The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-08
Market for Broken Meat.

! In Paris, France. for the sale OF
! broken meat OF all kinds. The market
place is neat and clean. quite an at
tractiye quarter known as the
Halles Centrales To this point
ecery morning about s 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 al "Halles Cea-
trales' will be exceptional. II 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 restan-
rants where the 'leayings are the
perquisites OF the walters. ManaS'
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-
! lions" attractive TO the eye, and they
! nit from t:ble To table giving here
| and there "a touch OF green in the
/ shape OF spinach. or OF red In the form
OF carrot or tomato. adding a morsel
4 OF blanc-anage here. bit OF pie crust
there, and so on. The portions are
! arranged on quarter sheets OF old
newspapers. selling from cents up.
! AS sample. imagine pile made up
OF the leg or a partridge, part OF an
( omelet. the tail OF a fish, Two ribs OF
! hare, a spoonful OF beans. a scrap
| of hlet, q cut pear. handful or salad
I a slice OF tomato and dab OF jelly
I all 10 be had for a nickel. The buy
i ers are the quiet poor" who are
ashamed To beg and who would never
1 taste meat but for the blessed market
I al "Halles Centrales,'
Tin Soldiers.
The sardine and other tins. thrown
away in France by thousands, go 70
support branch of trade deeply In
teresting to the youthful part OF the
population After the discarded tin
4 has been stamped into shape by ma
chimes OF simple construction IL re-
appears on the market IN the form II
countless armies OF tin soldiers, which
are sold al prices so low that the man.
ufacturer could not else AFFORD 10 buy
the raw material
Petticoat Lane.
The trade OF old clothes in London
! is almost entirely in the hands ~
Jesw. whose great market Is Petit
coat Lane in Houndsditch. The crook
ed. narrow streets are crowded with
pedes trians 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 too
far gone for children's clothes.
making 1t into caps. while Russia and
Poland take all parts still more worn
and threadbare Black velvet waist
coats are converted intoskull caps for
German and Polish Jews. The bulk
OF England's old clothes goes to Hol-
land and Ireland. but the vast major
! ity OF the scarlet coats worn by Off
GERS I'm the British army find their
way TO the annual fair al Leipzig, Ger
/ many. Smart liveries, robes OF ONCE
and similar SNOWY garments are gred-
ly coveted by thenatives on the west
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 all
his purposes. The cabinetmaker has
to be more exact. and adopts as his
standard half this meagre fraction
the thirty-second part OF an inch. The
finest scale that can be read without
a microscope is drawn 10 Tooth OF an
inch. which is about five times
hairs breadth" So "a hairs breadth
is one 50Oth part Of an inch, which is
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 to
one-twentieth part OF green hght
wave. II the imagination can form any
idea OF length 10 infinttesimal The
wave length of green light is one So
OOOth OF an inch. and you are TO as
certain accurately by actual physical
measurement the twentieth part or
one OF these waves. The Information.
al Bureau OF Weights and Measures
have their headquarters AT Paris,
France. and there in an underground
vault doublelocked they kept the
worlds standard OF length. Nor could
IL be inspected oftener than once In
ten years. But now that new instru-