People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — FIVE NEW INVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

FIVE NEW INVENTIONS.

An electric roller for massage purposes is composed of plates of copper and zinc and generates its own electricity. A newly designed double barreled gun has only one trigger, a lever being nsed to change the action to either side as desired. Blacking brushes for use with liquid blacking have a reservoir in the dauber, together with a tube running into the bristles through which the polish runs. Pneumatic roller skates having one wheel on each skate are just out. In connection with the foot plate and heel and toe clamps there is a brace running up to the calf of the leg to make it more rigid. To remind a person that his clock needs winding a Wyoming man has a device consisting of a lever placed so as to 'touch off an alarm when the coiled spring has unwound sufficiently to move the lever out of position.