Show Jlf T M Goodwin has sent UR down from the Northwest a spcllbn of ahlp planking that has been bored by lie teredo uavulls In a square Inch are sixteen holes and almost the entire substance of the plank is eaten away They will seize upon i new pie set In place in Pugct Sound and cut It off In from eighteen months to two years With a section of the plank la I a detached de-tached piece of the pipe that the worm I forms as it pursues Its way It pUlsues I grows larger and larger as It pioceedB into I the timber The action of the teredo is more like the work of the Democratic Demo-cratic party than anything we ever saw Its business seems only the destruction I of anything that hints at I progress I bores Us way Into the planking or a snip for no apparent mirpose except to sInk the whip and Its cargo T gun R at the piles for no purpose oxcupt to destroy tin lmrf nnd whatever may bo heaped thereon 1 las been a persistent bore from the 1 first and Its rcliole trade 1s marked with wreck and loss Then the description de-scription of the teredo has n sound familiar to anyone familiar with Democratic ways Tho dictionary says i Is n genus of Pholodldac having a suckerIlko foot with n follaccous border long corded gills globular shell open In front and behind etc Tho way modern ships are protected from hem Is by coppering their bottoms bot-toms In the same way tho only protection pro-tection from the party is to copper it |