Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-03-24
WHOLE NO. 27S8
APOCALYPSE OF RAW SUGAR.
The Wonders Of the MierOscope-A
Living He'll in a Cubic Inch of
From the New York SUM-

From the New York Sun
Last night we saw the hidden Won
ders OF raw sugar as they were reveal
ed to us by a microscope of uneOm-
mon power and great detective ability
which will forever set US against all
sweets in that form with an intensity
of horror such as no man can con-
ceive who has not been behind the
scenes. We saw the living hell itself,
however, in less than a quarter Of an
ounce of raw sugar. There were
myriads, apparently, Of horrible in
seets as large as beetles, and having
the appearance of crabs. -Four dread
ful legs, with claw piereers at the end
Of them, iointed in four parts as with
armor, and bristling with sharp-point-
ed spears, were in front of the mon
ster, and his head was a 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, and marked almost
exactly like that of the crab, only up
on the back there were twelve more
of long sharp spears, with two at the
tail, and four snake-like tentacula,
exceedingly fine in articulation, and
no doubt like puss's whiskers to be
feelers, to warn the hinder end parts
of contiguous danger. The reverse
side showed the ugliness Of the beast
even more than the diverse, but it
also showed showed the wonderous
mechanical genius of the maker of it.
Each limb is padded by a mass of
muscle at the base, which gave the
impression of immense (relative) pow
er, and over the muscle there was q
case of armOr through which it show
ed.
Talk about lively beasts, and lively
they were. Eager, restless, ravenous
always falling foul of each other, or
attacking great joints of sugar, as
large in reality as mathematical
point. With the pincers attached to
the end Ct each Proboscis they caught
hold of one another, and tore one
another, repeating in their small way
the enormous tragedies of TennysOn's
primal monsters.
The way these marvels came to
light was this: A spoonful of raw,
coarse sugar was dissolved in about
three times the quantity of water,
when, as with cOnjuror's rod, the
animalcules sprang to the surface and
hOated there, swimming 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 animal
cules, or dcdrGs sdcchdri, as the scien-
tific men call them, were then gath
cred up in a spoon and placed under a
glass magnifying about two hundred
times. They could be seen however,
with the naked eye, to begin with,
but not in their entire hideousness
until the object glass brought it out.
1t has been proved that in every
pound of linrefaed, raw sugar, there
are 100, 900 of these acari. In fifteen
grains weight, DR.. Hassall Of London
found one hundred. of these insects,
and DR.. BOrker, one of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons, Ireland, found l, 400
in forty-five grains weight, or 26S, 900
in a pound
Worse still, as a matter Of aesthetics,
this is the very same insect that bOres
into the skin of its victims in Scotch
beds, and treats them to taste of the
Scotch fiddle" alias the itch.