Show ft CT LUNATIC brainy people blo are afe kept under cade lock and key A lunatic asylum Is about the last 1 place any one would search in for or ingenious and valuable inventions tent bant it said the resident physician of one of the largest of these institutions we have a patient in this asylum now who believes he is shut up in the old fleet prison for the national debt in the hope of raising the money to pay day this trifle off and obtain release he 1110 has for the last two years devoted his poor brains to inventing things strange to say among a host of utterly absurd ideas he actually has produced two which are really practicable his friends and I 1 have supplied him with such bar harmless materials as he requires les and he has just finished a simple automatic contrivance for the head bead of a lawn tennis racquet to pick u up P the balls and abolish stoop stooping ng it acts perfectly and im so 0 con convinced vinced there Is i I 1 money in it that I 1 have advised his friends to secure a patent for him la case he ha becomes cured his ht other invention is of a different kind being abeln a really efficacious prevent preventive lve of seasickness it is very simple two of its compo cents are in every kitchen and the rest in every chemists shop I 1 have successfully tested it myself on two occasions recently when crossing the channel in very stormy weather As an instance of the cleverness of lunatics it may interest you to know that a very valuable improvement connected with machinery and now in daily use everywhere was invented by the inmate of an asylum well known to every one by name As he is now quite cured and is ia a somewhat what prominent man I 1 wont mention any details but his invention designed and modeled as a diversion while absolutely insane has since brought him la thousands of pounds A lunatic at an asilum where I 1 was once assistant physician invented a flying machine and had a unique method of suspend suspending irig it in midair mid air the atmospheres pressure being fifteen pounds to the square inch he said 1 I have simply to exhaust n all the air from above my airship by nn an enor air pump fixed over the whole deck and the air pressure underneath ath will ill hold bold the ship up I 1 told him he would need another air pump on the tha top of the first one to exhaust the air that would be pressing that pump down and another alve above thit that I 1 ind and so on nd ind lib lb but he declared he once enado a model had worked splendidly he said lit lt flew about in the room like a bird unfortunately the window bapp happened ened to be open at the top and it flew out and so I 1 lost it he lamented the chaplain of an asylum in the north once told me of a tr indman there who had a plan for laying a c cable a ble round the world in two days ills his idea was to send up a powerful balloon hall con to 0 O the highest possible altitude tude with h a able attached bv br the revolution of the fhe earth on its axis the cable he d declared 4 would be laid completely round the earth in twenty four hours answers |