The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-05-29
A CENTURY OF INVENTION.
Patents Booming at the Rate of 10000 q
From The Globc.Dcnl0crnt

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from The Globe. Democrat.
WtsHlNoToN, April 3l.-An inter.
esting sentinel wss overlooked few days
ago. The first one hundred years of
American patents was COMPLETED this
month Patent No. was issued Gg.il
10, 1900 The century closed with No.
425, ,395.
In the first half of the one hundred
years the patent laws were not SO en-.
couragiug. In fifty years only l2,42l
patents were issued. But nc are now
making up lost time. There were issued
last year 22OS0 patents. The United
States patent Office paid expenses from
the fees taken III and laid up q balance of
clean $3.50 900 in the year 1883.
Instead OF American ingenuity en-.
haustiug itself, the exercise OF 1t seems
to make it more prolific. Every year
shows larger number of inventions than
the year which preceded it. Here are a
few of the novelties which have been
patented since 1890 began:
The approach of fly time has suggested
IN idea for COW tail holder. A clamp
like q close pin catches the busy end Of
the tail, and two cords with q snap at.
tachment fasten the tail to the cows leg
to a post or to the milking stool.
The same day that the Nebraska man
got bis patent for cow,tail holder man
in Maine got one also for The same end.
The Maine mans tail-holder is made of
single piece of wire coiled SO as 10
connect the tail with the cows leg.
"a candle for killing insects" is a
MIXTURE of insect powder and tallow, or
something else that will burn, moulded
around wick.
The estimable wife of President An.
drew Jackson oFce accounted to the
British minister for an awful cold in the
head by telling him that "the General
had kicked the kivyers'' of, the night
before. There is no longer any excuse
for people who "hick the kivvers off,"
A clamp and spring are now patented
for attachment to the bedstead. By this
simple device the covers are fastened
down. The spring gives sufficient play,
so that there is nc danger of one getting
choked in act of turning over.
Any one might guess that a Kentucky
man is entitled to the credit which at.
taches to the invention of a combined
inkstand, pistol case and burglar alarm"
No Kentucky editors desk should be
without it. The application may be il.
lustrated: An editor sits at his desk writ
ing. One Of the Hatfeds or one of the
McCoys enters to ask a correction of the
report about that row over on He'll. for
Sartin Greek. The editor reaches forward
as if to dip his pen in the ink. He touch
es spring in the top OF the iukstand. A
shallow drawer flies open toward him
and his hand drops upon the revolver.
at the same time the alarm goes of Like
one of those new devices to call people at
S A. NJ, in country hotels. The noun.
taineer jumps back. as if he heard the
b rr of e ratler, and before he RECEIVERS
he is covered. The editor is master OF
situation, This inventor lives in Louis
Vile.
A handcar which moves along the
tracks and mows weeds fifteen feet away
is one of the innovations in railroad
machinery. It will do to 60 very we'll
with the rotary SNOW plough as an Illus
tration of automatic intelligence.
Dress reform is sweeping away the bar
riers of sex. The patent Office has been
called upon this month to protect the
idea Of a bifnrcated skirt, and has done
it.
There ia genius in Cohasset, Mass,
who spends his time getting up startling
effects for the stage. he has recently
taken out two patents. One OF them is
for an arrangement Of slides and springs
by which a man, or rather dummy,
goes all to pieces. At signal the head
flies toward the ceiling, the legs move to
the sides, aud the arms drop to the floor.
The body remains in the chair
A behesded apparatus is another of
this inventors ghastly devices. The axe
drops into q socket in the block aud the
head drops.
The arrangements of mirrors at the
proper angles in tube so as enable a
person to see what is going on in room
at some distance has been patented with
in month. The mirrors may even be
moved so as to bring into view various
portions of the room. There is a spgges'
tiveness about this device which is par.
alyzing. The probabilities ofits improp.
er use strike the imagination much quick.
er than the possibilities Of proper im-
ployment.
The uses of electricity extend. An
electric hatiron is one of the new things
under the sun. Tie iron is hollow aud
the wire passes into the centre and is so
arranged that when the electricity is
turned on. the fiat face OF the iron is kept
at an even degree Of heat-just sufficient
to dogood work.
From the edge of prohibition Kansas
comes curiously contrived stopper,
which, placed upon the neck Of q bottle,
registers every drink taken out of it.
There arc people who still believe in
the practicability of COW mixers. One
of them has just got patent for four.
tube arrangement by which he expects
to draw of the contents of the udder
without being kicked over for his smart
meas.
The idea of combining various uses in
4 single article il farorite one with in.
yentors. "This combined cap, pillow and
life preserver" is to be made ofsome air.
tight material As q cap it looks like
the double-yisored headgear which is
considered the thing for steamer wear.
The centre pulls out. What appears to
be yentilator in the top proves a mouth.
piece. You blow into it until the inte.