Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — What the Microscope Beveals. [ARTICLE]

What the Microscope Beveals.

•( Lewenboeck tells ns of an insect seen with the microscope, of which twentyseven millions would only equal a mite. Insects of various kinds may be seen in the cavities of a train of s&nd. Mold is a forest of beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves and fruit. Butterflies are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is covered with scales like a fish; a single grain of sand would cover 190 of these scales, and yet a scale covers five hundred pores. Through these narrow openings the perspiration forces itself like water in a sieve. , Each drop of stagnant water contains a world of living creatures, swimming with as much liberty as whales in the sea. —: Each leaf has a colony of insects grazing on it, like cows on a meadow. * A MiDDUBfOWK (Conn.) compositor has calculated that in the course of a year’s type-setting the average compositor will set up more than 7,000,000 separate pieces, which, with their distribution, require more than 14,000,000 motions of th^hand. The Alia California says that it is as useless to try to keep the American adventurers out of the Black Hills as to try to keep a woman out of s dry goods store. ' *r