Show I FEW PEOPLE have anything like I f I f a correct idea of the money that i I I U has been made from patents on the i J little inventions that we see everyday I 1 every-day The New York Times publishes I I a short list of these pateuts show i I I ing what mines of wealth theinvenj i 1 i 1 tor has One of the profitable little I things is the toy called the return I f 1 ball a wooden ball with an elastic string attached selling for 10 cents J each but yielding its patentee an I j income equal to 50000 a ye ir The II rubber tip on the end of lead I peacils affords the owner of the I royalty an independent fortune I The inventor of the gummed newspaper news-paper wrapper is also a rich man The gimlet pointed screw has evobred more wealth than most silver sil-ver mines and the man who first thought of putting copper tips to childrens shoes is as well off as if J his father had left him 8 000000 in United States bond Although roller skates are not so much used in countries where ice is abuudantin 7 S uth America especially in Brazil J they are very highly esteemed and have yielded over S1OJ0 to their inventor in-ventor But he has spent 125000 in England alOne lighting infringements I infringe-ments The dancing Jim Crow a toy provides an annual income of 75000 to ils inventor and the common com-mon needlethreader is worth 10 000 a year > to the man who thought of it The drive well was an Idea of Golouel Green whose I twops during the warwere in want of water He conceive J the notion of driving a twoinch tube into the ground until water was reached and j then attached a pump This simple contrivance was patented after the war and the tens of thousands of farmers who have adjpted it have been obliged to pay him a royalty t a moderate estimate of which is t placed at 3000000 The spring window shade yields an income of i t 100000a 11 yearthe styl graphic pen also brings in 100000 yearly the marking pen for shading in different l differ-ent colors 100000 rubber stamps 3 the same A very large fortune hast has-t been reaped by a western miner who ten years ago invented a metal rivet or eyelet at each end of the mouth of coat and pants pockets to j resist the strain caused by the carriage car-riage of pieces o if ore and heavy tools |