| Show I WASHINGTON GOSSIP A Visit to the United States Patont Office Special correspondence Washington D C Feb lot 181ol A VIsit to the Patent Ollleo can to mind Bomethlng Hill Arp wrote a few years ago Said he 1 Old rather Time used to go about In summer clothes with nothing on but his bones and n scythe blado In his hand but now wo can cut down ten acres to his one with a Buckeye reaper They ought to get up a new picture with tho old feller sitting up on a machine and driving a pair of Ken lucky mules In a henttleld at horest time There are a heap of the good l old primer and spellingbook pictures bOOIng bOO-Ing out of date Nobody ever uses an hourglass now Nolwdy ever Beta an old fashioned beehlvo with a round lop and made of ilraw The old farming pictures look curious to this generation the humpback man culling his wheat with a crooked ate kle holding a bunch In one hand nni cutting It with the other And there were two men aplowIngone was driving the steers and the other holdIng hold-Ing the plow and lhals where lien franklin got his maxim 110 that by the plow would thrive Himself must either hold or drive But now one man will sit uiun a cultivator culti-vator or a pulverizer and do ten times the work in a dOT 1 don see how them oldtime fellers did make a livln for with all our Improvements It Is nip and tuck to let along and keel even Besides the useful things abovu mentioned men-tioned and a great many more tho desire de-sire to be beautiful which Is I Implanted In the female breast furnlshea the In ollration for thousnnd of queer Inven i lions One Is I a wire mask to be worn on the face at night and Is filled with blunt pencils and screws to push them Into the cheeks and chin at the points where dimples are desired PoasJjly It may produce the Cupid snares aforesaid but think ot the torture of it and then rllect on female viwlty Another dimplemaker on which u patent pa-tent has actually been obtained l Is I this A small spot Is to be smeared on the cheek or chin with colorless chollac vurnleh mixed with glue and the center cen-ter of the pot Is I to be pressed llrtnly with a pencil point until the ublnnce on the fane heeomes dry and hard The stiffened Indentation them retollns the exact shape of a dimple and a little facepowdir dusted carefully over It will completely conceal the vnrnWi glue compound The person vvtio adopt this wily device Is warned not to smile too suddenly or the dimple may be broken although with gentle usage It will last a whole evening If not longer The speculation concludes with an Important reservation While the dimple process Is nppllcnhla to those whose faces comprise a Fort vet vlty or plump surface as then a very deceptive dimple can be produced It Is not so available for thin or hony faces nor where Lire skin Is very thick and unyielding A complexion Improver han h01 ix i whla had a great run Is a sort of in to of very Ihln India rubber to be worn over I Ihe female countenance when In bed It has sills for eye mouth and no trlls and cohere Ornll strapped on cauves profuse perspiration which Is warranted to clear live skin Qt tan and wrinkles There have been a dozen IlppllaUons mod for eet ting diamonds In the front teeth holes being drilled to reoflve the gems and of course dental Isurgeoner have patented processes without number for Imitating cold tilling In false teeth This Is I done by burnlslflng gold foil upon > them i In the manner termed fin gliding the object being to deceive Iho beholder into the holler that the conspicuous Igns of repair mean notu rot teeth not artificial Tlherr are several eral Imitation noses too made of per rter mach namenl to Imitate the kin The mot curious of those Is attached at-tached to a pair of spectacles so that the ownerbrI ban lost Itfs nasal ap pendae by some accident or may not be tatlsfled with the style and shape of the one nature bestowed upon hIm may put on a beautiful new nose with his glasses When the enamel wears ort a little and probocl bIns to look shabby all he has to do Is I to touch It up with water colors Money the puns that the wearied attendants around the came which contains this Invention are dally complled to hear concerning the coloring of noses by glasses unuer them One of the moat no1 patents ever Issued was cured by a Boston woman on a device for restoring facial ymme try The Idea Is I that If n gentle continuous < con-tinuous outward Pressure I In main talned on the cheek from Inside the I mouth tile full arid plump etreet of tile youthful racptlii ntlnie bVfiisioreof To attec this a couple of disks mounted on I pirings tire rondo tolreent the Inside fthe cheek and mish them out by means of a spring Attached lobe Id iS I presume that coco must be I token and lot press too much area produce tile elect of tho mump and to toTvo I vvttliolnB when cll1K so us to aold Jgw1h I ca n1rIvn nee And making all enlargement of the tomoh instead of tile put IlIlenIId A PhiladelphIa body horrified l by the unbecom ngness of tile ornlnarv Pro server hleh once saved her life nt Boa lias signed a shapely lifepre serving corset lo be I worn b > ellhr sex when outing accidents tire apprehended S apprehend-ed I Thus a lady or gentleman going lo Europe may lllernlly fitel him or her self against nn unpleasant Inter hw with Ispiune by reason of burn Ing ahIp7 or cutting Morm And there lire nearly its many de Ics for enchanting masculine beauty proving that vanity Is I net confined 10 he weiikcr sex In the line of mus tah guarder alone there tire upwards of 100 patents Some take the form of metal contrivance for tile cup or glass One In I a gold plate with a spring which mny he I Attached any drinking eel nt a moment notice Ono IR I especially deslRn1 for her glasses A tube connected with It goes down Joel Into HIP beer Bo that the imbiber gets no foam on his Iliw Similar devlc tire Applied to spoons Other guards of One wire net have Action nltach1 which pass back flf the ones Ilk Spec tacle and hold the Contrivance on while other neo merely a Iolr flf prlngs In the form of n helix ono of which Is I made to gently lift oeh aide of the hlrut appendage Away from the mouth That remind mo that the enterprising citizen of D c who hnl 1 and Is now mnnulnctur Ing artificial straws through which lo rack lemonade etc 10 grown very rich threon thou h one would think the natural slrnws would bo cheapir The District of Columbia bj the way already takes high rank ns the seat of Inventive genius perhaps because peoples peo-ples Ideas are ntlinulat ell here by sip Ing to many Ihlngs In the Patent office The annual report of the commissioner of patents embraces 0 tabular Plate merit showing the number of patents Issued during the year to each slate and territory and the ratio between the Patents Issued and tire population Very naturally having HIP largest population New York receives more ratento than any Other stnto 3771 Next to New York Coal I lie Mat state of PnnllOtlln with 2031 nt Ias sachuselts with 2S < 6 next Illinois with 109 unit next Ohio with 1091 patent But the proportion of potent to population Is I more significant In the proceeding report of tho commissioner commis-sioner Conectlcul led HIP list with the District of Columbia following but the report for the entire Year of ISM reverses re-verses the order and places the DIR trict in thp van In the District HIP table shows that a patent was Issued to every C15 and In Connecticut to every 761 of the entire population MasMchuett tans third In the lIt tile proportion being one to every 767 I 111toode Ipland follows with cmeloevety 943 The least inventive state an shown by the table Is I Arkansas which received re-ceived but oneportent to every 41012 of her population The inventions of women cover a very wide field from beauty Improvers to bRhyJumpers from devices for lessening I les-sening the work of the housekeeper to the most Intricate of scientific Instruments Instru-ments tcxtlls machinery electrical apparatus ap-paratus telescopes flronrme etc It Is I estimated that up to date Uncle flamu1 hag granted something over KB 000 patents about onefourth of them hnvln been npll1 for hy women 62 of them lived In VAashlngton and < 00 In New York City The first lemAl Inventor on record 1m the n S was Mary Kleg of Connecticut who In the year 1803 Invented a process of weaving straw with silk It was a wonnn who brought ram of tartar Into the market and It goes with say ing that the lame sex Introduced thn bustle and the quaint headgear called culorh The advancement or women can perhaps be measured as well by the number and kind I of their Inventions Inven-tions ns by any other standard there for It Is I encouraging to know that since 18D1 they have received as many patents as all the previous years put together and that they represent de orlmomts In science anti art Into which they have never before ventured Another proof of the puhlle reoolmltlo of their ability Is I In the respect now 1ld to the models of their Inventions which leave lately bum 1 gathered Into one exhildt and placed In a conspicuous position In the Patent Office To wo mn nrdn many of the improvements which mentor travel less I dangerous anti uncomfortable today than In the timo of our grandmothers They have Invented In-vented mrcoupling hleh do not mh im many tcallt hondo heatrs warranted not to rot the cars on fire I artepo which one tap second aM r if 6 at B1111 without testing the utmost I y x2h of one Itlleot npparntus fur I ndlnt railroad track altachment I I 11 for Unloading boxIoerro hoods 10 tire I or vent smoke from l Pouting backward lf devices for keeping cattle oft Ih < truck And goodness knows how many 1 moee Conoplcuou In this end or the f century Is Irs Moria I DeaeT I whooo scheme or a now rallnoy system f A 11 It brought to the successful oompl tion predicted I by engineers and burl nose inenwlll revolutionize the present I modo ot transportation botwcn the It Last 1 nnd vVest KallroaH men have 411 11 fO nnny yo or i been puzzifd over tile 1 Iuptlon how to carry Irlhublocom lTIodltio lone 1Itonrt and Pre erve tile 109 1 pc ont of them nom lost t unit a momall Is the first 10 solve the II IIfllIIom problen1 Mm Bcaslcj 0 I with others roll that refrigerator curie 1 11 would nover be mad DlIsfoclory for I 1 rome things will not bur an undue ae It I gree of cold nnd that a system turn 1 telling greater speed that am In uso 2I 2 tOday must be Invented bn she Bet her vvlls to work on the old Idea l of con I I erecting great ommerolnl centers In op IMMlo parts of tin ounlrbv elevated i 11 inllroads with two ttacls upon which 4 the ears will travel without stops at p I if any way stations nnd unlnter I I lupted by any local trolll or I strt crossings The motive power I Is to be electricity supplh d from stations oirmged every fitly mile 4 1 along the route and applied through I 1eloa latest Impromnts III current I I transmission Biro Hcasley particle I far Invention Is I tire lock bclycen the cur And truck which guarantees hor 11 I L road greater safety against jumping of roll than any offered by our Present l I r I I mole of surface t transportation Those I I a of my cnilef s n ho w ciil to the World 11 to Pair In Chicago will remember seeing MIT easley In the transportallo A I lull < 1ll1 I Z 2 lVninenr Inventive I genlrol lean not I rt t eg ll 1 r ornitted the I gruesome as well as the I 11 ridleilloum I They are responsible for I I several Improved Corpse ivo 1 1 I i and burglarproof tombs Prepereg i I 6 dlslruclnblo funeral wrath One de I I vice Is a small flat case containing IL A I photograph of Iho late lamented And 1111 Ion I-on the movable cover Is Inscribed these V I A words Look at tire ir cover my I 11 I I roc A sort of lneicpt I of Abettor ur Ilva less Ien patented to lie carried I f f In the pocket of anybody who starts 1 i n n railway Journey If there should I i I r be un accident like the Ashlnhula I hor I I ror and the wearer Is I burned up the I I locket being of Indestructable material r ma-terial will be found Intact with bin charred and otherwise unrecognlzahle I remaIn On tile cover I tnmped the I M words Address Inside and on open t Inc It the finder meet the Prime and i I address of the unfortunate traveler 4 i r Am > ng the queerest Inventions Is I a I IUlulu cot to frighten rot and into 4 I I ul night a trap for catching tapeworms ot ti tape-worms a fastening with which to Fe care a brick to n cows tall to preA I t Ont her witching IMn the milker 4 N en a Combined trunk And house In 01 jq I which Persons of emu II mnnsmay live i 14 1 f I In a small way when traveling and save hotel MIN And a Combination I I plow and cannon The beam of the 111 ol Iit it plow Is I made of Iron and bored out sons 14 t so-ns lo form a cannon Whenever the 11 farmer while at work In the field sees savages or tramps approaching he hato I only to unhitch Ills team so as to get I b them from In front of the muzzle ap ply his match nnd say bin prayers and I t I trust Providence for the result It I 14 I looks ns If the farmer were a good deal I 1 i more likely to IIP I killed by the recoil A than the foe by the shot however one I must leave smlhlllg to Providence 11 i I r I In cue the Kurt went off while Inlize I as a plow Divine Interference would v certainly bp nary to prevent dls on ll Itli Itl 1 1 enter both to team and farmer 1 I Pd The tapewonn Is I i trap still more I 1 ourinum It lists of n hollow ball I Ile In divided Into two parts which are Q i hinged together and provieded with it 1 opting upon their Inside Bo that they I I may he mol to snap together like a steel trap The unfortunate Individual C I C I In whoe Interior the long drownout I I reptile has taken up Its able must I I refrain from eating till near the point i I I r of starvation Then he bates his IIttlo I i 11 i If trap with some choice morsel swallow I 4 It I arid keeps firm hold of the string No A I its nakeshlp Is I supposed to be eageri j 1 l I ly eoklng for a good square meal and I i I wl N I When the Illbit anlvis In bis neigh 11 lk fA 10rhoo l he sticks his ugly threcco I 1 Pored head Into the trap then snap I I goes the spring and the patient proceeds 5 pro-ceeds to draw In his line hauling the I tape Hip through his throat How hoI i 1 Is ho-I to know when the trap Is sprung I ff and flow nold being choked to death j In the procern Is not the Inventors I I I business but his own 01 I Ono might go on for a week with o k I tales of the odI patents hut the one I v last mentioned makes a farther dos Inadvisable for the Present llfy rANNIC BIliallAM I 1 I 4i I |
