Show HOW CONVICTS PASS THE TIME some very artistic work done lo 10 prisons of america it Is at once interesting and ic says the philadelphia record to go through the cells of the eastern penitentiary and to note the objects which with tedious pains the pris boners have made to while the ume away here a mantel will be hung with a lambrequin elaborately fringed the fine knots and delicate patterns of the threads comparing with the work of the french lace makers mak ers the lambrequin Is ot an odd blue and the visitor Is told that it Is made of an old pair of prison trousers on a little gilt bracket Is a small stuffed animal the bracket so delicately turned Is of newspapers pasted to gether and elided and the animal Is a rat caught in a homemade home made trap stuffed with rags and pieces of chew ing gum colored with shoe blacking tor its eyes A wall Is completely cov ered with a really artistic decoration of reeds on which are perched at least birds each accurately colored and drawn there are also numberless checkerboards and sets of chessmen that in the delicacy of their inlay work and in the intricacy of their carving would do honor to the crafts men of the orient |