The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-09-09

more man Insisted and upon further refusal
waxed wrathful whereupon the examiner called
the bouncer
An inventor in Highlands, Col. recently OBJ
tanned patent upon airship that contains all
the comforts of home. In the drawings it re-
sembles enlarged picture of some sort of
bug. with of eyes along the side and a
rufie down its back; on inspection the ruffie re-
solves itself into the railing along the upper deck
and the eyes into windows of the various state
rooms the ship
The lace curtains of each window are care
fully looped back not to obscure the view.
staircase leads down from the hatchway that
modest women may alight without undue expo
of lingerie Everything want is
shown, even to the buffet-that is all except the
machinery, which is probably in the cellar of the
craft with the laundry tubs and the furnace.
A man of Bergen. N j., has patented what
looks like large metallic box turned upside
down. There is bottom in It, In the side
walls are circular openings, and in these
tary fans which suck the air into the box The
aeronaut sits in car suspended from the box.
When the Bergen wants to fly he turns
the power onto his fans; these pump air into the
box. 1t can only escape downward, and the reac-
ton from this powerful draft will force the box
upward. causing it to ly-so runneth the patent
specification.
An expert of the patent Office figured out that
a blast strong enough to lift the combined weight
OF machine and aerOnaut would dow a mole IN
the ground big enough to hide an elephant What
happens to the unfortunate hero who sits below
in the teeth of this tornado will probably be told
in the supplemental application recently filed.
genius from GAINESVILLE, Tenn. would fly
by incasing himself in rubber suit. much like
that of diver, to which attached hollow
wings filled with liquid air. The release of the
air through waived vents downward and back
ward propels him upward and forward There
eyeholes In the casing but" naivey
remarks the inventor, "the air pressure from
without will enable the aeronaut to determine his
direction" which is rather a vague sort OF com
pass.
From gay Paree comes Edouard wuln with a
patented scheme for flying by means of eagles
vultures or condors" True to the instincts
Of his native city, he fits out his birds with cor
SETS" the specifications of which to trimmings
binding etc, carefully set out.
b. Szantmiklosy, from Budapest Hungary, also
has patented birddrven airship. but limits his
motors to ducks; why ducks is not set forth.
OF course Chicago has to shy her castor into
the ring. She turns up with a combination
MISUNDERSTANDING. with bay windows and
balconies in the body of the building "eminently
adapted for flying through the air or navigating
the water" saith the patent. II has hull-shaped
body. and the vessel can go from air to water
and from water to air without disturbing the
poker game In the smoking room.
But woman from Brooklyn goes the Chicago
man one better If some night the lonely way
farer is startled by the appearance of huge,
nondescript bird that alights In the roadway and
goes steeplechasing country with a Barney
Oldfield speed until il reaches nearby lake, over
which it rapidly skins. until, landing the fur
Their shore it rises into the air again. and disap-
pears over the horizon with parting nirt of its
tail let not that wayfarer hasten to the nearest
parsonage and sign the pledge. The bird he has
seen is real for 1t is only the lady from Brooklyn
taking an afterdinner spin in her newest nven-
ton. ship that can make lightning change