Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-04-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From ourRegular Correspondent.l
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w ASHlNGTON, AFrli Il, lco4.
The acres of floors devoted TO the storage
and exhibition OF models In the Patent
Office are strongly suggestive Of the near
approach Of that time when the model
business las got to be eliminated from the
list Of requirements in the securing of let
ters patent. To be sure fire like tha,
which destroyed some Ii, 900 OF the models
8 ven years ago, may occur now and then,
but the Government wants the room that
these models now occupy, and does not
want to wait for conhagration. The
vast majority OF these models are simply
rubbish, and are of as little public utility
as are the stuffed herring at the National
Museum or the burdock plants at tl,e Agri-
cultural Department. From a clothes pin
to locomotive, and from shoe peg to n
threshing machine, patents have been
granted Ivy scores upon the most minute
detail OF improvement, every one OF which
is accompanied by model, and when Mr..
Platt asks what will become of us if we
| should drop out Of the patent business,
we point to the model department and ask
him what will become OF us if we continue
on?
From statistics we learn that while the
locomotives OF the country perform the
work OF 39,676,9 $40 horses. and that Ameri-
ca Is turning cut 100000 sewing machines
each year, which do the work of IL 900 900
women, The laws of supply and demand
and consumption finds plenty of employ.
ment for ali OF the horse-aesh attainnble,
while multitudss of women who never
sewed before iEd abundant employment
in the numberless uses to which the sewing
machine is adapted. While single shoe
factory at Lynn, Mass, turns out more
pairs OF shoes every year than the 10000
| boot-mnkers of Paris, the same law that
eAacted price commensurate with the
value OF hand.labor thirty years age, ex.
| acts IRON the consumer greater price for
the production OF the same article by ma
chinery, though the article has not tithe
OF those qualities OF durability and comfort
and general excellence that made our an.
cestral cordwainers proud OF their occnpa.
uon, and their patrons exempt from the
agony Of corns and bnnions. The girl of
fifteen may spin her 2,l0O miles of Ihread d
every day by the aid OF modern machin.
cry, but. alas the ponderous opening in
the seams OF our garments, at time and
| on occasions when we least expect them.
proclaim 10 us that this is not the thread
OF our mo thers. Thus all innovations
upon the old methods of doing things
while they have their varied uses, are not
without their varied abuses.
Tie Judges OF the Supreme Court OF the
United II ates. presumably arrogating tu
themselves as much consequence rs the
Senators, have appealed to Congress lo
provide each of them with private acc.
retary. How much and what character OF
work these judges may have for a private
secretary they have omitted 10 state, bui
that they need some assistance is manifest
from the fact that they are at least tive
years behind in their work, with no pres
ent prospect OF ever catching up. Like
ali of our public officials, the poor Judge,
are both underpaid and overworked. Che
Justice Marshall who never allowed hi,
werk To get ahead Of him, and who man,
aged 10 get along without private secre-
lary, received n salary of $500 per year
The present Chief Justice has $l0,500 Il
year, and his associates ST. % 900 each, and
are not so worried over their work ms moi
TO mud plenty OF time for summer iunket
ing. But there is no end TO the extrava-
CANT things that the Government is called
upon 10 meet at the capital, even to The
liquidation of bills Tor carriages 10 convey
| shS So'O''o oeiFaHlb NJ Tue NllNe itOllSt
TO their homes alter the close of their day,
labor.
The recent visit oil Gen. Gran, To Wash
inglon has had no more significance lha,
that Of Senators Sabin, IIawley and Sher-
man 10 New York. This Is an era of no
litlcal reconcilialions, and the man who il
said To be the only man who cai save New
York 70 the Republicans, requires good
deal oi this kind OF attention i,.l now
Bob Llncoln's still hunt for n place o,
the Presidential ticket, il plaguing Logan.
iiiend- IN Illinois alnio,t to death. O
coiiise II the feeling in B.b's favor contin-
ueT a" strong ~ il manifests itself in III,
strong Republican States, aud Illinois /,
particular Lpgan viii not have tie gAus
oi chance. To put q wet bl,nkei upon
this iormldsble Lincoln boom, 10 what Ln-
gan's friends are endeayoring to do boil
IN Illinois and elsewhere. aid they hay,
even gone so far as TO appeal TO Bob per-
sonally TO announce himself as not In III,
field, AL Of which Rooert will not do, be-
Cause, like Mr.. Blaine, lie has said moth
ing aud done nothing 10 make hi,nsell a
Candidate. Dom PEDRO.
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