Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-02
NUMBER I3.
4 Patent Scalp-Smatcher.

he would like to call my attention to
little invention Of his. Gr,bb said tina
lie had been impressed with the fac
That, :.s b"llncss is becoming SO general
the time must come whcnan Apac}e In
dian, for instance, would DC unable t,
seal p |'rcc ont Of amy five white mcI
whom he happened to kill, unless some
thing was done in behalf Of the red
NTH. Naturally, being ol IL phila1l-
tlIronlc turn, Grubb examined tho
subject to see if he could devise any
Kind Of machine which would place
bald men and men with hair npon a
footing Of equality, and enable the IN
dian to obtain his right. After years
of l';,ticnt investigation and thought,
GrrIbb succeeded, and he had dropped
in to obtain my influence SO the interior
Department could be induced to accept
the patent and recommend it to the In
dans. He called his invention "Ihe
Patent Adjustable Atmo ,phcric Scalp
Snutclicr," and he offered exclusive ter
ritory for agents. The devise consists
of Il disc Of thin lcathcrabout six inches
in liamctcr. In the center is a hole
through which runs string. When
the Indian owner kills man with Il
bald head he merely vets the leather,
stamps it carefully down upon the sur
face Of the scalp, slides his knife
around over the ears, gives the string a
jerk, and off comes the scalp as nicely
as if it had been adorned with hair a
yard long. "'rllc machine, in TACT" l
said to Grubb, sis simply sucker
sucl as is usc,l Ivy the boys" "Prc-
ciscly," nc replied; 81 merely claim a
patent for the mode of application. l
want to make the red man happy.
wish to bring joy to the wigwam Of tue
kickapoo and to make the heart of the
Arapahoc glad" Ibid it never seem
to you, Mr. Grnbb, that the bald head
ell white man in such situation needs
s,,:cor Just as badly rs the Indian does ??
Then Grubb said that if was going to
joke about it he would go home. But
he stayed, and before he left accepted
Il general agency for this valuable in.
vcntion. Persons wishing to examine
it can apply to me, and if any one de-
sircs to test it's efficacy he can d. SO by
bringing bald headed corpse with
him. Experiments free of charge when
persons furnish their own cadavers.
How Humming.Isiri Fight.
If two birds foraging come together,
says writer in the Popular Science
Monthly, they usually fight one drives
the other away, and then goes on feed
ing as if nothing had happened. Mr..
Gossc says III two vcrvain humming-
birds are about the moringo tree, ono
tiys off and suspends himself in the air a
few yards distant, the other presently
shoots off to him and then, without
touching each other, they mount upward
with strong, rushing wings, perhaps for
500 feet. They then separate, andcacll
shoots diagonally toward the ground,
like ball from rifle, and, wheeling
round, come, up to the blossoms again,
as if it had not moved away 1T all. Tho
figure of the smaller 1lumminS-birds on
the wing, their rapidity, their arrowy
course, and their whole manner of flight,
arc entirely those Of an insect; and one
who has watched the flight of large
beetle, or bee, will have very good
idea of one of these tropic gems, paint
ed against the sky" Again he says :
81 once witnessed combat between
two mango hrmming-birds, which was
prosecuted with much pcrtinacity, and
protractetl to an unusual Length. They
chased each other through the labyrinth
of twigs and flowers till, all opportunity
occurring, the one would dart with fury
upon the other, and then, with loud
rustling Of their wings, they would
twir together round and round until
they nearly came to earth. At length
an encounter took place pretty close to
me, and perceived that the beak Of
the one graspcd the beak Of the other,
and, thus fastened, both whirlcd round
and round in their perpendicular de-
scent, till. when very near the ground,
they separated; and the one chased the
other for about Il hundred yards, and
then returned in triumph to the tree.
they would suspend HOSTILE
ties to suck q few blossoms, but mutual
was sure to bring them on
again, with the same result. In their
tort,lous and rapid evolutions, the light
from their ruby nccks would now and
then flash in the sun with gem-like ra-
dance. The war lasted fully an hour,
and then was called away from the
post of observation"
Hints on Sleep.
To literary men, preachers, teachers,
lawyers, doctors, journalists, and brain
workers in general, the following hints
are exceedingly worthy attentions: The
fact is, that as life becomes concen-
tratcd. AMI it's pursuits more eager,
short sleep and early rising become i'm
possible. We take more sleep than our
ancestors, and VIC take more sleep be-
cause We want moro. Six hours sleep
will do very we'll for a plouglman or
bricklaycr or any other man who has
no exhaustion but that produced by
man,ial labor, and the sooner he takes
it after the labor the better. But for
the man whose labor is mental, the
stress is on his brain and nervous sys-
lem, and for him who is tired in the
evening with day Of mental applica-
tion, neither early to bed nor early to
riS, is wholesome. He needs letting
down to the level Of rcposc. The
longer interval between the active use
of the brain and the retirement to bed.
the better his chance Of sleep and \ =
freshmen. TO him an hour after mid
night is probably as good us two hours
before it, and even then his sleep will
not SO completely restore him aus it will
his neigllor who is physically tired.
His best sleep is in the early morning
hours, when all the nervous excitement
has passed away, and he is in absolute
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