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Evening Star, Issue 6711, 1 October 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

It was a chance remark at a gun trial in France that gavo Henry Bassemer the idea of improving ai.- strengthening gun metal. He incurred an immense outlay. He built furnace after furnace, he tried machine after machine, he took out patent after patent, and he saw the money he had amassed by previous inventions faat melting away. After sundry partial successes he fell into disrepute and waa being sneu-ed at by the iron manufacturers as an unpractical enthusiast, while the Woolwich authorities had been snubbing him as a matter of course. A few months later Bessemer had produced steel worth from LSO to LIOO per ton from iron that only cost him L 7. "He could then seo in his mind's eye at a glance the great iron industry of the world crumbling away under the irresistible force of the facts so recently elicited." " Fourteen years afterward these experimental works were sold for exactly twenty-four times the whole subscribed capital of the firm, after returning fifty-seven fold," and the manufacture he originated is now estimated to bs worth no less than 1/20,000.000 yearly. London 'Times.'

She had sued for breach of promise, and the verdict of the jury was against her. "Want to poll the jury?" she repeated. " Yes, I do. Jes' gimme the pole for about two rninutea ! "—and she had thrown off her bonnet and was rubbing her hands together before the legal phrase could be explained by her counsel.—American paper.