The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-14

sure. i am saving It's strength lot tne
! view We shall take of Mars. When the
Eye Is placed under its maximum
| pressure 1t will magnify 100000 diam
eters, and the micro-organsms, or an
| imalculae, as l call them, which just
now looked like little pollywogs, Will
| appear to be as large as ordinary brook
| trout. In fact 1t will be seen that every
particle OF the water that we drink Is
| literally Inhabited. not only by one or
| two of these animalculae, but by my
| riads of them. together with masses OF
| vegetation which, as magnitied In the
Eye, resemble the sea mosses and sea
| weed that a recedng tide deposits on
| the oceans shore"
Ugh" exclaimed one of the three
| ladies present. Il don't believe l can
ever manage to drink water again"
What will you drink" inquired Pro-
| fessor Coles.
We'll. milk, or tea, or beer. l sup
pose"
Then" was the cheerful response
you'll simply swallow the same kind
| of monsters in another form; and If
you drink beer you'll swallow uglier
ones and more of them than you've
seen tonight. Why, the merast particle
1 OF beer, under the Eye discloses great
! masses of vegetation on which long,
| green, repeilent looking worms and m
! sects are creeping and feeding. Beer
| is about the worst stuff l know of. and
| milk is pretty close second. But now.
| If you wish. l will show you what the
human eoidermis looks like"
PARASITES ON OUR BODIES.
Upon the professors request one Of
| the ladies barred her forearm over the
little aperture into which the rain wat
| er had been placed-the aperture had
| ,ArfA Aafl Try
| and rubbed her finger three or four
times across the arms surface. 1t
| should be said in the lady's behalf that
| she has always been devout and con-
| sistent believer in the doctrine that
| cleanliness is next to godlness. and
| takes her daily bath as regularly as she
says her daily prayer. To the ordinary
| eye, nothing dropped from her wrist as
a result of this hasty abrasion, and sew
| eral of the spectators were inclined to
| treat the test as joke.
But when the Electric Eye" was
! turned ON, and the lady was accorded
| the courtesy of first glance at the
minute fraction of herself which the
| professor assured his guests had got
into the Instruments searching focus,
| she fairly shrieked in amaZement. Pic
tured against the intruments back
ground We're dozens of fan-like. trans
lucent scales, ranging in size from the
| fl2ttened peeling of Il goodly sized
| onion to the dimensions of palm
| leaf fan. Great black streaks appeared
| on and around these scales, which at
| first We're inert, but presently there
We're signs of life, and soon Il little
| insect the size of q pinching bug scoot-
| ed from one scale to another He
was followed by others. smaller and
| larger, until in the course of few
minutes the entire perspective became
| one mass of living. moving. clawng
insects. One of these seemed as large
as an ordinary house spider. Sew
eral resembled large roaches Others
seemed to be like the grecnish, many
legged, saw w-clawed worms that feed on
maple green tobacco OF tomato leaves
They chased each other madly in and
around these big scales of abTaded
epidermis, some climbing up over the
scales and shaking them after the
| manner of crickets or pinching bugs,
when clamboring over small. dried
leaves. The big fellows seemed to be
in pursuit of the smaller ones, and
| now and then one voracious rascal
would gulp down an unfortunate
youngster with the calm uncOncern of
q monster pickerel fish when he makes
Il dainty morsel of u captured sinner.
PARASITES EVERYWHERE.
"The particles of epderms which look
so large through this instrument" eX-
plained Professor Coles, ARE in reality
them as Mrs. W brushed them off; /;
yet only small percentage of those
that she separated from the epidermis
of her arm fell into the feed-hole of
the Eye There are, as you see, prob
ably q thousand of these diminutiVe
parasites in the view at which you are
looking. Yet all of these together could
stand under the point of the finest
needle ever invented, and yet not feel
crowded. Upon a square inch OF hu-
man epidermis there must be millions
of perfectly developed living organisms,
as intelligent in proportion, as are the
insects that we daily encounter among
plants and ferns and shrubs. | am as
sure as that l am standing here that
the human body is literally made up of
these parasites; that they constitute
the motive power Of our existence. So
to speak, and that, If we could go far
enough into this question, each one of
these infinitesimal beings In turn would
be found to be just as thickly inha bited
by corresoondingly smaller parasites.
Our common science, for instance,
claims to have discovered that the ordi-
nary house fly Is inhabited by fly lice.
i propose before | get through with my
inquiries, to prove to the scientists that
the fly lice also have lice ON them; and
Furthermore, l am going to show these
lice on the lice that live ON the horse
fly, just as clearly as | have SHOWN you
the parasite that inhabits Mrs. W--'s
arm. l cannot do this with my present
instrument, for it is crude and imper-
feet in many particulars; but | hope
within six months at the outside to
have new and larger instrument
which will enlarge the magnifying pow
er of the present Electric Eye ECU, or
five times over"
INHABITANTS OF OUR BLOOD.
The professor was asked to exhibit
some human blood. The same lady
who had supplied the epidermis kindly
volunteered to sacrifice q drop of her
vital fiuid to the cause of science. The
merest quantity of it, almost invisible
to the human eye, was placed as be-
fore. The spectacle presented was mar
velously beautiful. 1t seemed as if all
colors and combinations of the kaleid-
oscOpe had been brought into play.
White Corpuscles as large as hens
eggs floated around i'm a pool of col
Orless liquid alternating with great
masses of red and brown coloring mat
ter. AS many as seven different kinds
of cOrpuscles We're disclosed, where
as the Psychologists UP to this moment
have taught that there are only two
kinds, red and white.
When DIR. Hand looked at these float
ing bodies of fibrin and fat he turned
quickly around to Mrs. w and said:
Your blood is in very bad condi-
ton. 1t needs phosphate and iron. The
white globules should be round and
distinct; they are instead, flat and de-
pressed. You will need to go under a
treatment of mild toncs."
Now" said Professor Coles, "you
come to one of the most important uses
of my machine. ] contend that by a
series of studies of the human blood
through this powerful magnifier it will
be possible to make diagnosis an abso-