WONDERS OF THE MICROSCOPE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 310, 21 April 1877, Page 4

WONDERS OF THE MICROSCOPE.

The other day a Detroit farmer purchased a microscope for his son, a boy of ten, patted the lad on the shoulders and said to him :

"3ly son take this microscope and go oat and study the beauties of nature." The boy left all other amusements for that, and he took such great interest, and improved so rapidly that at the tea-table, to which several visitors sat down with the family, he felt that he must make remarks. Turning to one of the ladies he inquired : 44 Did you ever look at cheese through a microscope V " I don't think I ever did," she pleasantly replied. " Well, you just ought to see the tiling crawl "

" John ! John !'* exclaimed the father, shaking his head at the boy across the table.

John subsided for a minute or two, and when his mother passed the cheese around, everybody said, "thank you, no." Pretty soon the voung student, desiring to uiolify his father, asked : 44 Father, did you ever look at a toad through a intcrosc«>|H? I" •' I vt'dl Uk with you after supper," replied the parent, scowling at the buy. John was rather disappointed at his failure to arouse enthusiasm, and ji'st as the strawberries were being passed around he remarked :

" Well, you just ought to look at a strawberry once through the microscope ! They look just like warts, they do, and you think you see bugs running *'

" J.-iwn I" said his mother.

44 Boy wanted the fat'ur. 44 Well, they look wors'n Hies heads !" protested the bov, who imagined tSiat they doubted bis Veracity. '' for flies " '• Boy !" said the father, making a motion for John to leave the table.

JoUn left, and as soon ~.s it was convenient for him to do so the father escorted the led to the wash-room in the basement. botm;.*ed him around, and said : 41 My son, ijimme that microscope. and you t ke the ax and ;o out and study the beauties of t: a* wo*»d|»ib?!"' It' that boy continues to feel the way he dovS at present he will become a b:r»»k ro£.b* r instead of a naturalist. —Detroit /Yfc Pirgs,-. f.