Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — Dainty Jewel Work. [ARTICLE]

Dainty Jewel Work.

They used to do some very dainty work in olden times in the way of jewelry, if one can take the historian’s word for it. In Elizabethan times one Mark Scaliot constructed a lock of eleven pieces of iron, steel and brass, and a chain of forty-three golden links was attached to the same, and, this being placed round a flea’s neck, lock and chain and flea weighed only a grain.and a half of gold. Surely, such a miracle of skill was worth preserving for posterity. Oswald Nothingerus once turned 1,600 dishes of ivory which all went into* a peppercorn, if, indeed, we may Ijelieve contemporary writers, 7 hey were shown

to Pope Paul V., who counted and verified them himself, by the aid of a magnifying glass. Father Ferrarius,'a Jesuit, would not be outdone, and ne made twenty-five wooden cannon, which went into the same compass.