Smyrna times., 1870-11-30
WHOLE NO. 223
Discoveries Made by Accident.


he use OF pendulum Wa suggested by The
vibrating OF chandelier in a cathedral the
power oi steam lnilmalod by the ocilating of
l ne ma ot Il tea kettle the utility ri coal cas
10: nght' ezpcnmcnted by an ordinary totae-
co p!te ot white clay the nagniiying prop.,tv
ol The lShs, stumbled upon 10y an opticians
apprentice Will: holding spectacle. -.asscs be-
!Htth MS thulhh and tnger-arG wei! known
instances III proof Of the TACT.
GaIyan!em was discovered hv accident Lv
Frei. Nalvani, OF Bologna, in Italy. lie gave
his haIas to the operation, but his wife is zen.
eFaIly consldcrcd as entitled to the credit of
the discovery. She being in bad health. some
frogs were ordered tor her. a. they Law uron
the table skinned, she noticed that their .gx
DccaEe strongly CONFUSED when near an ci,r-
U'G"l Conductor. She called her husbands at
lehIoh to the lact he instituted Il series Of
experiments, and in I79S the g.vauic battery
was lRychtcd
Eieren years later, with that discovery for
us Lasis, Prof. AIessahuro Volta, also AN
l'aIhh' announced his discovery known as
the yOltac pile
The discovery o! glass making was effected
oy seeing lhe ,and yltritied upon which a FIRE
had been kindled
BIancor ,ayS that making Of late-glass was
suggested by the TACT Of d workman hapncning
To- break CT IcibiS filed with melted class
lh3 fluid rdn under one of the I.rxc Atg stunes
with which the focr was paved. On raising
ms stone 10 recover the glass, it was found in
Tue form OF plate, such as could MT be PRO-
cured by the ordinary process of blowing.
u!aSS pearls, though among the most beauti
tuI, inexpensive and common ornament worn
10y the ladies are produce by verv singular
process. In 1856 Venetian lam, d "a min
discovered that the scales of fish, called lIeak
hAh, possessed the property ot communicating
pearIy hue to the water. lie found bv cx
penmentDg, that beads DIPPED into this wa
ter assumed when dried, the appearance of
pearls 1t proved however. that the nearly
coat when placed oUt side was casually m6-
hed oil; and the next improvement was TO
make the beads hollow. Tie making Of these
beads Is carried on to this day in Venice. By
means CT smell tube, tie inS dee are deli
cately coated with the pearIy liIuid anl away
ed coating Is placed over that Itreouires the
scales OF four thousand FISH to produce half a
pint OF the liquid, to which a suIali quantity of
Sai ammonia ana lslngiaSs are aitsrw. I'd ad.
ded.
Lundy Foot, the celebrated sruf manvfac-
tirer' originally kept small tooaccOnist shop
III Limerick. On one night his house, which
was uninsured, was buned 10 the gronnd As
ne contemplated the smoking lujuS on the fol-
loving morning, in a state bordering on de.-
par, some OF the poor neiShh0rs grouping
among the emberS for what they could find,
um0ied upon several ciniSterS of uneonSun-
ed, but half baked snuff, which they tried,
a"d t0hnd 1t 50 pleasant to their noses that
they loaded their waiStcuat pockets with IT,
Luhdy Foot, aroused from his >tupor. imitat-
ed that eXalA5le and took pinch of his own
/ property when he was struck hy the sunerior
I p1ngency and flavor it had acquired from the
great heat to which it had been exposed. Act
lnS upon the hint, he took another house and
called 1t the Black Yard, erected ovens and
set about the manufacture Of that highdried
commodity which soon became widely known
as the Black Yark snuff Eventually he took
larger house IN Dublin, and making his Gus
toners pay literally through the noSe amassed
a great fortune for having been ruined.
There Is curse on Lotteries, whether tick
etholders draw prizes or blanks The Nercau-
Tile Library Lottery in San Francisco was rrob-
ably drawn as fairly as any lottery can be but
the tdct remains that in any scheme of getting
s0methng Tor nothing, great proportion of
the investors must be disappointed and de-
mOrallzed, although they may not blow tkeir
brains OWt, as Emil l1irsch did in San Francis
CO. lie had fifteen whole tickets and seventeen
coupons In the lottery, and he drew uothinGl
Upon learning this, he became dreadful des.
pOnden:, and destroyed himself. 1t seems
strange, after innumerablc demonstrations of
lMmorahty and danger of lotteries, tn It they
snnuiv De tolerated anywhere. They have en-
rich ID few, only to reduce thousands to beg
gary aud despair There is nat IA civilized
country IN the world in which they have not
been denounced by the best and even by the
most liberal moralists; yet they are lately re-
Ivlvlng again in all their splendid seductiveness.
They are prohibited by the statutes of most
States. yet there is not State nor city in
the Union in which tickets are not freely sold.
Rich men invest thousands and paupers ay
policy The laws against them should either
be repealed or enforced
The Sunday Di$pdtch SANDERS Sussex thus:
Mr.. Gray, an ingenious gentleman in Sussex
county, Delaware, invented a n4w, non -xplo-
slve, burning fuid, and invited few friends