Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-02
Inventive Genius and the Worlds Fair

Inventive Genius and the Worlds Fair,
Pope said of Lord Bacon that he was
"wisest, brightest, meanest of man
kind So true is this that many of
the wisest, brightest and best of man
kind have declared that Bacon alone
could nave written shakespeare, and |
that the real Shakespeare was only q
bright, rollicking fellow whose name
Bacon used to conceal his identity when
as lord chief-justice he could not stoop
to the humble Offices of a playwright. |
Taking the other aspect of the ques-
ton, is it not impossible that Shak-
speare the omniscient should not have
been something more than "Shak-
speare" the playwright: Two hun
dred and fifty years ago Lord Bacon
said:
The Introduction of great inventions APP
pears to hold by far the first place among
human actions. and 1t was considered so in
| former ages; for to the authors of inventions
| they awarded divine honors, but only heroic
! honors TO those who did good service In Il c
state, tsuch as the founders of cities and en-
| plres, legislators, delvercrs { f their country
| from long-endured misfortuncs, quellers of
tyrannies and the like. And certainly II
any one rightly compare the two, he will
Ind that the Judgment OF antiquity wasjust,
| for the benefits of inventions may extend to
the whole race of man, but civil benefits only
toparticular plac es: the latter moreover last
not beyonda few ages, the former forever.
The reformation of the state in civil matters
| -,
and confusion, while inventions carry bless
ings with item, and confer benefits without
causing harm or sorrow to any.
The inventive genius of the South
will be especially illustrated at the
New Orleans Worlds Fair. Our
Washington correspondent tells that
, he has found many most useful and
/; practical and simple devices of Texan
inventive genius, unused, simply be
cause unknown, stored away to decay
r with the rubbish of the paten. Office
unless discovered by some practica
$ capitalist who would grow rich by in
, forming and enriching Others Ofsev
A eral devices, and besides the Texa
g cotton picking machine Of which WI
i, were reading, u Texan has made ,
. light metal lamp shade with hol,
l. through its center and short pip
Is an inch in diameter projecting fou
e inches or more above this shade. TIL
W heat from the lamp below begets
h strong upward air current through
Is this tube and this hot air heats almos
10 to redness II flat tin plate above til
g, tube aud against this every bug, H.,
We aud mosquito in the country is ere
r. mated. Three reiiectors around I'll
lamp add to its attractiveness, and In
i'd sects. and birds as we'll, are entrappet
,rt by the glittering lamp shade whicl
re is only broad inverted funnel. An
Oh timer with this description, can max
In one, aud here begins the end of tn
e. cotton worm fly and here, those VIII
ON have used this lamp shade say, begir
as the end of the pestifcrous race of mo
he qnitoes. fll4H3
TX The Worlds Fair at New Orleans
of designed to instruct the people In a
nd things. in the ways Of people older tina
,as themselves who have made life itself
lp- fine art, and its comforts and labo
zap saving devices and machinery Il
VS. study and product of centuries. Loi
.he Bacon exaggerated in nothing Il
In value of inventive genius, and whs
nd civilization and philanthropy ha,
CO. won their final trlumphs aud men b
ian come rather gods than animals, sta
elf ues and temples will be reared in hon
ner of those who have best served the
OF race and age, instead OF In deifyir
,at- those whose footprints are stained vii
Of blood, and whose history is written
'de the woes and degradation Of mankin
ty- Bacon never expoundod truer
md wiser philosophy than when he wro
a the paragraph we have quoted.