Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Big Story of Small Things, [ARTICLE]

Big Story of Small Things,

In a curious old work entitled “The Curiosities of London," we find the following particulars concerning a minute padlock: “In the twentieth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Mark Scarliot, a blacksmith, made a lock consisting of eleven pieces of iroh, steel and brass, all of which, together with the key, weighed but half a grain. He also made a chain of gold, consisting of forty-three links, which, after fastening it to the lock and key above mentioned, he put about tbe neck of a common flea, the whole being so minute that the little insect could draw them over a silver plate with perfect ease. All of these together, lock and key, chain and flea, weighed a slight fraction less than one grain and a half.” How About the Prudence of allowing a Cough to run on, rasping the Pulmonary and Bronchial organs, when that approved and speedy remedy, Dr. P. Jayne's Expectorant, can bo obtained from any Apothecary.