Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — These Are Fine Threads. [ARTICLE]

These Are Fine Threads.

It your nerves were steady enough to admit handling the silkworm’s threads, and you were to take a carpenter’s rule and lay such threads side by side until they oovered the space of an inch, you would find, after you had completed the task, that you had handled exactly 1,000 threads.