Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-11-27

mother asked him to make a memorials.
dun Of such clothes as she proposed to
send away to be- washed. Not having
pen, ink and paper convenient, he
wrote the list on the stone with the
etching preparation, intending to make
a copy of Il at leisure.
A few days later, when about to clean
the stone. he Wondered what effect
aqua fortis would have upon IL. I. He
applied the acid, and in . few. minutes
saw The writing standing out II relief.
The next step necessary was simply to |
ink the stone and take off All impress
SION.
The composition Of which printing
rollers are made was discovered by
Salopian printer. Not being able to lind
the pelt-ball, he mixed the type with q
piece of soft glue which had ftllen,out
Of a glue pot 1t vas such All excel
lent substitute that, after mixing mo-
lasses with the glue, to give the mass
proper consistency, the old pelt-ball was
entirely discarded.
| The shop Of q Dublin tobaceonist, by
the name OF ).undyfoot, was destroyed
by fire. While he was gazing dolefnlly
into the smouldering ruins. he noticed,
thar his poorer lleighbors were gather
ing the snuff from Che cauisters. he
tested the snuff for himself, and disc0v.
cred that the fire had largely improved
its pnngency and aroma.
II was hint worth proftlSg by. He
secured another shop, built q lot OF
ovens subjected the snuff TO \ heating
process, gave the brand particular
name, and in few years became rich
through an accident which he at first
thought bad completely ruined him. u
The process Of whitening sugar was
discovered in u curious way. A hen
, that had gone through a clay puddle
went with her muddy feet into a sugar
honse. She LETT her tracks on a pile Of
sugar. 1t was noticed that wherever
! her tracks were the sugar was whitened.
Experiments were instituted. and the
Q result was that wet clay came 10 be
l used in refining sugar.
l. The origin Of blue tinted paper came
K about by q mere slip Of the hand
: The wife of William East, an English
paper-nlaker, accidpntly let \ blue bag
fall into one Of the watts Of pulp. The
workueu were astonished when they
saw the peculiar color of the paper,
y while Mr. East was highly incensed
over what he considered grave pecu-
= mary loss. His wife was SO much fright.
ened that she would not confess her
agency in the matter.
. After storing the damaged paper foi
) four years, Mr.. East sent il TO his agent
' at London, with instructions to sell il
for what it would bring. The pape,
~ was accepted as a 'purposed novelty
and was disposed of at quite an advance
> over market price.
II Mr.. East was astonished at receiving
10 an order from his agent for another
'e large Invoice Of the paper. He wal
Il without the secret, and found himsel
IL in a dilemma. Upon mentioning it K
his wife, she told him about the acct
dent He kept the secret, and the de
:, mapd for the novel tint far exceeded
. his ability to supply it.
. A Brighton stationer took . fancy fo
!. dressing his show window with piles 0
:. writing paper, rising gradually frou
l. the largest to the smallest size in use
=. and, to finish his pyramids off nicely, h'
:. cut cards to bring them to point.
Taking these cards for di,ninutiv
:, note-paper, lady customers were cont
nually wanting some Of "that Lowell
= little paper" aud the stationer found
adv n'ageous to cnt paper to the d.
sired pattern.
y. As there was no space for addressin
-. the notelets after they were folded, b
:, after much thought, invented the 81
:, yelope. which he cut by the aid of ,net'
plates made for the purpose.
'" The sale increased 80 rapidly that b
was unable to produce the envelope
- fast enough, 80 he commissioned
~ dozen houses to make them for hir
and TINS set going an important branc