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Show THE RESULT OF ACCIDENT. Unexpected Discoveries from Which Wealth Was Made. It often hnppons that nn Ignorant man will stumble upon nn Invention which clovor mon hnvo boon working over for years. At ono tlmo all tho gum used In England wns mndo from gum nrablc and cost 110 end of money. It happened ono night that n big starch factory on tho bnnks of tho Llffoy, near Dublin, took flro nnd groat puddles of Btarch nnd water -woro found outside Somo calico prlntors who had beon making an ovonlng of It camo by, and, bolng very tipsy, ono of thorn tumbled tum-bled Into tho sticky moss. Next morning, morn-ing, whon ho tried to dross, all his clothes woro stuck tight togother as If thoy had been dipped In gluo, nnd tho wrotehod man was obllgod to stay In bed till his wife had soakod them In cloan water. Tho nuin, from his trndo, know how valuablo this gum was, and taking tho rest of tho party into his confldonco thoy experimented hy scorching starch on n flro Bliovol. Thoy found It mado oxcollent gum whon mixed with water, and It wns this Invontlon which onnblod postage itamps to bo produced pro-duced In an adheslvo form. |