Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-27

to work upon, and soon was enabled to
comb cheap cotton into moderately tlne
yarn more easily and economically than
had heretofore been done.
The accident of game of whist raised
an English Lord into royal favor. Lord
Butte once wanted to 90 to a cricket
match at Mousley, and a city apothe-
cary offered to drive him. Frederick,
the Prince of Wales, was a spectator,
and TO amuse him while the players
were waiting for the rain to cease
rubber of whist was proposed. Noble
men were scarce, but finally some one
remembered 10 have seen Lord Butte on
the ground. He was found and asked
TO join the royal party; and. having
played his cards so well, when the game
was ended the Prince invited him TO
Kew. The acquaintance ripened into
friendship, and ere long the Scotch Earl
was chief adviser ut Leicester house and
director of the education of the heir TO
the throne. When George III. acceded
20 the throne Lord Bute's advancement
was rapid from Privy Counselor to Sec
rotary of State. thence on TO Prime Min
lister. The plucky Scotsman owed it
all TO the chance game of whist.
A bet was the cause of the invention
of the rejecting apparatus of light
houses. Some one in a small Liverpool
scientific society made a bet that he
could read the smallest print of news
paper by the light of a farthing candle
placed thirty feet off, The wager being
taken up. he coated the inside of a
wooden board with pieces of looking
glass, forming rough substitute for
concave mirror; placing a small lighted
candle in front of the mirror the rays OF
light were reflected and converged to
focus thirty feet on the other side of the
candle, and the light at that focus
was sufficiently strong to enable the
man TO read the paper and win his bet.
A practical man, dock-master, was
present, and the idea at once struck
him that if the light of n farthing candle
could in this way be thrown out n dis
lance, the light of a large lamp could
be projected a mile or so away. The
result was the invention of the reflect
ing apparatus for lighthouses.
MeZzOtinto was invented by Prince
Rupert, owing TO the simple accident of
the sentry's gun being rusted with
dew.
Henry Schonward, n glass-cutter. of
Nuremburg, let some aqua FORTS drop
on his spectacles, and he noticed that
the glass corroded and softened. That
was hint enough. He made a liquid.
drew some figures upon glass, covered
them with varnish, applied this corrod-
ing fluid, cut away the glass around the
drawing. so that when the varnish was
removed the figures appeared raised
upon dark ground, and etching upon
glass was added TO the arts.
Pliny relates that the invention of
glass was due to some merchants trav-
cling with inter, who stopped on the
bank of a river TO cook a meal. Not
having anything 10 rest their kettle on,
they took pieces of inter. The heat
melted this, which, mixing with the
sand, formed glass.
Charles Goodyear discovered vulcan
lied rubber by throwing q piece of sui
phured rubber across the room to amuse
friend. 1t alighted on n hot stove.
and he found that the intense heat had
impaired To the rubber the very quality
he had so long been experimenting to
produce.
ALimerick tobacconist was burned
out, and looked sadly on while his
neighbors rushed in among the ruins,
and. after trying the contents of certain
canisters, stuffed their waistcoat pockets
with them. What could they want
with burned snuff, wondered the tobac-
conist. lie tried the snuff and found it
was improved in pungency and aroma.
He opened a new shop, built an oven,
and in short time backyard snuff,
sometimes called 1.-THE Irish black
guard" had great run, and the
fortune of Landyfoot was made.-Chi-
cdgO Times.