The Detroit times., 1911-04-08
Marks, for Rroken Meat.

A curious market is held every day
I'm Paris, France. for the sale OF
broken meat OF all kinds. The market
place is neat and clean, quite an at
tractive quarter known as the
Halles Centrales." To this point
ecery morning about o'clock the por-
ters from the restaurants and hotels
bring big baskets. filled with broken
food OF every sort II grand dinner
has been given the night before NJ
some embassy or home OF wealth. the
exhibit next morning AT "Halles Cei.
trales" will be exceptional. IL will in
clude whole turkeys. hams and boars'
heads which have been scarcely
touched by the banqueters. The reg
ular supply for the market the year
round comes from the leading restau-
rants where the "leayings" are the
perquisites OF the walters. Manag.
ing women OF the market place have
yearly contracts with such restaurants
and hotels. Half the success depends
upon the skill and taste with which
the broken food is arranged upon the
sales tables. Experts or artists are
employed to make the various "por-
tons" attractive To the eye. and they
fit from table To table giving here
and there touch OF green in tho
shape OF spinach, or of red In the form
OF carrot or tomato. adding a morsel
Of blanc-anage here. bit OF pie crust
there. and so on. The portions are
arranged on quarter sheets OF old
newspapers.A selling from cents up.
~ ~ nj In "a
OF the leg OF a partridge, part OF an
omelet, the tail OF fish. two ribs OF
hare. a spoonful OF beans. scrap
OF filet. cut pear. handful OF salad.
slice OF tomato and dab OF jelly.
all TO be had for nickel. The buy
ers are the quiet poor. who are
ashamed TO beg and who would never
taste meat but for the blessed market
al "Halles Centrales.
Tin Soldiers.
The sardine and other tins, thrown
away in France by thousands, 20 10
support branch of trade deeply In
teresting TO the youthful part OF the
population. After the discarded tin
! has been stamped into shape by ma
| chimes OF simple construction II re-
appears on the market In the form OF
countless armies of tin soldiers, which
are sold at prices so low that the man
ufacturer could not else AFFORD TO buy
| the raw material.
Pettlcoat Lane.
The trade OF old clothes in London
Is almost entirely In the hands OF
| Jesw, whose great market Ia Petit
| coat Lane in Houndsditch. The crook
ed, narrow streets are crowded with
pedestrians buying and selling bundles
OF clothing, with great rows OF tick
eted garments hanging along the store
fronts above the congested crowds
Some articles are sold just as they
are, others are mended and patched
The skirts OF coat are easily made
into children's clothes. France takes
all the old black cloth Of the lane toe
far gone for children's clothes
making II into caps. while Russia and
Poland take all parts still more worn
and threadbare. Black velvet waist
coats are converted intoskull caps FOL
German and Polish Jews. The bulk
| OF Englands old clothes goes 10 Hol
| land and Ireland. but the vast major
ity OF the scarlet coats worn by ON
GERS in the British army ind theiI
way to the annual fair at Leipzig, Ger
many. Smart liyeries. robes OF Office
and similar snowy garments are gred
ly coveted by thenatives on the wes'
coast OF Africt and most OF them are
sent thither to be exchanged for ivory
and other things OF value.
The Meter, the Worlds Measurement
The unit OF measurement with an
ordinary carpenter is the sixteenth
OF an inch This Is ample for al
his purposes. The cabinetmaker has
TO be more exact, and adopts as his
standard half this meagre traction
the thirty-second part OF an inch. Inc
finest scale that can be read without
a microscope is drawn TO Tooth or AT
inch. which is about Ave times "a
hairs breadth" So "a hairs breadth
Ia one 5O0th part Of an inch, which IL
said to be sufficiently accurate for the
delicate work OF ballbearing manu-
facturers. II takes 100 waves OF green
light TO stretch across "a hair &
breadth" The meter, or the world
standard OF length, Is graduated 10
one-twentieth part OF green ight
wave, II the imagination can form any
idea OF a length TO infnitesimal. The
wave length of green light Is one So
/ o0Oth Of an inch, and you are 10 as
certain accurately by actual physical
| measurement the twentieth part OF
one OF these waves. The Information
al Bureau Of Weights and Measures
have their headquarters at Paris
France and there in an underground
vault double-locked they kept the
worlds standard OF length. Nor could