Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1885 — An American Invention Much Wanted. [ARTICLE]

An American Invention Much Wanted.

We are greatly in need of a cheap and speedy press which may be operated by a steam thrashing engine to press our grain straw into small, solid blocks to furnish fuel for this immense wheatgrowing but woodless and fuelless country. Snch a press, if practical, and cheap, and durable, would certainly be one of the greatest blessings this country could be favored with. Millions of tons of straw are now burned in the field which might be converted into valuable fuel by the use of snch a press. —Dakota Cor. Scientific American.

The busy thoroughfare of life is beset with open bridges, and disappointment is continually ringing the bell aud bringing the rushing ciowds to a standstill, while numerous craft laden with hopes beyond reach go through the draw. If you are a nearsighted party, and have ever gone to the play without your long-range glasses, it won’t take a chisel to put this idea where it ia intended to go. — Ex.