Forty thousand applications for pfatehjis have been made in the United States jwithin twelve lnonths, some of whiohrare for inventions of a 'most extraordinary nature. For instance, one man claimed protection for the application of the Lord's Prayer, repeated in a loud voice, to cure stammering; another applied for the envied- parchment on behalf of a new aiJd usefurattachment of a :w^eight to a cowl's till to prevent her switching it during the milking operations ; and another prpposed;to cure worms by fishing for them with a delicate line and tiny hook, baited with a. sednctiye pill. , ' i A miiieK named George Collingwood wjas killed cln Friday last, 4th inst, at the claim of the Great Central Quartz Cop 1 a iy r ' Steiglitz, He was engaged in time bering the shaft when the footboard ga;ye way, and falling, a distance of 90ft to the bottom of the shaft, he was killed instantaneously. ........ i
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 654, 29 March 1870, Page 4
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