THE EMPEROR WILLIAM'S NEEDLE.
The Emporor 'William recently visited ancedlo manufactory in liig kingdom, in order to see what machinery combined with the human hand can produce. He was shown a number of superfine needles, thousands of which, together, did-not weigh half an ounce, find marvelled how such minuto objects could be pierced with an eye. But he was to seo that in this respect oven something still liner and more perfect could be created. The borer—that is, the workman whose business it is to boretho eyes of tlieso needles—asked for a hair from the monarch's head. It was readily given, and with a smile lie placed it at once under the boringwacliino, matlo a hole in it with the greatest caro, furnished it with a thread and then handed tho singular ncedlo to the astonished king.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 31 March 1884, Page 3
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137THE EMPEROR WILLIAM'S NEEDLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 31 March 1884, Page 3
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