The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-03-25
The Wonders Of the Microscope
A Living He'll in q Cubic Inch Of
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The Wonders Of the Microscope
4 Living He'll in Cubic Inch OF
Sugar.
Last night We saw the hidden won.
dcrs Of raw sugar as they were revealed
to W by microscope Of Uncommon
power and great detective ability, which
will forever set us against all sweets In
that form with an intensity Of horror
Evch as no man can conceive who has
not been behind the scenes. We saw
the living hell In it, however, in less
than a quarter Of an ounce Of raw sugar.
There were myriads, apparently, Of hor-
ribie insects as large rs beetles, and
having the appearance Of crabs. Four
dreadful legs with clawpincers at the
end Of them, jointed in four parts as
with armor, and bristling with sharp
pointed spears, were In front OF the
monster, aud his head was long pyra-
midal form in two joints, with five
finger tips at the terminus where the
mouth ought to have been. The body
was oval-shaped, aud marked almost ex-
actly like that of crab, only upon the
rims Of IN Inner circle upon the back
there were twelve more Of those long
sharp spsars, with two at the tail, and
four snaks-liks tcntac,,la, exceedingly
0ne ID articulation, aud no doubt In
lsndDd Ike puss' whisksrs 70 be fselsrs,
- warn ~ hinder end parts Of contig-
oous danger. Tho rsvssSs side showed
~ nelIDsss ofths beastsysn more Than
~ Obvsrss, but It also showed the WON
drons mechanical genius Of Tho maker
lit. Each limb was padled by mass
Of muscle at the base, which gave the
Of immense (rslative) power,
and over the muscle there was case of
armor through which 1t showed.
Talk about lively beasts, and lively |
they were. Eager, restless, ravenous;
always falling foul Of each other, or at
lacking great joints of sugar, as large, In
reality, a. mathematical point. With
the pincers attached to the end Of each
proboscis they caught hold Of one an
other, aud tore one another, repeating
In their small way the enormous TRACE
dies Of Tennyson's primal monsters.
The way these marvels came to light
was this: A spoonful of raw, coarse SUI
gar was dissolved In about three times
the quantity Of water. when, as with a
conjurer's rod, the animacules sprang to
the surface, and foated there, swim
ming about. and up and down, like the
beasts that wriggle in soft water tubs,
and finally turn into flies resembling
mosquitoes, but harmless. These sugar
animalcules, or acdrus socchari, as the
scientific men call them, were then
gathered up In spoon, aud placed un-
der q glass magnifying about 200 times.
They could be seen, however, with the
NAKED eye, to begin with, but not in
their entire hideousness until the object
glass brought 1t out. It has been prov
ed that in every pound of unrefned, raw |
sugar, there are leo, 900 Of these aeari.--
In fifteen grains weight, DR.. Hassell, of
London, found 100 Of the insects; and
DR.. Barker, l,400 in forty-flve grains
weight, or 26s, 900 in a pound.
Worse still, as o matter of aesthetics
this lie the very same insect that bores
into the skin of its victims in Scotch !
beds, aud treats them to taste of the |
scotch fiddle" alias the itch.-N ". |
Sun.