New-York tribune., 1897-02-21

water existed.
An extraordinary business is carried on nat at the
Maison Pinet No. % Berners-st W. NJ Pine, IL u
two ways: First by using in ones boots the plush
wearing specially made boots; For anything up
and half inches the elevators are recon-
mended: up six inches the specially made boots
The elevators cost from IS 5d TO los ID per pan:
they are about five inches long and TWO and a hall
inches wide. The boots run up the scale from Il
sovereign seven or eight guineas
Clerks out of employment. mattresses. shopgirls.
to9tmen TO whom m st4Tre sons II enf n also
army officers Members OF Parliament. lords ana
ladies. barrsters cerics Of all degrees and lovers
of both sexes by the thousand. IN many casss as
ladies use the elevators solely because tney raise
one hears OF the dlgnined gentleman who left his
elevators in his boots, when he put these OUTSIDE
brought up polished the pads were missing aga ti
the gentleman was confined 10 MS room lie
When he did venture out he was somewhat lower
in the eyes of his friends The moral Is, keep
duplicate pairs.
The turtle trade is unique Nine:.tenths OF IT is
Square St Mary Axe E. c. The headquarters Of
the trade is at Kingston. jamaica but nearly an
island. One hundred men work on the eight to
fifteen schooners The catching Is simple enough
nG srGng gbSD wiG the nef @ s IS called feels se
caught it clngs the meshes with its fins
70 foGe oGe hundred and dfty turtles which are de-
posted in Enclosures. filled with sea water; they
turtle of more than $50 pounds i eaten IN Ehgau'
while those of 40 pounds are most In demand
Don't axceed 100 turtles by Royal Mail steamer.
once fortnight" The death rate en- route IS
great. although hose and sea water ana warm
STRAW are used and liberal diet OF oatmeal ana
lettuce supplied. In the train from southampton
temperature Below forty degrees means death.
Il remember" said Mr.. Bells, landing seventy
five out Of one hundred and twenty. ana then lost
another thirty before the turtles reached my ware
house"
rateurs and hotel and private chefs. Mr. BELLS
imports bout 800 turtles year the price ranging
rem epfnGe 20 10 sod the Turtles may be
nailed the deck Of the ship, so as TO prevent the
creatures swarming all over the vessel. The seem
ing vitality of the turtle after decapitation IS
curious. Mr. Bells once sent Dig hsn 10 hotsi y
and hung the body upside down to bleed. Twenty
four hours after that turtle knocked down a man
cook with one blow Of its Tin. y turtles head was
also mentioned which, severed from the BODY Tor
many hours. would yet bite sayagely az piece on
handle but they have inflicted severe injuries with
their ins man was onee Garryins d no Ia ie"1as a
placing TT the floor the creature snapped his
nose clean off.
The next peculiar occupation is truffe-hunting
The average trut!e isn't much bigger than large
walnut; it is black, and has warty surface; The
powerful odor OF the fungus. especially just before
a thunderstorm Grufties have been called thunder
roots" and swine breadD attracts many animals
even pigs. Pigs trained and used 10 hunt
for trutiies. until dogs superseded them Inc hunt-
ers seek .trufies during the winter. but they are
bafied by a severe frost which hardens the ground
The biggest trufie on record was unearthed S2 sw2
Trufies are most abundant on mountains When
the trees are fully grown and the crop favorable
one hunter and dog can find from forty-hve pounds
TO hfty-ive pounds Of truiles IN day %QrK YORK bat
and only find seventeen pounds, twenty POUNDS or
,wsstys pounds usT per iy SoMe es.s
handle every year between l0@o ana 'oHD POUNDS
OF trules the bulk being preserved. in the season
parcel post baskets Of fresh truies weighing seven
- When the dog has found trume he stops sniff
fng on the spot lie Is then rewarded Win scrap
Of food and his master digs up the truttie puts IL
in his wallet and makes for another Tree; Tor IL
is beneath trees that this Fungus - round
The last curious Industry deals with funeral
horses Robert Roe. of Remington Park Road, has
imported these stately animals for upward OF
must be about nine hundred funeral horses in Lon.
don The average undertaken, however, Keeps
neither horses nor coaches but hires these from
people like seaward. Of lsling'on Mr. Seward
his stables is an Interesting experience.
1T is dangerous, said one OF my niormants.
nublic houses when returning from funeral. for
these animals night with great ferocity." once. a.
with the conn but in his absence the horses ran
amuck among the tombstones which wen, went cow IKE
Sm one of Mr. Stewards men is pairt-
iampback and oil. white star on the forehead
may be covered by the animals own foretop. -.
ON the right-han side IN the photograph viii
he seen hanging a horses tail This Is sent 10 the
country with a composite" horse-a Dutch black,
NOT used for the best funeral work owing to his
lack OF tail. He is sold 10 country jobmaster.
with a separate flowing tail. bought IN Holland for
n shilling or two. In the daytime the composite
horse conducts funerals the tail fastened on with
stran but AZ night he discars IL and gayly takes
people TO and from the theatres
Worn-out funeral horses. one is horriAed 10 learn.
are shipped back TO Holland and Belgium. where
they eaten.