The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-09-04
PAINTED WITH 4 HAIR.
The Marvellous Art Work that
Dalton, an English MicroSco-
pist was Able to DO.

Dalton, an English Microsco-
pist, was Able to Do.
N. y, sun.
A microscopic fancier Of this city who
does not ride his hobby ont of his home,
and wonId not for the world allow him
self TO be interviewed upon his pet sub
iect for a newspaper, entertained the 9th
er evening Mt his house n company Of
persons, among whom was n reporter.
He walked to n table standing in the CEN
ter of the room, upon which was his ia
vorite microscope.
Il have several little things to tell yon
that are not known except by .nicrosco-
pists. Here is a slip Of glass, for in
stance, he Continued, rs he picked up
a narrow gIassslide. (which contained
the representation of n beautiful ban
quet of flowers. Tn" representation,
when looked at with the naked eye. can
scarcely be seen at all, 1t simply look
sd like "a small shot The boquct, when
you look at it through the instrument,
contains, as you can discover. eighty
two distinct flowers of various shades
and colors, and each is as perfect rs it
would be possible for ali artist to repre-
sent it, on canvass. Tho entire b)qHet
including I'll the flowers, leaves, etc,
was mad. from the scales and hair of
Brazilian butterflies Tht. dust from the
wings of the butterflies was picked np
and placed in position by Henry Dalton,
of London, who is now i"ssh. Dalton,
with the aid of a microscope, picked Hr
one particle of the dust on the end Of n
hair. aud adjusted it to the slide in such
:. manner that when his task was finish
Il the bostuct assumed its present brauti-
full and perfect form.
Although Dalton was dissipated, he
exceIlcd most of his imitators in his pc
culiar line of art. Among microscopists
his works are priced MS highly as the
works Of the great masters IN painting
are valued 10y artists who work on can
vass. \ painter wltn can paint a
complete scene on a surface as small rs al
sleeve button is considered skillfuI yot|
Dalton used single hair for q brush.
dealt with PARTICLES of matter scarcely
visible To the naked eye, which he plac
eel in their respective positions with the
aid Of his microscope with such aCcuru-
cy That he finally produced his repTesen-.
tatinns, which are so correct in every de
iail that artists who have examined
them critically have been almost over
come with astanohinent F!s = is what
| Ell, one OF the wonderful achievements
of tin. century.
Iii stN {, f:,a: vurhrr. and l.. labor
ing Utmost nce+1antly, lie could finish it,
| thiri. iii the course Of II week or
days. The Dalton slides axe very va'ua-
bic in Aucr.,a. There are not more
th;in fftF Dalton slides III this cuuutr;.
and they can scarcely bn had for love az
money. In fact, as said before, they
are as highly priced by micrascopists
thrnuhout the world rs a rare painting
by G Ichrated master is prized have
also on" OF two other slides executed by
artists not SO noted as Dalton. Gray-s
Elegy, containing, thirtv-two verses, has
been photographed by the aid of Il mi
crnscope on q slide within n space OF one
tenth If an irch square, and is perfectly
IegibIe when read through q powerful
Instrument.
The company looked through the in
strnmcnt and saw, among other objects.
the tongue of Il fly, the toe nail or q gnat,
the digestive apparatus of a hea, the
eyebrow Of IN insect too small to be de-
tectpd with tItp naked eve the tucul Ia
lation nj tn" blood in a mosquitoes jugu-
lar vein, an ahsccss on the back of a tiy'S
neck, a fracture in an ants collar hone.
and thousand other extraordinary
ciphts