ij%i^ anecdote, Oct. 5, 



imagine, by the attention of some lady on her paf- 

 sage home, who might find it an agreeable kind of 

 amusement to look after a few. Such a lady might 

 thus, justly, acquire celebrity in future, by giving 

 her name to that breed of silk worms , which owed 

 their existence in Europe to her patriotic attention. 



I beg leave to return my warmest acknowledge- 

 ments to mifs Rhodes for this interesting communi- 

 cation ; and the obliging terms in which it is convey- 

 ed. It will give me singular pleasure if I can be in 

 any means the instrument of difseminating the useful 

 information, that her talent for accurate investiga- 

 tion has enabled her to give on this branch of natural 

 history. J. A. 



ANECDOTE. 

 A WOMAN went to find a monk, and said to him that 

 ihe had stolen a packet which charged her consci- 

 ence. You must restore it, answered the monk. But, 

 father, I am not suspected, and if I restore it, 

 1 am dilhonoured. Well, answered the monk, bring the 

 theft to me ; I myself will make the restitution. The 

 woman liked the expedient wonderfully, and in a 

 fhort while after fhe put into the hands of the monk 

 a balket, well wrapped in linen with an addrefs on a 

 card. The monk took the balket, and the woman re- 

 tired with precipitation. The monk carried the de- 

 posit in triumph to the convent ; and says to his 

 brothers on entering. Here is my v.'ork. At the same 

 time they heard the cries of an infant. It was indeed 

 a new born child vt'rapped up in a bafket, which the 

 good woman had confided to the monk, as a packet 

 which charged her conscience. 



