Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-24
Where Pearls are Found.

They ere found from Texas to Ohio.
st. Clair County, Ill, and Rutherford
County, Tenn. are good places for them,
but the largest ever found on the con-
tinent was near Salem, n. j., number
of years ago. It was about an inch across
and it sold III Paris for s., 900. Most of
them are very small and sell in lots for
small sums, but one large one pays for
the time Along the Ohio river all the
boatmen and fishermen are in the bust
ness, especially boys. They wade along
the flats and scoop up the unlos with
their hands, while others have regular
arrangements for hauling them up by
the quantity The best are perfectly
round and white, with rich orient. The
next shape is the pear. Some are per-
feet ali but one side, and this can be con-
ceaIed in the setting.
Small pearls for use in onyx need not
be perfect, as they are half hidden in the
setting, SO the imperfect ones have a
value as well. The best pearls the
roand ones, are those found in the man
tie OF the animal You see, the pearl,
either ia fresh or salt water, is merely
the result of the animals attempt to pro-
tect itself
The great naturalist Linneus thought
he had dis overed a plan to cause pearls
TO grow, which was to initiate the par
asites already mentioned. The pearl
mussels were taken from the water and
the shells bored, then placed back and
lett for four or FIVE years. The Swedish
government paid him 81, 800 for the idea,
bat it did not prove q success. The
hinese have done well with the pearl
oyster They sprinkle sand over the
beds when the oysters or mussels are
open, and also put little images in the
shells that soon become coated with a
pearly luster These can be seen at the
Central Park Museum. In Japan
similar plan is adopted with the unio-
hyria.
1t would be hard to deceive O. dealer,
but spurious pearls are made so skill4
fully that it is extremely difficult to tell
them. For years bogus pearl manu-
factory was carried on at Murano, ht-
tie town near Venice. The forms were
made OF glass, while the iridescence or
orient was produced by quicksilver but
they were chiefly used as beads for the
peasantry. Finally. the French took up
the business, and noticing the richness
of fishes scales, they used them to pro-
duce the luster, and with great success.
The dace aud the roach were the fishes
used In Italy the smelt is taken from
the Tber, and its scales yield an ex-
tremly rich secretion or mucus that can
be used Tor the purpose; but to the eye
accustomed to the real pearl these imi-
tations are SO much dross, and can
hardly better express the difference than
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and devoid of the blush and sparkle that
is the beauty Of the real pearl. The
latter needs no artistic adornment to set
it off. Held In the hand aud subjected
to the closet scrutiny it appears the
best.
To Country Merchants and Visitors in the
City:
Nathan Stern has for the past two weeks,
received large and well selected stock of
Mems Youths, Boys and Children's Cloth
ing, Overcoats and Gents Furnishing
Goods. Every department is well filled
with goods, wholesale as well as retail
to suit and fit the smallest boy to the largest
man.
In Prices and Goods this house can't be
beat.
Nathan Stern has been shipping and re-
ceiving goods the whole season He has
been visiting the Eastern markets three
times this fall-in July, August and Sep
TENDER and this shows that he must sell
goods at lower prices than any other House
in the city.
Everybody is invited to call and look at
his stock and prices, as it is no trouble to
show goods.
will sell to merchants, who are in the
city for the purpose to buy, Clothing at
| Eastern Prices
Special prices given to ministers.
Store on Gay street, marble front, oppo-
site Sanford, Chamberlain & Albers
NATHAN STERN, Proprietor.
David Haas, R. j. Jarnagin, Siegmund
Porges, Charles A. Jenkins, Statesmen.
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