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Show A PRIEST INVENTOR. An Italian Pastor in Denver and His Ingeniuos Contrivance. From time to time brief mention has been made in the Catholic and secular sec-ular press of an Italian priest in Denver, Den-ver, the Rev. Felix Mariano Lepore, who is making a reputation as an inventor in-ventor of great ingenuity. Father Lepore's inventions are all very .practical. They include a hospital hos-pital bed. with an Ingenious rack and pinion device for raising a patient in any position; a salt and pepper shaker, which gives either condiment at the will of the user; a fire escape, a curious shot-tower and a walking beam contrivance con-trivance for the conservation of power, which amounts almost to a perpetual motion machine, but on which, nevertheless, never-theless, the United States has allowed a patent. Father Lepore left Denver April 20, for a first visit in ten years to his home in Italy. He also expected to stop in several eastern cities and will try to sell some of his patents. "I shall be gone three months, or even more," he said to an interviewer before his departure,. "and I hope to get to Rome and to see Pope Leo once more. I saw him last on April 17, 1892, two days before I sailed for this country, coun-try, and he gave me his blessing on my mission." The priest inventor i3 a remarkable man in more ways than one. He is the friend and counselor of every Italian Ital-ian in Denver, and boasts, with reasonable reason-able pride, that there are now only three cases of poverty in his parish. |
