Show A terrible worn worm the gentleman lil magazine Mag atme newspaper correspondents discover wonderful things under the title of zo london ondon gossip a first class clam provincial paper tells us that the greatest consternation prevailed some time ago among the engineers employed era aloyed on the railway at hagen in consequence of continual occurrences of accidents at the same place the german govern ment directed an inquiry which after the lap lapse lapo o of eix six months re baled tho the mastey A rail was taken up and anti broken and it was literally h hoi oi lowed out in aby b a thin pray gray worm to which the qualification of raili vorous was uan assigned and anti by which to me it LI is to be clave classed 1 in natural history the worm is eaid to bo be about two centimeters in length and of the wo size of the prong of a fork in circumference 11 flie tile narrative nirra tive proceeds quite seriously describing the color of tho the worm orm and tiro two little glands on ita its head filled with corrosive secretions secret lons which is ejected elected every ten minute minutes upon the iron the liquid i q id renders the iron boft soft and spongy and a n d of the color of rust anil anti it IB is then greedily devoured bythe insect the authority u teof of an official report and ot tile brench h institute are given in support SU of these and other ota eti such h as that thie this creature for its eize size is one of the roost most voracious kind f for or it has devoured 30 36 kilogramme kilo gramme gramineS of rail ra ia 79 pounds in a it fortnight the eaino mine veracious correspondent proceeds to tell us that not very long ago a great fens sensation aaion was w as created bv a report sent in in to the royal so coety of a it gnat or moth y winch similarly devoured tile lead of london cis terns and that the subject will wil no doubt now bo be discussed with re doubled vigor since the discovery of the railway pest wo we are further told that specimens of the iron thus attacked have hav e been sent t to all the learned bodies of london a and A paris the writer of this veracious history bistor must be gre greatly ally disgusted dieg with the negligence of the secretaries and councils coun cila of the learned bodies who have failed to publish in in their transactions any account of these wonderful animals or to acknowledge tho the receipt of the specimens talk about valti valuable able diamonds sa said ii a man with big stripes on his collar and bergamot on hie his hair abe most expensive expensive kind of diamond I 1 know of is the kind that stas stays in in tho tile pick pack when a hen youve got four of em in your our hand 1 l washington critic |