Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-10
MADE IN MINIATURE.
CURIOUS MICROSCOPIC MARVELS
ACHIEVED BY INGENIOUS MEN.

any Peter Ramus Tells some very f's"y "'"
So ries About John " ulIer- The Ever Grow
cal ing Squad of Cherry Stone Worsers-A
Wonderful Knife.
ere Perhaps the most prevalent mania OF
so men gifted with mechanical ingenuity
ms takes the shape of accomplishing or at
IT. tempting to accomplish in miniature
'al the mightest feats of engineering that
IL human hands have ever set up. The en-
of thusiast in miniature regards the Forth
bridge, for example, not as utllltarlan
no masterpiece, but as a model to be 1ol'
III lowed and copied in all the materials
n supplied by thrcepenny bit and the
If 9S5 feet of Eitfel tower neither fills his
in breast with awe nor horror but is re-
10 garded as a choice subject to be con-
le structed In miniature out of bent pen
10 and the shell of walnut
a OF the medieval mechanicians John
Muller, better known in the trade as
y Regiomontanus which one must admit
j. sounds well for one Of his craft, who
n lived in the fifteenth century, was with
J. out doubt the Maskolyne and Cook of
3 the period, or at all events he had as
0 biographer writer of greater inlaGina-
= ton than the other less fortunate genll
t of that era. Peter Ramus, the writer in
t question, not only credits John Muller
T with fashioning wooden eagle, which
on the occasion of the Emperor Max
imilian visiting Nuremberg flew out to
meet him, saluted him in duo form
however that may have boen-and then {
turned round and accompanied the pro l
cession to the city gates, but further as t
serts that the same individual turned
out an iron fly G
Which, having flown perfect roundabout a
With weary wings returned unto her master
We arc inclined to think, all things S
considered, that Peter Ramus had the b
markings Of a very fine creator of eXcit- O
ing fiction in him and that it was sad a
pity he allowed his gift to he wasted in a
compiling biography Of 100 years tC
deceased automatic artitcer in place of W
forostalling the friend Of our youth NJ W
Jules Verne. Fl
The cherry stone has been favorite R
subject for the worker in miniature
since Hadrianus Junius saw at Mechlin
"a cherry stone cut into the form of
basket, in which were ii pairs Of dice TT
distinct, the spots and numbers of which
were easily to be discerned with a good
eye. A museum in Massachusetts has an
among its other possessions cherry bu
stone containing dozen silver spoons, on
AS the stone is of the ordinary size the the
spoons are so small that their share can of
only be admired by the aid Of micro ho'
scope. Other remarkable cherry stones i'll
arc the ones carved all over with I24 fol
heads, mostly of popes and potcnates, pri
and the one fashioned by a t0umal;cr Mt inf
Nuremberg, which contains a plan Of 1t
sevastopol, railway station and the nea
Messiah of Klopstock, is indeed null nu
tum in parvo. LEA
tiny vessel has been made Of late
years by an Italian jewGlcr who came
into possession of pear. that nature
mad caused to take upon itself the shape
and contour of boat. A all of beaten
gold studded with diamouo, pinnacle
lght OF ruby aud emerald and a rud-
leg ut SSHaezE s4r III frre
lch weighs less than an ounce all
d. We recently saw it stated that the
allest steam engine in the world is
OF an upright pattern, made Of sill
and gold and resting 1n 20 cent
dp!ece. The diameter of the cylinder
one forty eighth part Of an inch;
ike, one thirty second CT an inch.
sht, one eighth Of grain; bore of
lnder, 1926 ola square inch. Tho
inc can be worked either by steam
compressed air, and-Ch, shade Of T. o.
or Ramus-the balance wheel of
third of an inch diameter is said to
io /, 7GO revolutions per minute
1916 knife was made Mt N.ossrs Lat
Wis G. Sons, Manchester contoi,i,,r, zine.
70 blades, buttonhook, saw, punch,
wdrlver, box, corllscrew hook and The
let' TWO phlemens, species Of Ian emf m
picker and two more lancots with a soil
at the head. The knife, we learn, thew g
only eleven -sixtecnths CT an inch den a,
and weighed l pennyweight IA lish vi
MS. At this end of the century or . !.
llleld can boast of dozen pairs of vatos
rs each so minute that they alto. extont
er weigh less than half a grain. if cl,s.os
TT speaks true nav h,
~ VI iiiicioacupe writing sects.
~ wv puo on3 Oh the most IA Frencl
I'LL ,ioilou NY flllly, VINO said materi
cicero had once seen Ho,ner's omv NJ
III IN nutshell. In order to prove liant =
ruth OF this French writer named somotl
eXFerlmented in the presence of vet w
dauphln, whose tutor he was in comh,
lie first showed that piece of est M
'skn 10 by s inches can be folded tion -
lit the shell Of a walnut and then wboIos
'edcd to prove that he could yet 250 emily,
- 49, w 1olses W Il stahZa on each other
sido d n'p !l or Iooo verses on Every
Carel van Mander, the sixteenth ment r.
ny painter and historian, quotes Altar Il
landscape painted by Lucas van commo,
IS wife. This work OF art repre-. and tho
,near;nl, w We" ~ stills neht the mil at large
l with sack. A cart and horse
: seen upon the terrace upon which The f
III was fixed, and on the road sew. sician ,
easants were discerned. The wbolo Eurone
perfectly distinct and accurately wines.
~ anu yeC 80 minute that it could stance
vered with one grain of corn of Prus
'haV most microscopic artist, M. of Spain
VI Beers, must be descended from ternich
'ir painter of that extraordinary The who
y "f''-London Standard. board in
slcian, k
Her Explanation. Epuano !,
rs building" said the little CITY and, bav
no was taking how 1i++1, - +ho -