GETTING RICH BY SMALL INVENTIONS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1671, 5 March 1890, Page 4

GETTING RICH BY SMALL INVENTIONS.

The iSeW Jersey man who hit upon the idea of attaching a rubber erasing tip to the end of lead pencils is worth 200,000 dollars.

The miner who invented a metal rivet or eyelet at each end of the mouth of coat and trouser pockets, to resist the strain caused by the carriage of pieoes of ore and heavy tools, has made more money from his letters patent than he would have made had he struck a good vein of goldbearing quartz. Everyone has seen the metal plates that are used to protect the heels and soles of rough shoes, but everyone doesn't know that within ten years the man who hit upon the idea has made 2§o,oQQdQls. As large a sum as was ever obtained for any invention was enjoyed by the Yankee who invented the inverted glass bell to hang over gas jets to protect ceilings from being blackened by smoke. The. inventor of the roller skate has made i,ooo,OQOdols, notwithstanding the faot that his patent had nearly expired before the value of it was ascertained in the crage 'for roller skating that spread over the country a few years ago. The gimlet-pointed screw has produced more wealth than most silver mines, and the Connecticut man who first thought of putting copper tips on the toes,. of children's shoes is as well off as if he had inherited 1.000.000d015, for thafc\ the amount his idea has ' realised for him in cold/clamnay coin. The common needle threader, which, everyone has seen for .sale, and which every; woman owns, was a boon to needle users. The man who invented it his an income of 10,000dols a year for his invention. A minister in England made 60,000d01s by inventing an odd toy that danced by winding it with a string. . The person who, invented " Pigs in Clover," will be. rich before the leaves turn, this autumn. He was poor last November.—" PitUburg Prow."