Show I 1 il 56 I 1 1 1 HUNU SILK WORM an english newspaper paper printed in B british ibish india contains on a most curious story explaining a singular ois discovery by which it is said aid that hat dr burns urns has succeeded in turning the natives into silkworms silk worms or in other words making them perform the office of these i if this story is true the discovery is of the greatest importance and will wiil be read with interest by the whole scientific world the story runs that dr barns ater er having made two or throe three excursions alog the firnges fi anges whither bo be biad gone to collect S several e 1 varieties of grasses thai were new to him and un irown in england lie accidentally discovered a kind of or root called Ser icum 4 ory like what is known in europe as the pai patience ence plant this root can be found in ia abundance fn an the ns fissures sires of the rocks he col leek a quantity of this root and took look it how home at after reaching his ers the doctor became anxious to ascertain the pro properties pertis of this root and boiled some seme of it in an iron pot and finding it to be of an exceedingly gluttonous glut tinous nature gave some of it to three grey hounds the dogs lud had scarcely finished a wallowing swallowing it before they began to ho howl and manifested every appearance I 1 pe oia arance iiii of f convulsions supposing that lie had poisoned ohp in be left am them for doad I 1 the next morning lie daxl gave his ls hindmo servants directions to lo but bury W the av bogs g a he supposed ased dead I 1 when the s servants er went to obey the order they found the dogs on their paws and slimy substance running from their r coutlis mout lis ap liki like a piece of silk when drawn by mechanical means from the cocoon abne odthe of the servants having touched this saliva with his finger drew a thread not less than forty five feet iong the doctor do ator ro repeated gat 0 on the grey houn hounds ds and ob nearly two tw kilos s of bright shining silk which could not be broken without some effort proud of his hb dia discovery covery doctor burns repeat repeated 4 it on his sama and two months after in and en english 1 11 11 Is h published the fol loving following advertisement 1 ar notice atiee is given to the of this town and its suburbs suburb that dr burns her bratanic Brit anic Maje subject I 1 is wanting two hit hundred adred men for the whole year thel the wilt will receive from him everyday every day for wages one pound of rice ansour and four kauris ka aris the Tho kaucis kauris I 1 are small shells hells used by the hindmo populace for coin OIL the next day five or orsia six thousand paria came to D dr r burns door from whom he selected two tio hundred of the most robust and 4 sent them to a avast v ast shed in the hindmo quarter of the aha town he ha then divided hem into two of one hundred men each whom he classified as s and aront chewers bahof were under the orders of ten I 1 hindmo chiefe chiefa at the head of which latter was an english au supervisor after about eight days the first faction zt haa T gathered about two hundred pounds of eum after two months having a years supply ibey returned t to calcutta tile the roots having boen been di traded and those who refused to chew it having been by afew a few glasses of gin the were set to work the difficulty consisted in making them void the saliva chieh pl howater ho hm was thus overcome doctor burns placed two hinojos face to face and after placing the index figgers on each others tongues they thep were mada to step backwards forty five feet wind up the silk and repeat the operation until the sall caliph yielded i id ed no more s silk ilk 4 3 tho produced but lbs ibs of U t tn on the second lbs ibs and afterwards from to ibs pet per diem this was not a bad invest pant when it as remembered that the human silk is pot not lih liable bleto to I 1 he accidents which attack that produced by worms dr burns made use of the usual winding in 9 apparatus 1 without any difficulty the silk produced 04 0 il by y means of seri curn has the glittering appearance of the gloss fabrics exhibited frequently in the museums of france and said to be of the value for the manufacture of heavy ai articles doctor burns under the patro patronage nige of the east indi inda t company comy coiny y enow causing a large factory to bo be built in which belvill he will employ two thousand As some inight defraud the company the most rigid survell be maintained five hundred are now gathering the root on the ganges and attempts the are being made in the botani aotani ca garden of Calcut calcutta id if successful experiments will also be made in europe A vegetable silk the the seed of the asch epras has already been found in syria but the fabric made from it had little solidity and broke brake wit without hoit difficulty when the juip auns S heo he t yas was 50 iti centigrade grade I 1 |