The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-05

ers might relish "leetle" more of
| tuberculin test, therefore begs suffi-
cient of your valuable space in an eff
| fort to place before the public some
Roosevelt publicity facts along said
lines.
To rightly comprehend what shall
follow, one must get some idea of
/, the vastness and minuteness of the
| microscopic world; the term, living
| organism, includes any and every liv-
ing thing, the phrase from monad to
man. means from the lowest forms
of life that the most powerful micro
scopes at our command can reveal,
up to the very highest and most COM
pick life.
Unseen Material World.
A little familiarity with microscopic
| work will convince any one that with
our unaided eyes We see less than 10
per cent Of the world in which we
live, move and have our being; with
the very highest power of the modern
| microscope, and with the best mod
ern equipment Afforded for scientific
experiment and study OF the physical
world. the scientist realizes that al
though the unknown today may under
the searchlight of science become the
Familiarity known tomorrow, yet not
understanding, there must ever remain
to all human wisdom a boundless gulf
of the absolutely. unknowable in this
old material world, to say nothing of
the imamterial universe.
The Size Of Microbes.
Measurements are taken of these
minute organisms "a living thing is
an organism whether microbe or an
clephant. as accurately as the lumber
man measures the lumber, this Access
sorry to the microscope is called a
micrometer. There are two principal
kinds. They consist of thin, clear
glass slides accurately ruled under a
microscope into minute squares of de-
finite known size, and the object ex-
amined is measured by them. The
standard of microscopic measure
ment is given three different names
by different authors. all meaning the
same, viz: Observation-Disclosures. mi
cron, mu: it is 1-1000 of millimeter
or $4,000 of an inch. Now the mi
crobe family of bacteria, consisting of
three principal classe-bacilli or rod
shaped organisms, cocci or spherical
organisms. spirilla Or spiral SHAPED
organisms. has innumerable varieties
just as the apple, pear. wheat, corn
etc, have almost endless varieties,
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the lowest forms of vegetable life.
RepIenish the Earth.
This Scriptural Command which we
are apt to think was given to man
kind only, science. and especially the
science of bacteriology teaches that it
included most eninently the tiny mi
cro-organism also: for instance the
bacteria have by all odds the advan-
tage over even the heather Chinee"
in populating the earth: although I'M
erringly obeying that primal and eter-
mai law of nature, each after his own
kind" yet these minimal beings en-
poy the shortest road to reproduction
as well as by far the more profits
one that most of the larger beings
whose environments are much more
favorable: they multiply by fissation.
that is to say that one single bacteria
which is itself unicelluIar or a one
celled being, will divide in two equal
cells, each of these will again divide
and there are four living bacteria ex-
actly alike, each of these four divide
and eight bacteria result. each of the
eight divide and sixteen result and so
on: the rapidity with which they thus
multiply is marvellous. For instance.
one single bacteria will produce thus
in "a hours 1s,777.216 bacteria, each
having exactly the same life history
that is living, eating, excreting (their
excretions which are the same as ex-
cretions Of any other living being,
are scientifically termed ptomainesl.
and each producing adinfinitum.
BacterioIogie Work.
And it is work, too: the bacteria
logist works longer hours. more in
dustriouslv and conscientiously. with
more dextrous skill than the most ex-