Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1885 — A Jasper county Man’s Vaiuable Invention. [ARTICLE]

A Jasper county Man’s Vaiuable Invention.

Mr. A. H. Arnold, an ingenious jyottngjaaa-o! BarUey township, r nas lately-take out a patent on an invention which promises to bring him in a fine sum of money. It is a simple but i ligenius contrivance to present telegraph and telephone ■wires from interlocking, and interrupting communications, during the prevalence of winds and heavy storms, a source of great annoyance and loss to telegraph and telephone com pan ies. We u nderstaud that Mr. Arnold has already been ottered $15,000 for his patent, and telegraph experts estimate its value, anywhere from the above sum way sip Into the hundreds of Ihonsauds. - - ■ .. 1....:.