The Nevada journal., 1860-09-28

GALvAxIzISG SILK WoRMs.-As the busi
ness of raising silkworms in California, says
the San francisco Herald, has been fairly
inaugurnted by Mr.. Henry Hcntsch and Mr..
Prevos., any information that tends to throw
light upon this interesting subject will be
read with pleasure. In the Mechanics In
s.itu.e fair, now being held in this city, Mr.
Provost has a large number of these worms
on exhibition, and the curious can see them
in almost every stage of their existence,
from the moment they emerge from the egg
until they assume the butterfly form and
deposit eggs for the formation of the sue
eeeding generation. In this connection We
republish whata Paris correspondent writes
70 the New York World. He says;
"Silkworms require as much persuasion
20 induce them to work as the LATEST ne
Rroes. NJ Sauvageon reports to the French
Academy his experience in the matter
Finding the little things torpid and unable
20 work, the idea struck him to stir them up
by electricity. The results, as he gives them,
are really marvellous. lie took ffty-three
worms at random from among thousands
belonging to a neighbor, put them every
day on sheet iron plate, through which
current of electricity was passed, kept them
there each time as long rs they could stand
il, and now has fifty-three beautiful cocoons,
an amount which his neighoor will no OBJ
tain, to all appearances, from several thous-
and ungalvanized worms. If these results
may be relied on, he has made very valu-
able discovery
We simply publish the intelligence as re-
ccived and trust that no red-hot Abolition
i,t will take exception to it because paral-
lei is instituted between silkworms and lazy
negroes.
Do Mkx Pass FOR WHAT THEY ARE WORTH.
If man passes for what he is worth, why
il it that
"Ten ancient towns contend for Homer deal,
Thro which the living Homer begged his bread
Was not Caesar looked upon by the Ro-
mans generally rs dissoute and prodigal
youth, who was fast ruining himself? Did
Shakespeare pass for all he was worth in the
estimation of q single person who lived in
the same age with him? John Hampden,
we are told, was the only one who had any
idea of the metal Cromwell was made of,
until he began to distinguish himself; and
he lived in comparative insignihcance until
be was upwards Of forty. Allison says, DR..
Johnson was the foremost man of he eigh-
teenth century; yet it is well known that
he lived more than fifty years in great pow
erty and obscurity, often-times IN absolute
want of enough to eat, and in the absence OF
better lodgings, obliged to find what rest be
could on the ashes Of glass house. Who
had anv suspicion of the indomitable soul
Cortes possessed during his residence OF
several sears in Cuba, when he had nearly
reached nlddle age7 Why was every one
30 tEun6e,etrfack with the proposition OF
Eetr k.trrT g ia make Washington Comman-
der-in-Chief of rke American forces if they
passed for what fifeg were worth ? Char
Acter is much more rare article IN the best
society even than macy suppose.-Er-
BAn sIGy.-In former and better days of
our Republic when q prominent man be-
came a candidate for high position 1t was
considered improper for him TO hold on to
An Office. The almost inEsriabie rule of our
statesmen has be to resign post on being
nominated to higher one 1t was thought
indelicate for statesman 60 cling to the
Scuatorsbip while running fer the Presl-
dencv. But times change and men change
with them. There is no such nlock modesty
now. Stephen A. Douglas ciiags with te-
nacity to the Senatorial Office while affect
ing 10 be a candidate for Chief Magistrate.
With one Office sure, he is struggling for an
other. John C. Breckinridge is Vice-Presi-
dent of these United States till the 4th of
March next; thence Senator elect from Ken
lucky for the term of six years-two Offices
corralled, and yet he is trying to lasso the
third.
These are bad signs, for il there was n
probability of either of these Democrats be-
ing elected, their modesty would be awak-
.oed sufficiently to follow in the wake of
their predecessor-aspirants, and resign the
positions they now hold. Their action shows
sonclusively that they do not themselves see
the ghost of chance of res ching 'he higher
position to which they aspire.
The oil of Bourbon whisky" is openly
advertised for sale by chemists, nt fifty cents
pcr ounce, and this oil is so potent that
leach ounce will change one hundred gal
Ions of alcohol into delicate old Bourbon -
In like manner, "oil of Jamaica and /" oil
apple" are sold to convert common spirit
into Jamaica ditto, and into apple brandy y
As to coil of Cognac" (Which is comno-
.ition of sulphuric acid, caustic, potash and
highly concentrated alcohol one ounce of
il is worth six dollars, and will metamor-
phose g hundred gallons OF neutral spirits
into "pure old Cognac brandy, just out of
the Custom House. ."-Er.
PREVENT the constantly recurring cases
of poisoning by mistake,it has been sugges-
ted that arsenic and other poisons, be put
I'D by druggists in red paper and marked
,r;tb the skull and cross bones, rs is done in