The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-16
LITTLE WONDERS.
what the Ingenuity of Man Has Accom-
plished In the Way Of Eeenomixing

what the Ingenuity of Man Has Accom-
Space.
Myrmecides, one of the ancients.
after many years of toll. made out of
ivory little chariot with four wheels
and four horses, the whole equippage
so small that bumblebee could COM
pietely hide it with one of her wings.
At another time he made. also out of
ivory, miniature ship with all its
ropes and rigging, likewise so small
that bee could hide the little vessel
beneath its wing.
| In the twentieth year of the reign of
Queen Elizabeth of England, a sturdy
blacksmith, by the name of Mark
! Scalist, who lived in London. manu-
! featured a paddock of iron. steel and
brass. of eleven pieces, and pipe key,
all of which only weighed one grain.
! He also made a chain of cold of FORTY
five links which fastened to the lock
/ and key and put it around the neck of
a flea, which drew the whole with per-
feet ease. The chain, KEY. lock and
flea all together weighed one grain and
q half.
Junius relates that at Mechlin, in
Brabant, he saw cherry stone cut in
to the form of basket, in which were
fourteen pair of dice, the spots and
numbers on each being easily discerned
with the naked eye.
Turriana, of whose wonderful skill
90 many tales have been told, Is said to
have manufactured an iron mill so
minute in size that monk could carry
it in his sleeve, vet the mill was power
full enough to grind sufficient grain liz
day to furnish food for eight men.
Still more wonderful was set of six
hundred dishes which were all perfect
in every part. and which could easily
be enclosed in peppercOrn. a fruit of
the pepper-tree. These were manu-
featured by en- artist named OSwaldus
Northingenus, in the time of Pope Paul
the Fifth; the Pope is said to have
himself counted the diminutive frag-
ments with the aid of pair of spec
tacleS.
In 1854. upon the birthday of King
George the Third of England. Mr.. Ar
mold. matchmaker of London. waited
upon the King and presented him with
a curious repeating watch which he
had constructed. His Majesty, as well
as the rest of the royal family to whom
Mr.. Arnold was introduced, expressed
their utmost admiration of the work.
Extraordinary as it may be thought. it
is known that this repeating watch was
somewhat less than silver dime In
diameter. and contained one hundred
and twenty distinct parts. Altogether
it weighed five pennyweights, seven
grains and three fourths. This was
considered at the time Us the sublimity
of GttlenesS.
In penmanship the productions OF
this class have been very numerous. In
the reign of Queen Elizabeth there
was a man who wrote the Ten Com
mandments, the Greed, the Paternoster.
aud name of the Queen, and the year
of our Lord. within the compass, or on
as small q surface as penny; and gave
her Majesty pair of spectacles of such
an artificial making that by the help
thereof she did plainly and distinctly
discern every letter" This feat was
equaled some years since by an en-
graver of London named Daires, who
wrote the Lords Prayer, the Greed of
the English Church, the Ten Com
mandments, and his own name in the
space occupied by half a dime. A gen.
tleman now living in Liverpool has
written the poem Mount Pleasant" in
a space three by two inches. He also
wrote Goldsmith's poem of the "Trav-
eler." of four hundred and thirty EIGHT
lines, in square of three and
one-half inches, and his greatest
feat was the writing of the
Lords Prayer in q circle three six
teenths of an inch in diameter, which
may be distinctly read with q magnify
ing glass. 1t is very common to see
the Lords Prayer written or engraved
on the space of two-cent piece or
silver dime, but the specimen just men
toned is the smallest writing of the
Lords Prayer ever known to exist.
In the year 1916 knife was made at
Manchester, England, which contained
seventeen articles; three blades, but
ton hook, saw. punch and screw
driver, box, corkscrew, hook and gim-
let, two phlemes, picker, tweezer and
two lancets, with ring at the head Of
the knife. The entire knife was only
eleven sixteenths of an inch long, and
weighed one pennyweight and fourteen
grainS-HTH H. Clemens. 10 Vide
AtCdke.