Catoctin clarion., 1894-11-15
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
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| No,ll you Ike to make twenty-five hun
| ,Irrf dollars? IfyOu would, read carciHi'f
what foiIows and you may see way I" dn ".
ynr Press Claims Company dcvotes much
attention tn patents. Ii has handled th"Ns-
nnds Of ofappcations for Inventions, nu' II
would like to handle thousands more. lhere
Is plenty ,f inventive talent in TINS country,
| needing nuihing bat IN COZ rh eh'
! to produce practical results. lh"l ehco"r'
ngrnent The Press Claims Company pro-
! poses to give.
MOE @es syAssE3 Al III %EEEA'
A patent strikes most people as an npp"'l'
/ inuIy tvymiab ,hing. The idea is tl,nt an
inventor mus, be a natural genus like Edi-
sen or Bell ;that lie must put years to delVlng
IN co!np,icalcd mechanical problems and
tIat he must spend :! fortune on delicate ex'
uc,lmrnls before he can ret n new device I"
a :, ,,rntal,e degree OF perfection. MS uc'
lualon the company desires to dspci IL de-
sire, to get into the head ot,hc public clear
comprehension Of the tact that II IS not Inc
grst. complex, aud expensive inventions
)hqi bing the best rrlurns to their authors
lD, the Mule, simple, and cheap oncs-lhe
things tnnt seem 80 A''surdty TRIVIAL lhat lAc
citiy;n would feel somewhat ashamed OF
hfin.lng them to the attcnllon OF lhc Iaich'
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous 'h'eh-
tions have not been sufficient top pay lhe COST
O! his experiments. But the man VINO con-
cciycd the idea of fastening n ht OF ruhpcr
cord tc a chill's ball. so that it would come
back to his hand when thrown made Tor
tame out of his scheme. The modern sew.
iur.raachinc il A miracle OF inGcnnuy-the
nr0huct Of the toll of hundreds ol busy brains
througu q hundred and fifty years, hut thc
whole brilliant result rests upon the sl!np'c
device of putting the eye ct the necuAc al lhe
point instead Of the other end.
'rg,Fz r.gTYs.E THINGS TIE
T;0sE VALUABLE.
Comnara,iyvly few people regard them
eclvc;ns inventors, but almost cve'Shody
has been struck, 1t one time or ah"lher,
with ideas that seemed calculated to REFUGE
some Oft! little triclions of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without iurtWr
lAonehl.
WHY don't the railroad company make
its car windows SO that they could DC SLID up
and dOWn without breaking the passengers
backs" cx"laims the traveller III | were
running the load would make them IN s1ch
" WAY; ,,,o oo,,oo-
n,l M''S I% w ;,, r,nr,h,as ,hc cook lc
rr,cr EnI to work over stove, or he would
have known how i, ought 10 have been tlXcd
"I!Ang such q collar button !! gro"ls the
man MI, i, la', for breakfast. "li were in
III huNlresS It h'ake o"l'ons '',a' w. H"'nan nhl
slip oU" "r n'rah OF, ol S""so 'o' 'Ne o'> "
"t my neck. r. c,o, o,o,,
And thea the va'louS snhcfelS 'orsut % "'"'u'
thclr gticyanccs ana bc1'n 10 'llinh Vi s'ine we,
ihn" else, II 'hcy w"F'' M Gown /" wv, 'ns
" II r"nvtnl'ni "@N"'N''''f' p'' 'Nt'' i"T"s
ABOUT car windows sauce, "l'S ''i'' 'o,'rr I',,r
buttons ni" Nra, ,'''r ', hh' ~. p,
s"r p.."''', tN'f lE'sht hho '"'''S'
i!vsp,nuy ~ wealthy "S ~ "' 80 -.
vented Ihe non uln"Tc'm ms y. '"' "'e
u"lAlyntyd NE hllr.n phZzc.
d 4 - i 4 q u UF EA'
70 induce people to keep track of Their
h,i.l, Ideas and see what there is in them,
The Press Claims Company has resolved to
otter & }ll2c.
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