Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — The Silk Province of Japan. [ARTICLE]

The Silk Province of Japan.

Sltinshiu, or Shinano, in the centre of ho main island, is par excellence the silk iroviuoe of Japan. It contains about wo thousand square miles. Everybody coins to bo engaged iu some way in serinl to re. The houses appear to be enirely given up for the time being to the itkworms, and the inmates to be solely si voted to their muring, feeding, ami leaning. I’nlike the traffic on roods in