Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-30
q CURIOUS PARENTS.
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Sense i1vesttg ting person has fur-s
shished tae FSeM York Ti,,aes with q brief
list Of patents en,sasaa things such as1
any man or boy - isshs kaye though Of
but didnt, aud which ii many instaacss
have proved mines Of Mssa4h to the
lucky discoverer. q + *.s= ISL.
Among these trifas Is the farorites toy
1.-The "re.urns ball Para wooden ball
with an elastic string attached, selling
Tor the sum OF 10 oeutsseach, but yield
Ing to its pateases AN income equal to
fair rettarns ON "a capital Of $500. 900
The rubser tip on the end of lead pen.
ellis affords the owner of the royalty an
independent fortune. The inventor Of
tue gumued newspaper wrapper is also
q rich man. The gimlet-pointed screw
has evolved more wealth than 1nost sill
yer mines, and the man who frst shought
of putting copper tips to children 3 shoes
is. as we'll off as if his father had left him
s. 000,O 900 in United States bonds. AL
though roaer->kates are not so much
used in countries where ice is abundant,
in South America, especially in Brazil,
they are very highly esteemed and have
yielded over 81, 00o, 600 to their inventor.
But he had to spend :$125, 600 in En-
gland alone fighting il,fsjngementa. The
90 dancing Jim Crow" a toy, provides an
annual income of $4,000 to its invent
or, and the common needle threader
is worth $4,000 year to the man
who thought Of it. The "dr;vs we'll "
was an idea of Col. Green, whose
troops, during the war, were in want OF
water. He conceived the notion of driv-
ing a two-mch tube into the ground un-
til water WIS reached. and then attach
ing pump. THIS simple. continuance
was patented after the war, and the tens
OF thousands of farmers who have adopt
ed it have been obliged to pay hin q
royalty, q moderate estimate OF which
is placed at $4,000, 600. The spring
window shade yields an income equal to
an investment of 81, 600. 900; the stylo-
graphic pen, with winch this article is
written, also 81. 100000 the marking
spen for shading in different cclors,
sl0o,00b'; rubber stamps, the same. A
large fortune has been reaped bya West
ern miner who, ten years since, invented
3 metal rivet or eyelet at each end Of
The mouth of breeches and coat pockets
10 resist the strain caused by the car
: riaSe Of pieces OF eye and heavy tools.
: Fortunes keee been made oat of the
dead as we'll as the living. The torpedo
grave, which Will explode when body
snatchers NEEDLE with il, isronebonanza:
another odd, hut probably not lucrative
one, is an open tube, running ,frem the
top of the ground*te the 'eoMn-lid, just
over the face Ut the corpse. II the per-
son is in q trance and has been buried
alive, hestiraws himself up through the
boae.ana lzasnrns TO Che surface BY mesnse
OF 'rope-ladder in the tube 1.-The pre-
'7ers, however, to send: for assistance, he
pulls a cord which rings bell near The
top of the tube. After lying there long
enough to assure his friends that he has
no inten ton Of coming back the tube is
pulled up, drawing as it comes a glass
plate over the face of the inmate OF tho
coffin. :: s,.>
Every time q woman pricks the she'll
,of an4egg preparatory to boiling it she
violates patent right, this having been
secured by some genius who discovered
THAT IL weaaa prevent ,Aheir breaking
during the boiling. It having been said
that chickens Matched by artificial heat
do not thrive as well as Others because
they miss the maternal affection ex-
,prassed in the tcluck, cluck" Of tho
natural hen, an inventor has taken out
patent which initiates that sound,
soothing and charming tbetender-heart-
sIbut 'hereased offspring with it's artifi-
Esassal ,cseen and censoing the young
orphan with it's mechanical oicitude,
This is based evidently upon another
patent for babies Of machine operated
by clock work and producing, a low and
melancholy murmur which no child,
however wakeful. can successfully resist,
but to which it sEccurnbs in profound
,slunnber. There is also the false hot
toned nest which delndes the hen into
the belief that she has not laid an egg,
and. combined with her own consoien-
tious devotion to duty, pe,assuades her to
continuance Of her work until she is ex..'
I hausted OF undeceiyed. a patent hen
roost. by the action q the hens, closes
the doors od . hee. hive at night and
opens them in the morning, protecting
the hive against The raRages OF the bee-.
moth. A wire aarne STRUNG above 8
horses head IS also patented. It is5s
meant to persuade the animal that e is
the top Of fence too high tor hina 70. e
overlap. This, Of course, presnnaes
that the horse is an ass. 3.5=. +. . .s .1z I
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