ving invented the ‘parchment- worked three years, beginning at $1 per week, being tion with which most men would have been content, advanced to $2 per week the second year and $4 the ized_paper in March, 1880. He filed his application in April following, and the patent was third year. At the end of… … for a distance, less or greater, trans- even greater than in England. forming simultaneously into glass After a long series of dismal failures the silica in the material through a cable was laid in 1858. Two ships, which it passes. Thus, by its great one coming from Newfoundland heat, it forms at…
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