Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-01-16
SOLE SMALL THi:Ies.
Facts That Have been Ascertained by
Science and tho Mechanics.

Science and; tho Mechanics.
Gold-beaters, by hammering, can
reduce gold leaves to such minnie thin
ness that two hundred and eighty-two
thousand must be laid upon each other
to produce the thickness of an inch.
Yet each leaf is so perfect and free
from holes says the st. LoCis Republic,
that one of them laid on any surfccc, as
in gliding, gives the appearance of solid
gold. They are SO thin. that if formed
into book. fifteen hundred would only
occupy the space of a single leaf of book
paper. A single volcme of q gold leaf
book one inch in thickness would have
as many pages as an entire library of
fifteen hundred volumes of common
books. even though the volumes aver
aged four hundred pages cachl
Platinum and silver can each be
drawn into wire many times smaller
than n human hair. The former metal
has been drawn into wire so fice that
twerty-seven of them twisted together
could ave been inserted in the follow
of hair; that is, if a human being or 4
human-made machine could be found
minute and precise enough for such q
delicate undertaking.
A burning taper uncovered for q
single instant, during which it does not
lose power amounting to the onc-thou-
sandth of grain, would ill with light
n sphere four miles in diameter so as to
be visible from every part of the COM
pass. ..-..'
The thread of the silk-worm is so
small that an average of forty-two of
them are twisted together to form a
thread of common sewingsilk; that of the
spider is many diameters smaller. Two
drains of spider-web by weight would,
if stretched into a straight line; reach
,, from London, Eng, to Edinburgh, Scot
land, distance of over four hundred
miles.
In sour paste, the milt of Goldfish,
or even in water in which vegetables
have been infused, tie microscope dis
covers animalculB so small that mill
ions of them would not equal the size
of grain of wheat. And yet nature,
with a singular prodigality, has sup
piled many of these with organs as
| complete as those of n whale CT an ele-
plant. In single ounce of such mat
ter there are more living creatures than
there are human beings on the face of
the globe.
A grain of carmine or half n grain OF
! aniline will tinge hogshead of water
: so that strong microscope will detect
coloring matter in every drop.
A grain of musk will scent n room for
: twenty years, and at the end of that
, time will not show that it has dimin-
/ ished in the least.
The organs of smell in the turkey,
; vulture and carrion crow are so delicate
that they can scent their food for dis
lance of forty miles.
| Franklin md tho French.
By his manners and ways of life he
became the most popular man il
! France, so that when he ga: ne.; mis- pre-
scntation to the King his future was as
! sured. AS he passed through the streets
of Paris he was followed by adnirine
eyes and cheered loudly by enthusiastic
voices, says the Century. A contempt
rary writes: "a friend of mine paic
something for place at two-pnir-0f
stairs window to see him pass by in his
coach, but the crowd was so great thai
he could but barely say he saw him
He was the Frenchman's embodiment
of the ideal citizen, republican, philoso
pher and friend. He completely cup
tivated and captured the people OF
France, whom he perfectly understood
and he we'll knew that popular mar
becomes soon more powerful than pow
er ITSELF" Condorcet said: at was ar
honor to have seen him. People re
peated what they had heard him say
livery fete which he consented to re
ceive, every house where he consented
to go, spread in society new admirers
who became so many partisans of tn,
American revolution"
No Americans for Her.