New Things

A new design in kettles for cooking purpoeea has its interior divided into several compartments to cook a number of vegetables or meats at the same time, tne different sections being inclosed in one large compartment to hold water and prevent burning of the food "while cooking. A newly patented pad for saddles to prevent horses írom having sore backs consists of a long rubber tube bent in four or more sections, bound togeSher at the sides and ends, and providecl wifh a valve for inflating, the device being attadhed to the under side of n saddle or harness pad. In a new wagon or engine tihe wheels are surrounded by a jointed chain, the bottom of which is formed of metal plates and the upper side of india rubber or oitlier elastic material, the ohain running over small pulleys attached to the carriage, so it can be used as a track on which the engine runs. In a recently patented chair for steamer use two frames are attached together and fitted with inllated air bags for use as a raft in case of the ship sinking, or the air bags can be removed from the chair and attached to the body for use as a life preserver, and can also he used as chair cushlöns. Chain gearing is used to drive the wheels in a recently designed railway loeomotive, a small toothed wheel being connected direct to the piston rod and achain running from this wheel to one of the drive ■wheels.which is gearod to the next drive wheel by anotTaer chain, the device being patented by a Missouri man. A new life boat is provided with an 'elliptloal frame, pointed at the ends, and secured to the boat by cross-atrlps, the body portkm of the frame being eomposed of cork or inflated rubber tubes, to ateady the boat and increase ts buoyancy, at the same time aetiag as a fender when coming in contact wiüh a wreek or the shore. A new combination for grocers' use conslsts of a funnel witih a plug operated by a thumb lever in the outlet for use in measuring liquids, the funnel jolng made in different sizes and also wlth a graduated scale on the inside so tihait when the desired quant i ty is obtainod táie plug can be drawn and th iqutd flows out through the tube) at the (Mitran.