Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1889 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Progress of Inventions Sine’s 1845. In tfce Aear 1°45 the pn»s nt owners of the Scientific American newspaper oomnjeuced its publication, and scou after established a bureau for procuiing of patents for Inventions at horn and in foreign countries.— During the year 1845 there were only 502 patents issued fr' m the U. S, Patent Office aud the total issue from the establishment of the Patent. Office, up to the end of that year numbered only 4,437. Up to the first of July this year there have been granted 406,413. Showing that since t e commence* meut of t e publication of the scientific American, there have been is sued from the U. S. Patent Office 402,* 166 Daten' g, and about one-third mo; f applications have been made than have been granted, showing the ingenuity of our people to b. phenomenal, and much greater than ever the enormous number of patents issued indicates. Probably a good many of our readers have nad business transacted through the ofiiees of the Scientific American, in New Y‘>rk or Washington, and are familiar with Uunn &Cu.‘s mode of doing business, but those who have not will bo iota erested in knowing something about this, the oldest patent soliciting firm in this country, probably in the world

Persons visitii, the offices of the Scientific American, *6l Broadway, N- Y., for the first time will le surprised. on xntering the main office, to find such an extensive and elegant** lv equipped establishment, ,with its walnut counters, desks, and ahairs to correspond, and its enormous safes, and such a large number of draughts men, specification write a, and clerks, all buiy as bees, ramindfag one of a large, banking or iusurauc® effiee, with its Hundred employees. In conversation with o:.e of the firm, who Had eommeuoed the business oi soliciting patents in connect tion with the publication of the Scientific American, more ti;an forty years ago. i learned that tuis firm had lq ide application so patents for upward of one hundred thousand in* ventors in the United States, and thousands i different foreign countries, and had filed as many cases in the Patent Office in a single month as there were patents issued during the entire first jeur of their business career. fcTbis gentleman had seeh the Patent Office - row from a sapling to a sturd oak, and he modestlv hinted that many thought the Scientific American, with its large clrc dation, had performed no me»B share in stimulating inventions and advancing the interests of the Patent Office But it is not alone the patent soliciting that occupies the attention of the one hundred persons employed bv Muon a Co., at, a Iprge Bomber are outraged on the four publieatlone Issued weekly and monthly from their offl°e, 361 Broadway, NY, viz: The Scientific American, the Scientific American Supplement, t s e Export Edition of the Scientific amer ioan, and the Architec t and Builders Edition of the Scienpifio American The first r wo publications are issued every week, and the latter two, Jie first of evsry month.

If money is of any consequence to you, before you buy go and see the immense stock of woolen dress goods, flannels, quilts, blankets, and a complete stock of clothing, boots, shoes, rubbers, furnishing goods, Ac. Chicago Bargain Store. Lock out for bargains at Priest & P?xton’s. Try Ladd’s famous full cream cheese at Priest &

The Indianapolis Sentinel Co. is offering as a premium wi!h the Indiana State Sentinel, a magnificent engraving of Munkacy’s “Christ before Pilate,” Rosa Bonheur’s “Horse Fair” and the “Lion.T at Home,” by the same artist Subscribers can obtain any one of theae by paying a nominal sum to cover the cost of putting up and forwarding the picture. The engravings are readily sold at sl, but it is proposed to ask an advance of little more than one-tenth of that I amount over the regular subscription price for the weekly Sentinel and the picture. The Sentinel Co. will send any one of the pictures to new subscribers, Dr old subscribers renewing their subscriptions, and the Weekly year for $1.15. This is only 15c. to cover express charges from New York, postage, wrapper, clerical work and other incidentals. The picture is given free. It is a lemarkable offer.

A CARD We make pictures of all kinds in the latest styles and at very low prices. Especial attention given to copying and enlarging. New Gallery, opposite Makeever House. J. C. WILLIAMS, Photographer. Jan. 6. ’BB—tf.