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Show Tho Bumano Fad. There has lately been much tribulation about astrakhau in England, owing to to a "regular terrible story" invented by somebody as to the dovice by which the wool was made curly, and sealskin was attacked the other day by Canon Bell, of Chelsenham, who told his congregation congrega-tion that each jacket represented some half dozen dams, who had "been more or less skinued alive, while their little ones were left to dio iu all the agony of starvation." Whereupon a trade journal dryly rejoined that it was tho bachelor seal which was killed for its fur, and that, as the calves were not present, and as their mothers were not killed, being much too valuable to bo slain, there, was no slow agony of starvation in the case. Apparently, persons and parsons desirous desir-ous of an effective subject for lamentation lamenta-tion must take that poor creature which in annually half drowned and then deprived de-prived of its warm coat and sent shivering shiver-ing back to its young, who. unnblo to recognize it, utter the most, pitiful cries. If tho subject were well worked up, doubtless every man to whom the caso was stilted would cease to wear woolen garments and dress in cotton, linen and silk until somebody told him about the grief of the silkworms, foreseeing the fate of their cocoons, when he would fall back on tho ot her two materials, holding himself ready to give up tho cotton to the army worm whenever requested to do so. Cor. Bostou Transcript. |