Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1875 — Six Million Dollars in Eggs. [ARTICLE]

Six Million Dollars in Eggs.

Three freight-cars containing |6,000,000 worth ; of silk-worm eggs arrived at St. John’s Park Depot on Tuesday. They had come from Hong Kong to San Francisco in twenty-three days, and thence to New York in less than seven days, the speed being faster than the mails are carried by the same route. This uncommon cargo is going to Italy and. die south of France, and could have reached its destination quicker and. at less cost by way 6f the Suez Canal, but it has been found useless to ship their that way because the Southern climate batches the eggs. * 1 Hie silk-worms are put upon long sheets of cardboard in China, and are left until each hoard is Cohered with eggs, which are about the Size of mostard seed. The eggs stick to the cards, which, interla ; d With sheets of paper, are packed in yooden boxes, tightly closed and wrapped in canvas and matting. In this shipment there were 647 cases, containing over 180,000 cards. The cases wore transferred yesterday to the Hamburg steamer Frisia, which • will sail for Europe to-day. When the eggs reach their destination they will be Stored in vaults, secure against warmth, until the mulberry trees on which they feed have grown their foliage.— N. T. Sun. * ’**" '. '* ' o ’' Rome has one of the shrewdest and most reliable weather prophets in the world. Iteipg asked whether he thought this would be a cold winter or not, he looked at the sun, dug up some foots of grass, examined the husks on a dozen ears of corn, and then said, impressively: “f don’t know.” Events will undoubtedly prove thit he was right.—Roms Sentinel. j # * m - te f-V.'*. The Japanese are maktpg rapid strides In civilization. Six of them were recently sent to prison for selling fishes’ eggs for silkworms’ eggs,