Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-06
Very Little Fellows.

THE keenest eyes see but very little of
the handiwork of God. Every drop of
water teens with life. You can not
quench your thirst, even with the purcst
water, without swallowing scores of puny
lives. The ocean is stirred by the huge
leviathan, who maketh it to boil like pot.
And therein, also, in my Rad varieties, are
the lesser forms of life, running down TO
the animalcule, so small that one hundred
and fifty millions of them weigh less than
grainl
The atmosphere is full of life, aud the
dry land swarms with animals of unwIit-
ten names and unknown orders, crawling,
burrowing, creeping, boring, leaping,
running, hopping and flying creatures
Out of sight and beyond the hearing of
men are innumerable living things. They
inhabit the air we trtathe, the water we
drink, the food We eat. They move and
have their being in sweets and sours-in
the toughest flint as we'll rs the mellow
pulp of the peach-in blossoms and fruits,
in buds and leaves, in roots and branches,
in the bodies of enthusiastically, in our
OWE human bodies are tiny tenants-pop-
ulous colonies of little Inhabitants, dwell
ing and moving in our flesh, all too minute
to be seen or comprehended.
Life is everywhere. Little lives are en-
lives are free and isolated independencies.
We recently looked through microscope
in the office of Sanford G. Hill, Esq, the
almanac maker of East Liverpool, Ohio,
and examined drop of rain water. In
that single drop we counted near hun
dred playful little creatures, apparently as
large as the common house fly, frolicking
and frisking about as merTily as minnows
in meadow brooki
Then we reached a hook from the shelf
and detected speck of white insect hur-
rying off at double-quick TO hide behind
a grain of dust; for we had opened on
him by surprise. The little fellow was re-
treating rapidly; the shaking of book
leaf, or even as much of a leaf to tremble
as would hold single letter, was to him
a commotion equal to a hundred earth
quakes. But we pursued him, excited as
he was, until we chased him on bar of
polished brass, and, by grand stratagem,
drove him into an entrenchment on the
bar.
He was smaller than the dot of an in
your pocket Bible. But we pressed him
into our service, prisoner in his house of
brass, and snugly covered him by glass
slide, until we reviewed him beneath the
microscope. His prison was less roomy
than the eye of fine cambria needle, yet
under the microscope, his liberties, as We'll
as his body, were greatly enlarged. That
creature, to the naked eye SO small, was
now apparently, as large as bee, and
white as snow, with limbs Of perfect SYM
metry and proportion. We were affected
by his efforts to be free. He hurried from
side to side of his prison-house, and tried
to force the walls aparti Through his
clear, transparent flesh could be seen the
beating of his heart and the purple veins
of his blood. His movements were rest
less and pitiful as those of newly Gagged
bird. If we could by some magnider of
sound, have heard his voice and under
stood his language, doubtless it would have
been plaintive cry for liberty.
How wonderful are the works of the
Almighty Hand In wisdom ne hath made
them all. How vast the lessons brought
to our minds by the telescope, from worlds
afar, and by the microscope, from marvels
so near, that to the naked eye they are all
unseen.-Journal Of Microscopy.