The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-11-04
PAINTED WITH A HAIR.


From the New York Sun.
A microscopic fancier of this city
who does not ride his hobby oft OF
his homo, aid would not for the
world allow himself to be interview
ed upon his pet subject for a news.
paper, entertained the other evening
at bis house a company of persons
among whom was reporter of the
Sun. He walked to table standing
in the center of the room, upon which
was mis- favorite microscope.
II have several little things to tell
you that are not known except by
microscopists. Here lisa clip of glass
for instance" he continued, as he
picked up narrow glass slide
(which contains the representation OF
beautiful bouquet of flowers. The
representation, when looked at with
the naked eye can scarcely be seen at
all. 1t simply looks like small shot.
The bouquet, when you look at
through the instrument, contains, as
you eau discover, eighty-two distinct
flowers of various shades aud colors,
aud each Is es perfect as 1t would be
possible for an artist to represent it
on canvas. The entire bouquet, in
GLIDING all the flowers, leaves, ETC.,
was made from the scales and hair OF
Brazilian butterflies. The dust from
the wings of the butterflies was pick
ed up and placed in position by Hen
ry Dalton, of London, who Is now
dead. Dalton, with the aid OF mi
croscope, picked up one particle of
the dust at time on the END of a
hair, and adjusted il TO the slide In
such a manner that when his task
YVES flushed the bouquet assumed its
present beautiful and perfect form.
although Dalton was dissipated,
he exceiled most of his imitators in
his peculiar line of art. Among nj
croscopists his works are priced as
highly az the works of the great mas
tiers in painting are valued by artists
who work on canvas. A painter who
can paint complete scene on sur
face as small Ms sleeve-button is
considered skillful, yet Dalton used a
single hair for brush, and dealt
with particles of matter scarcely WISH
BILE to the naked eye, which he placed
In their respective positions, with the
aid of his microscope, with such ac-
curacy that he finally produced his
representations, which are so correct
In every detail that artists who have
examined them critically have been
almost overcome with establishment.
This Is what l call one Of the wonder
full achievements of the century.
ale was fast worker, and, by la
boring almost necessarily, he could |
Iluish II, think In the course of a
" eek or ten days. The Dalton slides
ire very valuable in America. There |
ire not more than fifty Dalton slides
n this country, and they eau scarcely
% purchased for love or money. In
act. rs said before, they are rs high
y priced by microscopists through
ut the world as rare pain ting by a
master Is prlzod. have
lso one or two other slides executed
y artists not 50 noted as Dalton.
rays Elegy, containing thirty-two
erses, has been photographed by the
ii of q microscope on u slide within
space of one tenth of an inch square.
nd Is perfectly legible when read
trough a powerful instrument
The company looked through the
strument and saw, among other OBJ
cts, the tongue ola fly, the toe-nail
gnat, the digestive apparatus of a
"a, The eyebrow Of an insect too
nall to be detected with the naked
o, the circulation Of the blood in
osquito's jugular vein. an abscess
! the back of hy's neck, a fracture