Show SMALL THINGS ratch that have been ascertained toy science and ano mechanics aby can keayes to such minute thinness anat tati hundred and eighty taco bious ani must be ladd upon each other to produce the thickness of an inch yet each leaf is so perfect and free from holes says the st louis republic that one of them laid on any surface ns in gilding gives the appearance of solid gold they are so thin that if formed into a hook fifteen hundred would only occupy the of a single leaf of hook paper A single volume of a gold leaf book one inch in thickness would have as many pages as an entire library of fifteen hundred volumes of common books even though the volumes averaged four hundred pages each platinum and silver can each be drawn into wire many times smaller than a human hair the former metal has been drawn into wire so fine that twenty seven of them twisted together could ave been inserted in the follow fit a hair that is if a human being or a human made machine could be found minute and precise enough for such a delicate undertaking A burning taper uncovered for a single instant during which it does not lose power amounting to the one thou sanath of a grain would fill with light a sphere four miles in diameter so as to be visible from every part of the compass the thread of the silkworm silk worm is so small that an average of forty two of them are twisted together to form a thread of common sowing silk that of the spider is many diameters smaller two adrams drams of spiderweb spider web by weight would if stretched into a straight line reach from london eng to edinburgh scotland a distance of over four hundred e miles 1 in sour paste the milt of a codfish or even in water in which vegetables have been infused the microscope discovers so small that millions of them would not equal the size ofa grain of wheat and yet nature with a singular prodigality has supplied many of thase with organs as those of a whale or an elephants in a single ounce of such matter there are more living creatures than there arc human beings on the face of the globa A grain of carmine or half a grain of aniline will tinge a hogshead of water so that a strong microscope will detect coloring matter in every drop A grain of musk will scent a room for twenty years and at the end of that time will not show that it has diminished in the least the organs of smell in the turkey vulture and carrion crow are so delicate that they can scent their food for a distance of forty miles |