Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — Imitation Worm-Holes. [ARTICLE]

Imitation Worm-Holes.

The manufacturers of bogus antiquities i esort to the most extraordinary devices to give to their productions the appearance of age. One of them, finding that the holes which he bored into the wood of the furniture he had made, in order to give it a worm-eaten appearance, could be detected by a naturalist who had made a study of the habits of the furniture worm, invented an instru ment that reproduced the worm-hole in the exact manner that the insect would h .ve made it.— San Francisco Chronicle.