Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — Finer Microscopes Needed. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Finer Microscopes Needed.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Prof. Schaefer, president: of the section of physiology of the British Association, declares that he has discovered that each organic cell in vegetable and animal life contains an infinitessimal particle which appears to be, in fact, the principle of life. He calls it “the attraction particle,” because, despite its infinite iiTtte&essT-iTt exerts an extraordinary influence over the whole cell, which may be many Thousand times its size. It initiates and directs those processes which result in the multiplication of cells. The supposed fundamental form element called a cell is usually invisible to the naked eye. Bearing this fact in mind we can get au idea of an extraordinary character of the statement of Dr. Schaefer that “he has discovered the life principle in a particle thousands of times smaller than the cell itself.” After magnifying the cell 1,000 diameters the central particle, the “attraction particle” or the living principle appears under the most powerful microscope merely the size of a fine point. Some inventor is needed now with a microscope of higher power than anything yet known. Cholly—How would you advise me to disguise myself for the masquerade? “Why don’t you make up as a gen. tleman, and not be annoyed with ( mask.”

The woman who confesses to having committed arson for a period of fiv« years, and sentcuced to twenty-five years inState prison.— N.Y.World.

MRS. SARAH SILBERMEISTER.