Those who earn their bread laboring at desks have found that certain portions of their trousers give out long before the rest of the garment is ready for the junk man. This circumstance has produced an economic waste that has drained trouser-wearers ever since Man the Nomad perched himself on a high stool.
Panting, as one would say, to cure this deficiency. Louis Sonnenberg, of Fast Marshall Street, a tailor, for the past seventeen years resident in Richmond, has invented a "protector," which the United States Patent Office describes as follows:
"The general object of the invention is to provide a neat and attractive protector or shield for the seat of men's trousers, performing its functions when the wearer is seated, which is quickly detachable and with equal facility may be cast off from the person of the wearer."
Mr. Sonnenberg received his certificate of patent yesterday from Washington. It gives him the sole right to manufacture and sell the trousers seat protector in the United States. It will be made of the same material as the trousers themselves, thereby rendering the attachment utilitarian, aesthetic, and inconspicuous at one and the same time.
The inventor admitted that an absent-minded man who forgot to remove the pants-prolonger before he ventured from his office to the street, might suffer a degree of mortification if he were addicted to the prevailing short coats, but will, suppose there was a rent, wouldn't that be still worse?
FERNEYHOUGH DOES NOT FEED  AR GLANDERS EPIDEMIC
Informed on the arrival of the liner, which was placed in quarantine by order of the State Veterinarian. 