Ingenious Inventions

A BARBF.it of Ncwburg, N. Y., has Ín vented a ehair which registers the numbcr oí persons who sit in it during; the day. A sKirpiNo ropo has just been patentod in England which plays musió, the act of turning the ropo setting in motion a (malí musical box which is flxed at the :ud of ono of the handles. A Frbnciimí x claims to have invented a thermometer so sensitivo that lts Index needie will defloct two incbei upon the cntrance of person luto tbe room where it has been placed. A Fkbnch ongineor recontly Invented an Improved key which simpliflos and ronder lasting the tuning of stringed instrumenta.. Tho violoncellists of the Orand Opera at Paris have had them adapted to their ln atruments, [and I'leyel, the piano-maker, has purchased the right to use them in hl I pianos. Mu. Joiix Mabch, an intelligent farmer of WlUte Oak Bprings, 111., hos d+scovexed plan which ho thlnks will do away with th nocessity of dehorninfr cattle. He has conceired the Idea that tho application of a cortain chemioal BubstAnce to tho germ ot the horn soon alter the blrth of the oalf will oompletely provent the growth of th horn, and tuut no horn will ever appear. Ha has triod tbo cïporiicent on fourtee calvo thls spring. Bumo ut ttiomarenow ovor tWQ ïiiin.hj olu, uuj uo horn ha yai brun to {io-.v.