The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-10-01
PAINTED WITH A HAIR.
The Marvellous Art Work of an Engiisl
Microscopic.


The Marvellous Art Work of an Englisl
Microscopic.
New YORK Srn.l
A microscopic fancier of this city
who does not ride his hobby out of hi
home, and would not for the world al
low himself to be interviewed upon hi
pet sub ect for newspaper, entertained
the other evening at his house com
pany of persons. lie walked to tabl,
standing in the center of the room, upoI
which was his favorite miscroscope.
Il have several little things to tell yol
that are not known except by micrC
scopists. Here is a slip Of glass, for in
stance" he continued, as he picked upi
narrow glass slide, which contains
the representation of beautiful
bouquet of flowers. The representation
when looked at with the naked eye, Cal
scarcely be seen at all. 1t simply look:
like a small shot. The bouquet, wher
you look at it through the instrument
contains, as you can discover, eighty
two distinct flowers of various shade
and colors, and each is as perfect as
would be possible for an artist to rep
resent it on canvas The entire bou
quet, containing all the flowers leaves
etc, were made from the scale, ant
hair of the Ira iiian butter les Tht
dust from the wings of the butterfliet
was picked up and placed in position by
Henry Dalton, of iondon, who is nov
dead. Dalton. with tLe aid OF a mi
crosc ope, picked up one particle
dust at time on the end of hair ant
ad usted it to the slide in such man
. In, Ia nj 4 M
bouquet assumed its present beautiful
and perfect form.
Although Dalton was dissipated, ht
excelled most of his imitators in his pc
cu'iar line of art Among microSco
plsts his works are prized as highly a!
the works of the great masters IN paint
inJ are valued by artists who work OF
can as. A painter who can paint {
complete scene on surface as small a.
slee button. Is considered Skillful
vet alton used a single hair for {
brush and dealt with particles of mat
ter scarcely visible to the naked eye
which he placed in their respective pc
sitions with the aid OF his microscop,
with such accuracy that he finally pro
duced his representations, which are Sc
correct in every GetIil that artists wht
have examined them critically hav,
been almost overcome with astOnish
ment This is wuat | call one o. the
wonderful achievements of the century
lie was fast worker, and, by la or
ing almost inceSsant y, he could lnisI
it, thin :, III the course of week o!
ten DAYS. The Dalton slides are very
va uable in America There not moro
than fifty Dalton slides in this country.
and they can scarcely be pur- -hased foI
love or money. In fact, as SAID before
they are as highly pri ed by micro
scopists, throughout the world as rar,
painting by celebrated master i
pri ed. bave also one or two othel
Slides executed by artists not 80 notel
as Dalton. uray S legy,' contain
ing thirty-two verses, has been photo
graphed by the aid of a microscope OF
a slide within space of Oneterth of al
inch siuare, and is perfectly legibl'
when read through Il powerful instru
ment."
The company looked through the in
strument and saw. among other OBJ
iects, the tongue of a fly, the toe MAJ
of gnat, the digestive apparatus of :
flea, the eyebrow or an insect too smal
to Le detected with the naked eye, t"t
circulation of the blooi in mus IuitO
,ugular vein, an a scess on the back O
a hy'S neck, a fracture i'll an ant collar
bone, and thousand other extraor
dinary sights.