WONDERS OF THE MICROSCOPE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 748, 3 April 1877, Page 3

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 :

"My son take this microscope and go out and study the beauties of nature.."

. The ; boy ileft all other, ammusements for that, and he 'took such gjreat 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 some remarks. Turning to one of tKe ladies he inquired': t; Did you ever ' look ali through a microscppe .?" {>./,: "I don't think I ever did/s he pleasantly replied; '• -.<•*■ ■•' Well, you just onght to see the things crawl — --" T: ' . . .... '<John! VJohn!" exclaimed the father, shaking his head at the boy across the table. John subsided for a „minute, minute or two, and when bis mother, .passed the cheese around, everybody said, 'thank you,' no." Pretty 'Soon the young sthdeht, desiring, to niblify his, father, asked : "Father, did you ever look at a toad through a microscope V\ " 1 will talk with you after supper," replied the parent, scowling at the boy. / . _ John was rather disappointed at his failure to arouse enthusiasm, and just as the strawberries were being passed around he remarked "Well you just ought tp look at a strawberry once through the microscope ! They look just like warts, they do, arid you think you see bugs running- " , " Jawn 1" said his mother, "Boy J" warned the father. " Weil, they look wors'n flies heads !" J protested the by, who imagined that they doubled his veracity,, ,'/ for flies- — — ". • ■ ■«> Boy— — * !" said the father, making a motion for John to leave the table. ■ , John left, and as soon as ii was convenient for him to do so the ; father escorted the lad to the washroom m the basement, bounced him around, and said : ; <c My son, gimme that micros cope, and you take the' ax and go out and study the beauties of that woodpile 1" If that boy continues to feel the w ay he does at present he will become a bank robber instead of a naturalist.— "Detroit Free Press."