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...saved the silk industry by solving the problem of silk worm dis- ease...
...kept alive the tradition that such natural monstrosities do exist. From the Hydra down, through Pliny's dragon which the army of Regulus besieged, and the great beast that Beowulf conquered in a battle to the death, famous stories have grown up around "facts" that science denies. The "sea-worm" was a very real object to the northern sailors, and it has flavored all the old literature of the ocean...
...unexampled audacity of the new member from the state where they smoke in the "halls of legislation" may be an indication that the worm is turning again. When the stogy, the pipe, and the "butt" obtain as strong a hold on the senatorial mouths as once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind...
...brought about in the silk industry in the province of Kwangtung. By means of lectures and demonstrations and by special courses for silk producers given at the Canton Christian College under a stipend from the Silk Association of America, a greater volume of disease-free eggs of the silk worm have been distributed to the local farmers, and an entirely new method of reeling the skeins has been adopted, so that within the last two years 80 percent of the silk production of this province has been revolutionized to the great satisfaction of the American mills, and to the profit...
...live as cheaply as one" is so absurd as it might at first seem. The Internal Revenue Department has become a sort of Beatrice Barefacts for the dissemination of advice to the matrimonially inclined. It is constantly being deluged by letters from all kinds of people, especially from worm who want to know what returns their husbands filed--a lamentable commentary one the state of marital confidence in this country. Like "tar-baby", however, the department "ain't saying' nothing". Financial information goes in--but it never comes out again except in court...