The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

thick. wing-like fins that have earned for him the name of angel, though he doesn't look bit like an angel, but rather the opposite. The sword grips of the officers Of the German army are made from shark leather, too. They are beautiful in pattern, being marked with diamond shaped figures. The skin comes From North Sea shark known as the diamond shark. German leather mnusaacturers have tried to produte a leather from animal hides that shall supplant the skin, but in vain. Unlike animal leather. fish leath- CT is absolutely impervious to water and never gets soggy from dampness. Therefore it is ideal for sword grips, as, no matter how much the hand may per- spire, the grip remains hard and dry. The sturgeon, despite his lumpy ar nor, furnishes valuable and attrac- tive leather. When the bony plates are l taken off their pattern remains on the skin just as the pattern of alligator scales remains on alligator leather. The Pacific coast sturgeon and the sturgeon of the Great Lakes produce a tough deather that is used to make laces for joining leather belting for ma chinery, and faces often outwear the 1 belting.
 The strange garfish, an American fresh water fish, with long, toothed jaws, like those of the crocodile, has a skin that can be polished smooth until 1t has finish like ivory. It makes 1 haorrfifrY4 frames. The skin of the garfsh used to be converted into arrnor by some tribes of American savages. The hide is so tough and hard that it makes a breast plate that can turn a knife or spear. i Some of the finer specimens that have been found are hard enough to turn even blow from a tonlahawk
 The savages who wore this fish ar- nor also used to wear a fish helmet. It was made from the skin of the prickly porcupine fish, and besides protecting the wearer's head, it was used as a weapon of offense. The warriors butted their enemies with it, and, as sit had hundreds of ironlike spikes. the opera tion was eminently painful to the ob- ject of attack.
 In Gloucester. the 'king town of fish, the humble cod has been utilized with success for making leather for shoes and gloves. In Egypt men walk on sandals made from the skins of Red Sea fish. In Russia certain peasant costumes are beautifully trimmed with the skins of a fine food fish, the turbot Bookbinders in Europe are binding books with eelskin. The eelskin serves another and less pleasant purpose. Ii is braided into whips. The writer was the unhappy member of a European Iprivate school where one of these eel skin whips was prominent instrument lof discipline, and he has never cared fol cells since then.
 Along the big salmon rivers of Sibe- ria the natives offend wear brilliant Heather garments dyed red and yellow lThey are made from salmon skins. IT I Alaska beautiful waterproof bags are made from all sorts of fish skins.
 The queerest use Is that to which the intestines of the sea lions are put They are slit and stitched together tc form hooded coats, which are superior to India rubber as waterproof garments
 Walrus intestines are made into sails for boats by the Esquimau of north
 western America
 Even the frog does not escape. Seve. |ral factories in France and a few ir Americamake card-cases and other lesmall leather articles from his skin.- Canadian Harness and Carriage Jour Enal.