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Show English Pearl Fisheries. Pearl fishing, writes a correspondent, correspon-dent, Is still carried on with considerable consider-able success on the River Teith at Callander, Perthshire, Scotland. The "seed pearls," which Include both black and white specimens, are got in the shells of freBh water mussels. The local worthies, who often add largely to their incomes, practice their calling at night, the more up to-date using a small electric light attached to a cord, which when sunk within a few inches of the bottom of the stream reveals the glistening shells. These are then s cured with a c.'oven ash stick. Oblong pearls of big size aro jftc-n got. |