If, however, the recent discoveries of a German professor can be com riercialized, the shells of crabs and lobsters and the wing tasses of locusts and beetles may some day be converted into stockings, dresses anil handkerchiefs. He claims to have discovered a process by which these chitinouy substances may Cissolved, and when the solution is forced into thin threads these burden and acquire a silky gloss The strands are said to be, identical with the product of the silk worm, ud slightly stronger. At present, jorwever, the process. is expensive and confined to the laboratory.—L. North.
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