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Show Hit Lif Thlnpa the Most Valuable. Comparatively few people trgari.: Aem "!esoslnventorF,hutclmo3tevcrylody Ima been struck, nl ono lime or another, . ilh ideas that Bcomcd calculated to ro-UiecFomc ro-UiecFomc of tho Utile frictions of life, rsnnlly such Ideas aro dismissed with. )ut further thought. i "Why don't tho railroad company Inakc Its car windows si that they can I" slid up nnd down w Ihout breaking t'.e pap-gangers' bick? ' exclaims the liavcler. "It I were running tho road I would make them in such ft way." "What was tho man that made this Muccpan thinking of?" grumbles the conk "He never had to work over a U',u'i of he would have known how It ought to have lieen fixed." "Hang such n collar button I" growls i lie man w ho Is Into for breakfast. "If I were in the business I'd mako buttons p.!iat wouldn't Blip out, or break off, pr 'gouge out tho back of my neck." And then tho vurlout suffereis forget about their griovnnces and begin to think of something else. If they would jit down nt tho noxt convenient oppor-(iin'ty, oppor-(iin'ty, puttheirldeosnboutrarwlndows Atuctpiins, and collar buttons Into prac tlcvT-!j.'ipt,-nnd then apply for patents, t5cj might find themselves at Indopen-B.lly Indopen-B.lly wealthy as thumnn wholnvcnted T?ic iron umbrella ring, or the one, who pntinted the fifteen puzzle. a tlmptino orrsn. T . induce jvcoplo to keep trackof tholr bright ideas and see what there It In them, the Press Claims Company has risi 'm. to offer a prize. 1 'mi who submits to it tho "' ' i most promising Invention, fr i ii .uijl jioint of view, tho cji v nilli e twcnty-flvo hundred do' i i .-ii, in addition to refunding th ' 'i Hit in lug the patont. It will ulf 'i! ii . the Invention freootchnrgo '1 1 - '1. r it mibject lo tho following conm i, ns 1 v iv loinpuitor must obtain a p.iti , t fui l,irt invention through tho co'iq in lie must first apply for a nroliniiii.iiy seureh, the coat of which wirkl. live dollars, Should this search 'hilw ids invention to ba unpatentable, hi Vin withdraw without further expense jjjj(kwurie will bo expected to com-pu com-pu ifiui application nnd take "out a I i'.''l .u tho icguhir wuy. Tho total l nso, Including Oovcrnmcnt and Iliy iiu foes, will bo seventy dollars, I I i hif , w hcther ho secures tho prizo or i., the iuvontor will hnvo n patent that light, to lie n valuable property to him. The prise will bo nivnrdcd by a jury unoislliif- ot thrco rcputablo patent ttorneys of Washington. Intending "niKUtoi-nloii!d fill out tho following i lank, and forward it with their appll- I IltlOll t " , 1862. "I submit tho within described invention inven-tion in competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar 1'rizo offered by tho I'nsn Claims Company . ii i |