Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-11
P4INTED WIrH 4 HdIR,
The Marvellous work of an English Micro.
scopist.
Ma al.

New York Sun
microscopic tancier of this city who does
not ride his hobby out OF his home. and
would not for the world allow himsel, to be
interviewed upon his pet subject for a news
paper, entertained the other evening at his
house company of persons. He walked to
table standing in the center OF the room
upon which was his favorite microscope.
al have several little things 10 tell you that
are not known except by microscopists. Here
is slip OF glass, tor instance" he continued
as he picked up narrow glass slide, (which
contains the representation OF beautiful
boquet of flowers. The representation when
looked at with the naked eye, can hardly
be seen at all. Ii simply locks like a
small shot. The bouquet, when you look at
1t through the instrument, contains, as vol
can discover, eighty-two distinct flowers Of
various shades and colors, and each is as per-
fec, AS it would be possible tor an artist to
represent 1t on canvas. The entire bouquet
including all the flowers, leaves, etc, was
made from the scales aud hair of brazilian
butter flies. The dust from the wings of the
butterflies was picked up aud placed in posi-
lion 10y Henry Dalton, OF London, who is
now dead. Dalton. with the aid of a micro
scope, picked up one particle OF dus, at a
time on the end Of a hair, and adjusted il TO
the slide in suct n manner that " hen hi. task
was hnished the bouquet assumed its present
beautiful and perfect form
although Dalton was dissipated. he e,-
celled most o. bis imitators in his peculiar
line of art. Among mcroscopists his works
are priced as highly as the works of the great
masters in painting are valued by artists who
work on convas. A painter who can paint A
complete scene on a surface as small az a
sleeve-button is considered skilliul, vet Dali
ton used single hair for brush and dealt
with particles OF matter scarcely visible to the
naked eye, which he placed in their respect-
i've positions with the aid OF his microscope
with such accuracy that he finally produced
his representations, which are 80 correct in
every detail that artists who have examined
them critically have been almost overcome
with astonishment. This is what call one
OF the wonderful achievements of the CEN
tury.
"he was last worker, and, by laboring
almost necessarily, he could finish it, think
IN the course OF week or ten days. The
Dalton slides are very valuable in America.
There are not more than fifty Dalton slides in
this country and they can scarcely Re pur-
chased Tor love or money. In fact, as | said
before, they are rs highly priced by micro
scopists throughout the world as rare paint
ing by celebrated master is priced have
also one or two other slides executed by ar
tists not SO noted as Dalton. Gray's "Elegy,"
containing thirty-two verses, has been pho
'ographed by the aid of microscope on A
siide within space OF one-tenlh Of an inch
square, and is perfectly legibe when read
through powerful instrument"
The company looked through the instru.
mentand saw, among other objects, the tongue
OF ny, the toe nail of gnat, the digestive
apparatus 1t flea, the eyebrow OF an insect
TOO small to be detected with the naked eve,
the circuluiion Of the blood in MOSQUITOES
Jugular vein, an sbcess on the back OF a ay's
neck fracture in an ants collar bone and
thousand other extraordinary sights.