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The dyed goods are worked in the cold bath for half an hour, then taken out, well washed and dried. Like the others the silkworm died during his spinning, but this time he rotted away inside, leaving the cocoon black and mottled. This is done by introducing the acid of full strength into all accessible recesses of the wound by means of a piece of rag held in dressing forceps and dipped into the liquid. On the night of November 28th, when the earth was crossing the plane of the orbit of the missing comet, a brilliant shower of meteors burst from the northern sky, traveling nearly in the track which the comet should have pursued.