Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-31

THE FLYING MACHINE MANIA.-A late
Washington letter says: "The flying ma
chine fever has broken out again and we are
being bored by flying machine inventors ev-
ery day ,"said an examiner Of patents to-day.
'"rhis flying machine fever" he continued,
'seems to be periodic and to get its height
every four years, and strange as it may ap-
pear, it always breaks out the summer Of
the Presidential campaign. Read the news
papers of to-day, and in one Of every ten
YOU can see an article about somebody's
flying machine going to fly somewhere,
at some time. 1t is always in the future,
and none ofthem ever report any actual fly
ing. We have now pending before us sew
en- applications for patents for flying ma
chimes, and though we will likely grant
idea about them, there is not one OF them
that has any value in that direction. They
are theories and parts of theories. So far,
about Seventy-one patents for flying ma
chimes have been issued. I would not give
a ten-cent piece for them all, though some
of them cost thousands Of dollars to work
them up. About one patent in each one
thousand issued pays for ITSELF Inventors
ought to know this, but somehow they
don't. 1t is fact that not one in every
thousand are ever introduced. The man
with flying machine is very wild and
will not listen to reason. All Of the late
applications are for electric motors to run
their wings, but none of them have struck
it. Buffalo Bill who was here with his
"Wild West' show last week, is clean gone
on a flying machine patent and has spent
great deal Of money on it. He wants to
take flying parties over the plains. But is
no nearer real machine than he was when
he started. Mr.. Hays, of Ohio, who drew
e. Co, nrf hpI
a weak spot for flying MACHINES, and he fire.
quently came here to look at them. He
put in an application fora patent, but it was
rejected. 1t was about the worst we ever
saw A friend of Hays insisted on making
the machine and bringing it on here for
trial. 1t was a cumbersome thing. He
gave it toss for our benefit from the roof
of the patent office early one morning, hav-
ing rope attached to keep it from flying
too far. 1t fell to the ground with the dull
est kind of a dull thud, never to rise again.
1t had cost him about fifteen hundred dol
lars. He called it the Pride Of Fremont:
When gathered up, it made push cart full
of rubbish"
THE LANGUAGE OF POSTAGE STAMPs.-
81 don't know Of any book on the subject,
if that is what you mean, but have heard
the signifcations of some of the different
ways of placing them on envelopes. For in
stance, if the writer is gentleman who
wishes to express love for a fair damsel he
inclines the label towards the left, which
method Is repeated by the lady if she is fa-
vorable to hissuite. If, on the contrary, she
wishes to give him the cold shoulder, she
inclines her label to the right. A stamp
in perpendicular posture signifies simple
admiration when the bust stands on its
head it means that the only sentiment
evoked by the suppliant is ridicule. If the
stamp lies on its face it implies that the
writer is dying for love if it is lying on its
back then the writer has got over the attack
of heart disease. A label may be placed
wrong way up with an inclination to the
left that tells story Of hopeless attachment,
while should it be leaning toward the right
hand corner it is sign that the affection
is Observation-Disclosures in Ph1ddelphd
Times.