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O ERIES AND INVENTIONS OF NOTE Pneumatic Life Pr Preserver server Th That t Will WillBe WillBe WillBe Be a Boon to the Timid Sea Voyager Voy- Voy Voy An ager-An An In Book ager Improvement Markers General Markers General Notes An Improvement In Book Mark Markers rs Some readers have th the faculty of remembering remembering remembering re re- exactly the page and line of a book they had reached when they were compelled to pause in their read- read ti Indicates Both the Page and Line Ing to perform some other ther other duty but the majority of book lovers book lovers find occa occa- occa- occa use some sort of a marking device device de vice to aid them In finding the place 1 when when the reading Is resumed again Numerous curious and handsome novelties novelties nov nov- s have been produced for this purpose purs pur pur- s pose but very few if any of these thes will perform the double duty ditty of marking marking marking mark mark- ing the I line ne and page at t which the K reader paused and closed the book book This Thin Is the object attained by the r marker which we we show in the picture and rand it should be the means of saving I no no small amount of time to the reader reader read read- readI I er who Is comp compelled t to lay down dow and i k take up a book many times before the contents is completed This little marker is preferably of cell celluloid loid n though metal meta or cardboard may answer an- an an answer the purpose and has a substantially substantially substantially T shaped body on which Is a sliding member having a straight straightedge straightedge edge By lapping the bent portion of the head over the edge of the leaves and sliding the the marker along the stem it can be made to indicate any line on the page showing the re read rec c iF r- r rt af it t a gf glance e efi w wEere fi S1 ere i to to- to begin This is the idea of August G. G Bauer of Co Columbus umbus Ohio AU Attachment Attachment- for Handcuffs Handcuffs A pair of handcuffs will take all the fight out of some men th the Instant they r are are put on them while in others it rouses all the antagonism In their natures the latter class often proving ugly customers even when when- their hands are manacled The The- pair of fetters Petters which we have Illustrated ted seem to U Prevent the Fingers From Closing have been designed especially for the rw fighting class and yet it will be seen that for for- weight and strength they do donot donot do not compare with those ordinarily 1 carried by officers of the law The wristlets are only a pair of leather straps buckled buckled on tightly but th the wire loops which are attached to them have been designed to more titan than make up the difference between the two kinds of manacles When Wen these these- have been Deen Q put in place over the fingers and thumbs the prisoner is unable to close 1 jL his hands and ana can therefore obtain TIO no grip on either the straps or or OJ any C v article with which to fight The loops are of steel possessing great strength and yet of such light weight that f the whole outfit does not weigh as much as a pair of steel wristlets of the pattern in in common use use The officer ti may mar need assistance to place these i t handcuffs on his man but when they it j r pf S' S 1 T T I are on ones onca a In n place he need have litre fear of his ability to control t th this wearer j John W W. of of Montesano Wash Is th the h inventor r. r f fAn An Air Ship That Tha Sails t On J the he the King Edward VII a a an n new w d departure in balloons the ilie invention of Capt Small Small- bones of Kensington made its maiden ascent from Stamford Bridge Grounds says an English exchange There Is no motive power power- in the balloon so that it cannot go against the wind but but by th the aid of two triangular sails saJIa attached to the sides Ides its course can lie be directed Capt panted by Capt Williams and Mr Cove Cov ascended shortly after 2 oclo o'clock k traveling over Putney Hammersmith and Barnes and At Hampton Hamp ton tOI Court the balloon was steered round the p park rk and across across- the Thames At G Guildford the balloon was navigated round the town before a course was was was' set for Godalming the objective o of the tr trip trip P. P Pneumatic Life Pres Preserver er The steamship company wh which ch did not provide life pres preservers ivers in number in-number number equaling or or exceeding its passenger carrying capacity would be summarily dealt with by the government and yet every everyone one knows t that at when the time arrives for their use use- the passengers and ana crew may ay be tOO loo much excited Ito Ato to i profit by the provi provision ion thus made for I Constant Wear Occasions No Dis- Dis comfort their s safety fety The passenger crossing the ocean would would certainly feel no small degree ot added security were he provided provided pro provided pro pro- vided with the apparatus shown in the illustration No one would think of we wearing one of the bulky life me preservers preservers pre pre- servers usually provided on shipboard all the time but here is an apparatus apparatus apparatus appa appa- ratus which will answer answer the same purpose and yet without discomfort when the tube is given when constantly worn T The e spiral form torm which the tube is given enables the wearer to suspend it around his body by means of the suppo supporting ting jacket beneath the outer clothing and it takes but a short time to inflate the reservoir through the mouthpiece which is pis provided with a valve to check the outward flow o of of the air The spiral coils lie He flat fiat when deflated and andare andare andare are sc scarcely perceptible to fo the wearer who even if the device rend rendered red him slightly w would ld have havethe havethe havethe the feeling of safety to countenance the annoyance i Wiley P. P Tibbets of Toledo Toled Ohio is the inventor Graphite Prevents Bo Boiler r Scale It is said that a small quantity of graphite mixed d with water us used d in boilers will wil prevent scale forming and arid if scale Is already in the b boiler Iler the graphite will penetrate the old scale and decompose it so that it will drop to the bottom The discovery that graphite is a water softener was made by a mining company in Mexico which used water slightly colored by graphite and noticing that their boiler boil boil- er kept free from scale came to the conclusion that the graphite acted acted- as the preventive 0 |