The Wingham Times, 1889-10-18, Page 3Proxreito oft IlwrontImi 1100,
n the year 1846 the Fri/tient owners
o the Scientific dmerioan Newspaper
commenced its publieation, and soon
after established a 'bluest; for he
procuring of patents for inventione at
d in foreign countries. Der -
year 184.) there were only 602
ItS issued from the U. S. Potent
ince, and the total him from the
eetabliehment of the Patent Office, up
to the end of that year, numbered ouly
4,81L
,Up to the first of July this year
there have been granted 406,418
Showing that since the commence -
:tient of the publication of the
Scientific tlere live been
issued from the U S. Patent Office
402,163 patents, and about one third
more applications have been made
than have been granted,' ahowing the
ingenuity of our people to be pheno-
menal, and much greater than even
the enormous numlier of patents issa
ed iudicates. .Probably a good wally
of our readers have had business tran-
samted through the Scientific nIrZCaTh,'
in New York or Washington, and are
familiar with Munn & Oo's mode of
doing builuess, but those who have
not will be interested in knowing
something about this, the oldest
patent soliciting firm in this country,
probably in the world.
Persons visiting the offices ..of the
Scientific American, on 861 Broadway,
N. Y for the first time, • will besur-
prised, on entering the main office, to
find such an extensive and elegantly
equipped establishment, with its wal-
nut counters, desks and chairs to
correspoud, and its enormoue safes,
and such a 'large num box. of draughti-
men,el"-104eation writers, and clerks,.
all busy as bees, reminding one of a
laree bankine or insurance office,
with its 'hundred einpioyees.
0
Iii
conversation with one of the
firm, 'who had commenced the busi-
nese of soliciting patents in connec-
tion with the publicatinn of the
Scientific American, more than forty -
years ago, I learned that his firm had
Made application for patents for up-
wards or one hundred thousand • in-
ventors in the ,United States, and
‘-..7.; several thousands in different foreign
countries, and had filed as many cases
in the Patent Office in a single month
as there were patents issued during
the entir first year of their business •
career. This gentleman had seen the
Patent Office grow from a sapling to a
sturdy oak, and he modestly hinted
that many thought the Scientific
American, with its large circulation,
had perforated , no mean share in
stimulating inventions and advancing
the interests of the Patent Office
But it is not alone the patent solicit-
ing that occupies the attention of
the onethundeed person employetl by
Munn & Co., but a large number are
engaged on the four publications _
Kited weekly and nionthly from their
office, 801 Broadway, N. Y., viz.: Tie,
Scientific American, the Scientific _
Ainerican Supplement, the Export
Edition of the Scientific American,
and the Architects and Builders Edi-
tion of the Scientific American. The
first two publications are issued every
week, and the litter two, the first of
every month.
Whon, Marriage is a Failure.
When either of the parties marries,
for money.
When the lord of creation paw
more for cigars than his better in If
does for hosiery, boots and bonnets.
When one of the parties engage in _
a business that is not 'approved by'
the other.
Wheu both parties persist in ergo-
ing over a subject upon which they
never have and never can think alike
When neither husband nor wife
takes a vacation.'.
• When vacations are taken by one
side of the house only.
When's, man attempts to. tall his
wife what style of bonnet she umei
wear.
When a man's Qhristma,s presents
to his wife consists of bootjacks,
shirts and gloves for Ininself.
When children are obliged to c1)A"
oir for their rights.
When the watchword is, each for
im,self.
W10,40111101. is not ready at din-
ner timei
When he %tereq hie loudest while
Phn kindles the fire,
When father takes half of the pie
And laaveS the other half for the one
that made it and her eight children.
When the children are given the
neck and the back of the chicken.
When th ;e money that should go for
a hook goes for what only one side of
the Douse. knows anything about. •
When politeness, fine manner, and
kindly attentions are reserved for com-
pany or' visits abroad. Springfield
Union.
HER WORK IS NEVER DONE
SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T
ENOUGH ,SYSTEM ABOUT 11'.
IX Tionsekeeplag I operly Bytortnnarlred
It Can listnihed Just as Matt's La-
bors Are—r Suggested by a Lady
Who nee Studied tile subject.
Women are constantly complaining
that their work ,never ends—that while
a man works only during certain hews
of the day they never get through. The
principal reason, perhaps, is that they
do not put enough thinking into their
work.
"Why couldn't you tell me every-
thing at once?" was the petulant protest
of a child who had been sent up stairs
to her mother's room first for a pair of
scissors, then for a tape measure, then
for 'a spool of cotton, and finally for a
garment that was to be mended and had
been forgotten.
The child received a sharp reproof for
her iurpertinence, the mother placidly
remaining quite oblivious of the fact
that she also needed a reproof for her
own heedlessness. The child recognized
the injustice -and didn't forget it. A
little thought would have, saved steps
and temper; and it is this same thought
that needs to go into the ' everyday
work.
One trouble with women—mehy of
them—is, they fail to recognize house-
keeping as a businees, to be carried on,
as any business is, with dignity and with
inethod. They regard it as a drudgery,
and they fiet and worry over it until
both mind and body are disturbed, and
the peace of the household is worried
with contention, The mental atmos-
phere of the house Mother is felt by
every one, and she cannot be out of sorts
without putting everybody else out, It.
may be impossible to keep from fretting,
and acu t taskto be always serene;
. .
but one can more nearly approximate
tha latter condition and keep free froin
the former by,having things so arranged
about the house that everything will goe
like the traditional "clockwork."
Mrs. Cornelius, who has been the Men&
and counselor to so many young house-
keepers, has arranged the work ' of the
week in a few words of kindly advice,
Nothing better has ever been written,
_and it is good enough to quote as a text.
She has arranged this for the benefit of
families whose .pecuniary means allow
an entirely comfortable, but not a costly,
mode of living. You will see that it
differs somewhat from the customary
"Monday work," etc. She says:. On
Monday have the house swept and dusted,
the clothes, for the wash collected and
such articles mended as should be before
being Washed. On Tuesday wash. In
families where the washings are large it
is better to delay the ironing till the next
day but one. This gives time for doing
some things necessarily omitted on wash-
ing day, for instance, Wring if the size
of the family makes it necessary (bake
twice a week) and for folding the clothes,
as one is better able to do the whole iron-
ing in a day than if she was to perform
this labor on the day immediately after
the washing day.
Therefore on Wednesday bake and
fold the clothes, on Thursday iron,
on Friday have all parts of the house
that are in constant use swept and
dusted again, the brasses rubbed,
the windows cleaned, and if there
are closets to be cleaned let them be
done on that day also. On Saturday
bake and provide such -a supply for the
table as shall supersede the necessity of
cooking on Sunday, which should be
"the day of rest" for the house mother as
well as for all the rest of the household.
Still another way is to wash on Mon-
day, bake and do other things necessarily
omitted on Tuesday, iron on Wednesday-,
mend and take your ease on Thursday,
sweep and Olean on Friday, bake on Sat-
urday and lay out the clean linen for
rooms, beds and individuals. This is
the plan that is the most often followed.
But there are improvements even upon
this well tried method, if housekeepers
are not so wedded to their ways as to 'be
unwilling to try the experiment.
. Women who do their own work, rely-
ing possibly upon young daughters for
the little help they can give them out-
side of school hours, often find the laun-
dry work, particularly the washing, the
stumbling block. It is not always easy
to got a woman to come for washing; it
15 an expensive matter; to sent.1, to the
laundry, and, the only alternativeris "do
it yonrself." fIle task is much simpli-
fied; if the hutband will send shirts and
collars to the lanndry, and there arc
comparatively foW who cannot afford to
do this. That part taken out, half the
dread; df the work le done. Summer or
winter the shirts and collars aro a bug-
bear, particularly as they are made. So
begin by supposing that that part of the'
family linen goes to the laundry.
That leaves a washing larger than moat
women want to do at °nee; so on Friday,
when the rooms aro swept and dusted,
change the bed linen, Friday evening
put it to soak, and it is a very easy mat-
ter on Saturday morning to boil it awl
hang it out, The bed linen is not hard,
but large and heavy, and it is a good
deal gotten put of the way, and the Mon-
day wash does not seem nearly so hard.
The baking can then be done, and you
will he all ready far Sunday. On IIIon-
day the remainder of the washing can be
done. On Tuesday the clothes may be
folded and neceass.q bakies doe. On
lhtethay ologitly
be er men t to, the
, 1
111
it.
ed, and no extra work done. That
basket of clothee leak over and wend. FOR Pri:Liii BEST VALUE
brings you around again to Friday, with
its cleaning.
Now, here are the ways all ready laid
out for you, and you may take which
you like, Only, whichever way you de-
cide, keep to that way, and don't be per-
petually ttaing experiments. In that ORD E R ED CLOTHING
way you lose all ideas of system.
There tire times when Iiiekneae or some —GO TO---...,
untoward circumstance will put every-
thing awry, and make it imposaible that
you /shall carry out your idea and plan;
but that is only a temporary upset that
will come to every one in every branch 0
of business. The only thing is not to
worry over, and to "catch up ' ae qatck-
ly as,you can. —New 'York News. ELATS-4
A Child WSW singing.
A well known pastor antes that ho
spent an afternoon in climbing the tone-
ment,stairs of Edinburgh. The squalor
was appalling. He saw only sin and ruisc
ery and death. Never was ho co sick at
heart. Never did his faith receive ao
great a blow. For the moment he was
tempted to exclaim; "There is no God."
Soon, in the very midst of this. hell he
heard a note of faith—a child was sing-
ing. At once the cloud lifted, the heaven
opened, and• Christ spoke.—Rev, W. F.
Taylor,
The Discovery of Oxygen.
"Fixed alr" and "combustible air" bad
been speculated upon, and "the air that
is left after combustion" had attracted
attention. But the phenomena of this
• kind, inconsistent as they were with the
phlogistic theory, had not been sufficient
to overthrow it. Tho first germ of Lee
voisier's them:), on these matters was em-
bodied in a sealed packet which he de-
posited with the academy in 1770. Recog-
nizing 'that the calcination of metals
could not take place without the access
of air, and that the freer the access the
more rapid the calcination, he "began to
• suspect," as he expresses himself,. that
some elastic fluid contained in the air
was susceptible, under many circum-
stance's, of fixing itself and combining
with metals, and that,te the addition of
that substance were dile ealeination and
the increase in weight of metals con-
verted into calxes.
From this thought came, after much
groping with erroneous conclusions, the
idea that air is a compound containing
a vital part and another ,part, and that
•it is the vital part that is absorbed. The
behavior of charcoal when burning in A CHOW
oxygen pointed to the nature of that
substance and to the true theory of com-
bustion. This new vital substance,
, which, uniting with Metals, formed .
c4xes. and with other substances gen-
erated acids, he calls oxygen, or the acid
producer; the air that was left after corn
bustion was azote, or lifeless. The in-
flammable air which, combining with
oxygen, was found to form water,waswa
called hydrogen, — Popular Science
Monthly.
' How to Keep Cool. -"
CAPS, SHIRT'S,
COLLARS, CUFFS,
• Cheap for KASH.
AT
WEBSTER'S
,--• 1,,
(\\
THE CITY GROCERY
CHANGED HANDS.
C. J. READING
clauses in
Having purchased H. Hiscock's grocery and made heavy pur-
GENERAL
Fruits,
P, I 1\7" M.1
SOLID
Come and see.
'"Doctor, give me a suggestion as to
the best way to stand this hot weather."
"Well," replied a prominent physi-
cian, "there are a few simple things- to
remember. I tell you how to do it. In
the first glade I get plenty of ale6p. 1 do
this by eating a light simper,. without
coffee and with very little fluidof any
sort, and but a mouthful of beefsteak.
My day's work ends with the day, and
after sunset I just sit around without
my coat and vest. About 9 o'clock I
slip quietly into my bath room and soak
myself ten or fifteen minutes in a bath
tub full of cold Neater. Without drying
myself I draw on my sleeping garment
and go to bed. My temperature bas
been reduced and my pulse has slowed
up. This Condition is preserved by the
evaporation which goes on for half an
hour or more, during which I go to
sleep. Try it. ,
"Now, for the ilAy time. I eat a mod-
erate breakfast,. with but little hot coffee
or tea. I avoid the butter and anything
else greasy. I eat MY fill of bread, toast,
tomatoes, cold \etc., with a small
piece of lean, rare steak. I do not smoke
nor drink anything 41ca1jolic. I occa-
sionally take a glees', of some aerated
water, like vichy or seltzer. I wear light
clothes and but few of them, and 1 atn
not ashamed, to carry aiilumbrella. The
result is that 1 suffer as little from the
heat as is possible during the hot
weather."—Louisville Post, •
The Princess Who Stoops i'or Freedom.
The Earl of Fife's motto is "Virtute et
Opera," and there are those bold enough
to say that work and virtue are piously
adhered to by the canny Scot, If being
a "sleeping partner" in a Lan49'n hank
-
int house is work, •ancl.. never having
figured as a co-respondent,inaue- divorce
case is virtue, then the grandson of the
beautiful Fita-Clarende is a model 11
who will make Louise Wale iI an aalitehq,
husband. At all events, tblit.acaitg
wo-
scan is going to have a better time than
her sister princesses. The 'earl is not
such a Muff as the Marquis ott,s....,,,aalp, for
he has at once made two conditieee in
regard to his marriage with royalty. ' Hee
wife is not to be dogged by a leebeite.
waiting, and elle- must assume hi
a step down though it is.If thi, s
riage proves a success from the parka f
view of happiness, a new order of,thkat,;
Will soon reign in the United Xhiseeve
and other princesses will be foil
the example of the daughter of the
of Wales. They, too, will stoop for
dout, and so, gradually, that gig
fabric of royal rank will Melt and va
ivit41 now.
GROCERIES and PROVISIONS,
Csufs@tissgry, Crockery,
GlAssware, de.)
He has no.
G 0 0 D S
ARRIVING DAILY,
and offers
BARGAINS FOR CASH
Try goods and ascertain prieeq.
E STOCK OF GARDEN SEEDS & HOUSEHOLD PLANTS
C. J. READING.
rs ptnrititlEt,
?ho tlini sg1;joinii we claim to IN mitivi
uniaostiona
1st. THAT I HAVE THE BEST ASS ' STOCK OF
WATOHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELLERY IN WINGHAM.
THE BEST.
2m1. THAT THE QUALITY OF MY GOODS IS EQUAL TO
3rd. THAT MY PRICES ARE SUCH THAT IT IS SAFE AND
,..FITABLE FOR ALL TO DEAL WITH Mg.
./N
TEST 11'1 -IIS FOR 'YOTITRSM:LF
BY CALLING ON
E. F. GERSTER.
DITOED RATE
TO ALL POINTS IN
MANI •BA,
BRITISH CO MBIA
—AND THE—
NORTH 'ESTERNS -ATES,
—Y1A—
BEATTY'S
STEA tER
°EDITED EMPIRE'', d'ONTA
oery
.j.ig'P'VilTITEgiilkc' mule
Ind Kincardine, whero t
glatAT,1" (13eaTdienz N'll4tr"
Oulutn, connecting t, }'ort Arthur
It. and at Duluth th the Red River
LOWEST RATE% EST ACROIDAODATION,
EXPR1 BR TWA AND CROWD OP
yel nearest Oran4 Trunk ll'y age]
freight at passenger, rates.
JAS. H. atATTi,,
GENERAL MAMMA*, SARNIA.
A LINE
and
"CAIIPANA."
and PRIDAY nigh
per dttine), and CIIIII1111
ATL DAY at Goderich
corm° with the G. T
n at 11.10 a. m, for St,. Joe'
The Soo, Port Arthur and
th the C. P.
Iley ley.
DUPED.
CALEDONIAN HALL.
ma society meet. olory third liondey
coontit. Visamtegibrethrett welcome.
This tomittodi nthall eita Ito secured for enter
• ransIticu., ()of 71;rtolnd at a Very iow lit.nre. Nor
10
JAMES IaoTlat
cco .
Pioneer Hardware Store,
STONE BLOCK.
We give special attention to the
&Wowing lines:
IRON PIPE,
ALL
MEL%
PROBI
TO a
INCH.
IlioN BILihS PIPE FITTINGS.
FIRE BRIORS, MILL PILES,
MACHINE OILS.
AMERICAN WATER 1VIIITE COAL
OIL. .
We itre sole agents, in Winglintn f.,r
the sale of Genuine Rubber Paint
the beep in the world. '
All kinds of shelf and
heavy Hardware at
bottom prices.
Land Plaster it, bags always on band.
Jas, L Cline it et