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The Press Claims CC'mpany dvvotes much
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of inventive talleut at large in this country
needing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement the Press
Claims Company propose to give.
NOT SO II AKI AS IThEBMX.
A l atent strikes most people as an appalling
ly formidable thing. The idea is tnat an in
ventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or
Bell; that he must devote years to delving in
complicated mechanical problems aud that he
must Bpend a fortune ou delicate experiments
before he can get a new device to a patentable
degree of perkctiuu. This delusion the coin
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 iuventlous that bring the bi st returns
to their authors, but the little, simple, and
cheap ones the things that seem to absurdly
trivial that the averuuu ciLlzeu would feel
somewhat ashamed of bru.glug tiiem to the
attention of the Patent OfH'T.
Edison says that the profits he has received
trom the patents on all his marvelous luxa
tions ave not been suilicicut to pay tne cost
of his experiments. But the man who con
ceived the idea of fustttniii? a bit of rubber
cord to a child's ball, so that it would come
back to the hand when thruwu, made a fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sewing-machine
is a miracle of ingenuity the product
a hundred and fifty years, but the whole bril
liant result rests upon Ihe simple device of
putting the eye of the needle at the point In
stead of, at the other eud.
of the toil of hundreds of busy brains tnrougli
THE LITTLE TUINUM THE MOST
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struck, at one 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 runuing 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
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known how it ought to have been fixed."
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who is late;for breakfast. "If I were iu the
business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip
out, or break oft', or gouge out the back of my
neck
And the various suiferers forgot about their
grievances and began to think of something
seise.. If ,thev would set down the nes ? cou-
venient opportunity, put their Ideas about car
windows, saucepans and collar buttons iuto
practical shape, and 11 e;i 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 hi lee u puzz le.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce the people to keen track of their
bright ideas and see what there in them, the
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It will alxo advertise the iiiveu.
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Otherwise he will be expected to complete his
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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 oi
th ree reputable patent attorneys of Washihg
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following blank, and forward it with theii
application:
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competitors risking the loss of their labor and
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Company's oiler is something entirely dilfei
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The architect -whose competitive plan for a
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ed lias spent his labor ou something of very
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If the U. S. soldiers,' Bailors, or tlioii
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An Effort to Explain.
Diner How comes this dead fly in
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tive idea how the poor thing came by
its death. Perhaps it had not taken
any food for a long time, dashed upon
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A Eatiulous Mountain.
Some time since wide publicity was
given to the reported discovery in New
Guinea of a mountain higher than any
other in the world. Mount Hercules,
as the reputed giant was called, was
alleged to have been measured by Maj.
Lawson and found to be thirty-seven
thousand feet high, or about eight
thousand feet taller than Mount Ever
est, in the Himalayas. Subsequent in
vestigation, however, has shown Mount
Hercules to be, when compared with
those in the grout mountain chain of
India, but a lilliputian, its actuul
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The other day a thin, tired-looking
man entered the office of a printing
house, and, approaching the proprietor,
said:
"I want to have a list printed. Sup
pose you write it down as I tell you."
The proprietor made ready, and the
man said: "Yes, I'm sure I locked the
front door. Have you got that?"
"Yes, but I don't understand."
"Never mind; don't interrupt mo till
I have finished. Are you ready?"
"Yes."
"I turned out the light in the bath
room." "All riglit. I've got if
"The kitchen windows are fastened."
"Yes."
"The dog is in the cellar."
"Yes."
"The servants are all in."
"Yes. "
"The stable door is locked.
"Yes."
"The kitten is out of doors."
"Yes"
"I turned oft the drafts of the range."
"Yes."
"No, I do not smell smoke."
"Yes."
"No, the water is not running In the
bathroom."
"Yes."
"1 do not think I hear anyone trying
to get into the house."
"Yes."
"No, that is not our dog barklntr: It's
the one next door."
"Yes."
"It is not necessary to go down and
see if the cellar door is fastened. I
know it is."
"Yes."
"That is nobody it is only the wind
rattling the shutters."
"Yes." ' ' - -" "' " J
"Well, I think that's about all. Yo.
see, my wife asks me certain questions
every ni(flit just as I am getting into
bed, aud if 1 had a printed list 1 could
show to her it would save lots of
trouble. Besides that it injures my
lungs to answer them. Have the lists
printed as soon as possible, please."
London Tid-Bits.
HANAMA PIRACY.
IKonttroua Kxtravayanoe of De Leaaepa
and Hli Associates.
A correspondent of the Boston Bulle
tin writes from Panama that the half
has not been told of the condition of af
fairs there.
About half a mile from the roadstead
at Colon is a point of artificial land on
which stands the ruins of houses erected
at a cost of one hundred thousand dol
lars for the temporary accommodation
of De Lesseps and his son. The foun
dations for the houses and most of the
point were made by dumping into the
mud machinery purchased for the canal
and covering the whole with earth and
sod. Da Lesseps is credited with hav
ing spent two weeks at his house.
On the tops of the hills may he seen
the houses built for the engineers and
their servants, all elaborate, all dis
mantled, all decaying. At Colon are
Bome forty or fifty tugs going to decay.
On the sidings and special tracks stand
lines of abandoned clump cars and loco
motives. The common report there is
that there are enough abandoned dump
cars and locomotives to reach twice
across the isthmus (forty-five miles).
Vines grow over these rotting vehicles,
and the locomotive boilers are so eaten
with rust that they may bo broken
with an ordinary hammer.
Acres and acres are covered with parts
of cars that have never been set up and
large sheds are filled with locomotives,
both cars and locomotives being of a
special gauge and useless elsewhere.
The fields are full of abandoned ma
chinery and supplies and cars with
hoisting engines.
Considerable work has been done on
the canal in patches, but, ns apparently
the cuts were not even made on a level,
the soil is fast filling in. Dredges are
still standing, abandoned in the middle
of the canal No blasting or riiWeult
work has apparently been done what
ever. All along the route from Cilon
an; graveyards and hospitals, and at
Panama lie a hundred tugboats rotting,
one on the stocks that had nev :r txn
launched.
The natives report that the life of the
French was one continued debauch, and
the thickly strewn champagne liottlcs
gave some color to the story.
Current report has It that thirty
thousand dollars pi r mouth is still ptiid
out to gourd this gigantic graveyard of
a great nation's enterprise dug by the
unworthy sons to whom she intrust-
The Cause of Enrtlniuakos.
Earthquakes are due to the phenom
ena of plication or folding of the
earth's upper strata. The same ten
sion and compression which produced
many of the mountain ranges is here
in action. As the interior of the earth
cools it contracts and tends to leave
the outer crust behind. The weight
of this outer crust, however, is greuter
than it can sustain, and is therefore
compelled to wrinkle. Thus geologists
explain the greut ridges and furrows
which constitute continents and river
basins and they coinpure this folding
of the earth's crust with the wrinkling
of the skin of a dried apple. While
the process of wrinkling or folding is
I'm'' IlltfhtV ITMO-.-'-t; r t . of
PRETTY AND FASHIONABLE.
Light Bilks for spring wear are mads
up with accordion-plaited skirts and
plaited waists.
Silk, cloth and velvet cloaks are
elaborately trimmed with rich bead and
silk embroidery.
Bands of narrow velvet, with r sette
bows, trim the skirts of semi-dress and
evening costumes.
New waists show the fronts cut away
in the shape of the fashionable dress
vest. Inside of this is a front of shirred
material, embroidery, passementerie,
or the same goods finished with an
edging of needlework.
A skirt of plain bengaline, trimmed
with bauds of embroidery, is worn with
a pointed, low-cut bodice of velvet.
Very wide-embroidered ruchings turn
back from the neck, falling over the
shoulders and front, and crossing at the
back with a slight curve.
A deft-handed and thrifty Phyllis
has made herself soft pretty little folds
for the neck and sleeves of her best
gown. She pulled to pieces a crumpled
crepe lisse ruffle and stitched it in
graduated plain bands of three widths
to the old heading. The crumple did
not show in the least and the effect was
very pleasing.
THE POSTAL SERVICE.
England received about 10,057,600 let
ters from the United States last year,
Germany received from us 5,858,040 let
ters, and France 1,884,040.
The postal savings bank system was
inaugurated in Great Britain in 1860.
On March 31, 1891, the deposits num
bered 8,776,506 amounting to more than
1100,000,000.
In the grand duchy of Luxemburg
persons desiring work or help have now
only to send a postal card to the direc
tor ot the postal administration in or
der to have their "wants" advertised in
every post office in the grand duchy.
Ex-Postmaster Gkneral Campbell
he was in Pierce's cabinet who died re
cently in Philadelphia, inaugurated the
registry system, one of the great arms
of the postal service. His term of office
was slgnaibted by further reduction
in the rates of postage and by improve
ment in the interchange of mails with
foreign countries. j
SOLDIERS IN EUROPE.
Napoleon prohibited the use of the
mustache to all the Infantry in his
armies except grenadiers of the old
guard.
Two kings, two princes, nine dukes,
two field marshals and two generals
were private soldiers when they first
joined Bonaparte's grand army and rose
from the ranks by meritorious services.
PuniNO the month of November, the
last for which figures have been made
public, the German army lost one hun
dred men by death, of whom seventeen,
or more than one-sixth, committed sui
cide. A relic of one of the most extraordi
nary surgical cases ever heard of is pre
served in the military hospital at Plym
outh, England. This is the heart of a
soldier who died in that hospital ou
January 30, 1809, sixteen days after he
had been shot through the heart.
(Superstitions ot Brave People.
Hone will take the trouble to go
through the names of most of the
bravest people in history, he will find
that they nearly all suffered from some
superstition or other. Napoleon Bona
pni te was simply eaten by supersti
tions, and so was the duke of Marl
borough. Literary men have always
b'.-eii notoriously superstitious, from
the days of Dr. Johnson, who would go
back half a mile if he remembered that
h; had omitted to touch any one of
the lampposts on his daily walk, to
Dean Swift, who would never change
a garment if he found that he had
put it on inside out, and Lord Byron,
who would get up and leave a dinner
party instantly if anybody spilt the
salt. Statesmen have not been ex
empt from superstitions either. Lord
lieaconsfield would always take espe
cial care to enter the house with his
ri fht foot foremost when he was going
to make a big speech. Mr. Parnell had
a strong prejudice against sitting in a
room with three candles. William Pitt
vould return home at once, however
inportant his business, if he met a
.ross-eved man in the street, while Sir
Robert Peel would always make the
sign against the evil eye with his fin
gers and thumb under similar circum
stances. OF INTEREST TO WRITERS.
It is said that Zola, the French novel
ist, has made 400,000 from the sale of
his novels during the past twenty
years.
One of the daughters of the late Fan
nie Kembleia the well-known translator
of (ierman novels, Mrs. Wistar, of Ger
mantown, Pa.
There is a movement on foot to buy
Walt Whitman's humble home as his
most fitting monument. The Boston
Globe says it is one of the wisest fan
cies in current monumental enterprises.
The "Brotherhood of Minor Poets" is
the largest English organization of
which the cable gives us any informa
tion. The combination is announced
to be for purposes of defense and pro
tection. Fhkxcu novelists recently decided to
found a society for the protection of
their interests, which they consider
compromise by the attitude of their
publishers. This society is now estab
lished, and among its sixty-odd mem
bers are MM. Zola, Alphonse Daudet,
Leon Daudet and Edmond d Qoncourt