South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-07-07
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
uuench your thirst, even with the purest
water, without swallowing scores of puny
| lives. The ocean Is stirred by the huge
leyiathan, who maketh it TO boil like pot
! And therein, also, in myriad varieties, are
the lesse: forms of life, running down to
the animalcule, 80 smau that one hundred
and fifty millions of them weigh less than
grainl
The atmosphere is full of life, and the
| dry land swarms with animals of unwTit-
ten nsfass and unknown orders, crawling,
burrowiDg, Creeping, boring, leaping,
running, hopping and flying creatures.
| Out of sight and beyond the hearing OF
nien are innumerable living things. They
| inhabit the osc we breathe, the water we
drink, the food we eat They move and
have their being in sweets and souFs-in
the toughest flint as we'll as the mellow
pulp OF the peaeh--in blossoms and fruits,
in buds and leafes, in roots and branches,
in the bodies of animal5--Yerily, In our
OWE human bodies are tiny tena1ts-pop-
ulons colonies of little inhabitants, dwell
ing and mGsinz in our flesh, all too minute
to be seen or cOmpfGfendsd.
Life is everywhere Little lives are en-
veloped within large lives. Our little
lives are free and isolated independencies.
We recently looked through microscope
in the Office of Sanford G. Fill, Esq, the
almanac maker of East Liverpool, Ohio,
and examined a drop Of rain water. In
that single drop we counted near hun
dred playful little creatures, apparently as
large hs the common house fly, frolicking
and frisking shout ss merrily as minnows
in a meadow brook
Then we reached hook from the Shelf
and detected speck of white insect hur-
rying of a. dS9ble-quick to hide behind
a grain of dust; for Ts had opened on
him by surprise. The little feilcT was re-
treating rapidly; the shaking of book
Leaf, or even as much of a Leaf to tremble
as would hold c c;nsle letter, was to him
a commotion equal to a htsnared 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 SD eBtFeachment on the
bar.
He was smaller than the dot OF in : in
your pocket Bible. But we pressed him
into our service, a prisoner in his house of
brass, and shdsly covered him by glass
slide, until we reviewed him beneath the
microscope His prison was less t5Omy
than the eye of fine cambric needle, yet
under the microscope, his liberties, as well
as his btdg, were greatly enlarged. That
creature, to the naged eye 90 small, was
now apparently, as large as q bee; and
white as snow, with limbs of perfect sym
metry aud proportion. We were affected
by his efforts to be free. He hurried from
side to side of bis prison-house, and tried
to force the walls apartl 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 a newly Gagged
bird. If we could by some magnifer 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 Handl In wisdom he hath made |
them ALL How vast the lessons brought |
to our minds by the etelescope, from worlds |
afar, and by the microscope, from marvels |
so near, that TO the naked eye they are all |
unseen.-J0urnGL Of Microscopy.