The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13

cathedral suggested to Calico the application
Of the pendulum.
The art of lithographing was perfected
through suggestions made by accident A poor
musician was curious to know whether music
could not be etched upon stone as wei! rs up.
on copper
After he had prepared his slab, his mother
asked him TO make memorandum of such
clothes as she proposed to send awav TO be
washed. Not having pen, INK and paper con.
venient he wrote the list on the stone with the
etching preparation, intending to make a copy
of 10 AT leisure
few days later when about to clean the
stone, he wondered what effect aqua FORTS
would have upon it. He applied the acid, and
in few minutes saw the writing standing out
in relief The next step necessary was simply
TO ink the stone and take off an impression.
The composition of which printing rollers
is made was disco 5ertd by Salopian printer.
Not being able to find the pelthall, he linked
the type with piece OF soft glue which had
fallen out of glue pot. 1t was such an cx.
celeDt substitute that, after mixing molasses
with the glue, to give the mass proper consls.
tenCy, the old pelt-ball WAS entirely discarded.
The shop of Dublin tobacconlst, by the
name Of Lundyfoot, was destroyed by fire.
While he was gazing doletully into the smOul-
derlng ruins, he noticed that his poorer neigh
bors were gathering the snuff from the CAMS
tiers. He tested the snuff for himself ana dis
covered that the fire had largely improved its
pungency and aroma
1t was hunt worth protiting by. He secur-
ed another shop, built u lot of ovens, subjected
the snuff to heating process gave the brand
a particular name, and in few years became
rich through an accident which he at first
thought had completely ruined him.
,f, l,i.l Il arnl
in a curious way. a hen that had gone through
a clay puddle went with her muddy feet intoa
sugar house. She left her tracks on pile of
sugar. 1t was noticed that wherever her tracks
were the sugar was whtened. Experiments
were instituted, and the result was that wet
clay came TO be used in refining sugar.
The origin of the blue tinted paper came
about by mere slip OF the hand.
The wife of William East, an English paper
maker, accidentally let blue-bag fall into one
of the vats Of pulp. The workmen were aston
ished when they saw the peculiar color Of the
paper, while Mr. East was highly inccnscd
over what he considered grave pecunlary
loss His wife was so much frightened that
she would not confess her agency in the matter.
After storing the damaged paper for four
years, Mr. East sent it to his agent at London,
with Instructions to sell it for what it would
bring The paper was accepted as n "propos-
ed novelty" and was disposed of at quite an
advance over market price.
Mr.. East was astonshrd II receiving an or
der from his agent for another large invoice OF
the paper. He was without the secret, and
found himself in "a dilemma. Upon mention
ing it to his wife she told him about the acct
dent He kept the secret, and the demand for
the novel tint far exceeded his ability to sup.
ply it,
Brighton statoner took fancy for dress
ing his show window with piles of writing pa
paper, rising gradually from the largest to the
smallest size in use; and to finish his pyra-
mids off nicely, he cut cards to bring them to
a point.
Taking these cards for dimnutve note pa
per- LAZY customers were continually wanting
some of that lovely little paper" and the sta
toner found it advantageous 10 cut paper to
the desired pattern.
As there was no space for addressing the
netelets after they were folded, after much
thought the stationer invented the envelope,
which he cut by the aid of metal plates made
for the purpose.
The sale increased SO rapidly that he was
unable to produce the envelopes fast enough,
so he commissioned a dozen houses TO make
them for HIM, and thus set going an important
branch of the manufacturing stationery trade