The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-02-26
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aialsly besgill Q 3. guaHwl .Ils salBEsIaaes.

aiately begin to guaw the sabs.aacss
within their reach. Rs
just "a q man from district Ike
that Of my friend, would reach ont
quietly With his antenBR after theAlit-
tie patronage here and there floating
about q navy yard. It is perfectly
natural. Think did it myself when
] was in accord with the adnainistFas
lion IN 1855. aOna or two posttnas4
ters, I think. suficed, as the : sub
etances9 L began upon. Since Then
and how long 1t seems-our side have
not even had the opportunity aofi act-
ing the moth upon The NATIONAL pats
ronage.
The liEfe wliilish caterpillars of
moth worms proceeding therefrOm
Immediately begin TO gnaw the anh-
stances within their reach and cover
themselves with the fragments, shap-
inc them into tho little. hollow r0iis
and lining them with silk. Some pass
the summer within their tolls 80.
Tb2t Is, suppose, 60 down to Long
1i;Ianch, ride in free Pullman palace
cars happy in = go fAoa@
some CARR ying their cocoons ABcutaoI
their backs and others fastened to the
substance they are eating and they
enlarge them from time CO tinna BIZ
adding portions ofsthe two Bppen ex-
tremitiea and by cores set in tlAa side,
which they slit for this purpose. Con-
cealed within their movable cases or
in their lint cupboard burrows, they
carry en- the work Of destruction
through the summer
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sion-and in the adtufl4fl- Rfi*sgss
That is until committees of finvesfis
CATION get to: work. Laughter.
Early in the spring they change to
chryalls within their cases, and ii
about twenty days aafterwaFd they
are transformed to winged moths and
ming.
These are the defauIters who 20 OF
without being called to account by the
Administration
they come forth and fly about in the
evening TIL they have paired and are
readgito Law their eggs. u asst
Mi. Field--I insiat upon my point
order Roars Of laughter.
FAMILY QUESTION,
Mr.. Cox-I will submit iust one
question: It had the shorthand fac
tIitv of nv friend from New YoTIS.
{ Mr. lMeIlish, II would put IL into
good shape. Laughter.l I think III
shonld be something like this
Whether the moths we are called ups
on to appropriate again stLand whose
go Wastefdi-are the moths of the
more numerous branch Of the LeDfs
a0ptera, or do they belong to tho
family Of Linnseus2 Laugh
ter. ......-
Mr.. WheeIer-To that Question [
answer in the affirmative. fLaugh-
Mr.. Cox--And have they a robust
Ihorax, and if we apply snuff to them
Instead of the expensive petroleum
will they not Bneeze out tlae
predatory thorax, so that sWe' csn
thereby save $50 900 q year2 Laugh
.er.
But, sir, to beserious for moment,
md in conclusion. Norman has eufs
cred more than myself from the ex-
sraordinary essays Or Saturday aud
lther days, IN Senate and House, at
lome and abroad, in pamphlet and
,ress, from the currency question.
believed had mastered some of its
.bstruseness. I was sure at one time
hst imitation would carry. saw tho
ight of victory in the eye OF Fnyfriend
rom Pennsylvania Mr.. Kelly. Then
recalled the vicissitudes of politics.
read; re-read, dreamed OF bonda,
Iotes, gold and silver, exchanges and
until | was in des-
air. But to-day, sir, it is aII clear.
he solution of the financial problem
} the moth. It is the L'spEd0peerGa
feel it. Whether produ sea by the,
Tar or by bad administr alton, the
auses are at once solved by consider
lg the habits and results of the moth
therefore. sir, PROFOUND this inter-
ogatory, as the final relief of our
nancial debates and worries. Any
entleman of the ability of my friend
rom Pennsylvania CHR. Kelley9 or
~ colleague (Mr Mellish) can an
Wer.
TERRIBLE SUGGESTIONS.
Suppose that in the event Of the
uccess of the bill or the honorable
entleman from Pennsylvania. lMr.
Lelley,) there was at once established
n incontrovertibility between the
lree sixty-dves which he proposes
nd the national bank aud greenback
nrrency lgreat laughter,] and iii the
rocesses Of contraction the five-ty en-
es would fail to par and the green
ack retire for the National Bank
otes,I in consequence of the extraor-
mary resumption of our irredeema-
lie debt last September by the Treas
ry, at i've dollars apiece ia silver
uarteEs; aud the Imports should at
nee fall of several millions, while
Jus reciprocally affecting the export
peanuts from North Carolina, the
og trade OF Indiana, the hoop-pole
'ade of Ohio, and, indirectiy 10 the
am trade Of Cape Cod. aad 10 snclf
4 appreciabie, extent that the Ger-
ian bankers, being in correspondence
ith the bulls Of New York, should,
2 Q sudden panic, create demand
If the Saginaw copper dollar notes OF
hpeming, Michigan, quoted the
her day BY the gentleman from
ennsy fvaDfs, aud thence woala en-
ire rush OF beats who had possess
themselves of their own currency
I'd invested 1t in the three sixty-flves.
id the currency would then sWell.s
id then shrink, and thus prodnce an
asticfty that would move the cr0ps,
i'd induce such speculation that ii
le of the swells we shoald burst and
one of its shrinks we should coll
spe, would it so affect the Ashanfee
ar aud the expenses OF Great Britt
a as to demoralize the Saginaw Afin-
z Company, destroy the destructive
duences .of the Lepitl0pkera moth,
ID thus stop an appropriation forthe
ntcnniai of American inflenentl enca
treat langhterl
SAVE Us FROM MoTHs
All these things should be consid-
ed. We expect that when 3 man
le my colleague SMr. Wheeler) ad-
esses an intelligent House like this
should know all aboutthese things
Q is eminent aad exposed to the re-
oaches of politics.
lie should be able especially to tell
where all these uniforms and cloths