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How DiscovERIEsHAvE BEEN MADE.--Many of the most important discoveries in the field of sci ence have been the result of accident. Two iillle sons of a spectacle make, in Holland, while their father was at dinner chanced 10 look al distant steeple through eye-g asses, one placed be fore the other. They found Ihe sieeple brought much nearer to the shop-w indow. They told sher father his return, and the circums tance led to course of experiments which ended in the invention of the telescope. .t.,rl . .-.... .,. ,... . ..-

 Some shpwrecked sailors collected some sea- weeds on the sand, and made a fire to warm their shvering fingers and cook their scanty meal. When the fire went out. they found that the slka of tho sea- weed had combined with sand, and formed glass, the basis o all our disroyeries in astronomy, and abso

 otrIy necessary to our enjoyment. .so,sI

 In days when astrslogers and every, chemist was seeking after he philosophers stone. some monks, in making up their materials, by accident invented gun-powder which has done much to diminish the barbaiities of war. # ....,,. Q ..ys.I ...,.I. ,.S

 Sir lsaac Newion's most important discoveries, concerang ligh. and gravilaton, were the result of accident His theory and experiul on light were suggested by the soap bubbles blown by child; and the principle of grava,ion. by inc fall of arpe as he sat in an orchard; and il hastily scratch- ing stone memorandnm soms articles brought him ty wash woman that ihe dea of lithography first presented itself to the mind of Stenefeder,