The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-08-22
WONDERFUL SKILL

stalwart blacksmith. By the name
Of Mark Sealists, who lived in
London, manufactured > paddock
of iron, steel aud brass. Of eleven
pieces, and a pipe key, oil of which
weighed one grain. He also made
. chain Of gold Of forty.dve links
which fastened to the lock and
key and put il around the neck Of
q flea, which drew the whole with
perfect ease. The chain lock and
flea altogether weighed one grain
and q half.
Junius relates that at Mechlin,
in Barabant, he saw . cherry stone
cut in the form of a basket, in
which were fourteen pair of dice,
the spots and numbers on each be-
ing easily discerned with the max.
ed eye.
Turriana. Of whose wonderful
skill so many tales have been told,
is said to have manufactured an
iron mill so minute in size that O
monk could carry it in his sleeve,
yet the mill was powerful enough
to grind sufficient grain in day to
furnish food for eight men.
Still more wonderful was a set
Of six hundred dishes which were
all perfect in every part, and
which could easily be enclosed In
. pepercorn, q fruit Of the pepper
tree. These were manufactured
by an artist named Oswaldus
Northingenus, in the time Of Pope
Paul the Fifth; the Pope Is said
to have himself csunted the dimin.
utive fragments with the aid Of a
pair Of spectacles.
In 1774, upon the birthday of
King George the Third of Euglsng,
Mr.. Arnold, a matchmaker Of Lon
don, waited upon the King and
presented him with q curious re-
peating watch which he had con.
structed. HIS Majesty, as well
as the rest of the royal family to
whom Mr.. Arnold was introduced
expressed their utmost admi-
ration of the work. Extrsordin-
ary as IL may be thought, It is
known that this repeating watch
was somewhat less than q silver
dime in diameter and contained
one hundred and twenty dlsticnct
parts. Altogether 1t weighed fve
penuyweights, seven grains and
three -fourths. This was consider
cd at tho time as the sublimity ol
littleness.
| In permanship the productions
Of this class haye been very nu
merous. In the reign Of Queer
Elizabeth ''there was . man who
wrote the Ten Commandments, ,tb'
Creed, the Paternoster, and name
of the Queen, and the year o
our Lord, within the compass
or ON as small q surface as
penny; and gave her Majesty
pair Of spectacles Of such an arti
fetal making that by the hell
thereof she did plainly aud dis
tinctly discern every letter." Thl
feat was equaled some years sine
by an engraver Of London nance
; Daires, who wrote the Lords'
Prayer, the Greed of the Englisl
Church, the Ten Commandments
and his own name in the spac,
occupied by a half dime. A gen
: tleman now living In Hverpoo
has written the poem "Moun
Plensantn in space three by tw'
inches. He also wrote Goldsmith
poem Of the "Traveler," Of fou
hundred and thirty. eights lines L
a square Of three and one.hal
! inches, and his greatest.feat wa
the writing of the Lords Pvsye
: in Q circle three sixteentbs of al
inch in diameter, which may b.
distinctly read with q magnify
ing glass. It Is very common t
see the Lords Prayer written O.
engraved on the space of two
cent piece or . silver dime, but th,
specimen just mentioned Is th'
smallest writing of the Lord'l
prayer ever known to exist.
In the year 1916 a knife wal
made at Manchester, England
which contained seventeen arti
cles; three blades, q button hook
saw, punch and screw drive, box
hook and gimlet, two pheIemes
picker, tweezer and two lancetl
with a ring at the head of th'
knife. The entire knife was onl,
eleven sixteenths Of an inch long
and weighed one pennyweight an'
fourteen grains.-Will NJ. Clemens
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