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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1893)
'V-S' N tNIGMATA. Iwantfrt the sweep of the wild wnt weather. The wind's lon IbhIi sml tlie ruin's rroo mil TliPtiwHtif tUtttreusnii tlicy wwaywl tiiKullmr, The lueaaureltwa iimy iliul wanvitr ilium uU; Wlitmn rmir apuuka -more than a laaicuoga Wordless and wonderful, ry on rrjv The sob of wi turili that In vexed ami broken, Tim answering sou of bmktm Hky. What (Kiiili) they toll us? We see ttwni wer The true ami Ute sky aud the stretch of thtt luiul; But they ittve a a word of their secret never: They tell no story we timlerstuiid, Yet Imply Uiu BbiutiUke litrnti out yonder Km i wit much In nlai-iil and Hi lent wan fiv ruin miittit tell what tli gray clouds poa- dw, The winds repeat what the vloleta say. Why weep the rain? Do yon know It sorrow? Da you know why tit wind iHKU4l-Mtuul? Bave ynn Htood In the rift 'twlxt a day aud morrow, Beeu tholr bunds meat and their ayes grow Klady b too tree's pride stung at Ita top1 abasementf la Urn while roue mora of a auini thtui the rwly What thinks the star aa it sees thro ash the easement , A young girl lying, beautiful, dead? -Harry I'alo la tipc&ker. SUGGESTION. "What do yon think of it, owner?" asked the prisoner1 counsel. The physician, a celebrated specialist and authority on tuenul diseases, snook bur head gravely In a noncommittal tort of way. ' "Yon followed up tbe clew I gave you?" persisted the lawyer. "Year "And yon think"- J shall examine him again today, re plied the doctor "I have seen several ex pert in the new science, and they all agree that poor Julian ia hi Impressionable sub ject, a ready made victim to any one who m Ik tt have wished thin deed done liy proxy; hut the motive? Probably Home lover's quarrel, some revenue; they any the girl was pretty mid coquetttiih. There la aometbititf baffling about the affair," added the doctor with a alight relaxation of bis professional caution. "While 1 have never bud too much confidence In thin idea of 'sntfKestiou,' 1 am uot prepared to any there in nothing in it." "Let me go with yoa today, doctor, 1 will allp in without speaking, listen to the story he relates, and one of ua may chanoe on Home word or Idea to give ua the indica tion we seek." Ho it waa agreed. "How do you feet today F" Mked tbe doc tor kindly, a they entered tbe prisoner'! cell. The man waa lying on hi bard bed, star tug in frout of htm, with hollow, vacant yea. "My thought,' be replied, "flutterattout aimleaHty; Mad, oh, and, hh long anow uov red plaiua under the light cf the moon. 1 have woru myaelf out with walking to and fro. My limb ache m if I had been beaten. I feei very cold, but tbe palm a of my bauds are burning with fevtjr, and 1 have a dull pain at tbe bane of my brain Tbe phymeiau nodded gravely and eafd a few aoothing worda, tbeu reqiteated the pa tlent to relate all he could remember about tbe crime. , "But, doctor," objected Julian,"! nave already told you twenty time or mora. It will he tnouotonoua to go over all that again, though, to be aure, there is nothing better to do here. W ell tbeu, place your elf there, oppoaite to me, ao that you will hide that white wall; it looks to me like a canvas on which la painted that unfading image; tbe coffer with tite head upon itl W heu you go away my terror will return. If they would only aoil that wall a little; It seems to uie the slightest stain would obviate thin fancy. 1 tried to soil it, and the juller xcotded me aa if 1 had beeu a schoolboy.' "Go on with your story," said the doctor anietly. "I was walking along aimlessly, when from a long, dark, narrow street 1 emerged oo the tborougbfare, LlgbU were shilling here and there under the trees like great floweni of flume. The yelling- of showmen, the music and bells of tbe merry -go-round a, tbe trumpets aud drums, burdy gurdys aud squeaking plaything of the children made n most horrible diu, for the auuual festival was in full tide. "Cornered by a group of curious people, I was crowded aud crushed, raised off my feet and carried along before a booth. Above the door I rend tbe word, 'Metem- psyebohis.1 "A fat man was selling ticket; be was pitted by smallpox aud had one eye smaller than the other. "limide it was very, almost quite, dark. "Before us a square of light opened In the canvas which was stretched at the farther end of tbe booth. Witbiu this frame appeared a table with a guutse sureeu separating it from the spectators. "Tbe fat man parsed around a pasteboard bend such as milliners use for bonnets. Wheu it had goue from haud to hand aud was acknowledged to bo truly what It ap peared to be, he placed It on the- table and fastened the gaujte screen. The light brightened; by transitions impossible to catch, without anything seeming to move, as the man announced a transformation the piuntobourd bead turned into a vane full of flowers, thou Into a cage full of birds, after that into a death's head which be came tbe mask of celebrated statues repre senting successively Venus, Juuo, Cleo patra, Anne of Austria, Marie Antoinette, and so on aud on. until tbe show man said, 'Instead of pasteboard aud stucco you shall Dow sue living flesh,1 "Slowly the face dislocated, the features became hazy, con fused, to form auiu lit tle by little aud appear distinct, auimated. humanlxed. " 'An Ingenious trick,' 1 Brought; 'I don't even care to know if it is accomplished by the aid of mirrors.' "The head of a young girl, sweet and fair, had formed behind the gauge, hue opened ber great black eyes, which, with outdeliuite expression, followed me with tbe strange fixity of a portrait, while across . ber face flitted the rather silly smile of the autique statues. "This steady stare soemed to turn me to tone. JMy .liuiU grew rigid. I felt Very strangely, than;,'!) ft wus neither fatigue nor puiu, uiifl there whs soim-Liiing oddly familiar it I mm the head. Where f could have seen it before urntm1 dill'ereiit eiretun slaiici'H and in ditt'erent iu.ua' I can no more rememlier now than 1 c. hi Alien. "When the crowd ui' sped tors left I remained. The hliowniaii .etned sur prised, but sold nit another ti. .-.et, - "1 remained thrmtjli anotiit-r represen tation. When the vomit girl appeared in the lust net 1 cxjierifiictd the name singu lar seiiKiuiou of torju-r, and could not move hand or foot until she vauiblied from the square. "The showman walked toward tbe door and t followed Mm. Why,' I asked, 'did yoa write metcnv psych oxIh ou your sign Instead of met hi or pilosis r " 'Iheii'I must have been mistaken! he said. 'Bah! never miud; very few will know the difference.' Profiting by a push of the crowd I slipped behind him and hid iiKninst tbe canvas. He went out, sayiirgt 'Don't Ite impatient, Mille; I am going oat to get something for supper.' 1 raised the canvas. On a larger cofler, covered with some Algerian stuff and ornamented with copper uails, 1 saw the pasteboard bead. A young girl, tall and thin, dreHwd In a gray wrapper, was coml ttifi tbe long bair that fell over ber face. She threw back ber bair as she beard my itup and recoiled so that tbe floor of the booth rattled. It seemed to me as If she was trying to break through the Soards to escape from me. She looked pa)e,huper naturally pale. It might have tieen an effect of light, for tbe gas was directly above ber bead. ! J kiuumI alternately at ber bloodless face and at tbe white face of the manikin; they seemed to grow confused In my mind. "The gi M s eyes shone, haggard and di lated like those of a somnambulist. Her pallid lips moved: " 'You have come to kill mer "Kilt you? Nousensel What weapon could 1 usef 1 rememlier laughing as 1 said these words, aud that is all." 'Collect your miud. Force your memory to oliey you," said the doctor anxiously. That is all I can remember. In next thitttt i recall is that a man's hands closed around my J-hroat aud the man was shriek ing with sorrow. His grasp must have beeu furious, yet I felt nothing. Over his shoulder 1 peered about to the coffer without trying at all to free myself. The cuffer was still in the corner, aud tbe head was stilt on top of it There was blood ou tbe floor. 1 he bead looked like a pale youug girL Beside it lay a sbiutiiK sword of curious shape, like an African weapon. The sword was in tbe bootb'explslned the phyaiclau; "yoa took it to cut off the girl's head. Then you suitstltuted ber bead for that of tbe mauikru. All that was accomplished with a strength aud rapidity only explicable by vertigo tem porary tiwaulty aberration, call it what yon pletiKe," "Decidedly, you insist upon Has 11 rally as tbe examiiiiiiK matfixtrate'aaid Julian. "let! can never admit myself guilty of an act 1 am unconscious of having done." "You were out of your miud " said tbe doctor. "What bappenud next?" I remember gendarmes with drawn swords. A walk past the booths of the : showmen. And 1 think they booted and jeered, All the clamor mingled aud con- fouuded and Iwcame one great sound of rushing waves, then that noise resolved it self into a harmonious concert with domi nating chords of deep, sweet sound. After that 1 found myself here, and you know tbe rest. You, doctor, felt my pulse, my forehead, aud questioned me searchingly. but without succeeding in establishing my irresponsibility. 1 have never been sub ject to epilepsy, nor to somnambulism and my brain Is uot diseased. My own opinion f 1 have given it and been laughed at. Yet if 1 really did this hideous thing I am accused of, the very thought of which freezes tbe blood in my veiu,(tben I have been the instrument of auother's crime, a victim of suggestion. 1 am excessively nervous and susceptible to hypnotic influ ence, and have submitted to experiments uutil 1 have become a 'good subjeet.' 1 have uo bope of this theory being accepted. 1 offer it merely as my owu conviction.." '"Have you arrived at any conclusion?" .asked the lawyer three days after, as be eutered the doctor's office with a curious expression on bis keen face, and a certain pallor and subdued excitement that at once attracted the physician's attention. "Why, no; j am just where I was," re plied the latter. "1 can make nothing of It And you? You have found some solu tion?" "The solution the motive all," said the prisoner's couuset, unfolding a pack age of manuscript "Tbe girl bad been lima ne, melancholy, suicidal mania, aud all that, but had beeo cured, as it was sup posed, aud was uot considered daugerous. The idea tlxed, however, still enthralled ber brain, aud, like all demented women, the more fantastic the mine en tfcene of tbe crime the better it would please ber warped imagination. 8he conceived the idea of employing hypnotism, attended lectures aud seances, and became au expert pupil. Atone of these psendo scientific gather iupt, which were frequented by some medi cal students of the Latin quarter, she met Julian and incredible as it seems hyp notized him and suggested ber own mur der. This MS., found a few It aura ago among her t'fJFects, contains a calm state ment of the facts, and completely exoner ates the prisoner." Translated for "Ro mance" from lie Petit Journal by Edyth Kirk wood. Savage Arithmetic. Savages are uot very well off for numer als, and their knowledge of arithmetic is exceedingly limited. Very few savage na tions have distinctive words for any higher number than foursome do not go higher than two all higher numbers being in- "eluded in the term "many "or "innumera ble." Somo uatious can count beyond four, 1 but they have no word to denote "five" and therefore they use the same word for "five" as they use for "band." For "six," then, they would say "one hand and one;" for "ten" tboy would say "two bands." Those who count uvyotid "ten" make tise of the , "toes," and for "eleven" say "two liandB and one toe," and "twenty" should be "two bands and two feet," or "one man,"Clii- HagoAUU. ; A MODEliN PilECiSIAN. AN AUTHOR WHOSE DELIGHT IS TO FIND DEFECTS IN NOVELS. A Cotd niooded Critlo of Laug-uajje Who ItaUiletHly Destroys Poetlo Kxproiaion Wbeiiever tie Dlaeovcrs m Sentence Im properly CmuitrBcttid. A chiel of tbo grammarian order has been tailing notes of our blunders in the use of our native speech, and he has given us the result in a little volume. There is an air of anonymity about the whole perform- nco which bents tbe nature of tbe task. I Tbe author is known but as "Anglophil," a name for which It will be in vain to search in the directory. He publishes at tbe Literary Revision and Translation of fice in the ttiraiuL It is a measure of pre caution. Mankind naturally pursues la bors of this kind with an amount of execra tion which is proportioned t their benefit To learn on irresistible evidence that we scarcely ever open our mouths without ut tering an absurdity of construction is to be made wise and wretched at tbe same time. Reform seems hopeless, tbe wretcheduess abides, and we look around for a victim, unconscious that perhaps Anglophil is the very person we invite to aid us In our search. Such kill joys of social converse may be admired, but they can never be loved, and our benefactor is to be excused for every device by which he seeks to escape tbe odi um attaching to bis otnee. His terrible mission is to read all tbe literature of tbe day not for its beauties, but for its faults. Tbe periodical press is not bis happiest buntiug ground. He bags most game in tbe 8-volume novel. Meetings and part ings, tbe glory of sunrise in padding, tbe tender confidences of affection, the tragic tumult of the courses of true love, are, as such, nothing to him. He runs through tbe descriptions of them with the fierce baste of au ogre looking for some thing to devour, and as soon as he finds a verb out of agreement with its nominative case he makes a meal. Dread yet sanitary dutyl It makes men and women afraid to read a novel and still more afraid to write one, yet it should leave as with enough charity to pity the fellow creature on whom it has been laid. "Womanly sympathy and advice is never wanted." It is a soothing reflection, and who cares to be interrupted in the enjoy ment of it by the remark that tbe "Is" should be "are?" We are Dot sure that modern grammarians would agree with the author, for there is precedent for the use of tbe singular with nouns of kindred sig nification. But let that pass. Then again, "Her gayety, her good humor, was were so infectious" haves us in.no mood to quar rel we are too sad. Tbe clammy touch of criticism bos marred the beauty of an en tire character. Similarly, "One gives up all for a woman's sake aud then they tor ment one's life out" sbe torments, etc.. seems to rob tbe sacrifice of all its imagi native charm. "He saw it still the bend of ber neck, the stoop of ber shoulders, tbe flash of ber eyes" he saw them still, etc,. Alas and alas! for a man who, in such a picture, can see but a pronoun in the wrong number. Let ns hurry through the other examples we have uo neart for comment. "Never were the weaker sex held in greater honor' was, "Mary had never before seen any one so haudsome, well bred and well made as her uew friend. She resented the Utter perfection" (last. Heroes are turned todustaudauhesin the same remorseless way. "His eyes are blue, bis nose aquiline1 what cau be the matter with that? Sim ply that plural eyes and. a singular nose must not take the same verb. Pat "is' after the central feature, and we may ones more yield to the charm of the description if we cau. "Of the two lovers, James took the highest place," The "higher" any thing for peace. "You will feel pleasantly when Bh Is in her coffin" pk asaut, but the effect of tragic irony has youe alt to nothing while we nave been getting the sentence right Tbe same thing may be said of an equally fine effect of scorn: "How haughtily he complained of the wine being corked" that tbe wine was corked J, if you please. '"Mary was occupied with her work, aud the paint er and his model with each other" I were en grossed with each other. And just as the author seemed settling down to business we do not like Anglophil: "The policeman is great fneuds with the cook" (The police man and the cook are great friends. Age fares no better at his hands than youth; "I refuse even to allow bis visits to the house, much Jess give biui my daughter" lumen more. This spirit of destructive criticism in-, vades every part of life. It is not enough to forbid us to read; we must not speak. At every turn we are tripped up iu the sim plest colloquitiliiims that bave become household words. Let no man henceforth say "it don't signify," aud think there is an end of the matter. It does signify very much, if you use the verb In the plural "It does not signify," is tbe absolutely cor rect, mealy mouthed form. .Who would not echo the complaint given in one of the examples, "Looking into things don't help me." It is a cry of desjMtir, yet the author can not let it pass, "Does not help me" is the right way. Uuder treatment of this sort of course every phase becomes a stumbling blob. We are at a Hancho's feast of speech, and as each tempting morsel of use and wont comes before the hungry talker the phy sician waves it away with his wand. "Would any one in their senses have so acted?" stop. "Would any one iu his?" "with one or two exceptions" top again; "with one exception, or with two" ("ex ceptions" understood or expressed if you wish to make the phrase a little more ac curately uncouth). "Put some more coals on tbe fire." At this point the angry householder will probably put tbe book there as well. But let bim be calm and listen to reason. London News. A New Reason ' . Mr. De Club My dear, a great Germu physician says women require more sleep tliau men. Mrs. DeC.-I)oeshe? Mr De C Vea. mydear urn er you'4 better not wait np for me tonight New York Weekly STORY OF GENERAL SHERMAN. Singular Interview at Jackson, 311m., Dur ing the War. "Yes, Joseph E. Johnston had crossod Pearl river on his retreat to the east, and it was known that Sherman would evacuate J ark son and pursue him us soon as possible, Willi great difficulty I had secured from T he Federal authorities tlie assurance that my cotton factory would not be burned, but on the night when the evacuation was in progress I learned from reliable sources that a change had been made in tbe orders, and that the torch was likely to be applied to the property at any moment. resolved to seek animmeuiate interview with General Sherman himself, entertain ing, however, but slender hopes, especially at such an untimely hour for it was past midnight of reaching the presence of the to eueral chief. 1 bad little trouble iu ascer taining that his headquarters were in the residence in west Jackson, and before many minutes had passed I was at tbe front gat) of the place, where, to my great sur prise, 1 found no guards to check my prog ress. The house was quiet and un lighted, so far as I could discern. Somewhat puz zled, I paused for a minute or two and said to myself, "Surely this is not the headquar ters of a great United States army." But seeing no one to inquire of I opened the gate, went up to the house and onto the porch. For some minutes I stood there listening. But I bead no sound within, nor was there any guard to challenge my in trusion. Through a shaded transom I caught the reflection of a light I tried the hall door, found it ajar, pushed it open and stepped Inside. The place was silent- there was nothing to indicate occupancy by the military. "I bave come to the wrong house,".! said. But observing that a dim light was reflect ed through the half open door of a room opening into the hall I advanced and en tered the apartmeut It had but a single occupant He was sleeping upon a lounge, and my steps aroused bim. He turned over and looked at me. What do you want?" he demanded. I want to see General W. T. Sherman." I'm General Sherman. What do yoa want" I explained as briefly as possible. He said shortly in substance that his orders were to spare tbe factory, and they would be obeyed. He said that he wanted to go to sleep. He stretched himself and shut his eyes, and I walked out and returned up town. A few hours later the factory was in ashes." And you say that General Sherman had no bodyguards?" I say that I entered his bedroom and loft it without being challenged in fact, with out meeting a soul except Abe general him self." This remarkable incident was told In Green's bank, and the narrator was Joshua Green, its founder and presidentHenry Clay Pairman in Sunny South. Whlttler'a Spirituality. Spiritualism, as it is called in oar day. was a subject which earnestly and steadily held Whittier's attention. Thereare many passages in his letters on this question which state his own mental position very clearly, "1 have bad as good a chanoe to see a ghost," he once said, "as anybody ever had, but not tbe slightest sign ever came to me, , I do not doubt what others tell me, but I sometimes w onder over my own in capacity. I .should like to see some dear ghost walk in and sit down by me when I am here alone. The doings of the old witch days have never been explained, and as we are so soou to be transferred to another state, how natural it appears that some of us should bave glimpses of it here." As the end of his life drew near, it was easy to see that the village home where his mother aud sister lived aud died was the place he chiefly loved, but he was more in accessible to his friends In Amesbury, and tbe interruptions of a fast growing factory town were sometimes less agreeable to him than the country life at Oak Knoll. Onoe only he expresses this preference for the dear old village borne iu one of his letters: "I have been at Amesbury for a fortnight Somehow I seem nearer to my mother and sister; the very wells of the room seem to have become sensitive to the photographs of unseen presences." Annie Fields in Harper's. A Good Way to Clean GUuMt. "It's the greatest idea in the world," said William H. Pascoe as he stood at the desk in the Southern hotel yesterday rubbing his glasses with a toO bill. ."Now, I can't see 10 feet without my glasses, and glasses have a tendency to become blurred, you know, rvow, I nave worn spectacles con stantly for over as years, and I have in a small way made a study of them. A linen handkerchief does not clean them well, and Bilk is always sure to leave a thread sticking to the frames. Paper is of no ac count, as it leaves specks on the gl Cotton is sure to leave a lot of lint behind it Chamois is too thick, and kid don't do stall. I've tried them all, and I know. 'J he thing to use, my boy, is a banknote, It cleans the glasses beautifully and leaves nothing behind it. "Of course it isn't necessary to use a fifty every time, but I happened to have this oue loose iu my pocket, and I'm ex pecting a friend along in a minute and I want to make an impression. Yes, they say that bills carry disease with them, but I ain't afraid much, I've never caught anything from them. You can use a one as well as a fifty, but use a fifty, if you can; there's more money in it." St. Louis b lobe- Democrat Sweet Potato Flour. A St. Louis woman has perfected a parent to cover the process of making "eweet potato flour." The processes are those peeling the potato and kiln drying the peel so that it will keep for any length of time as a food for live stock of drying and grinding the potato into three distinct grades of flour, and also of slicing and drying it in the form of "Saratoga chips. "New York Telegram, Ho Reference to Allusions, She You are always sneering at worn en who talk too much. Are yoa hitting at me , HeNot at all There are lots of women besides yoa who talk too mach. Gayly Decked hmulgrsnta. ' A picturesque party of Italian tmmi- grants landed at the bargo office the other day. There were about a dozen men and six or eight women. The men wore clothing of it rough, buff colored material, with scarfs and caps of bright er hues. The women displayed a variety of gay colors rod, yellow, blue and pink predominating. Bach woman was bare headed, but each wore ribbons in her hair and a bright colored shawl or apron. The strangers attracted a great deal of attention as they straggled np Broadway from the Battery with their bundles. They evidently found as much novelty in their surroundings as the, New York ers found in their quaint appearance, The women apparently had the keenest observation aud pointed out to their more stolid male companions various ob jects as the party moved along. At Rector street they saw a flower stand, and half a dozen of the women gathered about it and gave vent to volu ble expressions of delight. They dragged some of the men before the stand and gesticulated violently. The men tried to pull away from them, but could not After awhile some pieces of money came out of the men's pockets, and with much eagerness and chattering the wom en selected one flower apiece. The ven dor took his pay out of the handful of American silver tendered bim, and the party moved on, both men and women as joyous as a lot of school children. New York Times. A Friend of the Farmer. The hop growers of Otsego county have discovered what naturalists have long been trying to make fanners under standthat skunks, instead of being their enemies, as they formerly supposed -are among theirmoBt useful frienda. Afl one hop grower expressed it, "Nowadays we protect skunks as carefully as we do ong birds." Hop yards, it appears, are infested by a certain kind of grub which gnaws off the tender vines at the root, and this grub is the favorite food of the skunk. As a general thing the skunks sally forth at nightfall, but now and then they are to be seen at work in broad daylight The proceeding is an interesting one to watch. The skunk begins his quest on the edge of the yard, where he cocks bis head over a hill of hops and listens. If a grub is at work upon one of tbe four trailing vines, his quick ear ib sure to bear it At once he begins to paw up the earth, and presently he is seen to uncover the grub and swallow it with unmistakable relish. Then he listens again, and if he hears nothing proceeds to the next hill. And so he goes on till he has bad his till Now that the skunks are no longer molested, they have become compara tively fearless. Sometimes, we are told, they keep up their operations even while the cultivator is driven between the rows, Cor. New York Tribune, . The Work of a London Writer, , T. P." stands alone among popular journalists in that practically all his work is done for one paper, The Weekly Sun, of which he is the founder and ed itor. He knows as well as any one the . value of his own pen, and he takes care to write the most important parts of the paper himself and to append his famous V initials to all his work. A casual glance through a number of the paper will serve to show the amount and variety of his weekly labors. First there is a review of the "hook of the week,' which invariably extends over five closely packed columns. This article, always conspicuously brilliant, would be a good two days work for any writer. Then there are the editorial notes from dne to two columns; an inter view with some celebrity, one column; ' theatrical critiques, two or three coK uinns, and lastly a few paragraphs on the correspondence page. All these are signed "T. P." Yet Mr. O'Connor con- trives to keep in tlie forefront of the political battle and also to write au oo casioual book. London Tit-Bits,' Two Charges. There was a suit tried in the United States circuit court at Raleigh some years ago in which a Baltimore commis sion house was plaintiff and General Bryan Grimes, who led the last charge at Appomattox, was defendant Judge Bond, who presided, was strongly anti southern daring the war and a citizen of Baltimore, The lute Governor Fowls, who was a very eloquent luwyer, repre sentee; General Grimes, And in his ap peal to the jury laid full stresB on tho character and record of his client and dwelt eloquently on the "last charge at Appomattox." Coming out of the court, he said to the opposing counsel (now Judge Fuller of the United States land claims court), "Fuller, that last charge at Appomattox has got me the jury." "Yes," said Fuller very quietly; "and that last charge of Judge Bond has got me the verdict" And so it proved. - Green Bag Various Sijrrcea of Silk. t Silk worms are not the sole source of the production of silk; it is also obtained from several vegetable substances, but of an inferior and less durable descrip- tion. Excellent colored silk is obtained from the prepared and finer fibers of the bamboo, which is much in demand for clothing in tropical countries from its lightness aud porosity. Another form of silk is obtained from the podH of the silk -cotton tree, of which there are several Varieties in existence, the material ob tained from them being known as vege table silk. Brooklyn iSagle, . .1 ',