Show gloves not mude of bt skins it has often been said that the glove of paria make use in their trade of the skins of rats which are caught in the sewers but this is denied certainly the material would not be strong enough to successfully counterfeit the kid unless ti were for the thumb parts only which are generally of a thinner and different kind of leather from the rest suggestion has been made that a trade might be opened with the chinese for the akans of the rate which they eat washington star |