Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-05-12
EDGE OF A CARD.
PATIENT SKILL PENNAN WINS BIN
FAMB
Tia Bb Written Eight r.ns u a SQUARE l2'a o.
Soscs -llsa..ssimd Wonders Mae
With Iafci,a PainsaA1g.

P,scfs'p.il Haa
T,. re,ler who has DIS bump Of iaqu ST.
tvs..,, sbnormslly developed would 10
dom. soe,d several dollars and ride
good msuy miles 20 sec the great htty-'on
Krup. n miner in the gun works at E'sen'
Ge-m,ny. working as smoothly and 'sgu-
lsrly as an eigbtda clock. But even
after that. he would ride m equal DIS
t,nce if not farther-providing-
his money held Quito see POL;
Scbumsrn's model Of the aooye-namsd
Prsfs.so- Schamaau, Who lives a. Ber1e'
S,g,.ze-lsnd. worked seven years on nis
NOD The fame, hammer and pulleys,
An c,,nplete. ws igh bat ore ana halt
s,r,i,s Thu hammer IS solid gold, tne
,,rleys German silver, and the frame
Dllilum. A flea, trained by ne fIol.s
so- viii. 40 IN. word Of comm ND, noist
the hammer % the top Z the frame, Waere
Il t. automatically set irea, descending Ia
nreei,ely the same manner as the monster
after which IL was modelled.
Believing that the above comparison
will prove to the satisfsc ION Of the reader
fhat little things ars not 20 be desPissd,
the Little Wonders viii now be consd-
cred in order s. they have appeared Oeiors
the as.onished world
Pioy. the + der, who wrote during the
frst century of he Christian era, mentions
the fact that there existed, even at thai
early dsts, copy Of H'me''s "llAt
small enough % be completely hidden II
the she'll OF hens egg. Professor Schue'
her a Cs-.aau inventor OF a stereographiI
process. in order 20 offset the wonder
vonched for by Pliuy, translated both th'
u.Uisdu aud The Odyssey in so small
COMPASS that the volume containing botT
books camolet. could be with ease bidder
in the shell IT an English walnut. We d
not rely on tbs word Of An ancient histor
ian for the veriicatiOn snd standardization
of the claim of Schrieber. AS the work Il
still in existence, "a Is also It's author
unless he has died within the past ear.
To the year ISL the Chicago Inter Oceu
made meltion Of a gentleman who ha-
written the entire fri chapter Of The Cos
pel of st. John OF the back side Of pos's
card.
That little notice, innocent as It was
caused The editor several slsspless nights
Within the next three days postal card
and slips of paper with minute specimens
Of penmansbip began % p ur II nom O.
directions. Among tas hundreds Of sam
pies submitted for inspechon thu edlJo
scknovleiged that the greatest curiosity
was a postal card from John j. TAYLOR, o
Streator, H., up11 which ws7 winter
4. 100 woris ia lsgible characters, TIT
Who'll embracing the frs, second anC
third chapters of 81. john and IS verses
Of ths fourth chspter Of the sane, lad aieC
the sixth and seventh chapters Of 81
Mathew. besides having nine words
In ghich mistakes occurred crcssec
ont An OF this wonderful pro
ducti1n which the editor ackowl
edges would make ,hrse columns Of
hi- paper sst in minion type, could b.
plainly reai vi j. the naked eye. A Lscs
dpm0niau o CO wr0t- In Letters OF gold &
poem ofsight lines, BE whole IF hich be
enclosed Vi hin a grain Of a..spice and SEN
"a presen. 20 tle shah Of Persia ar
ace wA.ch ne un-utored m1uaTch did no
seem 10 apprecis.a, inasmuch IS be order
e9 In. praman thrown into prison, where
be languis1ed several months until at l1s
Sc free through The IL tiue.cs o. thu Amer
lean con nj
In 1883. % Jewish penmln at Nie11a
Au.tris. wrote 400 .a-ters on common
sized grain of wheat It seems that te'
Emperor hsd iail,d 20 sign bin allow nl
the Jew 10 heconos clerk ia some Of ia.
royal dep ,rtmcnts giving "a reason tina
IL was a0>Oln.ely necessary 20 have an n
common coed peuman in tina; dep -tment
After fir. hirg t.e cereal wonder aud de
spatcaing /, to his msis he picked up
common vieiting card and wcote a pray e
for the imperial family on It's edge. TIL
was also sent 10 the Emperor l. Is need
less 10 ada ,hat .he dexJrous Hebrew wa
installed az he head o. q department th
next day
These wonderful ialls with ths PEI
which are al tru. 90 tie letter have besi
cc,op'etale evershad0wed BY The incon
prrbersiblo achievement Of William Webb
OF London, Egg In 1866 Mr.. Webb II
vented pa machine which is composed o
exqri- i.ely graduated wheels, running
tirv diamond point az the end OF an al
mos equally exquisite arm, whe eby he wa
email a TO write upon glass the whole o
the Ir-i's prayer within q space whicl
measured the two hundred and ninety
fcarta Of an inch in length by the tOu
hundred and f0rtie.h Of 20 inch 10 breadth
OF about the measurement Of dos owe
the lsticr So IN common print. Wit
that machine Mr. Webb. OF any one els
who understood operating 1t, could writ
the whole 8 poo, lso letters Of the Old sn'
New Testament eight times over in tn
space of one inch square.
When this wonderful microscopic writ
ing was enlarged by photography ever.
letter and point were perfect and could b.
plainly seen.
Ina museum of curiosities at Salem
Mass there is preserved a common cherr
seed or stone. followed and fashioned lik
a basket. Within the basket are - tin.
silver spoons, the shape and finish of whicl
cannot be distinguished with the nakeC
eve The name of the artist who CO n
struc.ed this little wonder has been lost
but the existence Of the thing itself vii
not De questioned by any one from the old
witch headquarters Ofthe Bay State.
Or. Peter Oliver, who was born IN Eng
lsud somewhere about the beginning o
the eighteenth century, tells Of seeing a
carved cherry stone that would be a Won
der even in this era Of 6ne tools and fine
workmanship. The stone was frOn a com
mon cherry, upon which we're carved the
heads OF 12i popss, kings, saints, queens
and emperors, and, small as they must
necessarily have been, il is announced, on
The authority Of Mt Oliver, that the heads