The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-29
CARED NOTHING FOR TOOLS
Men Who Have Accomplished Much
With Primitive Implements

Dr. William H. WollaSton rerd cred
mary services to science. He was the
first to detect the Fraunhofer lines in
solar spectrum and to demonstrate thu
identity of galvanized and FRACTIONAL
electricity. One day visitor from for
eign country called upon the doctor and
asked to be shown. the laboratory where
so many valuable discoveries had been
made. The doctor conducted his visitci
to small room in which there was no
furniture except table. On the table
was an old tea tray containing a small
balance, a blowpipe, some test papers
and a few watch glasses.
This room" said DR.. Wollaston, " is
my laboratory, and on that tea tray are
all of my work tools"
Everybody knows that Benjamin
Franklin, the eminent American states
man and philosopher, robbed the thun-
der cloud of it's lightning by means of a
kite and a silk handkerchief.
A celebrated English engraver, Thorn
as Bewick, drew his first sketch with
! common chalk upon the walls Of the lit
tie cottage in which he lived. The far
famed chemist Julius Stockhardt,
learned the art of combining colors by
closely studying the wings of many but
terflies.
Dr. Jos, Black, a chemist of note, dis
covered latent heat by using as tools a
pan of water and two therm ometers,
Sir David Wilkie, the renowned painter,
for his first work made use of barr
door and a charred stick for want of
canvas and a pencil
John Opie was called 1.-The Cornish
wonder" because of his great skill in
portraiture. He was asked by what
wonderful process he mixed his colors.
II mix them with my brains" answer
| ed the painter.
Benjamin West, a we'll known Amer
lean painter, manufactured his first
brush out of cats tail. Sir Isaac New
| ton unfolded the composition of light
and origin of color by means of sheet
| of pasteboard, a prism and lens Out
of an anatomist's syringe, which by ac-
cident came into his possession, Watt
the great British engineer and mechan-
| ical inventor, constructed his first mod
| ell of the condensing steam engine.
| Demosthenes resolved to become AL
| orator, and in order to carry out his re-
solve it was necessary for him to over
come some serious obstacles. His man
n.ers were awkward, his breath short
and his voice stammering and indis-
| tinct.
He did not attend a school of oratory
nor did he have private tutor, but We
are told that he first shaved one side Of
his head only, so as to make it impossi-
BILE for him to go into society and thus
divert himself from his purpose.
Then, to overcome the defect in his
speech, he adopted the practice of
/ speaking with pebbles in his mouth, and
that he might be able to make himself
heard in the tumult of popular assem-
blies he detained hour after hour upon
| the seashore; to observe and correct his
awkward gestures he spent much time
practicing before a mirror. Thus, by
patience and perseverance he became
the greatest orator of antiquity.
Bernard Palsy, the French potter,
| che mist and enameler, had but little in
| deed to work with when making his first
experime nts. But in spite of poverty
religious prosecutions and many other
impediments, he pursued with untirin2
| energy the art of pottery glass paint
ing and enameling and became one OF
| the first artists of the French renais-
sance.-Philadelph Times.