The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-30
WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 30, 1894.
hung upon a door. When the latter
ID 6Tenedi the balls swing back and

is 6renedj the balls swing back and
forth and strike HARMONIOUS chords.
There is patented device fof play
ing the banjo by electricity. It re-
quires no skill, the instrument being
operated by sheet Of paper with per-
forations which control the making
and breaking Of a circuit. Mechanical
fingers thus actuated pick the strings
and depress them at the frets.
Another Instrument is so arranged
that one may play the banjo by miami
rulating the Keys Of Keyboard like
that Of piano on small scale. The
same idea is varied by combination
of piano and violin, the strings Of
the latter being fingered by the use Of
piano-like keyboard. Of course, that
is the difficult part Of violin, playing,
the handling of the bow being simple
enough. The bow is held in the right
hand, while the fingers of the left
hand strike the keys.
Within t last few years many
musical instruraetts that play them-
selves have been invented. These
ought to be Godsend in non-musical
households, not to mention the saving
of money for teaching and Of distress
to the nertes OF those Yho are not
doing the practicing. For example,
there is the piano organ, which is
operated by strips of perforated paper
like an organette. 1t is either piano
or an organ, or both together, and it
plays itself much better than most
people who understand the piano could
play it, because the mechanical ar
rangement is made with a high degree
of musical skill. The performer sim
ply works the bellows. But there is
a contrivance with mechanical hands
which may be showed up in front of
any piano and will do the playing.
Another patented contrivance for
the piano furnishes the instrument
with auxiliary strings; which sound in
sympathy with the ordinary strings,
though they are not struck. They
are tuned in harmony with the pri-
mary strings and augment the volume
Of tone. There is a kind Of piano
that holds note as long as the finger
is kept on the key; the string is kept
vibrating by an electro-magnet. The
Janko Keyboard is already becoming
we'll known. Its arrangement enables
the player to reach several octaves
with single hand, thus rendering
certain effects of execution possible
which could not be obtained on an or.
dinary keyboard. There are several
devices by which the performer is
enabled to improvise on the piano
and to have the improvisations record
ed with self-inking pens or otherwise.
Afterward the record may be trans
lated into the common notation.
Music boxes nowadays are made in
all sorts Of queer shapes. The glass
water bottle on the dinner table plays
a tune while the guest fills his tum-
bier. The cigar holder becomes tune
full when a match is struck upon it:
Toilet sets have music boxes concealed
in them. Fruit plates on being placed
upon the festive board start up with
jigs and waltzes. Photograph albums
become harmonious when opened.
Clocks, instead Of striking, emit oper-
attic fragments every hour. Artificial
singing birds, run by clock-work, with
bellows and whistle, carol melodiously-
One may buy an imitation canary,
robin or nightingale in case. Music
boxes run all the way from 40 cents up
to 81, 900 for complete orchestra in
a box, with reeds, bells and rolling
drums. One sort will play any num-
ber of operas, the music being fed to
the machine in the shape Of perfora-
ted strip.
Patents have been granted for max
ing innumerablc queer things out OF
paper-such as carpets, electric con-
duits, lead pencils, roofing material,
car wheels, boats, pals, cofins, brush
es and combs. Mattresses are manu-
factured out of paper pulp and ordi.
uaTy spoHSe3 oPiiASo pStnS
in the composition. A cloth paper
for bank notes have been invented,
the notion being to render such money
less perishable and more difficult to
counterfeit. Paper is used nowadays
for architectural decorations, interior
and exterior. Cornices, panels and
friezes are nodded out of the pulp.
Paper collars, which used to be pro-
duced in such enormous numbers,
seem to have gone out Of fashion.
Only the other day, a rural-looking
person with grip sack, after wander
ing up and down Pennsylvania avenue
for a long time, walked into the Metro
politan Hotel, and, addressing the
clerk, remarked
"This is a HI of town have
been to fifty stores and not one paper
collar could / get. What do you wear
here-cclluloid p
One of the most successful Of recent
inventions is a process for making
artificial straws out of paper for drink
ing iced beverages. Everybody knows
that real straws are apt to be defec-
tive, but the limitations are always
satisfactory and never fail to draw:
After they are rolled they are treated
with parafine, to render them water
proof and non-absorbent. The same
patent covers mouth pieces for ciga-
rettes, which are manufactured in a
similar fashion.
Medals are made out of paper and
colored to initiate silver or bronze.
Cigar boxes arc manufactured from
the same material, favored with cedar
oil to give them the customary smell.
Hollow telegraph POLES of paper pulp
are a new invention. Theya are coated
with silicate of potash to preserve
them. The making of paper bags is
an enormous industry in this country.
Four billions of paper bags are used in
the United States every year. Of
these the Paper Bag Trust turns out
IS per cent. Not long ago a process
was devised by which 3 Of an inch Of
material could be saved in the cutting
of each bag. On this account the
trust obtained complete equipment
of machinery at an immense cost, but
the saving for the first year by that
small economy of 8 Of an inch was
$4,000. One machine for making