
neighboring city. Tho visiting team,
called the Star, wore its name conspicu
ously embroidered on the breast of the
shirt.
As the game progressed it became evi
dont to the spectators that the referee,
who was In sympathy with the visiting
team, was unfair in his decisions. This
caused great ill-feeling, especially as tho
members of the team were rough and
rowdyish in their behavior. Suddenly,
as their conduct became more exasper
ating, some one in the audience shout
ed: "Rats!" Tho cry was instantly
taken up, and throughout the remainder
of the game the audience continued to
apply it to the turbulent players.
Finally one of thein, unable to endure
the slurring appellation any longer,
went to tho man who had originated the
cry, and said:
"Why do you call us rats?"
"You ought not to lake any exception
to the namo," replied the gentleman ad
dressed; "you behave worse than rats,
and besides you wear the word on your
breasts. Spell the name of your team
backwards," Sure enough. Star spelt
backwards could make no other word
but rats.
A large number of people from other
States were in the rink at the time,
including several visiting teams, and
thenceforth the word "rats" was taken
up as an expression of contempt. .
If you want to bny groceries, and
bread staff obenp, go to the Enterprise.
Grooery. Kirk & Bahl, proprietors.
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