Johannes Shad of Mitalbrach carried
this wonderful work with him to
Rome and showed it to Pope Paul
V., who saw and counted them all
by the help of spectacles. They
were so little as to be almost invisi
ble to the eye. Johannes Ferrius, a
Jesuit, had in his possession cannons
of wood, in their carriages, wheels,
and all other military furniture, all
of which were also contained in a
pepper-corn of the ordinary size.—
An artist named Claudius Gallus
made for Hippolitus d’Est, Cardinal
of Ferrara, representation of sundry
birds sitting on the tops of trees,
which by hydraulic art and secret
conveyance of water through the
truak and branches of the trees,
were made to sing and clap their
wings ; but at the sudden appearance
as an owl out of a brush of the same
artifice, they immediately became
mute and silent.
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—The woman question— “ls he
rich ?”
Butler, Byron and Stowe-
General B. F. Butler’s review of
the Byron story is a very curious
document. The General has discov
ered no new testimony. A sharp
advocate, however, can often do more
by a cross-examination than by pro
ducing witnesses of his own, and Gen.
