The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-21

of trade. When women have plenty of
money to spend they are somewhat
fastidious about where they spend it.
Tradespeople know this and invest large
sums of money in furnishing and fit
ting up their shops. Thick-piled car
pets and expensive rugs cover the
floors, handsome and artistic furn-
ture is used, woodwork and wall COW
erings are artistic and blend WELL hang
ings are handsome and costly; there
is a profusion of mirrors, attendants
are we'll dressed; there are white
aproned and uninterrupted maids and
men in uniform, and everything neces-
sary to create an impression Of taste,
eXclusiveness, high-priced patronage
and thrift. Articles sold in such places
may not be one whit better than goods
in the commoner department stores.
a fact we'll known to many of the
patrons, but they willingly pay higher
prices for the satisfaction of indulging
their luxurious tastes.
There is a society of @. Els (Which
stands for Queer Eaters') that has
monthly dinners in London, says the
New York Tribune. The popularity
of its dinners consists in the fact that
every dish is unobtainable at the ordl-
nary London restaurant. At recent
dinner picked locusts We're the hors
d oeuvre. The soup was a la grecque
"a title which conceals an alleged de-
liciouS decoction of sour blilk and
grease, served with strawberry syrup.
With boiled cod the @. Els might be
suspected of returning to the common
place, but any such reproach was re-
moved by its conjunction with sauce
aile-the pure essence of garlic obtain
ed by pounding it with olive oil into
Jelly. For entree the @. Els enjoyed
white worm fritters. Specially i'm
ported from Provence. the worm is
fried in egg, and be comes a clear crys-
talllne red swapping in the fingers and
melting under the tongue like a bonboa
Slace. Tho triumph of the banquet was
chat noir a PAdolphe, composed and
prepared by the president himself
STEPPED for two days in fine vinegar
with thyme. mint, rosemary and other
aromatic herbs, the black cat was stew
ed in white wine, and dished up with
tripe sausages. 1t was said to be good
eating.
AS escargots, or snails, are not
much eaten in this country, the dis
covery that artificial snails are made
will not worry American epicures In
Paris it is different. Public knowledge
of this enterprise came about through
the suit of Paris workman against
his employer for injuries received in
manipulating machine for fabricat-
ing snails. 1t was explained that the
employer bought empty snail shells
from the dustmen and ragpickers.
Having cleaned out the shells, the de-
PENDANT and his people filled them with
'mou," that is to say, lights or cats
meat. This soft, spongy stuff, before
being crammed into the shells, was
c1lf into pnrly CHI =. wv inn
proved machines. When the shell was
filled some liquid fat or grease was
poured into it, and the trick was done.
The fabricated snails were sold usual
ly at 20 centimes the dozen. Some
times, when there is a great run on
snails, the manufacturers get good
deal of their "raw material from Ger
many. 1t is affirmed that there are
actually some epicures in Parts who
prefer the sham snail to the genuine
article, even when the latter has been
among the vine leaves in Burgundy.
The artificial escargot is said to have
special flavor, which is highly appre-
ciated.
One of the most remarkable physi-
cal features of the globe is the deep
and wide depression in the hollow OF
which stands the Caspian sea, and
iiSehi " IL tilS SSd VI <AidA, says
London Telegraph. The Caspian IS
nearly as large as France, and us
surface is eighty-four feet below the
level of the Black sea. The sea OF
Aral is nearly as large as Ireland, ana
is very little over the sea level. WITH
In recent geological times the vas.
expanse in which these lakes are founu
was sea. Its floor has been graduaiS
raised, and the waters filling the DE-
pressions are all that is left Of an an
cient Mediterranean. A strange lea
ture of both bodies of water is tnat
although they receive large rivers e.
pecially the Caspian, into which hS
Volga, the Ural river and scores "
streams from the Caucasus flow, DoLh
have for many years been getting snai-
lower. Evaporation-for they have ~
other outlet-exceeds the inflow Be'
for some climatic reason probably, hhe
Lake Aral and it's neighbor Lar
Balkhash, have since 1891 been ~
creasing in depth. Mature report
that M. Berg visited Lake BalKnasti
last summer and found that the l s,s'.
was rising with comparative rapioIsii
Whereas the Caspian, like the pe4
sea, is very salt, owing to the r. e.
of evaporation, Aral and Balkhash a..
brackish only. These remnants ~,
what was once a great sea opell,aa5
into the ocean, as the Mediterrdhs-5
does now, still contain marine nsh IN IN
seals Some of the latter survive
the Aral and Baikal lakes, nas.h
gradually become fitted for their h syt
itat, though Il is no longer SAT-,
merely brackish, and. in the case
Baikal, actually fresh water.