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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 SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an appalling
ly formidable thing. The idea is that an in
ventor must 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 desire to dispel. It desires to Ret into
the head of the. uMic a clear comprehension
of the fact that it Is not the great, complex, and
expensive inventions thatbriiiK the best returns
to their authors, but the little, simple, and
Cheap ones the things that seem po absurdly
trivial that the averaire citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the
attention of the Patent Ohiee.
Edison says that the profits be has received
trom the patents nu ail his marvelous Inven
tions ave not been sufficient to pay tne cost
of his experiments. But ihe man who con
ceived the Idea of fastening a bit of rubber
cord to a child's ball, so lli.it it would come
back to the hand when thrown, made a fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sewing-ma
chine is a miracle of ingenuity the product
a hundred and fifty years, but the whole bril-
liaut 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 toil of hundreds of busy brains through
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MONT
VALUABLE.
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struck, atone time or another, with Ideas that
seem calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually Buch 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."
"Haug such a collar button 1'' growls a man
who is latefor 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, Baucepana and collar buttons Into
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 puzz le.
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It will also advertise the Inven
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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 jnry consisting of
three reputable patent attorneys of Washing
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following blank, and forward it with their
application:
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The architect whose competitive plan fur a
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He is an old soldier, and we believe
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strength, but not enough to stake my
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of steel into plates. For this a special
machine is had, which has an immense
steel block or table on which to lay the
bars, and a great arm sledge, which
weighs several tons and comes down
with crushing velocity. It is perfectly
regulated by machinery, however, and
the man at the throttle can stop it with
ease at any given distance from the
block, providing he has sufficient stead
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"Tne day I went through the manager
accompanied us and requested the man
at the check-valve to show us how sure
and certain was the machinery. With
out reply the mechanic whistled to a
lad working some thirty feet away.
The boy dropped what he was doing
and came running. ' Jump up," said
tne first, and muttered something about
showing us the machine. Without re
ply the lad leaped to the steel table be
neath the great iron blocks.
'We were horrified, but the work was
too quickly done to permit objection.
The moment the lad settled down the
engineer grasped the lever and the
great sledge with lightning rapidity
flew up and down again toward the
block. It was all done by the steady
fingers at the valve, and it stopped a
few inches above the lad's head, who
smilingly climbed down and started
away.
"We raised a purse to present the
twain with, which was at first refused.
The manager flually consented to order
them to take the money, which they did.
I never expect to witness such another
exhibition of confidence and nerve."
FALLS OF MONTMORENCI.
They will lie Ruined to Supply Eleolrlo
Power.
The beauty is likely soon to depart
from the far-famed falls of Montmo
renci, so familiar to all American tour
ists to Quebec. The entire waterfall
and all the surrounding property have
just passed into the hands of the Que
bec Electric Light company, the price
paid being two hundred and thirty
thousand dollars, says tho New York
Sun. Already the company has been
utilising a portion of the water power
from the river above the cataract as
motive power for their dynamos, which,
situated in a factory near the foot of
the falls, furnish all the lights for the
illumination of the streets of Quebec.
Now thoy are likely to draw off so
largely increased an amount of water
for the proposed extension of their op
erations that there will be little or
none left, particularly in the dry sea
son, to come over the precipice.
It is proposed to manufacture elec
trical motive power for all the factories
and other industrial houses in Quebec,
as well as storage light for all the pas
senger cars on the Canadian Pacific rail
way. New iron supply pipes, twelve
hundred feet long and six feet in di
ameter, are being constructed to tap
the river above the falls, and some of
the water so conducted will be used
twice over, one of the new factories be
ing erected half-way up the cliff ad
joining the cataract A lake twenty
miles up the river will probably be
dammed in order to insure a supply of
water in dry seasons. In the purchase
of this property is included that of the
magnificent manor house overlooking
tbe falls which was the summer resi
dence of Queen Victoria's father, the
late duke of Kent, when commander of
the forces in Canada in the commence
ment of the present century. Here it
was that the beautiful and accomplished
Mme. de St. Laurent presided over the
household establishment and petit
Boupers of his royal highness, whom the
French-Canadian beauty accompanied
to England, retiring to a convent after
the duke's marriage to the mother of
the queen.
MEN OF MUSICAL MINDS.
Dvorak, the composer, goes to bed
every night before nine o'clock, isup by
4:!i0 and works the next three hours.
A I'arkkrhrijrg (Va.) musician has
just perfected and patented a novel
musical instrument, which he calls a
"key zither." It is simply a zither
played with keys, but it is said to be a
revelation in the way of a musical in
strument. Verdi, who Sb as fond of work as he
was in his young days, is busy writing
an opera, the theme of which he will
not tell until the score is further ad'
vanced. "It is impossible for me to re
main idle," he says. "I am alive and
well; why should I not begin another
woi!'?"
Besides Signor Bolto and M. Saint
Saens several other eminent European
composers are to receive the degree
".Mus. Doc." from the Cambridge u
versity next June. Herr Brahms and
Sig. Verdi have been obliged to decline
the honor, the former having such en
gagements and the latter being so
hampered by the infirmities of age as to
be unable to attend in person.
LY PURE
FOR STAMP COLLECTORS.
Mr. Wanamaker Telia How to
Obtain Columbian Souvenirs.
Those Who Cannot Afford to Uoy six
Stamps of Illffher Denomination
May Obtain Them from
Hank Officials.
How can tbe stamp-collecting girls
and boys of this country procure full sets
of the new Columbian postage stamps
for their albums?" repeated Postmaster
General Wanamaker, thoughtfully,
whe j a question on this point was put
to him the other day by a New York
Press reporter.
"Let me see," said he. "Of course
they can always be procured at any
post office. But obviously there are
few of our young collectors who can af
ford to buy them in that fashion, inas
much as an entire series would cost six
teen dollars and twenty-six cents. For
most of them the only practical method
will be to obtain the stamps already
canceled. That will be easy enough as
far as the lower denominations are con
cerned, but not so with the higher de
nominations." "But on what mail matter will those
high-cost stamps be used?" I asked.
"The high-priced Columbus stamps,"
said the postmaster general, "those
which represent one, two, three, four
and five dollars each, will be largely in
demand by bankers and brokers for
mailing bonds and other securities to
Europe. Such valuables go in sealed
packages at regular foreign letter rates,
which are five cents a half ounce. At
that rate a very moderate-sized bundle
will cost as much as five dollars for
postage across the ocean. In this man
ner a large part of the stamps of big
denominations will go abroad. Amer
ican boys and girls will not get those
for their albums. However, a great
many of these high cost stamps will
be used for mailing large packages at
letter Tates from place to place in this
country. People often send big parcels
containing valuable things in that way
at two cents an ottnee, sealed and regis
tered. I dare say you know that you
can transmit through the post anything
you like no matter how bulky and
heavy it is so long as you pay letter
rates on it, though you cannot forward
any package exceeding four pounds at
the ordinary charges for merchandise.
Young collectors must rely on getting
the canceled stamps from parcels for
warded in this manner at letter rates.
"That does not solve the puzzle, I
know," Mr. Wanamaker continued. "Of
course, big packages sent at two conta
an ounce, sealed and registered because
their contents are valuable, do not
roach every merchant or professional
man. The bankers are most likely to
get them, and I would recommend the
boys and girls who are anxious to pro
cure the high-priced Columbus stamps
to make friends with people at the
banks with the view to securing posses
sion of such coveted treasures. A good
natured cashier or teller would be very
apt to find an opportunity to detach a
few of the canceled stamps from bun
dles of securities once in awhile. It is
well worth trying, because these curiosi
ties arc likely to go up considerably In
value on account of the difficulty in ob
taining them. I suppose that dealers
in stamps will not Bell them cheap."
VOLCANIC DUST.
A Londoner Who Collects and Sella tlie
Product of, iluriiliiK Mountains.
In all the large centers of the world
there are a few dealerB who make a
business of collecting mineralogicul
specimens and other material illustrat
ing natural history. A man in London
has recently been making something of
a specialty of the collection of volcanic
dusts. He sent a trustworthy agent
uwhile ago to the great Andes of the
equator, and now he is advertising dust
from a ' number of famous volcanoes.
He sells tho material in bottles at
about thirty-five cents a bottle. Each
sample contains one grain or more.
Among these collections is volcanic
dust from Ootopaxi which fell at Quito
on June 2fl, 1877, after a journey
through the air of thirty-four miles
Then he has dust from Cotopaxi which
was ejected to a height of forty thou
sand feet above the level of the sea in
1880 and fell on Chimborazo after a
journey of sixty-four miles. The finest
particles of this dust weigh less than
one twenty-five-thousandth part of a
grain. Then there is dust from
the terminal slope of Cotopaxi such
as is daily ejected by the volcano
at the height of nineteen thousand five
hundred feet above the sea. There are
many specimens of lapelli from A ro
bs to, mostly pumico. The town of Am
bato is built upon a deposit of this ma
terial. Fine volcanic dust has been se
cured from Machachi, where it exists
as a continuous stratum ten inches
thick, the product of some unrecorded
eruption of great intensity. It consists
largely of feldspar and hornblend, and
Mr. Whimper says it is "almost as soft
to the touch as cotton wool." Fine
pumice dust from the same volcano
forms beds many foet in thickness.
These volcanic dusts form many inter
esting and instructive objects of the
microscope. The sarao dealer has fine
and coarse dusts from Mount Etna and
the typical lavas from Cotopaxi and
Chimborazo. He also sells pieces of
puinice from Krakatoa which were
washed ashore, thousands of miles
away, on the coast of Madagascar, and
volcanic dust from St. Lucia which fell
on a ship off Barbadoes. -