The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-03

tape worms with it Ii consists OF little
gold capsule about half an inch long and
as big round - lead pencil. At the end
OF this capsule there Is q little ring, and 10
this silk thread is 70 b.. tied By pulling
the capsule apart you set spring
good deal like that of the old-fashioned,
steei-toothed rat trap, and this spring has
teeth just Like the rat trap. You bait IL
with little bit of cheese, sfarve yourself
for about three days and then swallow the
trap, maintaining all the while careful
hold on the thread attached 70 r. Your
tape worm, which by this time is very hun
CRY, makes q greedy dash for the cheese,
and, presto, the jaws of the capsule spring
together on his head, and you draw him
out. hand over hand. and set your trap for
the next worm. Another trap for worms
is the little silver hook which one swallows
and which catches the worms as We eaten
fish.
The inventions for smokers are so many
that q division OF the patent Office has 70 pc
given up to them. There are dozens OF oe-
vices by which q man may carry his cigars
around in his hat and the pipes are legion.
One of the most curious OF pipe Invenuons
is rest or brace by which the weight OF
the pipe is taken off the teeth and rested on
the chin. This Is said to be very gooo
pipe for sore teeth, but 1t Is dououu
whether 1t would be of much use 10 the
ordinary smoker. There are umbrellas
which can be turned into pipes and pipes
which can be turned into canes. and there
are perhaps q hundred inventions for the
cutting of of ends of cigars. some OF which
are probably valuable.
In agricultural patents the human brain
has gone wild. The old cannon plough
has been often referred to by which the
farmer takes his horses out OF the fnrrow
and shoots at the Indians. Tn WARS
gate, however, is new. and this eouslsu OF
q gate which will swing both NAys and
which can be lowered and raised 70 suit
the size of the lovers. On the sel4Q pfln-
ciple is the adjustable pulpit, which WI At
all kinds OF preachers. The pulpit runs
up and down on pillar by spring and by
pressing button the preacher can raise II
to his height or lower it to suit. IL Is
said that this invention was in use In one
of the Western congregations, and that a
short preacher, q supply, had been invited
to discourse, but bad not been told OF the
peculiar arrangement upon which the
Bible was placed in front of him. He was
q very active little man, and he bad way
of pounding his pulpit and leaning over
and shaking his finger at the congregation.
During one of his widest moments while
in this position he kicked the button with
his knee, and the pulpit, which had been
set at three feet. straightway sprang up to
six, carrying the preacher kicking along
with it.
There is q patent machine here for fore
ing hens to lay eggs, and there are numer-
Gus ones for the prevention of their eating
their own eggs or breaking them. Many
of the patent hens nests have five or six
false eggs glued to their bottoms. and the
innocent hen drops her egg on trap
which lets il slide down into box beneath,
whereupon the trap springs back and the
nest is ready for second laying. There
is one branch of the patent Office knewn as
that of cow-taiI holders. The festive lcow
is apt to flirt her tail while she is being
MIXED, and as the tail is not always of the
cleanest this is offensive to the pretty milk
maid. Many of these cow-tail holders
strap the tail to the hind leg of the COW.
others fasten IL TO beam over her head.
and still others weight the tail in such
q strong tailed cow she might blow out the
brains of the mixer. There are patents
for horses tails as well as cows tails and the
science of making horses tail extend out
from the body at ], st the proper angle is
one which has bothered the intellects of
many patentees. Most of these patents
are superior to the old plan of tying a
chestnut burr under the horses tail, bnt
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The most curious among them, however,
is the patent of a Yankee who has invented
an adjustable false tail for horses. He
claims in his specifications that this tail
will puzzle and mystify the keenest critics
of horse flesh and that with it the bob
tailed horse or the rub-tailed horse becomes
quite as valuable as he whose tail reaches
to his feet.
Other patents are those for training
horses, and in many of these the hind legs
of the horse are strapped up to belts around
his body. and some are so complicated that
they would brighten high-strung animal
to death. A Western man has patented a
shield TO prevent q horse from being cut
BY wire fences and this consists of q sort
of armour of padded cotton or leather,
which il strapped around the neck, breast
and front legs OF the horse Another way
of preventing horses from hurting them
selves on these fences is found in the elec-
trical division. The wires are charged
with electricity, and when the horse goes
against them he gets shock. which
drives him back. In the same
division there is an electric
plan for preventing horses from cribbing.
The manger is charged with electricity,
and the moment the horse attempts to
crib he gets shock. Then there is q
chicken hobbler consisting of a spring at
tached to . hens leg. which, if the hen at
tempts to scratch, will move il onward and
viii in fact walk it right out of the garden.
There is the bed bug buster, by which the
insects are gotten into hopper and killed
by chloroform, and there is also the tum-
bier fly trap through which the flies drop
into q bath of alkali.
The patents 10 make women beautiful
are numerous. There are face powders by
the hundreds and bust-improvers by the
score. The nose-improver is one of the
most curious of these crazy patents. 1t
has made, it is said, a fortune for its in-
ventor, and. it consists of a metsl shell
formed of two parts. which are connected
by a hinge. The shape of its in
side is that of perfect nose, aqui-
line, Roman or Grecian, as you pre-
fer, and it does all its work at
night. The patent states that the nose
should be first well bathed in warm water
and then creased with olive Oil until il is
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