If all the efforts wasted on such tasks as that described below were
put into useful and constructive work, the world’s wealth would be far
more rapidly increased.
Mr. William L. Stuart, a young man engaged in business in New
York City, has performed the seemingly impossible feat of
engraving the entire Lord’s Prayer on the head of an ordinary
pin, to which he has added his name and the year, making
altogether two hundred and seventy-six letters and figures.
Mr. Stuart did the work at odd times during his regular
employment and with very ordinary tools, which seemingly are
not adapted to such fine engraving. The pin was set in a block
of wood, and a common engraver’s tool was used. A simple
microscope, costing only about twenty-five cents, and known as
a “linen tester,” furnished the necessary magnifying.
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