ALPHABET ON A PINHEAD.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 30, 12 April 1907, Page 3

ALPHABET ON A PINHEAD.

WviteiM lncr»Tl>g VMt Of * VmAmiiu la B«M|. . .. non, H. A. Housed, an engraver, has accomplished a task in the engraf/er’s art which eclipses the engraving of the Lord’s Prayer upon a silver dollar, which was supposed for a long time to be the triumph of fine work in engraving, says the Baltimore American. H©| has managed to engrave the alphabet complete on the head of a common pin, Mr. Houseal, who rarely uses a glass In his work, can read the letters with the n&k«4 eye, and although there are few! persons whose eyesight is so strong, a common magnifying glass serves to make them easily distinguishable. The letters range from left to right, and are all capitals. In the first circle around the edge of the head of the pin are the letters fromf A to M, inclusive. Within this is the second circle beginning at N and ending at Z, and directly in the center ia the & mark. The diameter of the pinhead is barely a sixteenth of an Inch and It can be understood how small the letters must be. They arc about one-fourth the size of the letters in the Lord’s Prayer engraved on a dollar. The work occupied about an hour and a half, and was done during an afternoon about a month - ago, Mr. Houseal occasionally leaving it to attend to customers in the store. It was done with an ordinary engravers’ ‘ ool ’ Wot Many Left. “Those old ladies,” says the Walerbury American, “who pride themselves on never having seen steam and electric railway cars and other modern improvements, will all be dead pretty soon. Two died last week—one in. Pennsylvania, at the age of 90, who, in addition to her other distinctions, had never entered a church or heard a brass band, and the other in New York state at the age of 105. There can’t be many of them left.” . M*uuA German* In This Country. * In 1801 there were only 280,000 persons in the limits of the United States who spoke German as a mother tongue, .