PAPERSPAST

FORTUNES FROM FLUKES.

A watchmaker's apprentice was one day holding some spectacle glasses between hi?, thumb and linger when he was startled by the suddenly enlarged appearance of a neighbouring' church spire. This accidental discovery led to the invention of the telescope. The art of etching upon glass was discovered by a Nureinburg glasscutter. By accident a lew drops of aqua fortis fell upon his spect* c'.es. He noticed that the glass became corroded mid softened where the acid had touched it. Acting on this hint I c drew figures upon the glass -with varnish, applied the corroding'fluid, and then cut away the» glass aiouud the drawing. When the varnish vas re moved the figurts appeared raised upon a d irk ground. A process of whitening sugar was discovered in a curious way. A hen that had gone through a clay puddle weut with her muddy feet into a; sugar house. She left her trfaok*on aipr c of sugar. It was noticed ihat where«ver her tracks were the sugar was whitened. Experiments were insti tuted, and the result was that wet clay camp to be used for refining sugar. The origin of blue t'nfrsd paper cau.n about by the <ruf©ie slip of. the hand. The wife of William East, ah English paper maker, accidentally Ift a Mue bag fall into one of the vats of pulp. The workmen 'were astonifhed, wiicn thoy saw the peculiar coloi of the paper," while Mr .East was highly incensed at what he consider* d a grave financial lost*. After storing'the dama^( d paper ft»r years,. Mr East sent it to his agent ill London with instiuc tiiMifs to sell it for wiiatit would biiug. iho paper waKacci-ptod as a no veliy and tli^pn^od of at quite an ad Vancouver the tiiarket prices.

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