Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08

the natural infrmities of advanced age. While there is the possibility that she may rally from her present sickness her recovery is not expected.
 After the Hundred Days.
 From the GentIenlans Magazine.l
 The treatment of those who had accepted any sort of appointment during the hundred days was cruel and implacable. Deprivation of employment was extended to men of the humblest rank, such as letter carriers, dealers in tobacco and so forth. Both army and navy were sspurged" of Bonapartist officers and replaced by old men. mostly broken down and ignorant of either profession. The public service was thus completely disorgan- ized Society was honeycombed with mutu- al suspiciousness. In many departments the prefects threatened ruinous punishments against innkeepsrs, lodging-house keepers and others who should delay to dsnounce the cir culators of false or dis1oyal rumors, who were overheard to utter remarks prejudicial to public tranquility of the Bourbon order. Gendarmes, gardes champetres and national guards were promised promotion and re- wards for the spontaneous arrest of persons who spoke of the government in disparaging terms, or offered for sale books, pamphlets or journals of 8 politically objectionable character. Domiciliary visits were the order of the day and usually precluded arrest if not exile These visits were sometimes or ganized as military expeditions under the immediate guidance of high legal functiona ries carrying arms and escorted by cavalry. On such occasions house doors were violent ly broken open, the furniture was destroyed and precious objects, title deeds and money were shame1essly carried off and appropria- ted, The Messieurs Sadourny, preprietors of coal mines and glass manufactory, were awakened one morning in February, lS16, by an expedition of this kind and called upon to surrender seven Bonapartlst gene- rals believed to be secreted in their coal pits. 1 On their denial of the charge their premises | were taken possession of by detachment of 1 three hundred horse and foot from Clermont, l who flooded their mines rather than descend | into them and quartered themselves on those gentlemen for several days, while a company remained two weeks living on the fat of the land and doing irreparable damage to the l works Some drunken soldiers, indeed, even set fire to the manufactory, which was re- duced to ashes. A somewhat analogous case is recorded in the private journal of J. J. Ampere. Three or four armed rutfians set fire to the factory of NJ. Perier at Vezelle and dangerously wounded the manager, who sue eeeded, however, in killing one of his assail ants. Information was immediately dis patched to the nearest post of the geii.i arm erie; but as M Perier was suspected of Bon apartism the gendarmes were sent on foot, l and proceeded very lesurely, even stopping 1 to refresh themselves at 8 neighboring viii | lage The local authorities subsequently re- 1 fused to make any inquiries or to take any 1 steps to discover the authors of the outrage. i Throughout the two years 1915 and 1916 le- 1 galized murders to use M Vaulabelle's cpl 1 thet, were continually occurring. Superior 1 officers of the Royal Guard entrapped young | men into nasty expressions capable of distor- ! ton, and then, placing them under arrest, l handed them over to the Provost's court. TurquoIses and Their Value.
 From Chambers Journal
 1 Turquoises are found in Thibet, China and l the neighborhood of Mount Sinai, but the 1 supply for jewellers purposes comes almost
 wholly from the celebrated Persian mines. 1 Very little was known about these till re- 1 markedly interesting and exhaustive report | upon them was recently furnished to the l British foreign office by NIT. A: Hontum | Schindler, who WAS for 8 short time director l of the mines They are situated in a range of mountains bounding on the north an l open plain in the Bar-i-Maden district, thir- l ty-two miles northwest of Nishapur, in the 1 province of Khorassan. Botanists tell us | that the brightest blue is seen on alpine | flowers If pure mountain air could be sup posed to brighten the color of gem as well l as 8 flower, there is no want of 1t where 1 these turquoise veins occur. Their position l is between five and six thousand feet above l the level of the sea, and strong north wind
 blows almost continually over the ridges of
 the hills, rendering the situation very
 healthy Wheat, barley and mulberry trees grow well on the slopes at the lower of these heights. At the mines the tur- ouoises are roughly divided into three classes
 of first, second and third qualities All the
 stones of good and fast color and favorable
 shape belong to the first class. But how GU
 riously these vary in value will be best un- | derstood by quoting Mir. Schindler's own
 words: t'It is impossible to fix any price or
 classify them according to different qualities.
 I have not yet seen two stones alike A ! stone two-thirds of an inch in length, two ffths of an inch in width and about halt an
 inch in thickness, cut peikani (eonicaD shape,
 was valued at .Meshed at three hundred
 pounds; another of about the same size, | shape and cut was valued at only eighty
 pounds. Turquoises of the size of pea al C | sometimes sold for eight pounds. The color
 most prized is the deep blue of the sky A
 small speck of lighter color, which only
 connoisseurs can distinguish, or an almost
 unappreciable tinge of green decreases the
 value considerably. Then there is that un- | O6hnaOI6 property OL d SOoo ooAHoOAoo5 WAN
 zat, something like the water of diamond
 or the tustre of pearl; fine colored tur-
 ouoise without the zat is not worth much. ,
 He subsequently, adds: 'The abovs-men-
 toned three-hundred- pound Meshed tur-
 quoise was bought from the finder by one of
 the Rish-i-Safids (elders of the village) fol
 three pounds; the latter sold it still uncut
 at Meshed for thirty weight pounds. AS soon
 as it was cut it's true value became apparent
 and it was sent to Paris, where it was valued
 at six hundred pounds The second pur- chaser, however, received only three hun
 dred and forty pounds for it; the difference
 was gained by the agents" Among the me turquoise in the possession Of the Shan
 there is one valued at two thousand pounds The best stones of the second class are worth about ninety pounds sterling per pound
 while the most inferior will scarcely bring a l twentieth part of this price. The latter are chiefly used in Persia for the decoration o1 r swords, horse -trappings, pipe-heads and the : common kinds of jewelry. Small cut tur- 5 ouoises of 6 slightly better quality than : these sell at the rate of from two to three
 sbilIines per thousand. In the third class
 are included stones unstable in Persia, as f well as large flat stones, some of which are esteemed for amulets, brooches, buckles and the like. The prices given there will be B more than doubled when the turquoi es a1e l sold in Europe.