Wonder Of The Microscope

A thou?and wonders in nature are osttothe human eye, and only.revealed to us through the microscope. Thiuk of dividing a single spider's web intoa thousand strands, or cqui ting the arteries and nerve3 in the wings of a gossamer moth. Yet, by the aid of the powerful lens of a croscope, it is found that there are more than four thousand muscles in a caterpillar. The eye of a drone containa fourteen thousand miirors; and the body of every spider Í3 furnisbed with four liltle lumps, pierced with tiny holes, from eaoh of which issues a single thread, and when a thouaand of these from each lump are joined together, they make the si'k line of which the spider spins its web, and which we cali a spider's thread. Spiders have been seen as small as a grain of sand, and tkese spin a thread so fiue that it takes four thousand of them put together to equal in shse single hair. Patience has so much to recommend it that it is not strange that good peopie think there cannot be too much of it; and the miseries and bad effècts of impatience are so glaring that we cannot wonder it is totally cóndemned. Yet they sometimes change places as regards right and wrong, patience ceasing to be a virtue and impatieuce becoming the vital gem of human progress.