The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-07-29
THE TOOLS TAEY USED 7
The Simple Means byswhich Great TlsInl
Have been Done.

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d.. William H. Wollaston rent
ed many services to science.
was the first to detect the Frau
hofer lines in the solar spectru1n
and to demonstrate the identityQs
galvanism and FRACTIONAL electricity.
One day visitor from a foreign
country called upon the doctor and
asked to be shown the laboratory
where so many valuable discoveries
had been made. The doctor con-
Quoted his visitor to a small room
in which there was no furniture ex-
cept table. On the table was an
old tea tray containing small bal
ance, blowpipe, some test paper
and a few watch glasses.
This room," said DR.. Wollast0n..
lis my laboratory, and on that fe1|
tray are all of my work TOOLS" q
Everybody knows that Benjamin.
Franklin, the eminent American
statesman and philosopher, robbed
the, thundercloud of it's lightning
by means of kite and silk hand
kerchief. "a
A celebrated English engraveas
Thomas Bewick, drew his first
sketches with common chalk upon
the walls of the little cottage id
which he lived. The far famed
chemist Julius Stockhardt learned
the art of combining colors by close
ly studying the wings of many but
terfiies.
DR.. Joseph Black, a chemist of
note, discovered latent heat by using
as tools pan of water and two
thermometers. Sir David Wilkie,
the renowned painter, for his first
work made use of barn door and a
charred stick for want of canvas
and pencil.
John Opie was called "the Cornish
wonder" because Of his great skill
in portraiture. He was asked one
day by what wonderful process he
mixed his colors.
II mix them with my brains, -
answered the painter.
Benjamin West, a well known
American painter, manufactured his
first brush out of cats tail. Sill
Isaac Newton unfolded the compost
ton Of light and the origin of colol
by means of sheet of pasteboard
prism and lens. Out of an anat
omist's syringe, which by acciden
came into his possession, Watt, thu
great British engineer and mechan
ical inventor, constructed his frs
model of the condensing steam en-
CINE.
Demosthenes resolved to becom,
an orator, and in order to carry GU
his resolve it was necessary for hin
to overcome some serious obstacles
His manners were awkward, hi
breath short and his voice stammer
ing and indistinct. He did not atten,
a school of oratory, .nor did he have
private tutor, but we are told tina
he first shaved one side of his heat
only, so as to make it impossible TO
him to go into society, and thus di
vert himself from his purpose
Then, to overcome the defect in hi
speech, he adopted the practice o
speaking with pebbles in his mouth
and that he might be able to max
himself heard in the tumult of pop
ular assemblies he acclaimed hou
after hour upon the seashore. T,
observe and correct his awkwar,
gestures he spent much time prac
ticing before a mirror. Thus, b.
patience and perseverance, he be
came the greatest orator of antiuui
ty.
Bernard Palsy, the French pot
ter, chemist and enameler, had bu
little indeed to work with whel
making his first experiments, bu
in spite of poverty, religious perse
cution and many other impediment
he pursued with untiring energy tn
art of pottery, glass painting an,
enameling and became one Of tn
first artists of the French renais
sance.
To these names scores Of other
might be added of persons that hav
climbed high on the ladder of fam
by making right use Of whateve
tools or means were within thei
reach, by a healthful, praiseworth,
desire to excel and by "keepin,
everlastingly at it. "-Philadelphil
Times.
Vitality OF Cats.