Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-30
'ATENT REM fNDERs.
pMg FUNNY THINGS WHICH IN
 MENTORS HAVE MADE.

Bracelet to Make Her Think of En.
 gagements-Eany Devices for the Con.
 Igenience of Sleepy Heads-one to Thwars
 gshe Grave Robber.
 Psychologists assert that civilized hu.
 lan beings are growing more absent.
 linded. The average man of intelli.
 lnee today is not alert, not so con.
 hous of his immediate environments,
 | he was century ago. He does more
 tinking than he did then, and great 2 part of his business in life is left to 9e purely mechanical brain functions.
 l The inventors, always step ahead of ae requirements of the times, are al, 1ady at work devising eontriyances to Ammon absent attention. One of the Idest of these is a bracelet that has an 9arm watch attached to it. The wearer. having an engagement at q certain hour, let's the watch, and when the time ar ives little needle point bricks her nm and reminds her of the duty.
 At the patent office a large class of inventions is comprised under the head 'f "alarms'-these being machines by which persons who otherwise would not hink are made to think. The average Individual is obliged, however unwill- ,4gly, to get up at certain time ill the 1orning. To provide for this ,quire.
 4ent many ingenious persons have ap. Eied their talents to the production of antriyances for awakening people and them to arise. There is a lsnd of bedstead, for example, which bids it's mattress in a frame that is re. Eined in the normal position by catch. E4t the proper hour the catch, operated Y cloekwork mechanism, loses it's Trip, and the mattress frame becomes critical instead of horizontal, throwing Reepy head out upon the floor.
 There is another sort of bed which Rts the head of the sleepy person drop Then getting up time arrives, one end the mattress frame eollapsing. But he of the queerest of the patented hethods of waking people up involves he employment of @ tin pan and Q weight hung by 6 cord. When the
 ands of clock reach a certain point, he weight is released and falls upon he pan, making direful racket. An. 'ther oddity is frame from which are a number of corks. During he night it is lowered gradually by Q loekwork mechanism until at the roper hour and minute the dangling orks begin to bob against the nose and ace of the sleeper. Of course he wakes ip. The most obvious advantage of hese sleep alarms is that they render nxiety on the part of the sleeper un-
 eeessary, so far as rising is concerned. de can snooze undisturbed by the neces- ity Of watching himself.
 Hayseed visitors in the city will in- ist on blowing out the gas notwith- landing all the newspaper jokes on the ubjeet To provide against such aooi-
 ents, citizen of Ashland, Wis, has nyented little apparatus that is in- ended to be attached to every gas fix. ure i'll q hotel. The breath of a person yho attempts to blow out the gas tilts
 delieately balanced eleotrode and loses 8 circuit, giving an alarna. in the ffiee. Another kind of alarm r9tented y Chicago man, notifies the house. Iolder of escaping gas If you are fraid of pickpockets, you can obtain by wearing small machine hat makes big disturbance i'll case nybody tries to put his hand into your ,oeket.
 Even after death you may fin alarms
 service. If a grave robbe comes long, a torpedo placed in the fin for hat purpose will blow him to smither- ems. Supposing that the disturbance wakes you to life again, a clockwork mechanism will start q bell to ringing, while Q red flag runs up to the top of he tombstone, giving notice that 8 romp6 resurrection is desired. Speak ng of waking mp suggests mention of ome odd contTiyances for doing neees- ary things before getting out of bed in he morning. One of these, patented by
 lazy Yermonter, enables one to turn Il the draft of q stove or furnace and hen turn over for supplementary nooze. This, however, Is q primitive compared with the inyen- ion of a resident of Providence which rovides for the feeding of Q whole sta leful of live stock at daybreak. MT.
 leepy Head simply turns on his pillow nd jerks Q cord, which opens valve Il the stable and lets down the requisite uantity of feed into trough.
 There are quite a number of inven- ions for lighting the fire ill the morn ng without getting out of bed. They re all operated by eloekwork. The best f them is credited to an Illinois genius. | clock is set for certain time, and lhen the proper minute is reached the mechanism "throws' 2 lever, which raws match across q piece of sandpa- er and ignites the kindling. One of the a.est patents is for street lamp which IS cloekwork apparatus attached to t. At the correct moment for which la ,nanhina je set if closes an electric