Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-11-07
PAINTED WITH A HAIR.
The Marvellous Art Work that Dal-
ton, an English Microscopist was
Able to do.

The Marvellous Art Work that Dal-
ton, an English Microscopist was
Able to do.
New York Sun.
A microscopic fancier OF this city, who
does not ride his hobby out of his home,
andwould not fer world allow him
himself to be interviewed upon his pet
subject for newspaper, entertained the
other evening at his house company
OF persons, among whom was reporter
for the Sun. He walked to a table
standing in the center of the room, upon
which was his favorite microscope,
IL have several little things to tell
you that are not known except by the mi.
CT oscopists. Here is slip of glass, for in.
stance," he continued, as he picked up
narrow glass slide, (which contains the
representlon of beautiful bouquet OF
flowers. The representation, when look
ed at with the naked eye can scarcely be
seen at all. 1t simply looks like small
spot. The bouquet, when you look at it
through the instrument, contains, as
you can discover, elghty-two distinct
flowers OF various shades and colors, and
each is as perfect as 1t would be possi-
BILE for an artist to represent it on can
vas. The entire bouquet, including all
the flowers, leaves, etc, was made from
the scales and hair of Brazilian butter.
flies. The dust from the wings of the
butterflies was placed IN position by
Henry Dalton, of London, who is now
dead. Dalton, with the aid OF mic
roscope, picked up one particle of the
dust at time on the end of hair, and
adjusted it to slide in such manner
that when his task was finished the bou-
quet assumed its present beautiful and
| perfect form.
Although Dalton was dissipate2, he
excelled most of his imitators in his pc
culiar line of art. Among microscopistt
his works are prlzed as highly as the
works of the great masters in painting
are valued by artists who work on can
vaF. A painter who can paint com
plete scene on surface as small as {
sleeve button is considered skiiifui, ye
Dalton used 6 single hair for brnsi
and dealt with particles OF matte
scarcely visible to the naked eye, whIcl
he placed in their respective positions
with the aid OF his microscope, will
such accuracy that be finally producet
In every detail that artists who have ex
amined them critical y have been almos
overcome with astonishment. This il
what | called one of the wonderful
achievements of the century.
He was a fast worker, and by labor
ing almost necessarily, he could fnisl
} it, think, in the course of week or teI
. days The Dalton slides are very yalua
BILE in America. There are not NOR
than fifty Dalton slides in this country
and they can scarcely be purchased fo
love or money. In fact, as / said before
they are as highly priced by microscop
lists throughout the world as rar
painting by celebrated master j
priced. | have also one or two othe
. slides executed by artists not SO note
5 as Dalton. Gray's El.gy, eontainin
thirty-two verses, has been photograph
, ed by the aid of microscope on slid
;, within space of one-tenth of an inc
9 square, and is perfectly leglble whe
. read through powerful instrument"
/ The company looked through the il
9 strument and saw, among other obiect
!, the tongne of hY. the toe nail OF
: gnat, the digestive apparatus of a fie,
0 the eyebrow a an insect too small to b
O. detected with the naked eye. the osculf
d ton of the blood in mosquitoes iugu