The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-08-25
THE INVENTOR OF sAcCHARME.
An Accident i.cats to nm Important Discovery
a Substance Which Out-sugars sugar.

tnlrty-elght years OF age. lie speaks the
modern languages huently, and despite
the celebrity that has SO suddenly fallen
upon him, is quito ditlidcnt and re-
served, To an inquiring reporter, who
had called upon him for the express pur-
pose of convcrsing with him OF the new
S~wCCtcning agent, he said:
GLOW did | discover saccllarinc? Wei,
it WAS partly by accident and parity by
study. L had worked II long time upon
the compound radicals and substitution
products of coal tar, and had made Il
number of scientific discoveries tina are,
SO far rs | know, of no commercial
value. One evening | was SO interested
in my laboratory that l forgot about
supper until quite late, and then rushed
off for a meal without stopping to wash
my hands. | sat down, broke Il piece of
bread, and put it to my lips. Ii tasted
unSpcakably sweet. | did not ask why
1t was 50, probably because l thought it
was some cake or sweetmcat. | rinscd
my mouth with water, and dried my
moustachc with my napkin, when, to my
surprise, the napkin tasted sweeter than
the bread. Then [ was puzzled. Iagain
raised my goblet and, rs fortune would
have it, applied my, mouth where my
fingers had touched it before. The
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that | was the cause Of the universal
sweetness, and | accordingly tasted the
end OF my thumb, and found that it sur
passed any confectionery | had ever
eaten. | saw the whole thing ut Il glance.
| had discovered or made some coal tar
substance which ~out-sugurCd sugar. L
dropped my dinner, and ran back 10 the
laboratory. There, in my excitement,
| tasted the contents OF every bcakcr
and evaporatirg dish on the table.
Luckily for me, none contained any
corrosive or poisonous liquid.
"Onc of them contained an impure
solution of saccharinc. On this ! worked
her for weeks and months until | had
determined its chemical composition, its
characteristics and reactions, and the
best modes Of making it scientifically
and commercially. When | first pub
lshcd my researches, some people
laughed as if it were Il scientific Joke:
others, of Il more skcptical turn, doubted
the discovery and the d~iscorcrcr, and
still others proclaimed the work as being
of no practical value. When the public
first saw saccharinc, however, everything
changed. The entire press, European
and American, described me and my
sugar i'll a way that may have been cdify-
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wanting samples of saccharinc, my auto
graph, or my opinion on chemical
problems, desiring to become my part
ncr, to buy my discovery, to be my
agent, to enter my laboratory and the
like.
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