Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — Recent Inventions. [ARTICLE]

Recent Inventions.

To a Philadelphian has been granted a patent on a machine to pass tobacco leaves in bundles under X rays to kill the small insects which infest them. A patent has been granted on an electric rat trap which resembles a rather flat bell. When a rat climbs up on it to reach the bait it completes a fatal circuit. A piano stool that will accommodate but one person under ordinary circumstances, but which contains leaves which can be spread to hold two to play duets, has been invented by a Chicagoan. By inventing a hairpin the prongs of which normally are close together, but which may be sprung open to insert, a Pennsylvania woman has designed a device more secure than pins of thb usual form.