The National tribune., 1906-03-01

In The National Tribune the surest way
of getting out a patent on an invention
and disposing of one, which is nee
essary article in all schools. business
houses. etc-F. E. Davis, washington
Ind.
The best and quickest way to get
out a patent is to employ some reputa-
BILE attorney, who knows the methods
of procedure. and will be ready to COM
ply with them. AS to selling the arti-
Gle, the best way probably is to come
into communication with house deal
ing in school supplies and stationery
and offer it the article.-Editor Nations
al Tribune.
The disposal of the worn-out or OBJ
solete plates upon which the United
States notes, bonds and stamps are
printed is obviously a matter of the
highest Importance. So long as those
plates are I'm use they are kept securely
locked in a vault and watched with
much more care than a man does his
cash. When the plates are delivered to
the printers they are receipted for, and
the printers obtain receipt when they
return the plates. Every impression
from them must be accounted for and
every sheet of paper issued to the print
ers. Every year, naturally. great
many OF these plates pass out of use,
and the practice is to melt them up in
the blastfurnaces of the gunshops at
the Navy Yard and use the fine steel of
which they are composed in making
guns. The melting is attended with a
great deal of formality. Trusted clerks
of the Treasury Department, one com
ing from the office of the Secretary, one
from the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue and one from the office of the
Comptroller of the Currency. receive
the plates from the Superintendent of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
and give him receipt, which clears
his books. The plates are then care
fully guarded to the Navy Yard and
checked off as they are thrown in the
furnace. This year there were $4,000
pounds, OF % tons, and they were melt
ed down at the rate of two tons a day.
This is a somewhat smaller amount
than last year, when there were $4,000
pounds, or "a tons, destroyed, and the
operation takes nearly two weeks. The
counterfeit money and counterfeiting
apparatus seized by the Secret Service
men also go into the melting furnace,
and are worked over into carriage
mountings and other parts of the big
guns.
One of the remarkable features of
Morse alphabet has maintained all over
the world in spite Of the numberless
inventions intended to supersede or
greatly modify it. Notwithstanding the
advantages claimed by other inventors,
the Morse remains superior in SIM
plicity, in freedom from trouble, in
adaptability to many uses, and in the
ease and certainty with which its alpha
bet is learned and used.
The British have begun a system to
prevent interruption Of Geographic
communication by means of storms and
have already installed an underground
telegraph cable between London and
Glasgow, 400 miles apart. The work
has cost $2,S00.00 or $1,000 a mile,
and it will be followed by other SUBJ
terranean cables to the principal cities
fl the three Kingdoms.
The report to the Massachusetts, Leg
islature is rather hopeless as to check
ing the ravages of the gypsy moth,
which Is now extended over 1924
square miles Of that State. The auto
mobile is accused of being a factor in
the spread of the pest, as the moths are
most prevalent around the roadhouses
where the vehicles make stops.
The British Admiralty is about to
test wireless telegraphy on an unpre-
cedented scale in communication be-
tween the battleships and fleets in the
forthcoming maneuvers. In these
maneuvers one feet will start from the
coast Of Spain and the other from the
West African coast and seek to keep
in constant touch with one another.
DR.. Ephraim Cutter il an advocate of
O new process Of cooking by intense
cold. which he says will produce as sat
fsfactOry results as heat. The frozen
potato Is a familiar Illustration. and un-
der the microscope 1T shows the starch
grains shrunken. cracked and fissured,
with the starch changed into the same
relations as by heat. Similar results
have been obtained with cranberries.
onions and squashes.
They have discovered that even the
minute mosquito is as badly infested
with destructive parasites as other ami
mails. and the question arises whether
cultivation OF these parasites may not
be useful in mitigating the pest.
Experiments conducted by Italian
professors give hope that radium nay
be useful in the cure of hydrophobia.
So far experiments with cancer have
given little encouragement.
It Is reported that white blackberries
grow rather beautifully in JA Flora 20