Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-07

more specimens or the llchen
and the soil on which it grew,
revealed a few more individuals
like that mentioned above. Mr..
A. was careful not to treat them
so roughly as he did the one first
discovered, for the thought of
having inadvertently killed a
fellow creature has greatly dis
turbed 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 capital city of the microsco-
pic nation.
This he carefully removed
with the foundations on which
it stood, and transferred it to a
flower pot in his back yard.
It was there that we had the
pleasure of beholding the Won
derful and minute creation.
The portion of the city, so far
examined, contains q popula-
ton of probably three millions,
or a number about equal to that
of London.
It is impossible, with the mi
croscope in Mr.. a. possession,
to tell out of what material the
houses are built-whether they
are of earth or wood, or Of both
combined.
The streets appear under the
microscope to be about a quarter
Of an inch in width, and are
thronged with people hurrying
to and fro, whether in the pur-
suit of commerce or on account
Of the shocks their city expert
enced during it's transfer from
the root Of the tree to the flow
er-pot, cannot of course, be as
certained.
But there they were-men
and women magniied to the size
of pismires, and displaying all
the signs of tumultuous human
life
While we were watching the
ever changing crowd we saw
one person rush out Of q house
and truuther 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 max
ed eye, the thief, for such the
first mentioned individual must
have been, surrendered himself,
evidently exhausted by his long
race.
He was taken away by per
sons seeming to have authori-
ty. What the stolen property
was that he held in his hand to
the last, the microscope was not
powerful enough to determine.
During the pursuit of the thief
the people showed every symp-
tom of excitement common a.
mong the larger species of hui
man beings. They clapped
their hands, thrust their neigh
bors rudely aside, and showed
by their gesticulations, the
deepest interest, in what was
going on, and curiosity concern
ing it. Their shouts and
screams on the occasion were
doubtless deafening to one an
other, but of course they could
not be heard by us.
Want of space compels us to
bring this subject to a close for
the present, although we have
recorded but o small fraction of
the interesting incidents that
came under our own observa-
ton, and the more nMmerou.
ones that were observed from
time to time by Mr.. A. When
the more powerful microscope
ordered by that gentleman ar
rives, and the expected results
are obtained by observations
with it, we shall lay the facts
before our readers.
The extent of Mr.. AS disco
very may be summed up as fol-
lows A race of sentient beings,
invisible to the naked eye, in
shape perfect men and women,
apparently with all the pas
sions, hopes, and fears that
sway the larger species. They
are considerably advanced in
civilization for they dwell in
-densely populated cities, state
of society in which the science
of government and many of the
arts that contribute to the COM
forts and embellishments of life
roust necpssari1v hove hoo, H.