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n il A TURTLE UIOTER.
CATCHING KENTUCKY SNAPPERS TO
MAKE FREE LUNCH OF.
low th Snapper litm in Walt and Poll
t' ' in lh t'nwmry Mallard Soooplng Vp
tba Gni Steel Traps, Ulila and I'Uli
hooka.
A mrill mallard dralce, with a eurlod tall
rwl four wItm, waa quietly taking hl break
iai in toe bosom or hi familr tha other
tnornlng among the weal and willowton
the awt bank of tha licking rlrer, at tha
. mouth or Hank Lick crook, Kenton county.
Jty 1 b ooz her U rich In worma, sluga
ana tenacr snoots or aquatia vegetation, and
ror a Lima tha drake iwung binuielf on bis
azisand wahblnd bia tail In tha air, while his
rceaa waa twittering and sucking In tha
lu4 under the river's surface with consid
erable concentration. It was plain that he
had struck a soft snap and knew It.
Uriea. when he brought his bead above
water to swallow a slug and cart a little
largos of gentle quarks Into bis harem,
something seemed to take hold of hi legs
irom it: low ii0 quacked frantically and
lioat tha water with bis wing. Then his
wlng and hi bock and" his head went under,
whil his four wives axoitodly lifted them
olre Into tho air and winged their way into
.Toother county.
-Holy smoko! Tliat must be a big fellow,"
remarked French Henry, as he rowed toward
the spot where the ducks had been feeding.
Henry Is a woodsman of some repute in this
latitude, whose attention Just now U turned
to the turtle harvest. With a sixteen' foot
Cfciir. a couplo of No. 2 steel traps, a Flohort
rifld, carrying a 82 ball, a leng handled table
fork, which he flubbed a "scoop," and half a
down three inch hooks attached to as ninny
strong ma gran linos, ho was out on a turtle
hunk
The river at this point Is from twenty to
forty yards wido, and lips Its way over the
bar of clean sand and gravel which time and
spring freiihets have brought down the creek
and anchored here. Almost immediately
feathers began to rise from a spot about
fhrea yards exit from sliGio, and the clear
Water became tinged in that place with a
bloody streak. As th skill drew near to the
troubled point we coukl clearly make out the
form of a turtle anchored upon the sand
about three foet below the surface, and shel
tered from the force of e current by a
ltdjo cf limestone. llu chell locked about
two net loiif by a foot anJ a lialf in breadth.
He held the body of the mallard under him
while be tore its neck and breast with his
booked Jaws, working with the eagerness of
a vulture and much tho same general action.
In bis feast upon the warm body of the drnko,
a that bird displays when greedily tearing a
piece of carrion of which he expects shortly
to ba dispossessed.
' "They win plant themselves in tbe mud on
the bottom of the river near shore, those big
fc!ows will," gaid Henry, 'with their heads
jui? popping out of their shells, and in the
fccurie o ba! an tour 1 be current has'duted
bem" with mud and leaves and bits of drift,
until a sunfish cant tell them from a rock to
save bis soul, and so be floats down that way.
witb one eye looking out for danger and the
vmer iurgruo, any an ntencesometh in "darts
out from that muddy rock and catches the aim.
fLsh by tho side or the bock or tho fceat or the
laiL It dont make any djerence where it
patiM mm, k Jong as it takes in a good
muuiuiui, occause mat tning that has darted
out Is a snapping turtles head, and. whatever
It catches jt keepa. Then tha turtle tucb the
tun unaer him, jus as hp has the nvillard
,nere, ana wars aqq swallows like a hungry
"He will eat catfish and snakes, and almost
anything that lives in water, and once 1 saw
oue out in a meadow catching grasshoppers.
fotraigbt gorxu, sum To see a big turtle on
land Is enough to mate a bonw hiiigh. This
uiiy lifted bis bead, an J his tail as high in the
air as to could get them, and then, raising
lumseir on u; tips or bis toes, be struggled
along ror a rew yards,- wbpn an at cno his
jtrtrgth save 046 and down ho come ker
pmnn. v, beuever a grasshopper would alight
within rzt Of bis head out would go his
beak, and lcfore the hopper knew what hit
him it would be his meat. Cut this ain't
catching turtles, U ItP
He placed one of the pea like bullets in the
little rifle's breach, and laying the gnn to bis
Shoulder sighted along its octagonal barrel.
Instead of pointing toward tbe snapper the
gun's muzzle bore on a floating object about
the size of a man's thumb which was rapidly
approaching us from above, Witb tbe report
of tbe gun the object dUappearea. and then,
grasping the scoop, Henry leaned eagerly
over the skiffs side and looked down into the
water. In less than a minute the current
brought with it the body of a second turtle
smaller than the first, which Iler.ry dexter
ously scooped in as it was being half borne by
tho current and half propelled by its own dy
lug exertions down tbe stream. The bullet
bad crushed its skull while it was swimming,
as ta the fashion of many inland turtles, with
nothing but tbe tip of its heat above water.
"Now, then, for the duck eater. . I want to
take him alive, if 1 can, as there Is not much
market for dead turtles, tbe dealers not car
ing to take the risk of having stock spoil on
their hands, when it can be kept in a tank for
six months, at almoKt no expense, if alive.
Tlx- only way to get him is to catch him
In a trap, or a line, or to scoop him out. As
he has enough to eat there for a week, the
tlrst two plans will hardly work, and while in
such deep water as this tho scoop is danger
cu. I will try it."
Then with an oar Ilenry turned up the
black earth along the river's bank, sending
it in a cloud down the current and com
pletely hiding tbe turtle under its dark
mantle.
"DooT be afraid; be is not lost, as I nave
bis bearings. You see when the water was
Clear be could see every motion I made, and
had I tried to scoop him out then be would be
off before you could say 'Co f but now"
, nenry leaped oat of the skiff and into the
cold water, which washed his thighs. Witb
" tbe long handle held firmly in both hands be
raked tbe bar with the teeth of the scoop
until, they touched something which his
practiced touch told him was the game.
With a sudden shoot forward be lifted the
obstruction, and then putting all bis strength
into bis arms be cast it from tho scoop's teeth.
nding it in a clean flight of a dozen feet out
the water high and dry on tbe sandy
lioro. It was the snapper, with its Jaws
tightly closed on the wing of tbe dead duck.
When taken aboard, and thrown on tha
bottom of the boat with several of its con
geners, it made no effort to escape or to finish
its breakfast, but remained quiet, witb tbe
r' z iu it mouth and its kbarp little eyes
fnng.
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he jaws of the steel traps were now sprung
A nd fixed In that position, and after being
f a-stened to one end of a ten foot length or
quarter inch hemp rope, the other end of
I which was fixed to a peg driven deeply into
' the river bank, the traps were baited witb
tdnoows and sunk' in likely looking holes
aaiong the submerged willows. Tbe fish
hooks were baited in tbe saihCfi manner, and
their lines- tied to stout willow- branches,
after which tho boat was secured, and with
nothing but tbe scoop, Henry set olT on a
tramp up the creek. Newport iKy.) Cor.
liexr York Sun.
PLAST SHADE TREES.
IMPROVING NFW YORK'S 6ANITARY
CONDITION AT SMALL EXPENSE.
The IntlmaU Connect lor Itctweer Sbada
and Good llealtl. During the hrm
00 A F!alcin's Happy Thought.
On Who Cam for Trees.
There has been a boppy thought brewing
Ui tue mind or a very learned a well a verr
kind beartec resident of New York, whose
name b Ur (Stephen Smith. Tbe thought
ba been brewing for the luxt ten years and
is one that d user vet U be told, because. If H
not told and a targe number of citizen of
ew i ork are not made to are tbe tieaoty
and wisdom of it and lend human support
and aid it can never become more than
thought, and then more would I tbe pitv
It is well known tc thost unfortunate pnople
wno are obliged to remain iu town all summer
what suUering Is caused by the exceeding
heat, but the degree of beat borne by tbe well
to do and those who have spacious rooms and
house that allow of a full sweep of air, suuh
as there may be, is nothing couiarcd witb
mat boning, molting, burning beat that has
to be endured by the dwellers in tenement
bouses and the poor district of tbe city. It
was when Dr. Smith was on tbe board of
health, and had more than ordinary facility
for making Investigations of the evils, and
distress, and misery, and mortality that
accrue from tho heat and lack of air In the
summer that tho thought came to him what
a beneilt would ba gained to the dwellers all
over New York if tho city was planted, witb
trees. He becamo so in tores tod in tho idea
that be made a tborourh Uuilv of it. nml
viewe 1 it from every side in order to test its
practicability. One means to which he bad
recourse to test his theory was to take tbo
temperature cf the pavement in town on a
hot summer's day. It was l.'Xl degs. Fah
renheit. Ho then went to Central park and
took tbe temiwrature of tho atmosphere
underneath tho trees. It was CO dec-s. and
70 degs. Fahrenheit, according to tbedeme-
uess of tbe foliage.
It is a well knowu fact that tLd iemriera
ture in a forest or 'even under a clump it
trees is cooler in summer and warmer in
winter than in the open countrv. The In
stinct of animals is to go under the snade of
trees when tbo sun's ravs are too heating.
Men gladly avail themselves of tho same
privilege, knowing the beneCta ta ba r
cei ved. s a rcsul t c.f Rr. Srpith.'s ip vestiga
tion he cays in this regard: "Forests and
even single trees have a marked
upon the surrounding temperature, especially
ui nig me summer, ana they evidently tend
to equalize temperature. Di-event pirrm
both in summer and winter. Hence thev be
come of immense value a sanitary agendas
in preserving equality of climatic cccditions:
t noever nas waiK&q in tue streets of New
York on' a hot summer da v. protected from
tho direct rays of a midday sun by hia um
brella, has found the reflected hcs.t 0 the
pavement intols.-ab!. H tof a momeiit he
passed into the dense shade cf a troe ba at
once experienced a marked sense of relict" I
tree? exUMJ oiinsifftntly Lu-
moiature to to th . umes of
, and this is a constnnt
process of cooling the air. Dr. Smith also
jiu uisuoara 01 health report: "The in
uueiuw oi ireea, neaviiy leaved, in a district
uiHe,e is no other vegetation, in mod
erating and equalising the temperature can
uot bo overestimated. Thev are al f
menso value owing to their power to destroy
or neutralize malaria, and to absorb th i
onous olenieuts of gaseous compounds, while
luejr emu me oxygen. The conclusion from
iuii-soius 1 acts is inevitable that one of
wie great and pressing sanitary wauts of New
v.. is an ample supp(y cj trees. It is
evt.ient that the ctyulo fciees of nrooor ti
aud euiUbly arranged, supply the conditions
necessary to counteract the evils of excessive
ueai.-
1 rees would add much also to the lnt
of the city, bu.thatJja minor question for
considevliuo. They would brina shade and
moisture, and reduce the fearful blaze from
tue sun s rays, and that would mean the ore-
1 ... . "
wn nuuu ui uuninn me ana some sugbt re
spite from tho hand of disp,i.
1 ue wonder that such a fellcltou
thought as the planting of trees in this city
lid not occur to soino one long ajo, and ha
not been carried Into ciToct. Charitably
minded people ae constantly trying to find
a new method or helping their fellow beings.
1 bis is an object that would be far more
praiseworthy than starting a hospital, and
iioes not moan a lax on any one citizen nn
!es it would be a tax to kotp In preservation
'he precious boon in the shape of a shade
tree What if these great green bits of natnro
were distributed in the ncighlorhood of the
Fi ve Points, or any of tbe quarters where
tenement houses are as numerous! Witb
what added comfort the children could play
in tho street! It would be possible for them
to have the benefit of tho little air there was
stirring instead of being shut up in their two
roomed homes in order to be out of the sun.
The degree of crowding In the tenement
house districts of New York is greater than
auy other city in th civilized world a fact
that is owing much to the small compass of
land on which the city is situated. The mor
tality is of course very great in these dis
tricts, but if it could be decreased even In
the smallest degree by the planting of tree.
ueb a result would certainly bo worth the
eilbrti A curious map was made by Dr.
Smith while he wes pursuing the in vest ig a
tion of the tenement bouse system, aud it
shows to an appalling degree the increase of
the death rate during the heat of the sum
mer. J 111:0 20 is reckoned as the beginning
of tbe hot weather. With the rise in the
temperature, indicated by a brilliant scarlet
mark on tbo map, rises also, in close prox
tuity to it, a heavy black mark showing the
havoc death is making. A cloudy day. the
black mark descends; a thunder shower takes
place, the same effect is produced. All these
variations go to show that tbe smallest at
mospheric changes as well as other contin
gencies make a difference in the death rate.
There is at least one man in New York
who exercises his best endeavor to keep the
few remaining trees in order. He is a man
of leisure. Much of bis time is spent in ex
ploring different parts of the city for the
purpose of discovering where there are treea.
Tbey have become to him as interesting
as human beings, and if he finds that
any or them are badly treated that tbe
pavement has been brought in too close con
tact with their roots or that they ought to lie
inclosed in order to keep them out of tbe
roach of mischievous boys be takes tbe num
ber of tbe bouse before which be has seen
such a tree and finds the name of the owner
in the directory, then goes home and writes
a postal card to him, and calls bis attention
to the circumstances. In this way be has
been tbe means of preserving many of tbe
old landmarks of New York. New York
To set delicate colors in embroidered hand
kerchiefs, soak tbera ten minutes previous to
washing in a pail of tepid water, in which a
dessert spoonful of turpentine has been well
stirred.
When stung by a boa or a wasp make
pasta of conuuou earth and water, put ou tha
place at oaceand cover jwith a cloth.
SOME EXPENSIVE LUXURIES.
Costliest Article la A inert cat Furniture,
Jewelry, Books and Pictures. '
I have come acroaa a curious paper com
piled by some of those cranks witb a passion
for figures and statistics and is meant to show
how tremendous is tbe luxury of this city.
He begins by saying that Mr. IL O. Mar
quand has the costliest piano In the world.
Steinway made tbe works and the case
painted by Alma Tadcma was done in Iion
don, the wholo costing $40,000. This stands
in Mr. Marquand's famous music room, one
of tbe motot luxurious and beautiful cham
bers in this country. He also has the cost
liest billiard table in this country, having
paid for it in round uumbers tIW.000, and
everything in the houso is on a scale to har
monize with these expensive bits of furniture.
The costliest dinner service ever made was
done iu this city by Tiffany. Mr. Mac-key
brought with him from his mines $75,000
worth at bullion, aud this tbe jewelers madu
up into a service, asking 10,000 for tho
work, making the cost of it in all flitt.OOO,
and uo sovereign in Europe eats from such a
gorgeous plate. Yet, strange to say, Mackey
is as simple as possible in his manner. Tho
costliest string of pearls in this country be
longs to Mrs. Louis Hamersley, and was tbe
one she wore on her neck one night lost
winter when a-thief put his band in tho car
riage window and tried to snatch them, suc
ceeding only in breaking the string ami scat
tering the pearls, which were nil recovered
with the exception of one. He had heard of
their price, doubtless $51,000 and made a
uddcn grasp at fortune. Mrs. Willie Vun-
Jerbilt wears a solitaire diamond n'H which
cost $J8;004 while Mrs." Cornelius has just
purchased for $125,000 tho fittings of 0110
roonv Tbe late Mrs. Mary Morgan imid
$250,000 for a diamond necklace, and Mrs.
Hicks-Lord bos one equally as valuable.
1 ho niot expensive picture in this countrv
Is Meissonier's "1S07," which hangs in the
Metropolitan museum, presented by Ilenry
Hilton, who mid f 00,.100 for it. It has been
estimated that this sum wJuld more than
cover tbe entiro canvas with $20 gold pieces.
The most expensive book of ijj iz 'ft Now
York h he- COti 'eJUiiii 'of ' "Swaksure's
3u:iuuts,u of which but two copies exist, 0110
in the British museum, and the other owned
by the publishers Dodd & Mead. They paid
$5,000 for it, which in weight is about $4S0
an ounce. In tbe Lenox library is a perfect
copy of tho Mazarine or (jutienberg CiblaJ
the first brok riintcd v. ith'' liibvablo. types.
It 4 J worth 25)0, and uotbing better has
been dono'sinM. ' Cray ton Ives has an imper
fect copy for which he paid $13,000. J. W.
liouton, the book dealer, sold a Ciblo tbe
other day for $10,000. It was originally in
tliree volumes, but by "Crayerism" the in
sertion of wood cuts, manuscript, encrav-
ings and etchings it has f Tpanvwu to sixty
imperial fslio volumes. lirook IV ri Eagle."
Experience of a Vegetarian,,
Mr. McCrone has alvava btm u vwv hard
worfccri in the field" would outwork sv.v
of his, uiiier6.u3 Jahcuera, wjirj vu -
fooil enters, and t r-miLipd w1- " filial
s?r fOf di'-iu. -i a frequent de-
" , gratify which not only re-
ix tbera in their work, but was a sourco
of relaxation as welL Ho never feels the
need of water or other liquids as a beverage,
but uses a generous supply of milk in his
diet. His general diet consists of oatmeal
and milk, Graham bread crackers, vegetable
soups, potatoes, corn and other common
vegetables, and also considerable fruit of
various kinds. His use of drinking water,
he thinks, will not average over a quart a
year, fruit supplying a great deal of tho
moisture necessary for the body.
As regards tho relish of food it is a well
known fact that a more discriminating tasto
is acquired by entire abstinence from meat,
and if this be doubted, a trial of a few weeks,
even two weeks, will convince tho most
skeptical thnt it is not owing to a keener
appetite consequent upon the stoppage of tho
habitual hearty diet, but thnt meat really
dos blunt tho tar.te and such a trial w ill
injure no oue. Mr. Mc-Crone thinks three
weeks a fair trial, and believes that any 0110
at the end of that time will admit that ho
feels better and derives more enjoyment from
tho food he eats, and if continued, will be
better in every way for it He cites the
healthier condition of the lower classes iu
foreign countries, who are unable from their
small wages to obtain meat; while those of
better means, in the cities principally, live
upon animal food and are as a rule of more
feeble constitution and in no way so well
equipped for life's battle. Consequently tha
recruiting supply of the armies of those
countries is drawn largely from the poorer
classes, who have more endurance and are
better fighters than their city cousins. They
transmit stronger constitutions to their off
spring, and are longer lived, and practically
f reo from the pains and ills which humanity
is commonly afflicted with. The history of
various ancient nations furnishes strong ar
guments in favor of his doctrine in their rise,
strength, progress and decadence. Spring
field Republican.
Tho Captive Prairie Dogs.
" Wben I was a little boy my father moved
from lloosierdom over upon a broad and
blooming prairie in Illinois," said a man to a
reporter. "One time my father trapped four
or five prairie dogs. I don't know how he
managed it; I've forgotten that. I think
they must have been young and foolish, like
baby rats, which ventured where their pa
aud ma would never go. My father brought
them borne, and wo children bugged our
selves in delight as we fancied them as pretty
pets, like squirrels or white rabbits. A cage
was quickly fitted up, tbe captives were
placed in it and surrounded by all the dain
ties which we fancied could tempt them to
forget their captivity. Our parents kept us
away from the cage, as the little strangers re
garded us with a terror which they did not
attempt to conceal But we went to place
more food before them the next momin".
Tbe food previously provided had not been
touched. The little prisoners sat wearily oa
their haunches in the dark extremity of their
cell. Childish curiosity was repressed till the
second morning, when the cage was again
visited. The captives sat in the same posi
tion, and no morsel of the varied bill of fare
with which we had designed to tempt them
bad been touched. The water was undimin
ished in the bowL
"Another day passed, the third morning
came, and wo ran out to see our pets. The
sight that met our eyes I shall never forget.
In their hunger and despair tbe poor captives
bad eaten their own feet. The bloody stumps
were a sad and sickening reproof to our
cruelty in depriving tbe children of the
prairie of their wild, sweet liberty. We felt
ft, children as we were, and silently, almost
in tears, we opened the prison door and
slipped uway to give tbe captives opportun
ity to escape. But it was too lata Witb
their feet gnawed off up almost to their littlo
bodies, they could scarcely more than drag
themselves out and creep away into tbe
grass, where they soon after died." Chicago
Herald.
Tbe thistle at -antipodes seems to attain a
most vigorous growth. Its root penetrates
to a depth or from twelve to twenty feet,
and this root, even when cut into small
pieces, retains vitality, each root producing
new p tan L. Chicago Herald.
FRANCE'S EDUCATION.
IN SOME PARTICULARS FA AHEAD
OF THAT AMERICA.
The French Ky.trni or rrartlcal Inlruc
tion The Aim of the Oovernrariit An
KducMtlon Technical School Tbe I'arli
I'rluiury School.
Oeneral education in France is "fully n
thorough and gratuitous as that of tho
United States, and in Komo particulars far
ahead of it, mainly so in the Kystem of piw
tical education.
"Commencing with the kindergarten, the
primary schools, the intermediate schools,
drawing-aud art ncliools, all have tho same
manifest ami outs;olu-u tendency of raising
me growing xjiiI.-ition into a ixx.plo of
skilled and well educated workmen who. bv
meir Kujienor training and intellectual out
fitting, will bo better able to light ini.-ierv and
lovei ty thanntany ix'i io.1 of the world b.-
lore. All the instruction, tools, lxoks, sta
tionery 10 1110 very j,oor even food and
clothing are given free of charc-e. so thnt
senooi becomes an abode of pleasure and u
disjienser of comforts to the poor children
whose parents are not able to provide them
with any of these blessings."
I-ranee spends S00,0U0,00i)f. a vear to e-ir
its growing generation iiiU Hectunl advance
ment. Iu addition to, this tho ministers of
war and Of commerce, contribute largo sums
for sjiecial sch.K.ls, and I'aris tiju-uds for
municipal si-hooU :MUNni,ooof., which is fivo
times moi-o money than was spent for this
purpose in tho time of the empire. Air. Helm
enhuf says "the scl.o .l ytfrtiT of i.;!;, ;- lo
tions may n- as complete in their educational
facilities, but nowlien: excepting in Switzer
land and America is free instruction so systematically-
carried out as in France.
Xowhero are industrial education ud, art
education made, so to Cj,utt aii tiryanic
part of the whr-Je,5,Vi.tiiii or' public insh uc-
'.- -? itgiiiH witn manual tra
with it in combined object teacbin
AIM OF THE GOVERNMENT.
This seems to be tho aim of tho governryiit.
General education at first, a.ml in Liino "'sih
cial instruction, ' '
"1. T'lapuiston. the child to know the tools,
to luuier&taiitl their use. ami to amuse him ns
much as possible with sketchings, outlining,
modeling mid hmid work. 2. To assist in tho
eronttun of apprentice schools in industrial
centers to the end of giving to the pupils who
follow the instruction dexterity in tho use of
tho hand and other corresjioiuUng knowledge
to prepare them for entering the Eoolo des
Arts ct Metier -. manufacturing establish-
menu;. M To contribute to tl
luo'a wi luacimiery usuu ui Vo hu'xjt'
primary and oth.fr schools M-cnoi-in'- --''1
tcchniiwil school.-- 4 TV a tor the
of admission to tho. U' -j the standard
by the. er-efd. dvJ Ai-ts et Metiers
oud r wuiciency given bv these seo-
j primary schools with workshop prac
tice connected. 5. To assist the superior lo
cal schools in the support of specially deter
mined industries of the district. 0. To bring
the principal schools to tho highest degree of
technical and scientific perfection by adding
new courses of complementary exercises of
special application, and to support and en
courage as much as possible industrial soc-ie
ties wuo maintain special public courses in
the different industrial centers of tho coun
try." Americans who favor on art education as
necessary for workmen had to combat old
ideas and tinte honored prejudices. Once, so
long as cloth was thick or warm, or a house,
as William Morris has it, was a "comfortable
hutch," that suffice) 1. Hut as manufactures
havo increased, our "infautile productive
powers" turning out more goods than we
could conveniently use, wo want a market
for them. The Minnesota or Iowa man is
satisfied, indifferent to tho color, design,
form, finish of the wares he makes or buys,
yet the Mexican or Brazilian may fec-l disin
clined to wear tho goods ve manufacture
simply because they do not suit bis taste ns
to "color, design, form, finish." As Mr.
Schoenhof aptly puts it:
"Many uu article superior in wearing qual
ity, and consequently of higher intrinsic
value, is rejected 111 comjietition with an in
ferior one, more pleasing to the eye, how
ever, in virtue of higher skill and taste em
ployed in its ornamentation, coloring, shap
ing. The particular manufacturer in the
United Scat?s who ignores this fact and is
obstinate stands the chance of ruin."
In Paris there are from fifty to seventy
five studios of designers for industrial art.
and at their heads are designers of skill, with
full knowledge of art industry or the adap
tiveness of certain forms and ornamentations
to materials. To these studios come tlw
manufacturers who purchase ideas.
THE TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
All technical schools in France aro under
the supervision of the minister of commerce.
The highest of these is the Eeole des Arts et
Metiers. There are others at Air. Ansrera
and Chalons-sur-Marne. In tho workshops
are turned out oomietent foremen and super
intendents. The work in these schools, it is
believed, will be better in the future, because
the rising generation of Frenchmen, under
that newer sj-stem, which teaches the child
how to work earlier with his bauds, will have
more time for theoretical study.
Special schools for trades are singular to
France, as the Eeole Municipale Frofcssion
ello d'Ameublement, where pupils are taught
to design and make artistic furniture. In
theoretical studies tho pupils are taught
French, history, language, arithmetic, geom
etry, technologj-, history of industrial draw
ing, sketching, modeling and molding. Pro
fessional instruction consists of cabinet
making, wood carving, turning, joiner work
and upholstery. Instruction is free, and
pupils are fed during school hours. The
teachers are practical workmen. Somewhat
similar in character is a school whero car
riage building is taught, and tho Eeole
d'Horlogerie, which gives education to those
who work to become skilled watchmakers.
With similar ends, many schools are now in
the formation process in Franco for the
making of mathematical, optical, telegraphic
and surgical instruments. In Lyons there is
a weaving school (Ecolo de Tissage). In
Paris, as a center of population, there are
2S0 primary schools for boys, 275 for girls,
and the pupils number 200,000. The divisions
are three kindergarten schools, primary
schools and superior primary schools (coles
primaires et superieures).
Of tho 2So primary schools in Paris ninety
have workshops for the working of wood and
iron, and in time workshops will be the con
stant adjunct Everywhere in all the depart
ments of France are to bo found these
schools, not elementary alone, but where tho
highest branches of technical art aro taught.
Take, for instance, the apprentice school of
decorative art applied to industry in Paris.
"The object of this school is to give special
instruction to special trades of an artistic
nature ceramic, glass, enameling, sculptur
ing and carving in wood, marble and ivory,
metal casting :copper, bronze, iron), chasing,
textile designing and decorative painting,
furniture and artistic woodwork, modeling
in Clay and wax from plaster or from life.
The instruction from this school js gratui
tous, and all are admitted after having passed
an examination iu written papers or an ex
amination and a submitted drawing." Jtw
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