A Useful Invention

Mr. J. B. Coon, of Washtenaw avenue, lias invented a sifter, to be used in sifting the ashes that come froin furnaces and coal stoves, that will certainly coiné into general use, and his desire is to start a factory here, and have them manufactured upon a large scale, for the invention is practical, and one that every housekeeper will never do without if they only try it once. The invention is a box, slightly oblong, into which are placed one or more sieves, according to the saving desire of the person. After fllling the sieve with ashes from the furnace or stove, it is shaken very easily by a lever appliance, and the ashes entirely sifted from the coal and einders. After the sifting process is through - which is performed in a tight box, out of which no dust can escape - the sieve with its contents is removed, and it takes but a brief period of time to separate the einders and dump the good coal in a pile by itself, to be used over again. One is surprised at the quantity of good coal that is secured. Even from ashes that look as if there was little or no coal in them, there is found to be a considerable quantity. The sifter has no legal name as yet, but quite a number are in use in the city, and every person having one considera it a necessity and would not part with it. At present Mr. Coon has the sieyes and parts made in Detroit, while he makes the boxes and puts them gether here. The retail price of $3 is very reasonable for the little machine, ! if it may be caüed a machine, will save its piice several times over during the winter. The persou who is really practical and saving takes the contents of these sieves and puts them in a pile separate from the other coal, and uses them at night, when it is desired to keep the fire without its buruiug too fiercely. In this way it is very económica!. ■ Mr. Coon, the inventor, lives on Washtenaw avenue and would be very glad to talk with you about the tion, and if tliere is any idle capital here, it certainly seems as though it might be profitably employed in the manufacture of these giftere. They are practica] will sell without being ] forced on the customer. We honestly ( lieve that a good salesman could dispose of one hundred a day, easily, in almost ' any city or state, for nothing like tliem ( has ever been upou the market. They are simple, easily worked, and greaf money-savers. Having used one, the writer speakü from experieuce. It is no X theory. "Beware the pine tree's withered branch, Beware the awful avalanehel" was the peasant's warning to the aspiring Alpine youth. Dangers greater than these lurk in the pathwayof the young man and woman of the present as they journey up the rugged sidehill of Time. But they may all be met and overeóme by a judicious and timely use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical discovery, the celebrated cure for colds, coughs, catarrh and consumption, Better than hypopliosphites or cod liver oil; unrivaled and unapproachable in all diseases arising from a scrof ulous or enfeebled 1 dition of the system. Send for a free book. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, No. 6G3 Main St., J Buflalo, N. Y.. Hernia, or Kupture, permanently c cured or no pay. For treatise, testinonials, and numerons references, - dress World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Ak _