Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 176, 16 July 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

How is it that the simplest things are the longest ia many being: thought oat. inventions. The commonordin--aty n.edle was invented by a negro in 1845, but . during the . years which have followed people have broken tern*' per, finger nails and needle *yes#fc, endeavouring to perform the diffi* oult feat of passing a needle through a hole in a button* which has already been filled to overflowing. It's the proverbial ne?dle*B eye that causes all the worry, and now this it being cut down a An exchange .says that u A new needle, which must be a delight to housewives, has been invented in Germany. It has a behind the eye of smaller diameter than the bored part of a needle, with grooves in it to receive tbe thread. The object of it is tofacilitate the pasaiug of the needle through the holes in buttons when sewing them on. The thread liea in the grooves, hence the needlepasses m Jtcb more easily and : rapidly." So simple, and so long in coming* The same with scows of other long-fell wants. Of course there aro thousands of ; simple things tfcafc .never see the! light of and the other 4old of an.-.invention 'which was rejects because of it's although its usefulness is unquestioned. Jb was a sample system of rail way signalling, and was submitted, to the Midlanl Bailway Company, Kngland, who decided that their engine drivers would depend too much on the system and negiecfc even ordinary precaulion. A eurioua reason, but it sufficed.