1864. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



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The Craig Microscope. 



The Microscope simplified, and adap- 

 ted to popular as well as scientific use. 

 A new optical wonder ! Patented Feb. 

 18, 1862. This is the only instrument of 

 high power which requires no local ad- 

 justment, and therefore can be readily 

 used by every one, even by children. — 

 Costing only Two Dollars in brass, or 

 Two Dollars and Fifty Cents in hard rubber, it is 

 within the reach of all in the commuuity, and 

 should be on the table of every family. 



This beautiful and ornamental instrument ren- 

 ders the blood, pus and milk globules, and cancer 

 cell#, as well as the animalculae of stagnant water, 

 distinctly visible ; shows the tubular structure of 

 the hair ; the circulation of the blood in the web 

 of a frog's foot ; and opens up the minutiae of cre- 

 ation to the view of the astonished beholder, 

 "where the unassisted sight no beauty sees." It 

 furnishes an endless source of home amugement 

 and instruction to every one, especially to the 

 young. 



As a Oift or Present to a friend or child, it is 

 unsurpassed, being elegant, instructive, amusing 

 and cheap. 



There is no other Lens made like this. It mag- 

 nifies about 100 diameters or 10,000 times, and, 

 owing to its pimplicicy, it is invaluable for physi- 

 cians, scientific men, students and schools ; and for 

 every one who is a lover of the beautiful things of 

 nature ; for it opens up an unseen kingdom to the 

 view of the inquiring mind. It is amusing, instruc- 

 tive and useful. 



Each Microscope is put up in a neat box, with 

 full directions for using it carefully pasted on the 

 box. 



^^ All proper objects can be used without 

 their being mounteil, simply by placing them on 

 the glass side, or, if liquids, on the under surface 

 of the lens, but as mounted objects are very con- 

 venient and always ready for use, and as inquiries 

 have frequently been made for them, the proprie- 

 tor is having several dozen from among the most 

 interesting and beautiful objects neatly mounted 

 and boxed, and is now prepared to fill all orders at 

 a very low figure, as will be seen on the last page, 

 — only f 1 .50 a dozen, or half the usual price 

 charged by opticians for mounted objects. 



Microscopes of any value have hitherto cost too 

 much to be in common use, but this objection is 

 now removed. Children must have something to 

 interest them, and that something might just as 

 well be a useful object as one of no value. While 

 the microscope pleases, it cannot at the same 

 ^ime fiiil to instruct. 



The almost endless variety of objects within the 

 reach of the child, and which he can soon learn to 

 arrange for the instrument, will prevent his be- 

 coming weary of it. Every class of persons, with- 

 out regard to age, are interested with it, from the 

 fact that it opens up a new field of vegetable and 

 animal life, that was beyond the reach of the naked 

 eye, — a new creation beyond that which was be 

 ore perceptible to him. To the gardener, the or- 



chardist and the farmer it is useful as well as in- 

 structive. The line between animal and vegetable 

 life is marked by its use. 



The novelty magnifying glass is also a valuable, 

 and we might say an indispensable accompaniment, 

 more especially to the botanist and entomologist, 

 as by it large bugs and other insects can be exam- 

 ined,] while only small portions of them can be 

 placed in the Craig microscope. The cost of it is 

 $1 50 when sent by mail, and f 2 25 for the micro- 

 scope. To a lad or miss of any age over six or 

 eight years, the two would make a valuable pres- 

 ent, and prove more valuable than the ordinary 

 toys. • 



The n;agnifying glass can be used in the field by 

 placing it on a leaf, the bark of a tree, or any such 

 object, while small insects can be enclosed in it 

 alive, and can be examined in that condition.— 

 With the microscope we can see the wiggling eels 

 in a small drop of vinegar, or the nondescript ani- 

 malculae in river water. 



Above we give a cut of the Craig microscope. 

 These useful instruments can be had in most of our 

 cities, or of Henry Craig, 180 Center St., Xew 

 York, by mail. 



Can there good come out of Egypt ?— The 

 Red Cedar 



Yes, we think so. There are millions of young 

 plants of the Red Cedar along tho Grand Chain, or 

 as it should be called, the Ozark Range, being an 

 extension of that well known range of hills. What 

 we want is for some enterprising parties to send 

 these plants to the northern prairies, to be planted 

 in timber belts and groupes. The wood will be 

 valuable for fence posts, but more so for vineyard 

 stakes for the millions of grape vines that at no fu- 

 ture day will grace the prairie gardens and village 

 plats. 



The Cork Bark or Winged Elm ie a desirable 

 shade tree, which grows abundantly in the same 

 location. But little has been done as yet to send 

 out these cedar plants, though the time is not dis- 

 tant when it must and will be done. 



For several years we have made it a rule to ob- 

 tain annually five thousand plants of these seed- 

 lings, and now we have a respectable plantation. 

 We have no more trouble in their living than with 

 so many hard wood tree plants of the same age. 

 A few other parties have also ordered from the 

 same stock of plants. No native Egyptian has 

 even thought it worth his while to see if money 

 could be made out of this native product. We 

 claim to be the first person who called the public 

 attention to these trees, and for an experiment re- 



