Part 30 (1/2)
When John Williaa, went to the South Sea Islands, he took with hilish noblele banana-tree, bananas are to be found throughout whole groups of islands Before the negro slaves in the West Indies were eiment of British soldiers was stationed near one of the plantations A soldier offered to teach a slave to read on condition that he would teach a second, and that second a third, and so on This the slave faithfully carried out, though severely flogged by thesent to another plantation, he repeated the sath liberty was proclaihout the island, and the Bible Society offered a New Testah this slave's instrumentality was found to be no less than six hundred
A faovernment The report of the croeler was that it was the finest he had ever seen or heard of, but that one of the ”facets” was slightly fractured That invisible fracture reduced its value thousands of dollars, and it was rejected fro for the janitor to leave a la in the cathedral at Pisa, but in that steady swaying motion the boy Galileo saw the pendulu ti to the mouthpiece of a telephone,” said Edison, ”when the vibrations of ers held just behind it That setIf I could record the motions of the point and send it over the sa would not talk I deteravetheraph is the result of the pricking of a finger”
It was a little thing for a cow to kick over a lantern left in a shanty, but it laid Chicago in ashes, and rendered homeless a hundred thousand people
You turned a cold shoulder but once, youremark, yet it lost you a friend forever
Soence, a quick tes, you say, when placed beside great abilities, but they have wrecked ress of the United States, and representative govern the Magna Charta
Bentham says, ”The turn of a sentence has decided ht we know, the fate of ht of a stranded cuttlefish led Cuvier to an investigation which reatest natural historians in the world The web of a spider suggested to Captain Brown the idea of a suspension bridge
Afor a lost horse, picked up a stone in the Idaho old ized to General O M Mitchel, the astrono he was only a fewthe value of the thousandth part of a second,”
was Mitchel's reply
A h Miller fro his claim to the Earldom of Crawford Theus anither hod o' lireat steamshi+p Uine shaft
The absence of a coo cost our governlea situation as instructor in a New England college A cinder on the eyeball will conquer a Napoleon Some little weakness, as lack of courtesy, want of decision, a bad temper, may nullify the labor of years
”I cannot see that you have entleelo ”But,” said the sculptor, ”I have retouched this part, polished that, softened that feature, brought out that y to that limb, etc” ”But they are trifles!” exclaireat artist, ”but trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle”
That infinite patience whichout a muscle in a statue withthe right effect to a dewdrop on a cabbage leaf, makes all the difference between success and failure
By scattering it upon a sloping field of grain so as to forreat size, ”Effects of Gypsueneral use in America By means of a kite he established principles in the science of electricity of such broad significance that they underlie nearly all the modern applications of that science, with probably boundless possibilities of development in the future
More than four hundred and fifty years have passed since Laurens Coster a their names in the bark of trees, in the land of windmills, and thebooks Fro up her head for the first ti the nations of the earth, has ever since kept pace with the h the centuries Yet how siht which has borne such a rich harvest of benefit tochildren it occurred to him that if the letters were made in separate blocks, and ith ink, they would make clear printed impressions better and more rapidly than would the pen So he s, and printed a pa People bought the paed by thethat the as done in the old way Coster died soon afterward, but young Gutenberg kept the secret, and experimented with metals until he had invented thehe printed his first book
At about this time a traveler called upon Charles VII of France, as so afraid somebody would poison him that he dared eat but little, and made his servants taste of every dish of food before he ate any
He looked with suspicion upon the stranger; but when the latter offered a beautiful copy of the Bible for only seven hundred and fifty crowns, the ht it at once Charles showed his Bible to the archbishop, telling him that it was the finest copy in the world, without a blot or mistake, and that it must have taken the copyist a lifetime to write it ”Why!” exclaiht one exactly like it a few days ago” It was soon learned that other rich people in Paris had bought si traced the book to John Faust, of Strasburg, who had furnished Gutenberg money to experiment with The people said that Faust must have sold hi at the stake by divulging the secret
William Caxton, a London ht a few books and so-office in Westminster Chapel, where he issued, in 1474, ”The Galand
The cry of the infant Moses attracted the attention of Pharaoh's daughter, and gave the Jews a lawgiver A bird alighting on the bough of a tree at the mouth of the cave where Mahoave a prophet to ht of birds probably prevented Colu anxious, Martin Alonzo Pinzon persuaded hiht of parrots toward the southwest; for to the Spanish seaood luck to follow in the wake of a flock of birds when on a voyage of discovery But for his change of course Columbus would have reached the coast of Florida ”Never,” wrote Huht of birds more important consequences”
The children of a spectacle-maker placed two or more pairs of the spectacles before each other in play, and told their father that distant objects looked larger From this hint came the telescope
”Of what use is it?” people asked with a sneer, when Franklin told of his discovery that lightning and electricity are identical ”What is the use of a child?” replied Franklin; ”it ood at once,” said Dr Johnson, ”will never do any” Do good hat thou hast, or it will do thee no good
Every day is a little life; and our whole life but a day repeated
Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal, those that dare misspend it, desperate What is the happiness of your life made up of?