Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — PATENT-OFFICE STATISTICS. [ARTICLE]

PATENT-OFFICE STATISTICS.

Figures from the Report of Commissioner Benton J. Hall. [Washington dispatch.] Benton J. Hall, the Commissioner of Patents, in his synopsis of his annual report furnished the Secretary of the Interior, says that at the end of the fiscal year ended June 30 last the office was well up with the business in charge. The number of applications for patents of all kinds received during the fiscal year was 40,678; for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886, the number was 38,408. The Commissioner renews the recommendation of his predecessors, that the Patent Office be furnished with more room and greater facilities, and that the model hall and library rooms be restored and repaired. Referring to the defalcation of Financial Clerk Levi Bacon, deceased, the Commissioner says that the shortage was $31,091, against which were found due bills, miscellaneous memoranda, etc., amounting to $15,011. From the aggregate of the due bills $8,668 has been collected, leaving $22,422 as the present deficiency. The number of patents granted during the year, including .reissues and designs, was 21,732; number of trade-marks registered, 1,101; number of labels registered, 384,,number of patents expired, 12,782. The receipts of the office aggregate $1,150,046; expenditures, $981,644; surplus, $168,401. •' In der race-course of life, dot vas a most unhabby shpecktacle, a pair of shpecktacles to saw an old mait voomans und a bachelor mans shtart togedder out on der same drack. Der he mans hafe der pole, und keeps dot undil der ent of der heat, unt comes der vinner in by his neck. Der she voomans keebs pooty veil behind-hant, und nefer passes der vire under, not once.