St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-12-19
FINEST WRITING ExrANT.
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| Contents of Twenty Bibies written Logis
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The widest dream of fine postal card
pared with what has been written on
glass with q diamond point. So mare
yeiously fine are the marks that have
been traced on glass that when, by. i
means of powerful microscope, we
clearly read the words covered by Il
speelS when seen with the naked eyeitis
difficult to realize the fullness of the
fact presented.
Think of lesible writing so fine that
written in the narrow space of one
square inch. Yet such there is in eS-
istence and can be produced without
any great difficulty.
Particular attention was called to
this strange fact BY Mr.. stephen Helm.
member Of The New York Mieroseop-
ical society. and fellow of the Royal
Society OF London. A
..The Herald S account Of the wonder
fully fine writing produced BY Mr..
Charles S. Monnier On q posta1eeard is4y
very Interesting" said Mr.. Helm, as he
sat by his microscope, with a bit Of
glass in his hand that showed d black
ring in its center about the size of q
silver three-eent piece. His accomp-
lishment is quite wonderful, but It isss
nothing compared with what is on this
glass
took the glass, but could see nothing
within the little black ring. but with
the use of small hand lens a speels be-
came apparent.
.'That is the Lords Prayer said Mr.
Helm, 1T contains 227 letters and ID
written within the fve-hundredth part
Of a square inch. In other words, the
space it covers is one -twentiethby one
twenty-ffth Of an inch, and five htari-
dred Of such spaces are contained
within the bounds Of q single square
inch, which nj the same rate would con-
tain 11a 500 letters Look at it and read
the words.
The bit Of glass Was adjusted under
the microscope, and there, in good.
plain writing, was the lords Pray err
as easily read as the words ia this para
graph. AS read the lines q single
speclS Of dust foated unobseryed before
our eyes settled on the glass slide end
obscured the entire prayer.
This writing is not regarded by
microscopists familiar with minute
forms as any thing ron'de said
Helm, sebut the postal-card story makes
it of general public interest. onrs
look at this slide. Z
The glass slide referred to was SIM
liar to the other, and within the little
black circle marked on it there wassno
mark to be seen with the naked eyesor;
with the strongest hand magnifyilis
glass.
You can sec nothing there, con-
finued Mr. Helm, neither can YOU
under an ordfnaf 13ifsss1z lanitf
same prayer is written there as on tho
other glass, only, as cornpared with the
other, the space is a New York city lot
compared with a Duchess county
farm. Look at 1t under fhc strongest
power my microscope is cnpable Of
There II was, The Lord Pra yer, in 4 NE
same handwriting as the otherbetii
being done by Prof. Webb,sof the Royal
MicroscopicaI society but ever go
much smaller.
The larger writing. as ( told .you,s f
said Mr.. Helm, covers a spaee meas
ured by one-tyventictil of an inch one
way and one-tWeEt ty-ffth the other.
This one covers space measured by
one-fve-hundredth part of an inch In
one direction, and one six-hanated
and ffty-third part Of an inch in the
ether direction. In other words, IL
means That with writing OF that size
TAILS 500 letters cam be placed in o
single square inch. The force of this
is easier eomprehended when we re-
member that the Bible contains $780,.
4so letters, which means that the entira
Christian Scriptures can be written
1egibly, 20 times repeated, within tla
space of single square inch, and have
considerable vacant space left. s.
This wonderful minute writing,
which requires microscope ma 9Ilify
ing 600 dianneters to make 1t readable,
is not produced blythe use Of any raage-
nifying power, but By moving the haEd +
and forming the letters as inordinary
very fine writing. The pen that Is used
is connected with a series Of levers hat
reach al distance Of six feets8whero Is
placed the glass slide to be written on
These levers are SO adjusted that the
motion of the end nearest the glass
slide is much less Than that Of the other
end, so that the samotInt ofsmofion Is
as ii travels along. the stler
sessive levers, until, when it reaches
The delicate end armed with a minute
that rests on the glass suffaces
It is reduced to the requisite fine ness
Thus, while the hand of the operator
e covering with writing q sheetof pa
per six by nine inches III size, the let
ters he forms are duplicated on flc
slass by the cutting diamond within
the space of one-fye-h e-hundredtl til part
II q square inch.N. Z Herald,
Her Tax One Cent.
Some Of the individual taxes in this
,ity are interesting The figures show
5he existence in Savannah of a number
If good snug fortunes, but they do nof,s