The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-06
Very Little Fellows.

THE keenest eyes see but very little of
the handiwork ofGod. 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 myriad 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
a grain!
The atmosphere is full of life, and the
dry land swarms with animals Of uh"rlt-
ten names and unknown orders, crawling,
burrowiDg, creeping, boring, laaping,
running, hopping and flying creatures.
Out of sight and beyond the hearing OF
men are innumerable living things. They
inhabit the air we breathe, the water we
drink, the food We eat. They move and
have their being in sweets and souTs-in
the toughest flint as well as 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-pcp-
ulous colonies of little inhabitants, dwell
ing and moving in our flesh, all too minute
to be seen or comprehended.
IItlt Is GNClf " IL ilENIC ItNSo o4S III
veloped within large lives. Our little
lives are free and isolated independencies.
We recently looked through a microscope
ia the office of Sanford c. Hill, ESQ, the
almanac maker of East Liverpool, Ohio,
and examined a drop OF rain water. IN
that single drop We counted near a hun
dred playful little creatures, apparently as
large as the common house fly, froicklpg
and frisking about as merrily as minnoWs
in a meadow brook
Then we reached q hook from the shelf
and detected u speCk of white insect hur-
rying off at a dOuble-quick to hide behind
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 q Leaf to tremble
as would hold a single letter, was to him
cOmmotion equal to hundred earth
quakes. But we pursued him, excited as
he vas, until we chased him on a 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, q prisoner IN his house OF
| brass, and snugly covered him by glass
| slide. until we reviewed him beneath the
| microscope. Ills PRISON was 1oSo IoOLiJ
| than the eve of fine cambric 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, @d
white as snow, with limbs of perfect sym
metry and proportion. We were affected
| bv ;,;s efforts to be free. lie hurried from
side yS IT. to side of his prison house, and trid
to to- force u, g the wa',,s apartl Through lis
clear transparent flesh lcCould be seen Il; Ge
beating Of his heart and the sHurpIe vonS
of his blood His movements Wel. IN
less and pitiful as those of a newly cage
bird. Ii we could by some magniier {
sound, have heard his voice and unde-
stood his language, doubtless it would hae
been plaintive cry for liberty.
| How wonderful are the works OF IL
Almighty Hand! In wisdom he hath mac
them all. How vast the lessons brouel
10 our minds by the telescope, from worle
afar, and by the microscope, from marvel
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