Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-09-07

tie State did herself credit. 1t is
not much of walk from any part
of it to Philadelphia SO every
body went. The Pennsylvania
road did the fair thing in the mat
ter Of reduced fares, and alone
carried nearly 10000 patriotic
Jerseymen to their destination.
Altogether some $4,000 attended.
Including Gov. BedIe and staff:
The order of exercises included
an appropriate address in Judges
Hall, and a banquet to which am
pie justice was done.
A lesser but no less interesting
event of the week is the visit of
over 100 young Cinnamon, who
are at school in various institu-
tions about Hartford, Conn.,, and
Springfield, Mass. They rauge-
from 8 to Is yeras of age, wear
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
minute urchin, wear pig tails, of
which they take no less care than
All! Whatzizname, that fat, smooth
faced heathen, who presides over
the Chinese Exhibition in the
Main Building and who, SO says
rumor, will bear off a beautiful
young American bride to the Ce-
lestial Empire at the close of the
show.
These youngsters keep indus
triously at their sightseeing. and
will carry away with them a more
intelligent impression of the Ex-
hibition than thousands of our
own countrymen, who go through
it in a superficial desultoiy way,
Every noon the whole OK them
are gathered under the Yung
Wing Of the Commissioners allu-
ded to, and taken to the Ameri-
can restaurant for a good dinner
at the expense of the Chinese
Government, which, in fact, sent
them here, proposes to pay all
their expenses during a fifteen
years. course of study, and then
take them into their own employ.
Apropos to the rise in silk re-
ferred to last week, the silk worms
at Agricultural Hall are attract.
ing increased attention as repre-
sentatives of the large class of
strikers whose action in refusing
to turn out their full quota of
work this season brings wailing to
every economical home.
These little fellows here don't
act as though they were among
the disaffected, but are working
like beavers. The glass case
containing them, which stands in
one of the extreme aisles is about
four by five feet and holds thou.
sands of worms. From a cord in
the corner hangs a great cluster
Of gathered cocOons, small, yellow,
egg.Shaped and hairy. In anoth-
er stands a bush full of cocoons,
hanging just where the animal
spun them. Over the bottom Of
the case are strewn branches of
the mulberry tree which furnishes
the sole food of these creatures,
and their method of eating is as
curious as everything else about
them. Crawling onto a leaf, the
silk worm-which looks like an
ordinary caterpiller, only smaller,
hangs his head over the edge and
n drawing it up shaves off thin
strip Of leaf as smoothly aud easi-
y as a sharp plane works on a
pine toard. This strip swallowed,
he operation is repeated till the
worm has had its ill. With the
young worms this point is not
'eached till they have eaten appa-
emily about twice their own bulk.
To show everything in connection
With these processes there are also
displayed a few Of the silkmakers
n their chrysalis slate-and ugly
.nough they are to be sure. Like
he cocoon, the chrysalis is nearly
gg shaped, more than one hall
,eing hard brown and motionless.
The remainder, which sets in this
,rown case like one joint of tel
scope in another, is pleDtifully
ndued with joints and on being
disturbed, squirms and wriggles in
way that, as | heard one lady
Xpress it, "makes your back
raTl." Finally, over a slight
framework in the remaining cor
Ter lies a bunch of the finished
trands of silk, golden, glossy and
trangely belying their wormy
rigin. Paid admissions are con-
tantIy on the increase. AL
hough little more than half
through, the amount of money al