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Show I FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. HOGS AND THEIR RELATION TO MORTGACES. Thla Important Animal Bat tar Watar (tala Into Tlla Car llo rparta-lgal- trf Karpin rolatuea tickings anil lluwahuli Halp, Civ Th Mortgsg Miter,. Swine have been, and atill are, to the farmer of the great corn belt of the Mississippi valley what, in the past, kheep were to the farmer in the hill of Pennsylvania, Went Virginia and Lantern Ohio the great mortgage liquidator. hy feeding their enormous corn crops to swine they escape the heavy expense necessary to transfer their core to the market, and at the same time realized mure per bushel lor it when marketed as iork than would have been possible if sold as corn, writes r. Ol Hock in I'olman's Kural World, licgs have not only enriched th runners but they have been chiefly instrumental in building up Chicago, Cincinnati, Kansas City, St Louis uj mauy more of our prosperous Western cities With such a favorable showing I think they are justly emit ed to mure consideration and I iet tor care than is usually bostowed upon them by the general farmer. If, with all the neglect and gross that has been tlicir iiu.uriuiialo let in the past, and they have accomplished so much, what wo tl.l have been tiie result had they I oeu In given proper treatment? I ho lira! plaoc too many poor, toruhby. hogs huve been and till' are kvpt fur breeders. iv.ey mule pig not strictly puru-liivi- l. and many tliat are, should be : mu-ru- . sled before they are two iniiiitlis old: Jt is the only perfect guarantee that we have that thev will not double their own disgrace by becoming the sires of pigs of a like inferiority to themselves. A few (not so few, either. ) spayed sows will have the same effect A sharp knife proiiei'ly handled is the chief agent in the, improvement of all classes of amnestic animals. It matters not whether your breeding sows are purehigh-gradbred, cross-breor scrubs, they should never be mated with a boar that is not We orten see a high-grad- e thoroughbred. boar that to all appearances is one, but put equal to the pure-bre- d him to the test and hia low origin will crop out in hia pigs as'surely as night follows day." No improvement ever was or ever will be effected by breeding from any but pure-bremales, and he who persists in breeding to those miserable specimens we too often see. that plainly show their mongrel origin, are simA pureply committing bred male can now be secured at a nominal price: there are thousands raised every year that, while they .are not good enough for the purposes of the professional breeder, are, or would be if bred to the common herda of the general farmer, of incalculable value in the improvement In their herds of which they are caimble. Swine breed at an early age, and may be bred twice each year, and by males and selecting using pure-bretbe best sow pigs and mating them to other puro-bre- d males, in an incredibly short timo the poorest herd of scrubs may be so improved that for all practical purpose are nearly, if nut altogether, the equal of the beet thoroughbreds. Considering the increased value, of the product of Ihe herd, all this improvement is iffentcd without cost Oncc.aim many yet adhere to the customs of their youth, we were taught that the brood sow b poor, a mere skeleton, at the timo of farrowing, or she would neither farrow large litters nor rear good pigs. We, some 'of u. know better than that now and endeavor to keep all the brood aowa healthy and thrifty a The sow very poor bow is neither. that should not be fully fattened; would b? almost as bad as the old plan, but she should be fully half fat Never fear, if she produces a large family, with the most liberal feeding shell be poor enough hy the time she weans her pigs. Tastes change," and the markets change with them. We were once Justifiable in trying to market our hogs at as great weight as possible. Then if any large, overgrown hogs were to be had tbe medium sized pig was shown small consideration, hut now hes "on top" and the former favorite is far down m the scale of favoritism. In these days of small can profits 1 doubt very much if ws are afford to feed our pigs until they much more than six months old. and If properly cared for and fed every are da, of their short lives If they well bred they can ho made to weigh pound, even more at that age. There are many, very many reasons for getting rid of them as soon as porslble. T1. How Bslsr (iris OnProfessor J. M. Bloss of the recent a in gives state college tario lecture on tile draining, some fame and some false thcoriea He claims that water does not comethethrough bottom the tops of tile, but from where the ends come together. This is generally true, though in a severe rain storm, when the with water, oil is drenched some of it is washed through she cracks overhead, and to guard against oover this a coarse gravel ought tofine silt to hold the these joint, so the drain. that will otherwise spoil But some water may and doea soak is through the tile when the ground the Batura ted. and in denying this Ha says professor is in the wrong. be used, not to tile ought that poms action arguing that it will dissolve by to of the water. It will if frost getAnn iLetherwise not If the ground is ill-br- -- e, d, d y. d ., low-jtrad- c, it is better to Jay horseshoe tile than THE BURGLARS JIMMY. frightened way, about the room. sole tile. In that case nearly all the 'Ihe innocent looking iron bar lay In water will rise into the channel up from beneath. We have often laid horseshoe tile In soil where there were occasional springs in the bottom of the drain. It is best in such cases to lay long, flat stones on either side of the drain, wide enough for the tile to rest on. and lung enough to reach past the spring to firm soil on either side. 1 trains thus laid forty years ago are doing good service, only showing action of frost at the outlets, where the water in .porous tile sometimes froze in very cold weather. Glazed tile are needlessly expensive, and do not drain sc well as tile that are porous. Glazing the pipe, witn tight joints at the ends, is used for city sewers, but such pipes are no good for draining land of the surplus water that fills it Keeping rmiMM ha pit rata. There is more mixing of varieties among potatoes than there is in any other farm crop. The evil is by tbs tendency of new varieties to sport and produce potatoes cf different color and ahape from those used as seed. But in most cases it comes from carelessness in digging where several aorts are grown on adjoining rows in the same field. No matter how distinct one variety may be from another, when the men atrike a row of another kind it is the most natural thing in the world to dig one or two hills just to' see if they are different X ine times out of ten these hills will be put among the potatoes previously dug. lu this way after two or three years potato seed becomes hopelessly mixed. It is very hard now to get Karly Roe that will be wholly true to name. Tho sport I ate Hose looks so much like the other that it escapes unless the hills are marked before the tops die. The Late Hose has j green tops long after the other kind I has withered almost out of sight. Where potatoes aie cut and two pieces placed in the hill tho mixing is still more hopeless. We think at least enough varieties, pure and true to name, should be saved each fall for seed. An even lot, all of one variety, looks mucli better and will bring several cents more per bushel in most markets than sorts that include several kinds Even for cooking they are worth more, while, of course, for seed no one would willingly purchase a mixed lot if he could get any other. American Cul-- tivator. Mr kings. Poultry Chickens like sweet milk better than sour. Try warm, sweet milk as a tonic for sick fowla For swelled head bathe the face with a solution of salt Study the demands of the poultry market and cater to the demand. If you want to raise only eggikeep the hens separate from the males. Ufving too much sloppy food to young chickens often causes scours. The goose is a good rustler and will take care of itself when there is pasture. If chickens are nut kept free from lice and fed well, cholera" in some shape is sure t come. Never attempt to make an incubator. Buy a good one and It will combine all the best features. Hens that moult early generally make good winter layer and should be saved for that purpose. I hicks grow rapidly, and, if properly managed, can be put upon the market lit a comparatively low cost Poultry raising is no child's play. It requires study, observation and exjierience to bring it to the highest success. If it is eggs instead of fat you want, feed the hens wheat and other food instead of feed. ng Ilonarkald Helps. A lump of camphor in your clothes press will keep steel ornaments from tarnishing. Milk applied once a week with a soft cloth freshens and preserves boots and shoes You can drive nails into hard wood without bending them . if you dip them first in lard. Weak spota in a black allk waist may be strengthened by "sticking" court plaster underneath. An inexpensive tfghan is made of white cricket cloh, a material like elder down, with tiny pink rosobudi embroidered around the edge. To make sweet apple pickle take seven pounds of apples, one quart of vinegar and four pounds of sugar. Pare, quarter and core the apples; steam them if hard, and cook in the adding spices to taste. vinegar, ' Beautiful napory, silver, china and glass all set out with geometric exactness, and all exquisitely spotless and clean, are the characteristics of the dinner table, and the choicer and mine costly and beautiful, the nearer is reached the standard of perfection. A window without a shade is only half dressed. Draperies may he dispensed with; they are decorative, but shades are essential.' They temper the light for the room as the lashes do for the eye; they dress the window and at the same time form a background for the laces and stuffs of the drapery. A pretty article for hanging beside the bureau to hold tho button-hooand other small articles is made oi one of the wooden eggs used in stockAt equal distances ing darning. around the center screw in four of the small brass hooks such as are used on bangle boards, then paint the egg white and decorate with tiny flower and attach a ribbon to two opposite hooks to hang it by. The egg may be gilded Instead of painted, U preferred. . k BUT the aiue IT HAD THE STRING Tho Folr Kutlui pui-itio- OF PEARlS. ARE Lout Per Cams Whoa Aflksil llrr Affb Where did you get tbat jimmy ? Sir, said Abdullah, as ha ap '1 hat? Oli, ilioru't quite a story !' peered with hi sister, Fatima, befoie in that It culm! from a young fellow the judge, oerbap you will reincm-- j He was a nice boy, j her the brave Ahbus, who died thirty A It llsd Unit ltail luuip in;, a lid now doing linm. JUmiuI la l.lva Itaraatljr, It Tulil Ils wc'l brought up ami educated a lit-- year ago lie was our father anil Ktraaga St or; lu tha District Alton,;'. tie. .But lie loved a woman and got left both of us his property in equal Oflra-.'I.I- U.'t into bad wa. s, she loved him. too, 1 proportions, on which we have Latter. think but lei some infernal nonsense hitherto subsisted in common. Fatiinto her head and sent him off. ma, it is true, lias been peevish and I was in the uistrict attorneys get he fell a:u,ng thieves, and one quarrelsome during the last few Ihen office after hours the other day when long, long after his affair of j yeurs, but I always gave way,as lam night I noticed a crooked iron bar lying on the heart lie and two others broke a lover of peace. But 1 have recent- a table. It was holding dowu tome into a house--h- e irid inti) ly chosen the beautiful Zoraida for papers, the corners of which fluttered an A1 burglar and asgraduated lie was cross- my bride and thought of giving her in tbe warm breeze that came through a room lie against sonu-thi- this valuable string of pearls tbe the open window, and a thrill of ing right in buni)ied the middle of it. Ho precious keepsake of my fa- curiosity went over ino as I recog- struck a light und saw what do you there in my possession, (or he gave it j nized it as a burglar's jimmy. think to me on his return from a journey j The place was sultry and silent, Well? when I was 5 years old, and it has except for the drowsy bum from the A coffin. And through the been mine evei since. But Fatima glass click-clack of he beheld the faro of streets below, and the the girl he will have it that the pearls are a a type-writsomewhere across tbe loved. part of our fathers legacy and claim corridor, aud I fell into a lazy specuGreat heaven! She died of a half of them as her share. She reas lation to what tales that imple- broken heart ? fuses to listen to my arguments and ment of crime might unfold If gifted I dont know, Well insists and he upon her claim not, indeed, with speech, lluw lung 1 sat there smiled -- she left a husband for the sake of the jiesrls; oh, no! I In revery, and how many fantastic and two grimly; kid see quite plainly she wants to spoil stories 1 constructed around the my pleasure and that of my bride-elec- t. 1 do not know, but suddenly a thing fur my sister does not like The murmur aroused me, and a metallic idea of Xoraida entering the i internal voice punctured the air with these home as mistress. Now, wise radl words: give judgiuuut You want to know my history, Fatima, is the cae ss your brother but Ill it Well, much, aint hey? has stated? tell it a suiwutuic tor oivr. j "It is all quite correct, excepting 1 looked about me, but, except for In the island of is a plant tbe assertion that tha string of (marls the jimmy on the table before me. known as the wild orange, which pro-- , belongs to him alone. IIow does he I was alone. The voice went on duces a fruit, grccu at firs., after- - mean to prove that father gave it vo and, strangely enough, a I listened, ward bluish, and into purple him? I dispute the fact and claim all wonder passed from me. This as it riieu. Thisverging has been tested my share; my reason (or doing so is was what I heard: aud found to make a beverage in immaterial to tho question at issue. I was born of poor, but dishonest every wav equ-i- l to coffee, and at a j Well. Abdullah. said the cadi, parents, aud my career of crime be- much lower price. Tho product is ; addressing the plaintiff, have you was off. j master My first called niussaeiida. and it can Ini any Jiving witness or any handwrit-tise- d gan right ulonc. or mixed with pure coffee, j ipg to prove that your father gavo Jerry tjuinn. You remember him? but no: that was before your time. It is announced that about 24, 1) j y?u tho pearls? Well, he was a illy. 1 liked Jerry, acres of this plant are now being' I have nothing of the kind, was for he wasnt seared of anything on cultivated. It is liun--t likely, how- - the reply. burearth, and he was a ever, that chicory, moro than coffee. That is a bad lookout, the cadi 1 fear there is no glar who never killed a man unless will suffer from the introduction of continued. pros- he couldn't help himself. Ha loved for an amicable settlement, but pert me Jerry did. Everybody thought b, persuading your sister to accept a lbs World. Avrli'iilturo. sum of money for her share. heaps o' him even the police, till he knocked one of em on the head Statistic Dhow tnut the entire agNo, she bruko in, 1 want half for licking into a little affair, and riculture uf the world furnishes em- of the pearls then they downed him. He pegged ployment to 2M,u.M,i)mi men aud Very well, said the cadi, beckonout in jail, but before they took represents an invested capital of ing to bis clerk, I must have a rebim he got me to his mother a liti. The annual product is port of tbe case drawn up before detle Irish woman with one eye and a worth over 2u,iHHi,iHKJ,ooa It is livering judgment Say, defendant love for whisky. Are you listenin' ? that the civilized nations your name is I'atima; what is your Well, I was stolen awa$ from the pay annually for fuod $18,700, UUO.OOU age? old woman by a party called Drake Here ahe blushed, hesitated, tried n a youngster, who'd rob a OUT OF THE ORDINARY RUN. mure than once to speak, but never blind man. Drake got me into a uttered a syllable. A New York stock exchange seat How old are you? the cadi regang, but I didn't like em, because there wasn't any honor in any of em. a sold recently for 17,000. speak! peated; The children of the Aitutaki islandSo one night, after he'd opened a At last she replied in faltering shutter with me, I slipped out of his ers are born with the left leg an inch tones: hand and made such a racket that shorter than the right I am 28, Wilson Harnett, the most they were all scooted but one. He Really? said tbe judge with an was a young fellow named Thorpe, 1 boy in Greene county. North Ironical smile. hereby award the and he grabbed me and got off. He'd Carolina, has had his legs made en- whole string of pearls to Alidullah A Raleigh surgeon only been in Drakes crowd a week or tirely straight alone. Take them plaintiff, and go so. and nobody knew anything about got on to his curves your way in peace! Fatima is not him, except that he was new at the The mimntain of Fujisan, in Japan, your sister, for Abbas died thirty business. Hut Im of a prying nature, is actually in motion. It is 13,400 feet j years ago and she is only 28! and I soon found out You're not above sea level, yet the of the I power gone to sleep, are y? wind in those quarters causes it to HUNTER AND CAME FROZEN. Well, Thorpe was a quiet sort sway from aide to side. didn't talk much, but when he did it The power to wag the ear, writes Tho Kiogular Dlscorsry ot a Mao and a l.oer la a Block of lea, was in a high style and showed he Eugene M. Aaron in Science, is comJames Smithers, an English resiknew a heap more than the others mon among the West Indian half of Haliburton, OnL, while out He was a pretty boy, too, and dressed breeds and the and other deriva- j dent with a arty of visitors from like a dude, but he was the right tives of Mexico Maya and Central America, hunting old country recently, met with a the stuff. Ilucky? Why. he was more and many whites have the power who I singular adventure, which also led to than that Before I'd been with him realize tbe fact as singular a discovery. A band of a week I wondered what made him a hardly Euyctte county, 1a., reports a spring moose, the first seen this far south crook, for I knew it wasn't born In whose waters make the drinker hilari- for many him. When he'd get up to his room ous, A years, liud been driven sportsman from Connelisvllle down by tho scouts of the expedition, he'd sit there by tbe hour with his found a crowd hilarious Hungarians and ' it was while in full chase of of head in his hands, just thinkin'. about the wonderful spring. They these that the others on. leavThen he'd take out a letter he always let him drink but swore him to se- ing Sinithors to follow.swept to carried with him and read It. He Wishing as to its location'. overtake them as quickly aa possible) did this every night or morning crecy The Congo is the most wonderful he took a short cut across the coun before goin to lied, ana be alwavs had to atop and wipe his eyes. Think water nay in the world. It is twenty try and was astonished all at once to of a burglar doin' that! Dye think five miles across In parts, so that ves-- find himself sinking. He fell about hia tears are as hot as you decent eels may i ass' one another and yet lie nix feet, but owing to tha descent of has twice the extent j the loose earth with him sustained of people's? And tell me, too, if there out sight It navigable waters uf the Missis- - j no injury. He was amazed to find aint somethin deep down even in of the and its tributaries and three tbe bottom of the pit composed of the heart of a house-breakthat sippi solid Ice of a brackish taste, and can't be turn and hurt by a few little times its population. words written in a womans hand? evidently of untold age. Walking about the pit Smithers made out an One night I made up my mind to see that letter, no matter what; so I object protruding from the icy foundation and, with hie short waited till he'd gone to sleep and got cut away the aur-ax, hold of It This was it: -- Les. and now everybody knows you ing until he sew material roundillr Mt Deabest Faiaan, Nbd: I nail JOB so I darned stocking that the object was a human because I feel .ura that In ip'ia of wiut I m wear, Doea ahe sing?" asked the young band gotag to tell you sad no matter what may holding a spear. Further exca-Ocome to paaa you will always be that to me the girl to vation revealed the entire figure of a yes,' replied What I am about to say cannot bo unexpected whom he was Why, all her man olad in fur garments and pertalking. by you after my oddness to you. But it aeemu you would not understand, (or last night again neighbors stay awake night listening fectly preserved by his cold bed. to her. you anted me to be your wife. Your wife! Near at hand were also the remains What Tlataa ot happiness lie la tbooe word.: lie them all your children, Mrs. of deer, which the hunter had doubtBut, dear Ned, It cannot be: no, never harsh Phwat! thim all moine? lessly lost his life in pursuing to this aa tbe words may seem; for, Nod, we are both MSorley? paupers, and X long ago resolved that If over I Theyd be behavin 'emselves better treacherous spot The frozen men wed It will be with money heaps ' of money : ef they werent children Im paid to was an Indian of noble build and Soltis best for both of ua dear, to end It all take care of wore a chief's amulet about hia neok-Tha- t now. Yon will not think mo cruel ? Consider he died hy cold was to be the misery. Surely you must say tbat 1 am 'Papa, do men descend from right? There, I eaa write no more, my band monkeys? And plainly seen by his expression, which Yes, my boy. hake to You will always be my dearest what about the monkeys? Puzzled was tbe placid ono of persons who friend, wont you? And you will think now die thus. The skin of hia face and Pater The monkeys descend aw and then In the time to come of Nellis hands was drawn like parchment, Thats all it said. In the course from the trees. Jump aboard, miss, said the con- but that protected by hid clothing ot a day I forgot all about the letter, was firm and natural as if death had I'll see to your bag. for I led a pretty hustling sort ol a ductor briskly. Rut mamma wants to kiss me govl-by- , come within the hour. When found life, I tell y. Thorpe and a couple Smithers was trying 111 attend to b his friend of others made some fair-size- d replied the girl in order to prethe to reinter corpse too. All sboariL, hauls, but they kept on jawing about that, Mrs. LTathnuter Rut the rooms are serve it. but tho action of the air big one they were goin to make somewhere way up town. Well, tbe so dreadfully small! Really they arc had already begun and the body soon wasted away in rapid dissolution. It night came, and it was a dirty one. only closets. Landlord Ah. but then is impossible how to it had raining like the devil Thorpe was you know there's nothing like bavin? lain buried in theaynatural long icehouse at the head of the snap and ho did it plenty of closets in a house. before Henry lludaon sailed The Magician Is there anyone in perhaps up large. He took mo out of hia to the east; perhaps when the bay pocket and had a back shutter open tho audience who will loan me a hat was dawning on earth before you could wink. Then he for a few minutes? A Voice Ask Christianity or tha pyramids in course of conand me: in she In of this to front whisjiered slipped lady sitting the others to go easy, for there were dim seems to have a good deni more than struction. Hoxoor Bloats. lights above stairs Thorpe held me ahe is entitled ta If you go first, murmured the The duchess of Edinburgh is the tight and went into the front room. He hadn't gone four steps before he wife of his bosom to the sick man, happy possessor from the Russian truck and against something 'you will wait fur me on tho other and superstitious point of view of I s'sposc j two genuine bezoar stones, one of stopped short Just then it seemed shore, will you not, love? to me that J heard sobs upstairs and I'll have to." he grumbled. I never which was left to her by her imperial moaning, and Thorpe gave a sharp went anywhere yet without having to father and the other by her aunt Tho bezoar atone la cut from a very gasp Then I could feel him passing wait for you at leant half an hour. his band along something in the The enraptured young man drew rare animal and ia regarded as a sure middle of the room. Suddenly be the shapely head with it golden hair preserver of health and happiness. trues a light bent over and looked close to hia heart. Do you hear it Hyuiilallt. hard at the thing, let out a yell and throh, darling?" he asked. as a slang name for Kpondulix pitched, head first to the floor. Harold." What does it seem to say? had its origin from the Greek Well, you are asleep he whispered. The dear girt listened money It was the voice of my Mend, the a moment and answered softly, It word spomiulos, n shell, shells of district attorney. I started up. says tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. that species being once used as money both in Greece and EgypL rubbed my eyes and looked, la a Harold. LEFT THE GANG FOREVER. OLD : ng r - , 1 d ! I low-dow- bow-legg- ; j h, . a, valuable patents MAKE INVENTIONS SMALL LARGE FORTUNES. Noteworthy fa.taurr. uf l.srky lilts Tho Valuable liirmlluo 1 (loo That ha Haul supplies a 11 iUeapread Van M of aa Idea. Small Ideas are sometimes worth fortunes The patent office records are full of trilling suggestions that have won riches for lucky thinkers, Mre than half of them have been bit upon by aecideuL Most thoughts are blanks in the lottery of the man mind, but now and then out Catch it on the fly pops a prize. and you needn't do any more work. Lor example, take a little metal paper fastener, used to keep the pages of document or manuscripts together. Though but a trllle it made wealth for J. W. McGill, whe Invented it in 107. The rubber pencil tip was devised by a Philadelphia man, Hyman L l.ipmau, in 1858. It earned $10J,000 for him. It was in the same year that George A. Mitchell got a patent for the metalllo hu-mu- ht shoe tip His application for ve rights covered shoe tips of silver and all other metals, but copper was preferred. From that time on every bootmaker wbo sold shoes with copjier toes had to pay a royalty, which enriched the originator of tbe idea An imnicnxe amount of money was made by William D. Ewart out of an improved attachment for machine harvesters, called a drive-chain" An latch Improved pattern of thumb was produced by Philo. Fill and John A. Rlako, of New Haven. Thirty thousand were sold during the first year, and the brothers reaped a small fortune. It I reckoned ihut $1,5 Hit) K) has been made out of the simple device of metal plates fur protecting the heels and soles of bunts and shoes No less than 148,0011,0110 uf them were manufactured in 1887. The notion of utilizing the feathers of chickens, turkeys, geese and other domestic fowls, as a substitute for whsleboue in women's corsets, has been worth mure than a silver mine to its inventor. The quills are woven into strips of what is called feather-bonA man named Can-fiel- d first conceived the notion of dress shields seammaking arm-pi- t d less, with a sheet of rubiier. It brought him an Income of many thousands a year. Ilcaton, who hit upon the notion of metal fastening for bultons.doing away with sewing, got a fortune by It A wooden screw proved a mint for Thomas J. Sloan in 1846. The man who inventod wooden pegs for shoes was B. F. Sturtevant The Idea brought him millions of dollars, lie lived near Boston and went erazy later on The barb-wir- e fence was worth more than $1,000,000 In royalties to its originator. Formerly many eggs got broksa on their way to msrkct by rail says the Philadelphia Times. A countryman conceived the plan of packing them in trays of pMsteboard. witn a separate compartment in which each egg might stand upright The happy thought was worth a fortune, and such trays are now universally used. An ingenious Chinaman of 8an Francisco named Chcang-iJuau-tVmade quite a pile of money out of a gusset for reinforcing the pockets of overA miner was equally lucky alls. with an eyoiet to be sewn at the mouth of the cout or trousers pocket so as to resist the strain caused by carrying heavy tools or piece! of ore. There was a fortune in the inverted to preglass bell hung over a gas-jvent the ceiling from being blackened- Big money has been made out of a pen for shading in different colors and a darning-weave- r for repairing stockings has likewise been immensely profitable. The glove-fastenwas patented In this country by a Frenchman named Raymond, whose idea hat proved golden. Rogers got an independence for iife out of his screw wire-na- il A common needle-threadhas brought an Income of (10,000 a year to its Inventor. Patents for gold, silver and copper tinsel yarns for upholstery have fetched a profit of $375,000. A peculiar crook in the wire of a recently pate ented Is producing hundreds of dollara a day. The roller-skat-e earned a cool million for the person who caught the idea as it floated in his brain and put it Into tangible shapei e A millionaire waa quoted a while ago as saying that oae of the best ways for a young man to make money quickly was to rack his brains until he found something the public wanted, and to supply It. Common sense may be more uselul to the inventor than a mechanical education In using bath-bric- k for cleaning knives, housewives formerly found that the moat troublesome part of the job was scraping the powder from the brick. One day it occurred to somebody to sell the brick in neat packages, and he got a fortune by it Everybody kaows how troublesome it is to pick coins off a smooth counter. A wey to get over this difficulty suggested Itself to a thoughtful person who promptly devised a rubber mat, with bristles standing up all over it From this the coins can be picked up as easily as if they stood on edge. Henceforth this thoughtful person will not be compelled to toil for hia livelihood. falrly-producti- ve e. cloth-covere- 1 o. et et er er hook-and-ey- self-mad- ready-powder- A Maleeula's WolgSL The weight of a molecule of hydrogen Is approximately Oi 000, 000, 1)09. -000; 006,(810.000, 04 of a gramme; the atomie weight of iron is gramma |
