The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-08-20


bird in your heart before you can
find ii in the bush. The eye must
have purpose and aim. No one ever
yet found the walking-fern who
did not have the wallling-fern in his
mind. ftttt
Nevertheless, the habit of obscrva-
ton is the habit of clear and decisive
gazing not by first casual glance,
but by a steady deliberate aim of the
eye are the rare and characteristic
things discovered. You must look
intcutly and hold your eye firmly TO
the spot. to see more than do the
rank and file of mankind. The
sharpshooter picks his man and
knows him with fatal certainty from
stump, or rock or cap on apole.
The phrenologists do well to locate
not only form, color, weight, &c, in
the region of the eve, but faculty
which they call Northumberland
which separates. discrilninates and
sees in every object its essential char
acter. This is just as necessary to
the naturalist as to the artist or the
poet. The sharp eye notes species
and diiierenccs-it selves upon and
preserves the individuality of the
thing.
Persons frequently describe to me
some bird they have seen OF heard
and ask me to name il, but IL most
cases the bird might he any one of q
dozen. or else ii is totally unlike any
bird found in this continent. They
have either seen falsely or else vague
| ". Not so the farm youth who
wrote me one winter day that he had
single pair Of strange birds, which
he describes as follows: "Thcy
were about the size of the 'chippie.
the tops oftheir heads were red, and
the breHst of the male was of the
same color, while that of the fe-
male was much lighter; their
rumps were family tingcd with red.
If have described them so that you
would know them, please write me
their names" There can be little
doubt but the young observer had
seen pair of red polls-a bird re-
lated TO the goldiinch, and that oc-
casionally comes down to lis in the
winter from the far North. Anoth-
err time the same youth wrote that he
had seen strange bird, the color of
sparrow, that alighted on fences
and buildings as well rs upon the
ground and that walked. This last
| fact showed the youths discrimin-
ating eye and settled the case.
knew il to be species of lark, and
from the time, size, color, &c., the
tit-lark. But how many persons
would have observed that the bird
walked instead ofhoppedI
The Encouragement of the United
States has just rendered decision OF
vast importance TO partners in patent
rights, rs well as to the public ut
large. II is 10 the effect that pat
cnt issued in the names of several in
dividuals, when in fact but one is the
inventor. and the Others only hold an
interest by assignment. is absolutely
void aud cannot he rendered valid
by any act of the parties or of the
patent office. The inventor, il APP
pears, may sell interests in his inven-
iion after il is patented, but not be-
fore. IT two years clapsc before the
defect in such Il patent is discovered
and correct application is filed, the
invention becomes the property OF
\ the public. The decision of the at
| tOrIirN -Tcnrru H. pInvtiyHnI nov
departure in the direction of strict
construction of the patent laws,
which have too long been interpreted
wholly in the light of prcccdcnts
which rave all encouragement TO So
called inventors, and apparently ig-
nored the rights and interests of the
| public.