Telegram-herald., 1889-06-27


wsst ~ zee something fassy, yea want
10 CONE right ~ stairs with me"
C'List~n" - WsshiBxtonss'e
Il IA IA . hurry; Won't IL take lssGt'
said
NO 'ndsedp
Crhis Is more wsshington--e-hear In
every other senteneo-snd Ia the alter
native sentences sppears Yes 'ndeedF'
90 We turned up he stairs
Can Nc look iu'' he asked OF = gentle
man at the head. whom l recognized ~ =
pztrnt lawyer doing business there. Ger
tsiniy." Aud he led Us into the back room.
and raised sheet that covered TWO sus-
pieioas looking objects elevated on chairs.
But it did not seem 10 me fanny.
Dead. evidently" said with shud-
der. Yes. rsther," said the lawyer; 1--WE
women; dead these eighteen moaths.
They arc -mbalmed. Touch them"
laid my finger on the arm of one. II
Was about As cold as the atmosphere. but
was surprised 10 find IL soft and elastic
as II in life The flesh yielded 20 pressure.
but recovered itself al once As in healthy
person
The fact is,u the lawyer explained.
these illustrate patent for embalming
insist on having working model Of
everything. and this j. my clients working
model They arethe bodies Of two women
who died Ia an aims house ia West Nir-
ginia. Mitchell wouldn't have them ia
the Patent Office, and | had to shelter
them here. All through last Summer
they iay open ~ the day air, with no Gov
erins except n casual sheet, sud even
fly did not settle on them. The process OF
decomposition will never begin, but after
a few years or centuries they will d-~iccate
and dry up. like the mummies Of Peru
But am AFRAID the coroner win happen
in"
This led my mind in the direction OF
patents and my feet followed my mind
and led me into the Doric crypts which
form at once the lumber-room OF cranks
and the cradle OF American progress.
l sought Mr.. Charles T. Mitchell, the
new Commissioner. He seems an ideal
man for the difficult place, by the way.
His predecessor. Judge Hall, was better
Commissioner than the service has known
before for decade. for he was fair
minded, studious, industrious. honest,
faithful lawyer; but Mitchell is this and
considerably more, for he has been for
years n disting patent lawyer and
knows what ne is talking about. l asked
him about perpetual motion.
Yes" he said. II see perpetual motion
bas once more been achieved by several
people ny Jennings Of Oneida; by Griel
Of Baltimore; and by modest inventor
in st. Louis, who does not give his name.
This last invention, which IL alleged 70 be
able to send Cunard steamer across the
Atlantic without consuming pound of
fuel of any sort, must be worth millions
OF dollars"
This motor. may add. IS run by steam
and electricity the steam creates the
electricity and the electricity generates
the steam One good turn deserves
another.
Griel'- device is run by compensating
and shifting wsights-each side prepon-
derating over the other
Jennings's contrivance is an endless
chain running over three pulleys forming
a triangle aud one side of the chain, by
series OF automatic hooks, is made and
kept continually heavier than that on the
other two sides.
"You regard perpetual motion as unat-
tainable p" ] said TO Col. Mitchell fevery
officeholder In Washington excepting
Major Powell Is either Colonel or u
General-but Powell WAS really In battle,
and that makes difference)
1--WE regard 1t as unattained," he An
swered, with judicial accent; "and to
all applications for such a patent wo inn
medistely reply, requiring 3 working
model"
THAT ends it ?"
Always. BY the way. Mr.. Aughin-
baugh, OF the motor section, can tell you
something more"
called oa Aughinbaugh, a veteran In
the business.
"For forty years we have demanded =
working model OF perpetual motion. he
said, and ne'er a one has come. Enough
TO make US increduIeus, don't you think
They arc nearly all based on the principle