Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1873 — The Patent Office Reports. [ARTICLE]

The Patent Office Reports.

Wk owe our thanks to Judge Kelley for the latest Patent Office report. We already have sixteen hundred of these interesting volumes in our little library, but they have been read and' and reread so many times that we know every page of them by heart. This new volume came opportunely and gratefully on Christmas morning, and that night we gathered our little family around the fire, and read it throttgh to them. The affecting tale entitled “Improvement in Monkeywrenches " seemed to touch every heart, and when we came to the climax of the little story about.“ Reversible Pie-boards," there was not a dry eye between the front door and the stable. During the reading of the piteous narrative entitled “Gumwashers for!Carriage-axles,” the whole family gave expression to boisterous emotion, and the hired girl was so much excited that she lost her presence of mind, and went round to her mother’s jnadyerdantly with six pounds of sugar and a butter-kettle full of flour, but came home at midnight intoxicated. We can never sufficiently thank Judge Kelley for the innocent enjoyment thus furnished us. The memory of that happy evening will linger in our minds very much longer than that hired girl ever lingers when she lights on a lot of substance which she things will suit the constitution of her aged parent.— Philadelphia Sunday Diepatch. I —The following notice was recently found on a gate of a New York lunatic asylum: “Jurors supplied i»any quantity on the shortest notice.’* —A guest at a Danbury party recently lost one of his eyes while playing Copenhagen. It rolled under the bureau and couldn’t be found. . ■ —Bloody Run, Pa., has, by a vote of the Ipcople, had 'lts name changed to Everett City. •-