Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1910 — Tiny Work. [ARTICLE]

Tiny Work.

Mark Scallot, a blacksmith, in 1578, in the twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, made a lock consisting of eighteen pieces of steel, iron and brass, ,-wHh a hollow key to it, that altogether weighed but one grain of gold. He also made a gold chain, composed -of forty-three links, which he fastened to the lock and key. In the presence of the queen he put the chain about the neck of a flea, which drew it with ease, after which he put the lock and key, flea and chain Into a pair of scales, and they together weighed but one grain and a half. This is vouched for by an old writer.