Old Shoes Turned To Use

Tho journal of the Constantinople chamber of commerce describes the industrial uses of old boots and shoes which are thrown out into the streets or into ash pits. Aftcr being collected they are ripped open and the leather is sul jected to a treatment which renders it a pliable mass, from which a kind of artistic leather is derived. This in appearance resembles the finest Cordova leather. In the United States patterns are stamped on this, wbile in Franco it ia used to cover trunks and boxea. The old boots and Bhoes are also treated in another way, by which they are converted into new ones. Tlie prisoners in central Franoe are : employed in this way, the old shoes ! ing chieily from Spain. They are taken to pieces as before, tho nails being all removed, and the leather is soaked in water to sof ten it. The uppers for children's shoes are then cut iroin it. The soles are also used, for from the smaller pieces of the leather of the old soles the so called Louis XV heels for ladics' shoes aro made, while the solas of children's shoes are made from the larger and thickcr piceos,. The old naila are also put to use, for by mcaus of magnets the iron naila and the tacks and brads are separatcd and sold. The contractors of the military prison at iontpelier eay that these nails alone pay for the cld shoes. Nothing now remains hut thcsci-aps,and these have r.ko their valuc, for they are much sought after by certairi epecialista for acricullurul purposes