COOPER’S STRING BINDER ATTACHMENT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2336, 11 September 1880, Page 3

COOPER’S STRING BINDER ATTACHMENT.

Au exhibition trial of Cooper’s string binder attachment for the McCormick wire hinder look place to-day opposite Messrs Jonas, Hart and Wildie’s [Rooms. The inventor of the attachment was present in person to superintend the working of the binder, and the machine attracted a considerable number of spectators during the day. Mr Cooper was not happy, however, in his choice of a machine upon which to exhibit his own inAention, and on that account chiefly the trial was not so successful as usual. The invention was shown in Christchurch but a short time since, and still more recently in Ashburton, and on both occasions with the utmost success. The attachment is very simple, and consists of a metal disc about the size of a cheesc-platc, in the centre of which is a small upright steel rod, the end of which is formed like a curved beak. At the side of the disc is placed a pair of nipper-liko teeth, between which the end of the string is placed. The handle of the binder is now turned when a loop of string instantly encircles the the sbeaf, the loop being twisted by the metal “ beak ” in the centre of the disc; on the handle being turned further, the beak opens, releases tbc end of the string which is now knotted, and coming in contact with a small steel bar the ends of the string are cut off, and the binder is ready for another sheaf. The operation of string binding is performed in much less time than it takes to describe. The chief advantages of Mr Cooper’s invention are that string is both cheaper and more effective than wire, and there is no clanger of cattle being injured by eatingstring, whereas the pieces of wire that get into the sheaf when the wire is used is a source of constant danger. Further particulars may bo obtained of Messrs Priest and Iloldgute, the local agents.

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A coquette came out of a fancy goods shop loaded with purchases. “ You have renewed your provision said a rival. “Don’t speak of it, I have quite ruined myself! I have bought a thousand things I do not need, among others six tootli brushes.” “All, one for each tooth,” said the other sweetly. The number of one-armed young men seen driving out with young ladies these summer evenings is truly appalling. An old soldier at our elbow says that one arm is invariably lost during an engagement. Breaking au Awkward Silence. —Mrs Montague Smith (suddenly, to bashful youth,' who has not opened his lips since he was introduced to her a quarter of an hour ago) —‘And now let us talk of something else “ Punch. ’ A chivalrous young man in Norfolk, Ya., knocked a young girl down with a brickbat and broke several of her left ribs, because she wouldn’t marry him. He was determined to get at her heart some way. , . At a recent Sunaay-school session the superintendaut was talking about idols, when, to ascertain whether the children were understanding what he was saying, he asked, “ Children, what was an idol ?” “ Being laz3 r ,” was the loud and quick response of one of the member of the juvenile class.

What fish has its eyes the nearest together? The smallest. A Nevada Indian is going through life with the sweetly beautiful name of Drifting Goose. “ Honesty is the best policy ” but too many people, says Brown, claim that they cannot afford the best of everything. In some respects the gentler sex far surpass us. No man, for instamce, can deliver a lecture with a dozen pins in his mouth. There seems little doubt that, in the matter of high jumps, ‘record’ has been exceeded, and that F. Davin, at the Carrick-on-Suir athletic sports on July 5 cleared the astonishing height of 6ft 2fin Two magistrates signed a document to the effect that they had witnessed the jump, and had fully and properly measured it. There seems little room to doubt the truth of the statement but it is a marvellous performance. When the Countess of Derby drove through Southport endeavoring to enlist popular favor for the Liberal candidates, the Conservatives, “ being too gallant to groan the lady,” turned their coats inside out and followed her carriage. A London society paper says that “ American women would bo far more beautiful if they weighed2ool b a-piece” So would some wasp-waisted Australians. Apropos of the Trafalgar-square meeting, the Archbishop of Canterbury remarked to the Bishop of Peterborugh that, as Mr Bradlaugh couldn’t “ go into the House,” ho supposed he wanted a little “ outdoor relief.” This -was a joke on two laws —the poor law and the law. A Chicago paper says that the married ladies of a Western city have formed a Come-homc-hushand Club. .It is about four feet long, ami has a brush on the end of it.

By Way of Encouragement. A dinner was recently given to two or tb rec devoted gentlemen about to explore Central Africa. In the middle of the toasts there was introduced a little man, stiff, alert, and ugly, with blue glasses and hair thrown back like the plumage of certain birds of prey. The president of the Society, putting his hand on the stranger’s shoulder, said, !t This young man is a doctor, whose constitution was made for the murderous climate of equatorial Africa. He will be attached to this party of hardy explorers, and will bring back their scientific papers, and also most detailed notes on the character and peculiarities of the desoascs with which each one gloriously died.”