ONE of the most novel exhibits in the Paris Exposition is said to be a complete set of bed hangings made in Madagascar from the silk of the halabe. The halabe is a native spider, of huge size, and ferocious temper. This is by no means the first time that fabrics have been made from spider’s silk, but this is of remarkable strength. Mr. Vogue, the head of the Antananarivo technical school, so reports the Home Journal, has been studying the life of this particular spider for many years, and observing the strength of the silk as exhibited in its web, invented a process of winding off the silk before the unfortunate and bereft spider could use it for its own purposes. Each spider yields from three hundred to four hundred yards of this silk, which is somewhat finer than that of the silk-worm, and of a light-golden color. The bed hangings are the first results of Mr. Vogue’s skill and patience.