Wool is a bad conductor, and should be worn next the skin, both in summer and winter, especially in variable climates.

It was snowing fast, and when he arrived there in his shirt sleeves, his black wool plentifully powdered with snow, he was a laughable object to look upon.

He grew his own tobacco, tea, peanuts, oranges, figs, pineapples, bananas; he fattened his cattle and hogs on his own cassava and the abundant wild grasses; his flocks of sheep "cut their own fodder," and the wool and mutton was all clear profit.

Rough wool was her invariable wear, instead of taffetas and silky furs, which Quebec women delighted in.

Wool became its staple trade, and in 1347 the port was rich enough to find twenty ships for the fleet besieging Calais.

Wool and mutton; beef and hides; cotton and cotton-seed are a few familiar illustrations.

Wool, of which flannel is made, is an animal substance; flannel therefore is not so cleanly as linen.

All here was ugly; even the green wool as it whirled round and round was neither the green of the grass nor yet the green of the rushes, but a sorry muddy green that befitted a sullen city under a murky sky.

Wool was the principal export, and fine cloths were taken in exchange from the Continent.

Wool was now a drug in the legitimate market, and woollen goods had practically no market.

Wool was accordingly much the most valuable product; the mutton was sold in the home markets, where, the supply being very plentiful, the price was very low.

" Mr. JENCKES, and Mr. SCHENCK, and Mr. KELLEY called him to order in behalf of their constituents, who were in the wool business, and said that "wool" in one form or another had always been the staple of their political career.