VOL. XX.
SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
SOCIETY.
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INVENTORSAND INVENTIONS
I Some of the Queer Happanings in
the world of Discovery.
The number of successful inventors
is always largp, but the number of un
successful ones is very much larger.
Only the other day 17 000 models of
rejected inventions were eold for old
junk. There is always somebody work
ing at the unsalable problem of per
petual motion or making a flying ma
chine. It not infrequently happens
that alter a pateut has been refused to
an inveutor, a subsequent application
is granted by a different examiner.
It sometimes happens that a patent
is granted to one man after somebody
else has failed to receive a patent for
the same invention. This is a fruitful
source of litigation. Indeed, litigatiou
about patent rights is so common that
in the introduction of any valuable
patent the legal expenses of defending
it are a large part of the capital re
quired. Immense sums were spent in
defending Morse's patents for telegraph
ing, and the various patents for sew
ing machines, India rubber manufac
ture, and of the inventions that have
;evolutionized industrial processes. But
when rights are once established by
law, the profits are enormous. It was
shown in a recent case before the
United States Court that for royalties
alone on the manufacture of barbed
fence wire more than $1,009,000 a
year were paid.
Inventors are now chiefly busy with
electricity, and the Patent Office is de
luged with devices for making new
uses of the modern marvel, or for using
it with new appliances. Many of these
inventions run in the direction of mo
tors. The opinion has gained some
ground lately that storage batteries of
electricity are not as successful as was
at first expected. It is asserted by
some that no storage battery ever gives
ont as much electricity as it receives,
and that every moment decreases the
amount yielded. Edison says the best
storage battery is a ton of coal, which
can be us d at any time to drive a
dynamo machine. Others, however,
still think that the storage battery will
produce wonderful results.
Inventors have always sought to
utilize the forces of nature for the con
servation of power. A good deal of
time and money has been spent on
efforts to utilize the force of the rise
and fall of the tide. According to
some plans the water is to be stored in
a reseryo'r at high tide, and used to
turn a water wheel wben the tide falls.
Another plan is to get the power from
the rise and fall of a float. There used
to be a tidal mill at Astoria and an
other at Charleston, S. C. The large
amount of land required to get the
requisite area of water surface is con
sidered an insuperable objection to tidal
mills.
A good deal of money has been ex
pended un solar engines, in hope of
getting power out of the sun's rays.
John Ericson, the inventor of the
Monitor and a thousand other things,
has made some beautiful solar engines,
and not long ago an inventor had a
model of a solar engine on the top of
the Cooper Union building, and man
aged to get up steam in a boiler. The
trouble is, however, that the sun does
not always shine, and the solar en
gine, to be of any practical use, must
be accompanied with a storing reser
voir of power that can be kept for a
rainy day. After all coal is nothing
but the heat of the sun stored in the
past ages for present use.
There is no telling of what great val
ue the discovery of the simplest fact
may be. When bromine was discov
ered by Ballard in 1824, nothing of im
portance was expected from it. Now
it is a valuable factor in photography,
and a useful remedy for nervous affec
tions.
Capital ia never wanted to try eyen
the most inventions. Not long ago in
ventor had an idea that he could, by
the use of a naked wire, produce a re
turn current and avoid electrical dis
turbances in cables. He could have
got the capital to lay a long cable un
der ground to try his experiment. He
was with difficulty dissuaded from do
ing this by a practical man, who sav
ed him lots of money by wrapping sev
eral miles of cable about a barrel and
arranging the naked wire as proposed
by the inventor. The result was a
complete failure, but the cost of the ex
periment was comparatively trifling.—
This is an illustration of the large
amount of money that can be wasted
through ignorance. Men will work
away at an idea with no knowledge of
what has been done or what can be
done, only to discover at the end what
they should have known at the begin
ning.
A good deal of money has been spent
in the effort to introduce ice machines.
There is, however, a strong competi
tion to he encountered, since ice may
always be had for the gathering, and
transportation is cheap.
Fire escapes are numbered by the
thousand. Hardly a day pass that the
Fire Commissioners are not compelled
to test some new plan. A good deal
of room is taken np in the Patent Office
with the models of these contrivances.
A very good example of eager
ness with which capital can be secured
to promote the most chimerical ideas
may be seen in the story of the Keely
motor. The stockholders have been
pretty thoroughly bled still more in the
hope of saving what they have already
expended. The varying fate of capital
invested is seen in the contrasting re
sults of the two steam heating compa
nies in New Y'ork pity, one of which
has proved a most lamentable failure,
while the other has had a measure of
success. It is not so certain that mon
ey invested underground will always
return a fair interest. It may be no
ceeeary to incur great expense when an
underground cable gives out, as tfie
whole route may have to be dug up to
find the break.
Accidental discoveries have supplied
some of the most valuable processes of
the industrial arts. It is said that the
rolling of cold iron was first suggested
by the fact that a workman who was
placing a piece of hot iron in the rolls
carelessly permitted his tongs to be
drawn in. Ho noticed that they were
rolled, and not broken. He called the
attention of the Superintendent to the ,
occurrence, and this led to investiga
tion and experiment and the discovery
that cold rolled iron is equal to steel
for shafting purposes. The process of
rolling iron cold was not long after
ward patented, and millions of dollars
have been made out of the patent.
There are many similar instances
where observing workmen have called
attention to valuable processes. A sig
nal one was in the early period of the
cotton manufacture, when a good deal
of trouble was caused by the cotton
sticking to the bobbens. All the work
men in the mill were delayed by the
necessity of stoping work to clean the
bobbins. At last one workman found
a way to obviate the trouble. He, and
he alone in all the mill, had clean bob
bins. For a long time he kept his se
cret to himself. He finally revealed it
on the promise of a pint of beer a day
for life. His secret was to "chalk the
bobbins." That little scraping of salt
on the bobbins saved millions of dollars
a year, and the obserying workman got
not only his beer, but a competence.
Each extension of modern enterprise
and skill brings with it a train of in
ventions. The railway, the telegraph,
the steamboat, the development of iron,
electricity, and petroleum, have each
produced a long line of inventors more
or less successful, so that each of these
industries might have a creditable ex
hibition by itself.
Natural Gas Fuels.
Years ago, in their eagerness to tap
from the earth its hidden treasures of
oil, drillers generally expressed disgust
when nothing but gas rewarded thei*
efforts. Later, some enterprising men
began to turn their attention to this
great sou.ee of ca'oric, and, one by one,
a number of iron and glass manufactor
ies in Pennsylvania carried the gas into
their mills. The Engineering and
Mining Journal says they have not
made much bluster over what they
were doing, and have quickly pocketed
the increased profits which their saving
of fuel, due to the use of gas, has given
them. Of late, however, the subject is
attracting considerable attention in a
quiet way, and recent developments in
dicate that the territory which may pos
sibly be able to draw upon the new
source of fuel supply is much greater
than is generally believed. Gas wells
have been opened and are utilized as
far west as Detroit, and as far south as
West Virginia, and Pittsburgh is now
getting excited over the extension of
the business of the Murraysville well in
Westmoreland County. Pipes have
been laid down to a number of glass
and iron works in the eastern part of
the great Smoky City, and a rapid ex
tension of the field of the gaseous fuel
is looked farward to. The belief is ex
pressed by men whose opinion is wor
thy of much consideration, that the
number of localities capable of being
supplied with gaseous fuel in the States
of New Y'ork, Pennsylvania, West Vir
ginia, and Michigan is much larger
than the majority have any conception
of, and the permanency of the flow of
some of the older wells gives rise to
the hope that it is a reliable fuel sup
ply. Its cheapness and cleanliness are,
of course, matters which are beyond all
doubt. There are indications that dur
ing the present year a considerable
number of companies will form to sink
wells, and a "boom" is looked toward
to that may bring forth the unusal crop
of unsound enterprises.
Alive With a Broken Neck.
An operation was performed yester
day afternoon by the physicians on
Mr. Edward Swartz, of Dover town
ship, who on Monday last had his
neck dislocated by the limb of a tree
falling upon him during the storm of
that evening. The operation was a
critical one. The man might die in
the operation, and Drß. West, of York,
and Gross, of Dover, informed the un
fortunate man of his condition, and he
was willing to have the operation per
formed.
Mr. Swartz calmly had his family
called to bid him good-bye, expecting
that the result of the operation might
be a fatal one.
Dr. Hay took hold of the patients
head, and Drs. Weist and Long at the
neck and shoulders, and the reduction
of the fracture was successfully per
formed. The patient immediately
said he lelt relieved, that he bad more
feeling in bis body, which had been
paralyzed, and felt less pain. It is
yet impossible to tell the result of the
operation. If the spinal cord was not
injured the patient may recover. The
case attracts much attention among
the medical fraternity, and considera
ble interest among the people general
ly, owing to the singular and critical
nature of the injuries.— York, Pa.,
Dispatch.
—Large tracts of land between Vic
toria and Indianola, have had a
hedge of McCartney's roses planted
around them, and, though exposed to
all kinds of stock, it is growing finely,
and in a few years will be a fence
which no kind of stock will attempt to
pass. This fence is everlasting, and
much cheaper then rails, wire or lum
ber.
—"lt mijst have been slippery
weather when the prodigal son return
ed." The old gentleman asked: Why,
in your opinion, was it slippery?"
"Because," returned the small boy,
"the old man fell on his neck."
DELEVAN, WIS., Sept. 24, 1878.
GENTS —I have taken not quite one
bottle of the Hop Bitters. I was a
feeble old man of 73 when I got it
To-day I am as aetiye and feel as well
as I did at 30. I see a great many
that need such a medicine.
D. BOYCE.
Road Dust Defended.
MERCER Twr., Aug. 5, 1883.
EDS. CITIZEN: —Ia my last I stated
"dry earth is the best disinfectant in
the world." Your Bruin correspond
ent inquires, "what disinfectant prop
erties does road dust contain,"
Road uust is dry earth. "Earth to
earth and dust to dust." The living
of to-morrow are built up from the de
caying of to-day. The earth is the
proper absolvent of all she produces.
"In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth, etc." Nothing
has been created since and nothing has
been lost. Earth is nature's greatest
disinfectant. All decaying matter,
either animal or vegetable, must re
iurn home to "mother earth" and she
receives it and appropriates.
Decaying matter, marl, phosphates,
Ac., which are used as fertilizers for
our wheat fields, form part of the wheat
we eat, supporting our bodies, which
in turn must return to earth. Nature
has not only made provisions for life,
but for health, that life might be pre
served.
For instance, the atmosphere is the
most agreeable respirant, and the best
calculated to support animal life of
any combination of gasses, that can
possibly be made. But in passing
through our lungs by breathing, it be
comes carbonic acid gas, a deadly poi
son. But behold God's hand in that
tree by our dwelling; its leaves set to
work at once, absorbing the poison
from it, setting the oxygen free, and it
is again ready for respiration. Now,
Mr. Editor, I will answer your corres
pondent's question. But first let me
ask. what is it in that tree that decom
poses the air that I have rendered pois
onous by breathing, and restores it to
a healthy atmosphere. I answer the
hand of God—Nature, if you please to
call it so. Dry earth is itself a disin
fectant, naturally God has made it so.
Your correspondent might as well
ask, what disinfecting properties chlor
ine contains. It is a disinfectant itself,
God has given it certain properties
which are governed by certain laws,
which laws are consistent. The laws
of nature are laws of health, the viola
tion of which is followed by a penalty.
As I am speaking of chlorine, allow
me to use it to illustrate some of these
laws. I have already said it is a dis
infectant; It is also in its pure state an
exceedingly suffocating gas. It unites
with hydrogene readily in the light but
not in the dark. Suppose we shut the
blinds of our bedroom, shutting out the
sunlight, the air becomes damp, or
loaded with moisture—hydrogene; the
chlorine gas that is present, ready to
disinfect the room, cannot unite with
the hydrogene because of the darkness.
There is a law in nature that gasses
uniformally mix irrespective of their
gravity. But in the case above we
lose the benefit of the disinfectant un
der this law, because we shut the light
out of our room, again, one proportion
of Chlorine and one of mercury makes
Calomel, a medicine, while two propor
tions of Chlorine and one of mercury
make corrosive subliment, a deadly
poison. I might cite too many such
laws, some of which seem to be special
laws; I cannot speak of them here, I
may at some future time, but for the
present must return to the subject of
dry earth as a disinfectant and deodor
izer. Yes, it is a deodorizer, a power
ful one. lio decaying matter can con
tinue to emit disagreeable odors when
completely covered with perfectly dry
earth and kept covered to the depth of
but a few inches.
In your issue, some weeks ago, you
recommended salt and lime as a cheap
disinfectant. Salt is a chloride of sod
ium, uniting with lime forms a chloride
of lime, a good disinfectant. If your
correspondent would ask me what dis
infecting properties salt contained, I
would answer chlorine, and when he
asks, "what disinfecting properties
road dust contains," I answer dry
earth, and it acts as an absolvent. The
alpha and omega under divine law.
Who has not heard of the Dry Earth
Patent Closet ?
We do not see animal and vegetable
matter undergo decomposition and
emit disagreeable odors, while in a per
fectly dry state. As moisture is neces
sary to all life, so is moisture necessary
to decay, because as already stated, the
living is built up from the decaying
and moisture is the medium for trans
mission, that is, the properties are car
ried in a fluid state by an inate princi
pal or law of nature, that is to say the
hand of God. While dry earth may
not be used in sufficient quantities as to
prevent decomposition entirely it does
arrest it by absorbing a part of the
moisture and acts as a deodorizer by
absorbing the escaping gasses.
Road dust is the cheapest form in
which it can be obtained as it is al
ready pulverized. Again I would urge
all who prize good health, with yards
and outhouses, free from all disagree
able odors, to use it freely especially
from now till autumn frost, as it is
generally most sickly season. Use it
in ditches and drains of the yard and
about the door and board walks.
MILO.
Whenever oil of turpentine, ben
zole or either is used to remove grease
spots on cloth, the application should
be made on the reverse side
of the cloth by moisten
ing it with the solvent in a circle sur
rounding the spot, so as to approach it
gradually, having blotting paper in
contact with the spot of grease to ab
sorb tho fat immediately; otherwise
the solvent will have the effect of
spreading the grease over a larger
portion instead of driving it out of the
cloth. In the application of a hot
iron to one side and blotting paper to
the other, the heat will drive the
grease out of the cloth into the paper,
because fat has a tendency to move
from the hotter parts towards the
cooler
At Council Bluffs the trains of the
Chicago & North-Western and the U.
P. R'ys depart from, arrive at and use
the same joint Union Depot.
The Arbitration Fxperiment.
For many years the organized work
men of the State have been urging ar
bitration as a means of avoiding ruin
' ous contests between the employers
and employed. The difficulty in their
way, as they claim, was to get a hear
ing from those who choose to speak
for those who only could have a com
mon interest with them in the ques
tion, viz: their employers, and a long
time was spent in ruinous contests
without satisfactory, or indeed any re
sults. Senator Wallace, who in the
time spoken of was the most uncom
promising persecutor of those who
urged the equality of workmen in their
dealings with their employers, at the
adoption of the principle of arbitration,
blossomed out as the advocate of that
principle at the late meeting of the
Legislature, and presented a bill pro
viding for a voluntary tribunal for such
arbitrations. The reason for this sud
den conversion are not avowed, and
Mr. Wallace has not given the work
men many reasons for feeling confi
dence in him as a friend, but just the
reverse; so that when his bill was pre
sented, it was looked upon with a
great deal of suspicion. The bill pass
through all its stages, however, and
became a law. The first attempt at
an application of provisions of the
bill has just been made, and brought
to a conclusion in the Pittsburgh coal
region. The employers demanded a
reduction of the price of mining from
three and a half to three cents per
bushel, which the workmen rejected,
and stoppage of work was about to
take place. It was proposed that ar
bitration under the new law should be
resorted to, and the parties agreed.
The tribunal was organized about a
month ago, and the subject gone into,
and it was found that the ultimate ar
bitrator—an umpire, must be resorted
to. Hon. John R. McCune was
agreed upon as an umpire, and after
performing his duty in examining all
the facts presented, he has submitted
his decision in a letter giving his rea
sons for his conclusion, and decrees
that the price from the 21st of May to
the Ist of Cctober shall be three and a
quarter cents per bushel. He reports
that be finds the trade somewhat de
pressed, and the prices at which coal
can be sold readily will not warrant
the payment of three and a half cents,
but three and a quarter cents would be
a fair price. It is stated that the work
men are satisfied with the reasons for
his decision, and are willing to abide
by it. The operators up to the time of
this writing have not expieased their
views on the point, but it is believed
they will likewise acquiesce, and thus
a strike that would have been damag
ing to all involved be avoided. What
ever may have been the motives lead
ing to the introduction of the bill,
should it prove to be effective in pro
moting harmony, it will be hailed as
a long step forward in the line of be
neficent \yrogresi.-Armstrong Republi
can.
It Was Very Effective.
The King of Dahomy received an in
voice of Krupp cannon not long ago
and conceived the idea of having them
mounted on elephants' backs for use in
the field. With much difficulty this
project was carried out, and at the next
military review, the King ordered that
one of the guns be fired immediately in
front of the royal position, first taking
the precaution to place a couple of
thousand of prisoners about where it
was calculated the ball would strike, so
as to judge of the effectiveness of the
shot.
When all was ready, one of the big
gest elephants was backed around and
sighted. Just as the lanyard was jerk
ed, however, the animal turned half
round to reach for a peanut or some
thing, and the shell took oil' the Prime
Minister's head and knocked a hole as
big as a sewer through the palace.
His Majesty wouldn't have cared so
much if the matter had ended there—as
the Minister wasn't very prime and
the palace needed ventilation—but it
didn't. On the contrary, the elephant
which bad been stood on his head by
the recoil, picked itself up in a fury and
started in on the down grade ahead of
its ticket. It upset the grand stand
the first rush, slung the grand chamber
lain and past grand carver of mission
aries into the next street. It then
jumped into the brass band with all
four feet, and if it hadn't got the big
drum over its head so that it couldn't
see, would probably have cleaued out
the entire congregation. The King
was not found until the next morning,
and then, as he slid down out of a ba
nana tree, he was understood to re
mark that there was one thing needed
to render his new artillery system an
entire success—that was to get the
enemy to adopt it.
Murder Will Out.
A man named George West, of
Washington county, 0., after a silence
of seventeen years, has just confessed
on his dying bed to having assisted in
the murder of an oil speculator. His
story was that he and Ward, with a
man named Kirkbride, who now runs
a butcher shop in Matamoras, were the
murders—Ward and he holding the
victim while Kirkbride cut his throat.
The body was then thrown into a well
the location of which the dying man
disclosed. He spoke of a ring upon
his victim's finger, which had not been
removed. Kirkbride is missing. The
well has been searched and a human
skull found. Further search is in pro
gress. Kirkbride's whereabouts are
unknown, he not having been in bis
shop for two or three weeks. He will
probably be arrested as soon as found.
—An enthusiastic country exchange
remarks: "The hills and valleys are
carpeted with the verdant growing
crops." A neat idea. The carpet,
strictly speaking, is of the ingrain va
riety.
-~-The year keeps up it 9 reputation
fo* disasters.
Old Manuscript Ink.
While examining a large number of
manuscripts of an old scribe some 20
years ago, I was struck with the legi
bility of the writing, owing in a great
measure to the permanent quality of
the ink, which had not faded in tho
least, although many of the manu
scripts were at least 200 years old.
It was remarkable, too, that the writer
must have been celebrated in his day
for the excellence of his caluraphy,
for I met with a letter or two from his
correspondents in which there was a
request for the receipt of tho ink he
used. I found his receipts, which I
copied, and from one of them, dated in
1824, I have during the last 15 years
made all the ink I have used. The
receipt is as follows: llain water, 1
gallon; galls, bruised, 1 pouud; green
copperas, pouud; gum arabic, 10
ounces, 5 drams, 1 scruple Not re
quiring so large a quantity at a time,
I reduced the proportions by one-eight,
aud the receipt stands thus; Rain
water, 1 pint; galls, bruised, li ounces;
green copperas, 6 drams; gum arabic,
10 drams. The galls must be coarsly
powdered and put into a bottle, and
the other ingredients added. The bot
tle, securely stopped, is placed in the
light (sun if possible) and its contents
stirred occasionally until the gum and
copperas are dissolved, after which it
is enough to shake the bottle daily,
and in the course of a month or six
weeks the ink will be fit for use. I
have ventured to add 10 drops of car
bolic acid to the contents of the bottle,
as it effectually prevents the formation
and growth of mold without any de
triment to the quality of the ink, so
far as I know.
—ln these days of temperance agi
tation, and among the multifarious de
vices to bring about a temperance re
formation, it would be a refreshing
change to see the reformers make some
movement agairsi the drinker AS well
aa the seller of liquo?. The drink busi
ness is regulated by the law of demand
and supply, and so long as men call for
rum it will be forthcoming, law or no
law. The seller is an accessory, but
the drinker is the principal. The drink
er plans to get drunk, knowing just
what the result will be. The modern
style of reform iB, to give the seller
Hail Columbia, and the drinker hoteof
fee and sandwhiches and, metaphori
cally, to wipe away his maudlin tears
with the assurance that he is a noble
hearted fellow with a appetite. This
is not even-handed justice. Whatever
criminality attaches to the seller at
taches to the buyer and consumer.
Seller and drinker are practically in the
same boat—they are there because
they choose to be. The law now iu
force in Maine recognizes the fact. Tho
man who gets drunk, either on or off
his own premises, is fined and im
prisoned equally with the one who
sells the liquor. The law which
would reform the one must also deal
ivitb the other.
How a Woman's Life was Saved.
After she had tested the skill of all
best doctors in Western Pennsylvania,
and New York, and had paid over
SI,OOO without receiving any perma
nent good, the limbs became
with even tenfold greater virulence,
not only eating away the flesh, but at
tacking the bones beneath. It also
affected her head and face, making her
almost blind and deaf, reduced to a
mere skeleton, weighing but 80
pounds, the doctors pronounced her at
death's door. Per una was then given
her, as stated, and with the result
given on
"Ills of life." She took no other med
icine and is perfectly well.
—Several of our exchanges have had
a squib lately about the merchants of
Oil City being taken in by an advertis
ing fraud following or preceding, Sells
Bros' circus, all ended by saying "here
after those merchants will advertise in
newspapers." Hereafter, those mer
chants will do no such thing. They
will just in the sweet bye and bye until
some other advertising fraud with some
other scheme comes around and then
they will all contribute again, under
the mistaken notion that they are ad
vertising their business.
I Know Whereof I Speak.
For I have used it extensively. I re
gard Parker's Ginger Tonic a most ex
cellent for kidney, lung and stomach
disorders. It invigorates without in
toxiacting J. Francir, Religo Philoa
Journal, Chicago.
A rare case is that of Andrew
Carnegie, of Pittsburgh, head of the
largest iron manufacturing concern in
this country. After accumulating »
great fortune, he has returned to hit
native Scotland, and it is said will
seek for election to parliament.
Four packages of Dr. Hertson's Skin,
Cure entirely cured me," —F. P. La
velle, Merced, Cal. sl. at druggists.
—Watermelons, mostly from Geor
gia never were mose plentiful at this
season of the year. The freight from
there here is from S9O to SIOO per car,
and in some instances consignees re
fused to take them knowiug that they
could not realize enough to pay the
freight.
Diamond Dyes for family
use have no equals. All popular color«
easily dyed, fast and beautiful. 10
cents a package.
An Illinois woman ha« done no
work since her recent conversion, and
her husband has sued the revivalist
who was instrumental in destroying
her household usefulness.
Mr. Will T. Montelius, Mt. Car
mel, Pa., says: "I wa3 entirely cured
of dyspepsia, general debility and loa®
of appetite by using Brown's Iron
Bitters.
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