The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-01

or that he should be ''named, has long been
a mystery. A curious extract from the news
column of the Exeter Gazette of the Sth of
March, 1910, enables us to describe what did
follow upon an occasion when both those
direful threats were fulfilled. On the 9th of
March, 1910, the House of Commons sat in
committee to hear evidence in the inquiry
into the Walcheren expedition. The Earl of
Chatham was under examination, and one OF
the members of the House, Mr. Fuller, con-
ceived that several questions he had put had
not met with that attention which their
importance justified. Accordingly, when
the Earl of Chatham Withdrew, Mr.. Fuller
rose and complained of the slight put upon
him, adding with an oath, 81 have as much
right to be heard as any man who has paid
for filing the place he holds" The Chan
cellor of the Exchequer Spencer Perceval,
afterwards Premier) moved THAT the words
of the hon. member should be taken down"
The committee asserting, the words were
taken down, and when the House resumed,
Sir John Anstruther, chairman of the COM
mittee, reported the expression. The Speaker
then Uniformed the House" that it had "come
to his knowledge" that a member had used
unparllamentary language, which was a
breach of the privileges of the honorable
House. He felt deeply grieved, but
it would become his duty to name
him. Here the irrepressible Mr.. Fuller
came to the assistance of the Speaker by
shouting out, 'Oh you need not be diffidentl
It's me, Jack Fuller" This did not tend to
lessen the gravity of Mr.. Fuller's position,
and the Speaker sternly ordered him to with
draw. He declined, and it was only at the
earnest solicitations of his friends that he
eventually consented to leave the House.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer then moved
that MIR. Fuller be taken into custody by the
Sergeant-at-A The House cordially
Al, -,
Arms was fully instructed to take the houora-
BILE member into his custody. But the House,
as it presently discovered, had reckoned with
out the honorable member. Mr. Fuller was
found in the lobby, and upon the Sergeant
alarms communicating to him the nature OF
his delicate mission, he rushed past him into
the House and, interrupting the proceedings,
declared in loud voice that the Speaker had
no right or authority to order him into Gus
tody. Who was the Speaker? And what was the
Speaker? Why, he was the servant of the men,
bers, and by their habit of submission to
him they had made him their master. In
order that there should be no mistake as to
whom he referred, Mr. Fuller, who appears
to have been a gentleman of characteristic
cally frank speech, added that he meant "ths
insignificant little fellow in the wig over
there" This is the last of the observations
offered by Mr.. Fuller upon this interesting
occasion that have come down to us. A free
fight between the hon. member and the Ser
geant-at-Arms, who had the assistance of four
messengers, followed, and eventually Mr.
Fuller was carried out of the House. "'Ts
sixty years ago;" but we feel sure that no
member of the present House of Commons
can read without . shudder that the Right
| Honorable Speaker was once publicly referred
to in the House as ''the Insignificant little
| fellow in the wig"
4I,a of l1A
other Autographs, and the account of the
Yama-m mai or oak silkworm, says the Pail
Mall Gazette, MIR. Adams third report upon
| the silk culture of Japan is not of SO much
| general interest as his first report of 1870.
| Indeed, several of the ithographs' which
swell the price of the present parliamentary
paper are illustrations to the excellent report
of last year. There is, however, one point of
much Importance on which some new light
is thrown--the parasite "uj" (maggot), as
the Japanese call it, which preys upon the
silkworm, and in some years kills from 30 to
81 per cent. of the worms, and threatens
completely to ruin the Industry. 1t appears
that neither NJ. Guerin-M -Meneville, nor
the Eatom0LOgist, nor the M0niteur deS
SCEeS have been able to arrive at the
natural history of this insect. The state of
mind of the Japanese peasant upon the
subject is rebuked in despairing despatch
ter of the Home Department. He says
sis it not painful to attribute plague like
that of the uji solely to Providence because
we have not yet ascertained its causes?" The
theory regarding the uji to which Mr.. Adams
gave currency in his first report was that du-
ring the spring fly having deposited its eggs
on the mulberry leaf, they were introduced
with the food into the silkworm's intestines.
The better opinion, however, seems to be, as
stated in the second report and confirmed in
the third, that the fly pierces the silkworm
and deposits its egg underneath the skin,
where it is hatched into the uji or larva
which, feeding upon the body of the silk
worm during its changes, gradually increases
until it is nearly as large as the chrysalit
itself, and in the end destroys it's way out of
the cocoon, which thereupon becomes useless
The uji then shrinks considerably, in the
course of four or five days into small
chrysalis of its own, which on dissection
disclOses the embryo of fly, although it has
not been sufficiently observed to ascertain
the time of the fy's natural issue. The
birth of the fly is, however, perhaps correctly
supposed TO occur about the time of tbs
Matching of the first crop of silkworms in the
following spring, when it deposits its eggs
and the existence of the next annual genera
ton begins. This supposition is chief,
grounded on the fact that the second crop o
the worms, the summer Matching, is com
paratiVely free from the uji. The ignorau
Japanese, unfortunately, do not destroy th
uji issue from the cocoons, but merely throw
them away; and the efforts of the Japanes
Government to circulate information on tn
subject have hitherto been unavailing. On
; notification warns the population to ''re
member the saying, Fear posterity, and tina