The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-10-20
piscoyeries Made By Accident.

Not few discoveries in the arts as
sciences have been made or suggeste
by accident The use Of pendalu
suggested by the vibrating Of chand'
lier in cathedral the power Of stem
iutimated by the oscillating Of the I
Of tea kettle; the utility Of coal I'd
for light, experimental upon by an ol
dinary lsoucco pipe Of white clay; ~
nlagniiying property Of the lens, stun
bled upon BY M opticians apprentic
while holding spectacle glasses betwee
his thumb aud finger-arc well know
instances Of proof Of the fact
Galyauism was discovered by acc
dent, by Prof. Galyani, Of Bologna,
Italy. lie gave his name to the opert
tion, but his wife is generally considered
as entitled to the credit Of the diseoyar5
She being in bad health, some frog
were ordered for her. As they ID,
upon the table skinned, she noticed
that their legs became strongly eon|
vulscd when near an electrical eonduc
tor. She called her husbands atteq|
tion to the fact; he instituted q serie.
OF experiments, and 10 1889 the galyanit
battery was invented.
Eleven years later, with that discovery
for his basis, Prof. Alessandro Nolti
also an Italian, announced his discovery
of "voltaic pile"
The discovery Of glass. making wal
effected by seeing the sand yitrife{
upon which FIRE had been kindled.
Blapc9rt says that making of plate
glass was suggested by the fact Of
workman happening to break crucibls
filled with melted glass. The fluid rad
under one Of the large Aagstones Will
which the floor was paved. On raising
the stone to recover the glass, Il wa
found IN the form of plate, such a
could not be procured by the ordinar.
process of blowing.
Glass pearls, though among the mos
beautiful, inexpensive, and eammos
ornaments worn by the ladies', are pro
duced by very singular process. il
1856, Venetian, named Joaquin, dis
covered that the scales Of fish, Gale,
bleak fish, possessed the property Q
communicating a pearly hue TO th'
water. He found by experimenting
that beads dipped into this water as
sumed, when dried, tho appearance q
pearls. i proved however that III
pearly coat, when placed outside, wa
easily rubbed off; aud the next improve
ment was to make the beads hallow.--
The making Of these heads is carrie,
on to this day in Venice. The bead
are all blown separately. by means Q
small tube, the insides are delicatcl
coated with the pearly liquid and
waxed ccating is placed over that.
requires the scales Of four thousand fsl
to produce half pint of the liquid, b
which small quantity Of sal-ammoni
and isinglass are afterward added.
Lundy Foot, the celebrated snuff man
ufacturer, originally kept small tobac
conist shop at Limerick. On on
night his house, which was unipsurcd
was burned to the ground. As he con
templated the smoking ruins an III
following morning, in state b0rderip,
on despair, some Of the poor neighbor.
groping among the embers for wha
they could find, stumbled upon sewers
canisters of unconsumed, but half.bake
snuff, which they tried, and found it .
pleasant to their noses that they loade
their waistcoat pockets with it. Luna
Foot, aroused from his stupor, initiate
their example, and took pinch Of hi
own property, when he was struck y
the superior pungency and favor it ha
acquired from the great heat to vhic|
it had been exposed. Acting upon IN
hint, he took another house 10 q plac
called Black Yard, erected ovens an
set abont the manufacture of that higt
dried commodity which soon heeafp
widely known as Black Yard snuff. =
Eventually he took larger house i
Dublin, and making bis customers pa,
literally through the nose alnassed
great fortune for having haa,. rosr..l