The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-12-07
Volume l3-Number 20.

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and kills men. 1t is very bitter and
very poison. 1t is pretty, clean,
snow white powder, every grain
beautiful crystal. Now if you should
take. about rs much of II ns will lie
on half of penknife blade-one
grain-and throw II into barrel of
pure water, and stir it thoroughly,
and then bring me glass of water,
| could taste the bitter One grain
in twenty five or thirty gallons of wa
ter, and YOU can taste it, And ifl
you should put only nine grains
which Is less than the fifteenth part
of an ounce Into The barrel full of
water, and then put little frog in,
too, the poor little creature would
have spasms, and kick round and
die! SO we see what little, ne, v
little poison can he tasted, and is
strong enough to kill frog.
And we can feel with our fingers
things too small to be seen II your
sister or mother, who has long hair,
will give you just one hair from her
; head, you may look at it, and il seems
all smooth and even. But shut your
, eyes, and take the hair between your
thumb and finger, pinch it tight, and
, then pull it through from end to end, 4,
back and forth. As you pull one
way, the hair slips along smooth as
oil. Bnt pull it the other way, and
it feels rough and sticks. So you
can tell by the touch which is the end
that grew nearest the head. Pull
the hair through from point toward
: the root, aud it is rough. But pull
/, from root To point, and it Is smooth.
And when barber has whetted
his razor ill the edge is SO fine tha,
/ he can not see IL ut all, he feels OF il
, by drawing his thumb over it, and il
/ the edge is the |, ast atom rough, he
+ can feel it, though he can not see it,
t So the sense of touch IL finer than
, eyesight. ..'
, And the ear can hear very, ue,t
9 little things. Two mosquitoes come
e and sing by my ear. The song Of
D one is nigh and fine, that OF the olh
er is lower. One is little fellow
, and the other Is larger. But they
p are both of them very hungry. Tn,
. noise | hear is made by their wings
which move so fast that no one cal
. see them at all. But my ear can tel
{ that the little fellow moves his tn,
] faster. And sometimes, when littl,
gnat comes squeaking close by my
ear, | can hear his wings making ,
: noise away up higher than the little
e hungry mosquito.
E Some of you hive q piano or me
4 lodeon in-your house. Go to it an,
T. sound the letter G, in the middle O
the keyboard. To make that sound
the piano string vibrates POI times il
a second The G, above that on m,
melodeon, sounds like big mosqui
TO, to me, and that tone CONES iron
522 vibrations. Go up to the mex
G, and the sound is just like tin
4 gnat, right my ear, and SO | kno,
\, ,es y s,,s vuse masees N,o4A uutuer
d With his wings every secohdl an
~ my ears hear them II he gets fa
le and tired, or lazy, my ear knows |
{, because he don't sing so high, thei
h And it Is very easy to tell the diffei
d ence between lazy gnat, moving hi
:. wings $50 times second, and a brisl
$ hungry little fellow, futtering thou
/ sand times a second. BY my ear
Il can hear very, re,y small part of
second.
And here | am, back again, I,
where | began about seconds. NJ,
- watch measures less than fifteen
bundledth part Of second. NJ,
eye can see Il spider line less than
thousandth Of an inch broad.
MynCse can smell the ten milliontl
V part of one grain Of musk.
D My tongue can taste :hc milliontl
u part Of one grain of strychnine.
My fingers can feel smaller thing
II that ] can see.
% And my ears can catch the pitc
y Of gnat's wing, when they go
thousand times II second.
u We can detect things that ar
u small enough to be next thing /
il nothing" But who of you all wi
- answer my questions Ill put
W again, in a few words: My waite
III ticks four times a second. In tvs
days it gained hundred seconds.
touched the regulator, and now
~ gains, in two days, only four second
ia .hen,, did ! lengthen each ''ticl
Sc K. Beecher, in Lin,e Go'pbSSsr-s-- L. IN
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