Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-04
THE CENTENNIAL.
PHILADELPHIA, August 26th.

ciple that Livery dog has his day." so
every one of the original thirteen States
is to have its own special jOllifcation on
the Centennial grounds. Thursday was
New Jerseys day. and the little State did
herself credit. 1t is not much of walk
from any part of it to Philadelphia, so
everybody went. The Pennsylvania road
did the fair thing in the matter of re-
duced fares, and alone carried nearly
10000 patriotic Jerseymen to their des-
tination, Altogether some $4,000 at
tended, including Gov. Bedle and staff.
The order of exercises included an ap-
propriate address in Judges Hall, and
a banquet to which ample justice was
done.
A lesser but no less interesting event
of the week, is the visit of over one
hundred young Cinnamon, who are at
school in various institutions about
Hartford, Conn. and Springfield, Mass.
They range from eight to fifteen years
of age, wear a blue uniform, and are
chaperoned by Commissioner Yung
Wing. They all speak English, and
show intelligence and curiosity, in no
way below the average of their years.
All of them, down to the minutest
urchin, wear pig tails, of which they
take no less care than. All Whatziz-
name, that fat, smooth faced, heather,
who presides over the Chinese Exhibi-
ton in the Main Building, and who, so
says rumor, will bear off beautiful
young American bride to the Celestial
Empire, at the close of the show.
These youngsters keep industriOusly
at their sightseeing. aud will carry
away with them more intelligent i'm
preston of the Exhibition. than thous.
ands of our own countrymen, who 60
through it in a superficial desolutory
way. Every noon the whole lot of them
are gathered under the Yung Wing Of
the Commissioners alluded to, and tax
en- to the American restaurant for a
good dinner, at the expense of the Chi
nese Government, which, in fact, sent
them here, proposes to pay all their ex-
penses, during fifteen years course of
study, and then take them into its own
employ.
Apropos to the rise in silk, to which
/ referred last week, the silk worms at
Agricultural Hail. are attracting In
creased attention as representatives Of
S the large class of strikers, whose action
t in refusing to turn out their full quota
}. of work this season, brings wailing tC
t every economical home.
o These little fellows here don't act as
1t though they were among the disafected
but are working like beavers. The glass
re case containing them, which in one O
D. the extreame aisles, is about four by fv
Is feet, and holds thousands of worms
is From cord in the corner. hangs grea
lie cluster of cocouns. small. yellow, egg
lie shaped and hairy. In another corner
s. stands bush full of cocoons, hangin
G just where the animals spun them. Owe
u the bottom of the case are strew
III branches of the mulberry tree, whic
&c furnishes the sole food of these cres
u lures, and their method of eating is a
I'll curious as everything else about then
60 Crawling onto leaf, the silk worm
e which looks like an ordinary caterpilla
NJ only smaller-hangs his head over Il
t. edge and darwing it up. shaves off
.n thin strip of leaf, as smoothly and e
VIZ silly, as sharp plane works on a PHI
;" board. This strip swallowed, the Ope
'u' alton is repeated, till the worm has b;
'e' his ell. With the young worms, tn
Dy point is not.reached till they have ca
al en- apparently about twice their ov
Y bulk. To show everything in connecti'
W with these processes, there are also di
oh played few of the silkmakers in The
chrysalis state-and ugly enough tn
'u' are to be sure. Like the cocoon, t
'eu chrysalis is nearly egg-shaped, me
are than one half being hard, brown a
he' motionless. The remainder, which s,
'u' in this brown case, like one joint of
telescope in another. is plentifully .
dued with joints, and on being distul
100 cd, squirms and wriggles in way th
- as | heard one lady express it "mal
your back crawl" Finally. over slie
framework in the remaining corner,
-, bunch of the finished strands of ST
80 golden, glossy and strangely belly
-. their wOrmy origin.
Paid admissions are constantly
a. the increase. Although little more ii
half through, the amount of money
= ready taken in, exceeds the total recei
-. of the Vienna Exposition.
RADIx
In BRIsTow IN VERMoNT.-The Spri
field Republican, speaks as follows
of General Bristow's visit to our sta
rices "Mr. Bristow's Vermont speech for
of Republicans is quite the most effec'
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