LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC PATENTS. NOTICE TO INVENTORS. "My friends," said the scholar, "to seem to know a thing, contents you more than to know it really. I resign my charge, and henceforth the parrot shall be your teacher." And, strange to say, when the scholar left them with the parrot the students were well pleased.-H. Helmick, in May St. Nicholas. There was never a time in the history of our country when the demand for inventions and improvements in the arts and sciences generally was so great as now. The con- "MARK TWAINISMS."-Bits of Philosophy from the veniences of mankind in the factory and work-shop, the Calendar of Pudd'nhead Wilson.-Gratitude and treachery household, on the farm, and in official life, require contin- are merely the two extremities of the same procession. ual accessions to the appurtenances and implements of You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the each in order to save labor, time and expense. The polit-band and the gaudy official have gone by. ical change in the administration of government does not Thanksgiving Day.-Let all give humble, hearty, and affect the progress of the American inventor, who being sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of on the alert, and ready to perceive the existing deficiencies, Fiji they do not use turkeys; they use plumbers. It does not permit the affairs of government to deter him does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji. from quickly conceiving the remedy to overcome discrep- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyancies. Too great care not be exercised in choosing a ance of a good example. competent and skillful attorney to prepare and prosecute It were not best that we should all think alike, it is an application for patent. 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