Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-24

Qike 0 little round loaf, )conical or like
 wax match. Not infrsquently pearls are
 found, instead of in the membrane, attached
 to and forming part of the inside of the
 shell. They are then of little value, because
 it is difficult to remove them, and they are
 usually imperfect.
 The shells on the outside are covered thick
 ly with seaweed or other submarine ugrowths,
 and look not unlike Tam O'Sh8hter hat.
 All this growth is removed, and the shells
 are cleansed and picked, finding ready mar
 ket in Liverpool, London and Hamburg, at
 prices of from 10 to 20 cents pound. The
 profit from these fisheries is not as large as
 might be imagined, because .the ex-
 pensss are very heavy, and there is always
 considerable element of chance.
 THE BUSINESS OF THE PRINCE.
 Royalty Imposes Numerous Cares
 and Arduous Duties Not Generally
 Known.
 Banquets, visits, presentations, inaugurs-
 tions monuments, speechifying, military
 maneuvers and long railway journeys absorb
 most of the time which Albert Edward does
 not devote to the eraver concerns of State.
 Every day brings him batch of telegrams
 announcing births, marriages or deaths in
 other prinoely families, and these have to be
 answered. On his own domestic anniversar- ies-birthdays, wedding day, accession day -telegrams and addresses come him by the hundred, and each one must be read to him lest it should not receive suitable reply. An intelligent private secretary may saue a prince some wyrk, but all private secretaries are not intelligent nor do they much care to assume responsibilities.
 A prince, says Temple Bar, like other men, must do most of his work for himself or it will be badly done. If he retires for short while to the seclusion of some private estate, things go wrong, and be is quickly sum- moned back to his round of showy and irk- some duties. His headaches, but he must show himself amiable with everybody. He is tired of talking, but he must find some thing pleasant to say to the dozens of people who, wherever he goes, are introduced to him. He has seen enough of exhibitions to sicken him for life, but he must appear to take an intelligent interest in all these shows, and cram himself for conversations, about them with specialists. He must know the exact measure of compliments which are expected by various eminent ar- tists, authors, inventors and manufactur- CTS.
 He must have read, or pretend to have read, the latest work on military tactics by this or that distinguished general-especially if the general be foreigner in the service of an allied power. For is he not himself hon. orary colonel in half dozen foreign regi- ments whose uniforms he has to wear upon occasions, and is it not required of him as a commander of armies that he should seem to take the keenest interest in things militarya Generals may bore him to desperation; he may be sick to death of military bands a1- ways playing him his national airs;" his head may split at the roaring of cannon and the firing of rifles in sham fights and at the | thunder of squadrons charging imaginary enemies in mimic warfare; but he must look cheerful and well pleased. When the gener- als have done with him the diplomstists come on. To these he must batter in ton- que which is not his own, and be very care- full about every word he utters, besides keep ing up his tone to the highest pitch of cor diality, for tho Ambassador will write every word down and report it to his government, and if the prince have forgotten the right names of different princes and princesses of the Ambassadors Court his lapse of memory will be set down against him, and may cause A sfcOldness n