Show pI I FRENCH THRIFT The French people have things F down to a fine tine point in the making I of ot a living Very little is allowed to togo togo togo go to waste Even the dust obtained by the vacuum cleaners in sweeping stores offices and dwellings s 8 used use as a fertilizer and sold for several everal dollars a ton The ultimate distribution of 01 the garbage of or the great reat city of or Paris gives a pretty pr tty good Idea Mea of the thrift of or the Frenchman The house refuse Is set sot cut in front in the usual manner and sad andIs sadIS Is carted away awa in the early morning I hours Wagons carry refuse retus to the Iver Seine and there dump it onto 4 inclined chutes which discharge it into barges Both on the barges and on the street before collection this mat matter matter matter ter is overhauled by chiffoniers who sort out and take away rags rag papers nd other articles There are many establishments in inI I Paris that make a H business of o taking care of ot the rubbish so IO collected and they dispose pi pt It for the bottles glass glassand glassand glassand and other things which can be sorted out The most important of these con concerns concerns concerns cerns is situated at Bondy about eight miles mUes from Paris which was organized after the city cit government had failed in Its attempt to destroy the garbage by burning At these plants the com corn companies panics carefully remove all aU merchant merchantable able matter which has not been pre previously pr previously obtained by the chiffoniers Tin cans can are ara cut up fc the tin large larse I quantities of which are arc sent to Ger Germany Germany Germany many to be used in making toys Tho Tio Thorough Thorough rough bones are used in making glue the liner finer ones for knife handles but buttons buttons buttons tons dominoes etc ete Oyster shells are i ground up to be mixed with poultry food A The matter which c is mainly ashes and vegetable refuse 1 is pulverized and sold to farmers t as aste fertilizer te although being high In 11 pot potash potash potash ash it is too strong stron to be used u ed along alone Lad nd is mixed with barnyard manure This pulverized refuse Is sold at about 60 so to 65 cents a ton tO 1 which low price restricts its range of transportation to 30 SO or 40 miles mUes The Bondy establishment c tab I sends ends out to 1000 tons of f C this material per day d y Evidently vid the Germans German go the Frenchmen one better beU r in the matter mattert t f r V r of ot the tha t discarded rd d tin cans eans As a mat matter t ter of fact the little tin soldiers sol fers and other toys sold Jd in this country made of or the tho same material mate are IU manufactured ture of this refuse refu e material n L rI 1 of the big Jg Cities On this account Lecount the reason retson of their th lr cheapness is J apparent |