Show fortunes for those of inventive turn of mind there seems no end to the variety varie e dynof 0 q quick u i e k wi witted t t e d p people e 0 p i e w who h 0 b by y some 0 s simple 1 m p 1 e i unexpected i n e ap e c t e 1 t thought h 0 n gh t have introduced new habits of civilization and grown to be millionaires as a result the skilled mining engineer the tha builder of ships or bridges lives and dies in poverty and obscurity compared with such glants of enterprise ter prise as the man who invented tins tor for food the man who invented openers for the tins and the tha master mind who crowned himself with glory by inventing a tin which did not need an opener at all it is 19 worth recalling in this case that a chicago neat meat packer hearing of the invention ordered of the new tins straight away and was followed in desperate alsto hasto by his rivals who fell over each other in the effort to secure supplies of the new marvel |