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Show Ills Fu st Opportunity. Genius has always been ussnclated with carelessness In dress ana very frequently ludicrous mistaken happen. Loid Itosso who built the famous telescope tele-scope that beurs his name, was an expert ex-pert mechanic and was also somewhat c Helens about dress, On oiif occasion tho cnrl ttas looking through tho englno room of a large mauti factory. Ho suddenly became mueh Interested lu something ho saw, and taking out his wutch stood looking from it to tho uiachluc with a peculiar ainllu on ids face. Tho ouglneer enmo along. "Well, what's up?" he growled. "What are you grinning at? Wiiut have you to and fault with?" "Oh," unswerod Lord Rosso, "I am not Hurting fault, I am calculating how long before tho boiler explodes." "Holler explodes? Why, you'r crazy, manl Gel out of this." "Well," said the earl, "If you work ten minutes louger with that hcrew looso there the boiler will certainly cxplodo." The engineer looked at tho screw Indicated, In-dicated, Jumped at it and fustencd it as soon as he could. "Why didn't you say that sooner?" ho demanded. "Why should I?" answered Lord Iti'Sse. "I've never yot had an opportunity oppor-tunity of seeing a boiler explode." Chicago Chronicle. |