The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28

ioiS ar ttlC NCW Acetdultilt, writ
ten on skin SO thatit could be rolled
up in the compass of nut she'll.
Now this is impereptible to the
ordinary eye. You have seen the
Declaration Of Independence in the
compass of a quarter of dollar,
written with glasses. | have to-
day paper at home half as long
as my hand, on which was photo
graphed the whole contents of q
London newspaper. 1t was put un-
der a doves wing and sent into
Paris, where they enlarged it and
read the news. This copy of the
lliad must have been made by some
such process.
In the Roman theater-the Coli
scum, which could seat 100000
people-the Emperor's box, raised
to the highest tier, bore about the
same proportion to the space as this
stand does to this hall, and to look
down to the center Of q six-acre lot
was TO look considerable distance.
Considerable, by the way, is not a
Yankee word. Lord Chesterfield
uses it III his letters to his son, 80 il
has good English origin Pliny
says that Nero, the tyrant, had a
ring with q gem in it which he
looked through and watched the
sword play Of the gladiators-men
who killed each other to amuse the
people more clearly than with the
naked eye. So Nero had an opera
glass.
So Mauritius, the Sicilian, stood
on the promontory Of his island,
and could sweep over the entire sea
to the coast Of Africa with his
aauscopite, which is a word de-
rived from two Greek words, mean
ing to see a ship. Evidently Mauri-
thus, who was a pirate, had a mar
inc telescope.
You may visit DR.. Abbott's
Museum, where you will see the
ring of Cheops. The signet of the
ring is about the size Of a quarter
Of a dollar, and the engraving is III
visible without the aid Of glasses.
No man was ever shown into the
cabinets of gems in Italy without
being furnished with microscope
to look at them. it would be idle
for him to look at them without
one. He couldn't appreciate the
delicate lines and the expression Of
the faces If you 90 to Parma
they will show you gem ohce
worn on the finger Of Michael
Angelo, Of which the engraving is
1900 years old, on which there are
the figures Of seven women. Yon
must have the aid of q glass III or
der to distinguish the forms at all.
/ have a friend who has a ring, per-
haps three-quarters Of an inch in
diameter, and OH it is the naked
figure Of the god Hercules. BY
the aid of glasses you can distill-
gnished the interIaciug muscles and
connt every separate hair on the
eyebrows. Layard says he would
be unable to read the engravillgs
on Nineveh without strong specta-
cles, they are so extremely small.
Rawlinson brought home q stone
about twenty inches long and ten
inches wide, containing an entire
treatise on mathematics. 1t would
be perfectly illegible without glass
es. Now, If we are unable to read
it without the all Of glasses, yon
may suppose the man who engraved
It had pretty strong spectacles. So
the microscope, instead Of dating
from our time, finds its brothers in
the Books Of AIoses--and these are
infant brothers.
THE OLD DYES.
50 it You take colors. Color is,
we say, an ornament. We dye our
dresses and ornament our furniture.
1t is an ornament to crafty the eye;
but the Egyptian impressed it into
a new service. For them it was a
method Of recording history. some
parts Of their history were writtelc
but when they wanted to elaborate
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