The Arizona sentinel., 1886-04-24


 other case, after man had been buried many months, will was found which stated that in the inner pocket of a coal the same he had been buried in-woulC be found large sum of money in bank notes. The body was exhumed, anC the slimy, discolored money, witt the odor of the grave about it, was sent her for Identification. Another in stance. illustrating how cupidity some times overreaches itself, was that of a miser who had buried his savings, tC the amount of nearly S20,000, in ar earthern jar. After an interval of sev- eral months he went one day to add g few hundred dollars to his treasure, and found the whole an indistinguishable heap of moldering paper. Although living in the far West, he had heard of the skill of the women of the Redemp- ton Agency, and lost no time in as signing his precious jar to their care. The money, with the exception of about ] $500, was identified and returned to him in fresh new bank notes, to his infinite satisfaction.
 Another conspicuous example oi ability, and also in quite new line, is that of a woman employed in the Law Division of this bureau, and who pre- pares the briefs for the Solicitor of In ternal Revenue in the various cases arising out of violation of internal reve- nue laws. She is considered one of the best law clerks in the bureau, and is engaged upon the most difficult and complicated compromise cases. Her remarkable power of grasping impor- tant points of case and presenting them in clear and concise language is shown by the fact that she prepares her briefs from first notice; that is, the first abstract is the one submitted to the so- licitor, no other copy being made. In order to do this she thoroughly studies the case before putting her pen to pa per. In an important case five days are often spent in careful, laborious study of it. The result is a clearness of statement and a logical presentment of the evidence which is justly considered remarkable. The briefs in the case of the whisky frauds in Grants time were prepared by her, and it is a satisfaction to add that she receives the same salary as men doing the same work.
 The Interior Department employs SIS women as examiners of applications for patents, clerks, stenographers, type writers, accountants, tracers of draw ings, copyists, pastors, etc. The work of women as examiners of applications for patents deserves the highest con- mendation, since it requires a knowl- edge of physics, mathematics, chemistry and machinery-branches of study with which at present women have only limited opportunities to become thor oughly acquainted, the smattering of science taught at the average girls school being of little value for any practical uses. Consequently, the women who have qualified themselves to fill posi- tions in this department of the Govern ment service have done so by persever- ing private study, under the. disadvan- tage of lack of proper direction, and often after hard days work at the desk. The work of an examiner in the Patent Office can best be shown by giv- ing an instance of the duties of a wom- an filling the place of assistant examiner to the electric division, and whose de- partment is that Of electric lighting. The number of applications for patents in this section is enormous, which great ly increases the difficulty of discriminat- ing new claims and those which have been met in some patent previously granted. The inventor gives at least half dozen specific claims to novelty possessed by his invention. It is then necessary for the examiner to look up all patents of this class This involves not only careful research through all the files of the Patent Office, but also in all scientific books and periodicals re- lating to the class of inventions under consideration.
 The following are few of the ques- tions taken from special examination of the civil-service for third assistant ex- aminer in the Patent Office:
 l. State briefly how may be produced glass, sugar, salt, iron, steel, brass, coal oil, coal
 ,. Name the so-caIIed mechanical powers; state briefly how you calculate the power of each; why are they enormously called powers?
 3. Describe ''Barker's mill" Give the the-
 4. Briefly define the mechanical terms hange, pinion, bevel gear. friction gear, ec- centric, cam, journal, spline, idle wheel, bolt, piston, nut
 5. What are letters patent? What are let ters patent for inventions? For what pur- pose are they granted? Upon what is the authority of Congress to legislate thereon based? What, in your opinion. has been the effect of their grant in this country?
 6. Given lever with long arm of 20 feet and short arm of feet; to the latter is at- tached the rope from wheel feet in diam eter, on whose axle, foot in diameter, winds a rope leading to weight lying upon an in- clined plane having face of feet and alti- tude of l foot To the long arm of the lever is applied power of 10 pounds. What weight will it counterbalance on the inclined plane? The long arm of the lever is moved through a space of 10 feet. Through what space will the weight be moved
 T. State the law as to reissues.
 $. Under the provisions of the law, who may receive patent? What does the law require an inventor to do before he can ob- tain patent?
 Miss Ada Sweet, the former pension agent of the Eighteenth District at Chi cago, was universally acknowled by her superiors to be one of the best agents of the Interior Department. She suc- ceeded her father in this office in 1874, having previously acted as his clerk She is the first woman who has filled this position, and with the exception of her successor the only one.
 The Post-office Department employs 124 women, principally in clerical work, but some branches of this work are of difficult nature and require peculiar fitness and class of qualifications. A knowledge of the modern languages and complete and minute familiary with localities are requisite in many of the departments. A lady in the dead letter division is the most skilled ex- pert in deciphering misdirected and illegible letters in this country, and as her peculiar powers in this field she is called Tn the department ''the blind reader" Letters in all languages, and the perversion of all