A safety pocket to hold a watch securely is a feature of a new apron for workmen.
A device for removing tires from wagon wheels has been invented that exerts a pull exceeding a ton, yet weighs less than twenty-five pounds.
The principle of the automatic drinking fountain has been applied to a water cooler by the invention of a bubbling attachment.
Flies can enter a garbage can that a New York man has patented, but as they try to get out, they are caught in a wire trap, which can be detached and the insects destroyed.
A new clamp to hold a cover on a milk bottle also serves as a handle to carry the bottle.
Won’t Cut Hair Until Bryan is President.
Bryan Wise, nineteen years old, of Crane, Mo., will get his first hair cut when William Jennings Bryan becomes president.
“Then his hair will grow so long that he will stumble over it,” the thoughtful reader may surmise; but be that as it may, Bryan Wise, son of a Crane, Mo., brakeman, has for nineteen years been a total stranger to the barber’s chair, and, having stood the “gaff” for so long a time, it looks as though he will continue to do so. At present his hair touches his waist when it is “undone,” but he wears it in a tight knot at the back of his head.
The father of the long-haired youth was and continues to be a great admirer of the former secretary of state, and he has every faith that in the course of time his son will have the opportunity to have his hair cut off.