The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-06-17
EBENSBURG, PA, THURSDAY JUNE H. 1869

tellow~creature has greatly disturbed him.
After long and careful search of the
lichens and the space occupied by them,
Mr. A. had the qualification of making
his great and crowning discovery, the cap
ital city Of the microscopic nation.
This he carefully removed with the
foundations on which it stood, and traps
terred 1t TO flower pot in his back yard
1t was there that he had the pleasure
OF behoding the wonderful and minute
creation.
The portion of the city so far examined
contains population of three millions, or
a number about equal to that of London.
1t Is impossible with the microscope in
MIR. AS possession to tell of what mate
rial the houses are built-whethcr they
are of earth or wood, or both combined.
The streets appear under the micro
scope to be about quarter of inch ia
width, and thronged with people hurrying
! TO and fro, whether in the pursuit OF COM
| mefce or on account of the late shocks
their city experienced during its transfer
from the root Of the tree to the flower pot,
cannot, OF course, be ascertained.
But there they were-meE and women
magni5ed TO the size of pismires, and dis
playing al the signs of tumultuous hu-
man life !
While we were watching the ever
changing crowd we saw one person rush
out OF a house and another one pursue
| him
The pursuer was soon Joined by the
crowd IN the street, and after an exciting
chase OF about the twentieth part of an
inch, measured by The naked eye. the
thief, for such the first mentioned individ-
uai must have been, surrendered himself
evidently exhausted by his long race.
lie was taken away by persons
seeming to have authority. What the
stolen property was he held in his hand
to the last, the microscope was not DOW
erful enough to determine. During the
| pursuit OF the thief the people showed
| every symptom Of excitement common
among the larger species of human beings.
| They cIaPped their hands, thrust their
neighbors rudy aside, and showed by their
! gestlculations the deepest interest in what
was going on, and curiosity concerning it.
| Their shouts and screams on the occasion
! anOther.
but OF course they could not be heard by
Us.
Want OF space compels US to bring this
subject 10 close for the present, although
we have recorded but a small fraction of
the interesting incidents that came under
ou: own observation, aud the more nu,
! merous ones that were observed from
time to time by Mr.. 4. When the more
| powerful microscope ordered by that gen.
tleman arrives, and the expected results
are obtained by observations with it. we
| shall lay the facts before our readers.
The extent of Mr.. AS discovery may
be summed up as follows: A race of
| sentient beings, invisible to the naked eye,
| in shape perfect men and women, appar-
emily with all the passions. hopes and
fears that sway The larger species. They
! are considerably advanced in civilization.
for they dwell in denseIy populated ci,iea,
a state Of society in which the science of
government and many of the arts that
contribute TO the comforts and embellish-
ments Of life must necessarily have been
| developed.
The use of a more powerful microscope
| Will lead to the veriication of such an
hypothesis, or prove its fallacy.
AS the matter stands, all who are in-
! tecested in the progress of science, and in
| the spread Of Christianity, win feel the
| deepest solicitude concerning the possibiI-
| ity Of communicating with these newly
discovered sentient beings in the microsco-
! pic world.
How is that to be accomplished. Their
voices cannot reach our ears, and TO them
our voices must be what the music of the
sphere is to US. Worlds go whirling thro'
space with clatter that fills the universe
and becomes to mundane ears the equiva-
! lent of silence. Such must be the hum of
the visible terrestrial creation to the mis-
croscopic.
Whether the existence of sentient be-
| ings in the microscopic world was ever
before suspected we are not prepared to
say, bat had such a theory been advanced
! before the discovery we have recorded, it
would not have been becoming to phil~
osopher to reject it without due consider
alton.
The magnitude of matter, so far as it
| comes within the comprehension of f.
mite mind, exists only relatively.
To an inhabitant of the sun, surpass-
ing the visible man in magnitude in the
same proportion that the sun surpasses
the earth, and the rulers of the earth be-
come reduced to microscopic beings.
The following cue for gout is taken
from an old work: First, The person af-
flicted must pick handkerchief from the
pocket of maid of fifty years who never