Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19

ing the praccicing For example. there a.
the piano organ, which is operated by str,ns
OF perforated paper like an orguinette. IN 4,
eithef plano or an organs or both togethcr
and ii plays itself much better than mos,
people VINO Understand the piano could play
IL because the mechanical -rrangement is
made with high degree of musical skin
Inc performer si=lply wor:.s the bellows
But there is a contrivance with mechs aicsi
hands which may be showed up IN fsont OF
any piano and win do the playing.
Contrivances for the Piano.
Another patented continuance for the nj
ano furnishes the instrument with auxiliary
strings, which sound in sympathy with TIE
oil dinarr strings. though they are not
struck. They are tuned in harmony with
the primary strings and augment the vol
ume - 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 eiectro-raagnet. The Janko keyboard 10
already becoming well known. Its arrange
meht enables the player TO reach several
octaves with a single hand, thus rendering
certain effects OF execution possible which
Sould not be obtained on an ordinary key
beard There are several devices by which
tne performer is enabled to improvise on
the piano and to have the impr, visations
recorded with self-inking pens or otherwise
Afterward the record may be translated
INTO the common notation.
Music boxes nowadays are made in an
sort" OF queer shapes. The glass water bot
ne on the dinner table plays a tune while
the guest fills his tumbler The ciSar
holder becomes tuneful whJa a match A
struck upon it. Soilet sets have music
boxes concealed in them. Fruit nlates on
peihg placed upon the festive board. start
up with Jigs and waltse- Photograph
albums become harmc nious when opened
LOCKS instead of striking, ers-t operate
,.agments every hour; Artificial singing
oirds. run by clockwork with bellows and
whistle, carol melodiously. One may buy
an .mitation canary, robin or ne Ntingals
IN a cage. Music boxes run all - way
from 40 cents up TO $1,000 for a complete
o roS,,n IN . box. With reeds. bells and
rolIiug drums. One Sort will play any num-
per OF operas, the music being fed 20 the
nacnihe In the shape of a perforated strip.
Queer Things From Paper.
Patents have been granted for making in
Vulnerable queer thirgs out Of paper-such
as carpets, electric conduits lead pencils
roofing material car wheels boats. pals
collins, brushes and combs. Mattresses are
manufactured out of paper pulp and or
binary sponge. springs being embedded in
the composition. cloth paper for bank
notes has been invented. the notion being
to render such money less perishable and
more difficult TO counterfeit. Paper is used
nowadays for architectural decorations, In
terror and exterior. Cornices, panels ana
fr1ezes are molded out of the pulp. Paper
collars. which used TO be produced In such
enormous numbers, seem TO have gone out
OF fashion. Only the other day q rural
looking person with a gripsack. after wan
derfng up and down Pennsylvania avenue
for long time, walked into the Metropol-
itan Hotel, and. addressing the clerk, re-
marked:
This is hI of a town. I have, been TO
fifty stores. and not one paper collar could
get. What do you wear here-celluloid 20
One of the mOst ellCCQSS<nl ~ an
ventions is a process for making artificial
straws out of paper for drinking iced bever-
ages. Everybody knows that real straws
are apt to be defective; but the limitations
are always satisfactory and never fail TO
draw. After they are rolled, they are treat
ed with paraffine. to render them water
tight and non-absorbent. The Same patent
covers mouthp.eces for cigarettes, which
are manufactured in a similar fashion.
Medals are made out " paper and colored
TO initiate silver or bronze Cigar boxes are
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 They
are coated with silicate OF potash 20 pre-
serve them. The making OF paper bags IL
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 sixty-hve per
cent. Not long ago a process was devised
by which 3-S Of an inch of material
cNul1 DE- SAVED III ltlt Culllle Ol tdCl O1S-
On this account the trust obtained a COM
plete new equipment Of machinery at an i'm
mense cost, but the saving for the first year
by that small economy Of three-eighths OF
an inch was $1,000 One machine for maxi
ing paper bags will cut and finish 5000
bags a day. The business of manufacturing
envelopes is even greater. The envelopes
are cut, printed. gummed and folded by the
same machine.
For Making Paper.
Many strange materials are utilized for
making paper. One Of these is peanut
shells Tobacco stems are reduced to pulp
and made into paper that is stained with
tobacco juice. This paper is employed for
cigarette wrappers and for wrappers and
filters of cheap cigars.
ore OF the oldest inventions recorded at
the patent Office is sort OF gun intended
to be fixed upon the head Of a Steer that 10
TO be slaughtered. The stroke of a hammer
ON pin fires a cartridge and discharges
bullet into the brain OF the dninaL II 10
almost noiseless and death is instantaneous.
There are several IDEAS for death alarms.
to give notice in case a person comes TO
life after being buried. The trouble with
most of them is that they would be apt to
be set of by the decomposition OF the body.
the gases DEVELOPED often causing a corpse
to turn nearly over. RENE BACHE.