The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-05-10

VI u houoo hys ~ HuS Ill NcucNU, uuG
they were made. with ,>speotacles.
Pli4y sqys. thht Id saw the poem of
the lliad, written by Homer, a book
rs large as the New Testament, writ
ten OH skin that could be hidden in
a,putshell. The other day there
went into Paris in balloon n piece of
paper five inches square, on which
had been photographed tho whole
contents Of a London newspaper, and
the artist says that he GOULD p boto !.
graph in tie same space the VIII ole of
the Old Testament but of course he
Nid it with the microscope. So must
Plays have been done With magnify.
ing glasses.
Then lot me hriSg 70 your minds
the Roman theatres. You know the,
were generally shaped like this hall.
a paralellogram. The most perfect
we have remaining, is tho Coliseum at
Rome, ah pyql, Tue centre of tn,
oval is vacant ground, to admit water
sometimes, and even ships, to have II
mimic sea.fght. There was room for
eighty thousand persons. Tho thea
tre covered. Ave, acres ; of course, i,
had no roofs. Now, in these theatres
tho Emperor's box was about where
this desk is, relatively, in what we
should call the foci Of the oval
Pliny says that Nero, the tyrant, had
n ring with gem in it, by which he
uscd to look at it very near-to scru-
ltinizo tho gladiators who fought for
their lives and pIiny says he could
do it moro accurately than with the
naked ego. Then Nero had an opera
glass.
Sometime, wbeniin Now York, go
into Or. Bates Egyptian Museum.
Ho will show you the gold ring of
Cheops, who built the Great Pyramid,
and who is supposed to have lived
from two to three thousand years be-
fYEe .;Chtiot. Tho tablet on which
this siguet is engraved is about as
large as a quarter Of a dollar. The
engraving is 30 exquisite that fully
one-third of it is invisible without
yoa uss microscopic. +, IF tho ,brptes
that have Just conquered P4ris al luw
anything to remain there, and if YOU
shall ever 60 to Paris, they will show
you RUG that belonged to Michael
Augfl9s the great sculptor, three hun.
fore the Christlah era. The gem is
about as large as a quarter Of II dollar
On it are nine figures of women, and
four of them are utterly invisible
! without glass. l have friend who
has an antique gem carved before the
Christian era, of about the same siyo,
on which is small 6gure of the god
Hercules, perhaps two.thiris of an
inch long. Look at tit is simply a
little nude 6guro, Take your micro
SCOPE, you. eau trace. the iaterlacing
of the muscles, and distinguish
every separate hair in the eye
brows. Layard says, 81 mover read
the inscriptions 1t Nincvoh without
spectaclea, theys, are 80 pinute."-
Rawlinson brought from llinevoh In
transcription on stone, eight inches
long and ten inches wide. 1t is n
treatise on mathematics, four thous-
sand years old, and one.third of the
lines are INVISIBLE without glass.
:, Well, ,powl the question of course
cemeb Up. # |, cnnnot see thcss, fines
without, a glass, how did the man
make them without one Who of
you who has been in Italy and was
shown oabinetof antiqnc gcms that
was not furnished with q microscope,
that you appreciate tho delioacy of
the workmanship How was it
donc' pliny says that they used
concavo and ,conteK lenses aud then
again, TO ,oa1arge an object by putting
a globe Of glass on it, filled with wa,
: ter: That is microscope. Layard
, brought from Nineveh n piece of
J, glass as large .as ,py .hapd, which pr.
|; Priest ptopoupced g.. BIT, IA tele.
, scope. So the telescope, MIR. Edward
Everett, instead Of being three hun.
dred years old, has no brothers but
the five. b3tks Of Moses, and they arc
PROBABLY younger brothers.
5 Well, leaving glass, lst po pass t,
, color. Perhaps you would not appro
8 eiSte tho value of color is suoh an
investigation unless your studies had
. lain in that Erection for you know
, edlor With us Is simply ori'arhsptal
. We paint portrait 40 ornamen,
a room but Egypt used color to per
. petqate; history Egypt lad two ways
t of writing history. She carved it on
, stono, aud she painted it on stuooo
i and her stucco 10 lost art. Bury it
:. in the earth leayc il in the atmos
0 phere-Cit never. cracked, never stain
5 cd, never pealcd. 1t Ia as immorta
y as the stone beneathit. Having prs
5 pared tho surface, Egypt paintet
) what sho wanted her children to, know
I There is q shio.yard--ships builing
y otbcrs .bpilt., Thore is king goinI
. to walk, There is boy playiul
f hookey---for this game can be trace,