The Jackson herald., 1910-09-15

more insisted. and upon further refusal
waxed wrathful, whereupon the examiner called
the bouncer.
An inventor In Highlands. Col. recently OBJ
tanned patent upon an airship that contains all
the comforts OF home. In the drawings 1t re-
sembles an enlarged picture OF some sort Of
bug. with q row of eyes along the side and a
ruffe down its back: on inspection the ruffle re-
solves itself into the railing along the upper deck
and the eyes into windows Of the various state
rooms on the ship.
The lace curtains Of each window are
fully looped back as not to obscure the view
A staircase leads down from tho hatchway that
modest women may alight without undue expo
sure of lingerie Everything man can 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, ~ j., has patented what
looks like q large metallic box turned upside
down. There is bottom in It, In the side
walls circular openings. and in these are ro-
tary fans, which suck the air into tho box The
aeronaut sits In car suspended from the box.
When the Bergen man wants TO fly he turns
the power onto his fans; these pump air into the
box. II can only escape downward. and the reac-
tion from this powerful draft will force tho box
upward, causing It to ny-so runneth the patent
specification.
An expert of the patent Office figured out that
blast strong enough to lift the combined weight
of machine and aeronaut would blow n hole 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.
A genius from Clarksvie. Tenn. would fly
by incasing himself in a rubber suit much like
that OF diver. to which attached hollow
wings filed with liquid mir. The release OF the
air through Waived vents downward and back.
ward propels him upward and forward. There
are no eyeholes in the casing but" naiyely
ms rlFQ fba ipUa thn air
without will enable the aeronaut TO determine his
direction" which is rather vague sort of
pass
From gay Paree comes Edouard Wun with a
patented scheme for flying by means of eagles,
vultures or condors." True to the instincts
Of his native city. he Ats out his birds with "cor.
SETS" the specifications Of which to trimmings
binding, etc, are carefully set out
b. Szantmiklosy from Budapest, Hungary. also
has patented blrd.driven airship but limits his
motors to ducks; why ducks is not set forth.
or course Chicago has to shy her castor into
the ring. She turns up with combination
balloon, oon,hotelboatairship, 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. 1t has hullshaped
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 a woman from Brooklyn goes the Chicago
man one better II some night the lonely way
farer is startled by the appearance of huge
nondescript bird that alights In the roadway and
goes steepechasing cross country with Barney
Oldfeld speed until II reaches a nearby lake. over
which It rapidly skins. until. landing on the fur
ther shore 1t rises into the air again. and disap
pears over the horizon with parting flirt OF it's
tail, let not that wayfarer hasten to the nearest
parsonage and sign the pledge. The bird he has
is real. for 1t is only th6 lady from Brooklyn
taking an after.dinner spin in her newest inven-
tion. ship that can make lightning change