Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30
A CORPSE PREsERvER.


Woman are am ong the inventors of
collins and burial apparatus, and one of the
most curious drawings in the Patent Office
is Mary E. Motifs corpse cooler. Mary has
patent rubber bag, which she fills with
ice and lays on the stomach of the dead man
or woman. She claims that if she can keep
women, and among the machines patented
by them L note that Miranda Fort, Of
Georgia, has an improvement in plows.
Jane E. Gilman, of Connecticut, has COM
bination bureau and bathtub; Augusta NJ.
Rodgers, OF New York. has q patent stove
for railroad cars, and Mary A. Holland, of
New Jersey, has patented a burglar alarm.
The ice cream freezer now in use was in
vented by Washington woman, and before
she got out her patent every family stirred
cts cream with spoon instead of using the
frank attachment while it was freezing.
this cool that the deceased will be preserved
as we'll as though he were packed in ice and
she got patent for it in 1868.
There is a warship here patented by Mary
Montgomery, and woman in Iowa has
made an improvement on the machinery for
cigars. Blanche Willis Howard has a
patent bath-shoe and a music rack, and DIR.
Mary Walker is turning the Patent Office
upside down in getting out a new invention
of teaching spelling. Mary's patent looks
like Chinese puzzle and it is more curious
than practical. Among other patents
which I remember are jar-lifters, bag
holders, fsh-boners, raisin-seeders and a
thousand and one curious appliances for
household matters. The washing machines
of the Patent Office take up number of
cases and the table utensils are numerous.
One woman has invented a mustache spoon.
Her name is Ellen A. Mitchison, and her
husband evidently had a mustache as big as
that of "Jones, He Pays the Freight" The
spoon has shield over the top, and Ellen
SAYS that with this spoon soup can be con-
veyed to the mouth without danger of soil
ing or disfguring the mustaehe. 1t may be
that Ellen's husband had dyed mustache
and that Ellen's favorite soup changed the
color. At any rate she patented the spoon
and her papers were given her in 1873.
PATENTS FOR BABIES.
Women have patented many things re-
lating to children, and California woman
invented baby carriage which netted her
over $4,000. I looked at the drawings to-
day of patent napkins, and in one case the
invention was displayed in the picture of a
child. Children's toys form some of the
best paying patents that have ever been in
vented, and the man who made the ball at
tached to little rubber string cleared $780,
900 upon it. The dancing negro baby gave
its inventor an ANNUAL income of S25, 900,
pigs-in-clover has made its patentee for
tune, and Pharoah's serpents, or these
iointed wooden snakes, brought in more
than $50 900, and there are tops which have
made fortunes.
There is little toy called the wheel of
life which is said to have brought S50O,O00
into the inventors vest pocket and $40, 900
a year is the income which is received from
the common needle threader. Women have
patented all kinds OF toys. They have made
improvements in baby chairs, and one of
the funny patents is that of Boston girl,
consisting OF a kind of tricycle. for dolls, pa
tented in 1879. The patent holds the doll up
right and enables the child to push it around
the room on wheels.
The women inventors of Pennsylvania are
many, and there is one bright woman who
has barrel-hooping machine which brings
her in $40, 900 a year. This is Mary Z.
Beaseley. of Pennsylvania, the original in
ventor OF the machine and the patentee of
numerous improvements upon it. One of
the machines, it is said, can put iron hoops
on !, 200 barrels in single day.
OTHER PENNSYLVANIA WOMEN.
Another Pennsylvania woman has a ma
chine for making button holes upon hannels
ana Otner materials Win WOrste0, ana Mary
E. Whitmer, of Philadelphia has an i'm
provement in sterenscopes, and Joanna
Gerlitz, of the same city, got out patent
on bitters in 1876. Emily Tassey, OF Pitts
burg, has patent siphon, and Emma Reed,
of Scranton, has made patent corset.
Carrie A. Monroe, of Salt Lake City,
patented an improved vapor bath in 1878,
and the two Dietz girls of Oakland, Cal, IL,
are the inventors of a snow plow which at
tached to the engines COW catcher tosses the
snow up two fumes and throws it on either
side of the track. An Iowa woman, Mrs
Flora Grace, has patent cooking ther-
Instead of marking summer heat,
blood heat and freezing point, it marks the
points at which meat is boiled, pies are
cooked and bread is baked. / saw a patent
paper shirt invented by Helen NJ. Reming-
on, of Springfield. Mass. The paper shirt |
was made of the strongest tissue paper known
% the trade as Kentucky bagging and the |
BOSOM was stiffened with white wax. 1t was |
claimed to be proof against perspiration and |
am not able to say whether it was wash |
lble or not.
Just now the bulk of inventions is in |
Electricity and there is a number of women |
Who have electric patents. There are Is, 900 |
Electrical inventions in the Patent Office
md new ones are filed every day. There is
n fact no branch of life upon which woman's
mind is not now working and L judge that
goman's mind is equal to that of man in
his field. MISS GRUNDY, JR.