MICROSCOPIC EYES

Evening Star, Issue 21638, 6 February 1934, Page 11

MICROSCOPIC EYES

A BOLTON WftHDER MAN WHO WRITES THE LORD'S PRAYER CH THE EDGE OF A POSTCARD There is a man in Bolton (England) who has eyes that must astonish oculists. For thev. have the quality of a microscope. He is also an artist in script. This wonder penman is Mr James Tierney, of 39 Hasting row, Bolton, a clerk in the offices of the Bolton branch of Messrs Peter Walker’s brew, erics. Finding his gift of fine script ii* his extraordinarily keen vision, he does this microscopic * writing as a hobby) Within the space of a pin-head haf writes the alphabet twice over—every, letter distinct under the glass. Her can put the Lord’s Prayer twenty-bat* 1 times on the space of a three-penny bit. But one of his most marvellous 1 feats is to write the Lord’s Prayer] along the edge of an ordinary post- 1 card. . . . It amuses him to write out the fult name of the famous Llanfair P.G. vil-i lage, in Anglesey, on a space one»| eight of an inch square, or to do al| verse of Omar Khayyam in about thar same space, in the beautiful, text'used by the old writers of manuscript. It is not that he does this work sot small as to be beyond the vision of tha| average human eye. It is as cor-c rectly and artistically done as an ex--pert would do it in ordinary script. Mr Tierney is in fact, an artist, as his. drawings for Christmas cards and other purposes show. ■■ It is a mystery to his friends "'by Mr Tierney does not turn his astonish-. 1 ing faculty to commercial or scieutific use. Such eyes as his, it must, be presumed, would be invaluable in ti.q laboratory of the workshop. x