Earworm

( Entom.) The ball worm, or corn worm. East Bangor, in Pennsylvania , a post-borough of North amp ton co., on Bangor and Portland R. R., 6 m. S.W. of Portland; has extensive slate mines and manuf. of marble and roofing slate. Pop . (1897) about 600. East Brady, in Pennsylvania , a post-borough of Clarion co., on Allegheny river and Alleg. Val. R. R.; has coal mines, a planing-mill, flour-mill, and manufactory of lamp-black. Pop . (1897) about 1,380. East Carroll, in Louisiana , a N. E. parish; area , 400 sq. m. Bounded on the east by the Mi i ippi river and drained by the Tensas and Bayou Macon. Surface extensively covered with forests of ash, cypre , gum, . Soil , fertile; cotton is the staple product. Cap . Lake Providence. Pop . (1890) 12,362. East Chicago, in Indiana , a post-town of Lake co., on Penna. R. R., 23 m. E. of Chicago. Pop . (1897) abt. 1,850. East Con'emaugh, in Pennsylvania , a borough of Cambria co., near former borough of Conemaugh. It has furnaces for the manufacture of spiegeleisen. Pop . (1897) about 2,000. East Dubuque', in Illinois , a city of Jo Davie co., 16 m. N. W. of Galena, on Chic., Burl. and Quincy and Ill. Cent. R. Rs.; has a planing mill, a box factory, a grain elevator and manufactures of seed drills and cultivators. Pop . (1890) 1,069. East Grand Fork, in Minnesota, a city of Polk co., 23 m. N.W. of Crooks ton, on Nor. Pac. and Gt. Nor. R.Rs. Pop . (1895) 1,443. East Green'ville, in Pennsylvania , a post-borough of Montgomery co., 23 m. N.W. of Norristown, on Perkiomen R.R.; has manufactures of cigars and cigar-boxes. Pop . (1897) about 600. East Jordan, in Michigan , a post-village of Charlevoix co., 12 miles W.N.W. of Boyne Falls; has foundry and saw mills. Pop . (1894) 896. East Las Vegas, in New Mexico, a post-village of San Miguel co. Pop. (1897) about 3,200. East Sioux Falls, in South Dakota, a post-village of Minnehaha co. Pop. (1897) about 750. East Strouds'burg, in Pennsylvania , a post-borough of Monroe co., 1 m. from Strouds burg and 21⁄2 m. from Delaware Water Gap, on D., L. & W. and N. Y., S. & W. R.Rs.; has gla -works, boiler-works, tannery, knitting and silk-mills. Is the seat of one of the State Normal Schools. Pop . (1897) about 2,200. East Syracuse, in New York , a post-village of Onondaga co., 4 m. E. of Syracuse, on N. Y. C. & H. R. and W. Shore R Rs. Pop . (1897) about 3,000. East'er Dues ( Eng . Ch .) Money paid to the clergy at Easter in lieu of tithes for personal service; formerly exacted, but now voluntary and called Easter offerings. East'er Egg, n. A colored or decorated egg, or something in the shape of an egg, as candy, used as a gift at Easter. The custom probably antedates Christianity, and may have been connected with the New Year when that was reckoned from the vernal equinox. As all animal life originates in the egg, it was natural to a ociate such an object with the beginning of a new period of time; and the egg may have been first offered as a 1133 present to the deities at the New Year celebration. The beauty of the egg of a bird-T. W. Higginson reckons it "the most perfect thing in the universe"-and the abundance of eggs at the season mentioned would favor their selection as articles to bestow as gifts. It is said that the Persians keep the festival of the solar new year, in March, and make mutual presents of colored eggs; and that the Jews used eggs in the feast of the Pa over, which was celebrated within a day or two, before or after, of the vernal equinox. When the Fathers of the Church substituted the Christian festival for the Pa over or for the heathen festival of the godde Ostera, or Easter, the custom of egg-giving was perpetuated in the new anniversary; and as the Easter celebrated the resurrection of Christ, the egg very naturally became the symbol of the resurrection of the body and the emblem of a future life. The coloring of the egg probably has no special significance, but was adopted as making the gift more pleasing to children, who were largely the recipients of such tokens on this joyous occasion.