Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-15


A YANKEE CHEATING Down" IN PARIS
On opening day, while waiting for our ca
rage TO come out of the interminabIe file on
the Avenue de Mangnan, the attention of my
sell and companions was called TO an ami
mated discussion between party of Ameri-
cans and the keeper Of a restaurant Our fe!-
lOW-countryman, Vino appeared to be a pros
porous mechanic abroad, and was accom-
panied Dy TWO stout ladies, probably his wife
and her mother, was anxious to enter the hail
OF the restaurant, but was refused admission
because the land ord insisted that the trans
Atlantic visitor had not paid him the price
agreed On Tor the use of two small bedrooms.
"Why, cOnfound your picture" said the me-
chanlc, you said you'd take us all in for five
francs, and now you won't stick to your bar
gam. The restaurant man held up his right
hand three times and tried to explain that the
charge was five francs apiece. One of the
ladies, who dimly understood French, finally
gol the Idea and endeayOred to explain it to
her husband. But he was furious. Five
francs apiece he calculated: "'aint nOthin'
CT the Sort and he made a header directly
1or the ball door, pushing Mr.. Frenchman
vigorously aside He was forthwith elected
with 10 gentle hand. Then he went in search
OF a Policeman. The guardian of the public
loud and excited tones his difficulty. When
we left they had all become good friends even
the policeman hobnobbing with the contest
ants, though how that was arrived at | cannot
imaglne.-l Letter tnBoStO71 Journal.
EARNING UNDER THE SEA."-The fact is
not generally known, that within three hours
rae OF Boston large and profitable business
mas been carried on ever since 1919 along the
sseaShore, and which is nothing more nor less
than farming under the sea" Everywhere
upon The coast OF Eastern New England NAV
be found about ten feet below Water-mark,
me lchen known as carrageen-the Irish
moss OF commerce. 1t may be torn from the
sunken rocks anywhere. and yet the little sea
port OF Scltuate is almost the only place in the
country where it is gathered and cured. This
village is the great center of the moss business
no m t'r,f., Ipnt.
supplies from those beaches Long rakes are
used in tiling this marine farm, and it does
NOT take long to fiji the many dOries that await
The lichen, torn from its salty, rocky bed The
husbands and fathers gather the moss from
The sea. and the wives and daughters prepare
lt1or market. Soak it in water and it will melt
away TO Jelly. Boil it with milk and a delicious
white and creamy blanc-mange is the result
Inc annual product is from ten to fifteen
thousand barrels, and it brings $4,000 into the
t1oWn, WHICH \ sum is shared by some one hun
dred and 1fty families. Its consumption in the
manufacture OF lager beer is very large, and
me entire beer interest in the country draws
It's supplies from Scituate beaches, as the i'm
poItal0n from Ii Gland has almost ceased 1t
IS generaly known that the moss, as an article
OF food, is called Sea Moss Farine."
WHY GOLD CHANGES CoLoR.-It is we'll
known that the human body contains humors
ana ACIDS similar in action to, and having a
IKE tendency toward, baSer metals. as nitric
and sulphuric acids have namely, to tarnish
or dissolve them, varying in quantity in differ
ent persons; of this theory we have abundant
proof in the effects which the wearing of Jew
cry produces on different persons. Thousands
wear continually, without any i'll effect. the
cheaper class of jewelry with brass wires.
while II others wore the same article for few
Gays they would be troubled with sore ears:
or, in other words the acids contained in the
system would so act Oh the brass as to produce
III results. Instances have occurred in which
articles OF JeWelry of any grade below Is karats
from the above named cause. True, these in
stances are not very frequent: nevertheless it
Is as well TO know them, and they are suffi-
fault of the goods not wearing well-as it is
generally caled-but the result of the particu-
lar constitution by which they are worn.-
[Je1celer.