A DREAM INVENTION.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

A DREAM INVENTION.

+ . ; Theinventorof the sewing-machine i almost beggared himself before he ; discovered where the eye of the needle of a sewing-machine should be located. His original idea was to follow the i model of the ordinary needle, and have the eye at the heel. It never occurred to him that' it should be placed near the point, and he might have failed altogether if he had not ,dreamed he was building a sewingmachine for a savage king in a strange country. Just as in his actual waking experience, he was rather perplexed about the needle's eye. He thought the king gave him twenty-four hours to complete the machine and make it sew. If not finished in that time death was to be the punishment. He worked and worked, and puzzled and puzzled, and. finally gave it up. Then he thought he was being taken out to be executed. He noticed that the warriors „ carried spears that were pierced near the head. Instantly came the solution pf the difficulty, and, while the inventor was begging for time, he awoke. It was four o'clock in the morning. He jumped out of bed, ran to his workshop, and by nine a needle with an eye at the point had been rudely modelled." After that it was easy. This ia the true story of an important inoident in the invention of the sewingmachine. , " IMITATION is the BINOEREST FLATTERY." The articles most imitated are CLEMENTS* TONIC and FLETCHER'S PTI.T.H, war? BECAUSE they have the best reputation and are most in demand by the publio, oonseqnently, every dishonest trader tries to trade on their fame and renown. It is.reaUy wonderful that the Australian people are so slow to see tha truth as regards the unscrupulous quacks and charlatans who jreyontheoredulity of the Australianpublio. Scarcely a week ever passes but what the press exposes tha barefaced and shameful jraoboes : of some of these harpies, yet in faoe of all they seem to thrive, and the paper who hounds them down most thrives fattest on their advertisements and craokn champagne over each balance-sheet. Clement*' Tonic and Fletcher's Fills have never yet stooped to deception and misrepresentation. They are scientific therapeutical agents, and evidenoe as lo their vafne can be found in every distriot, and such being the case it is unneoemry to farther •xtol their virtue*, i