Richland beacon., 1873-11-15
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

A French observer states that, by
feeding silk-worms on vine-leaves, he
has obtained worms of n magnificent
red and where lettuce leaves were the
food. the product was of deep emerald
green color. BY thus varying the food
of the worm, Nj. Delidon de SAINT
GILES, of Vendee, has been enabled TO
obtain silk the natural cOlors of which
were a beautiful yellow, green and vlo-
let. In view of results so important,
the question is at once suggested: VIII
the worms thrive upon this new diet!
for, if :, then this discovery may Justly
be regarded as one of the greatest I'M
portance in this department of the ap-
piled arts. Should our native silk
growers be inclined to attempt the ex-
pertinent, it is well for them to know
that the sik-wOrms must be fed on mul,
berry-leaves when young, and suppled
with the vine-lettuce or nettle-leaVeS
during the last twenty days OF the larva-
stage of their life. 1t now only re-
mains for some patient worker to com,
pound an artificial food, which shall
combine the nutritive properties OF the
mulberry-leaf with the coloring-power
of the others, and thus at once dispense
with the complicated and delicate dying
processes now i'll use.
The editor of the Allegan (Mlch.)
Journal attended church the 9th n day;
After the regular services were ended
the customary exhortatlon was gwen,
asking members to speak. VINO Will
be first to speak?" said the minister.
Presently an elderly gentleman, who
weighs about three hundred pounds,
arose and humbly observed, 81 believe
it is the duty of the biggest sinner in
the house to speak first, and that's me,
thank the Lord y
A young New Yorker, spending a
month with his uncle in New Jersey,
wrote thus to his mother ''The peach
trees here are too slippery for me to
climb uncle won't let me sail boats III
the milk pans there's no birds nests
around here that can see Sallie Law
split molasses on my best pants; a
smaller boy than / am, who plays with
me, wears gold chain and want to go
home"
The following verse appears in
poem written by popular clergyman
"No longer fly Thy kite, Lord; draw me home.
Thou pull'st the strir~ Trough all the distance
Lord. ! am nearing Thee; o Lord I come;
INV pulls grow stronger and the wind grows
weak"
The reverend poet would sail little
steadier if he would tie on more tail.
The word panic arose ont of the
battle of Marathon. In that immortal
fight mere handful of Greeks encoun-
tered an infinite host of Persians, and
put them to utter rout. How did they
do it? The Persians were smitten by
the god Pan with sudden causeless
and extreme fright. They lost their
wits and that state of things took its
name from the god who produced it.
-"N Now, young people" says pro-
fessor of Natural History, to his class,
"now, then, as to hens. A hen has the
capacity of laying just six hundred eggs,
and 10 more, and she finishes the job in
inst five years Now, what is to be done
with her after that?" cent her head
off and sell her for spring chicken y
exclaimed an urchin whose father dealt
in poultry.
The sinking of Mississippi steam
boat is thus graphically described
"She sot and hove,
And hove and sot,
And high her rudder flung,
And every time she hove and sOt
wusser leak she sprung"
An hospital to be conducted on
temperance principles has been opened
in London. The patients are in all
cases to be treated without the use of
stimulauts, which will doubtless pre-
vent the establishment running into
debt through an overflow of patients.
A frantic woman's rights advocate
has discovered another evidence of the
"inequality of the sexes" in the fact
that even in the nursery, the song, in
Bridget's vernacular, is "Lull-a-boy-
baby" but she has never yet heard of
"Lull-a-girl-baby."
Everything which tends to discom-
pose or agitate the mind, whether it be
excessive sorrow, rage or fear, envy or
revenge, love or despair-in short,
whatever acts violently on the mental
faculties tend to iniure the health.
"A little boy born very far north en-
treated his mother to tell him some
stories about bad boys, and, upon her
expressing astOnishmcnt, said he wanted
to find out how they got out of scrapes.
of the $1,000 inhabitants of Mem
phis, it is estimated that $4,000 have
left the city, leaving population OF
some 10000. No city in modern times
has been so ravaged by disease.
Few insults are greater than that OF
addressing person as though he was
destitute of common sense.
The fiftieth session of the university
of Virginia opened last week, with 427
students.
There are fifty-two papers published
in Japan.