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Show DEMAND FOR HOUR GLASSEl aome Are Used for Keeping Tell ea Plane PruliM. I "Most people think that hour I Vies Vi-es went out of style yean ago," aid a clerk In a Twenty-third street ore to the New York Sun. "along ritb. perukes and knee breeches, but 1 a matter ot fact we have more ca ' tiir them today than we have b4 time within the last ten years. T-nJ thla renewed popularity of tha hut glass augura Ita universal acceptac aa a timepiece by the coming genes-tion, genes-tion, I am not prepared to Bay, bu If such a renalsssnce were to bocomiftf surcd It would bo no more surprint than some of the other recent lis baaed on a revival ot loat cualoji. Anyway a brief study of the hour ga will do nobody harm. There are tb-snnds tb-snnds in this generation who have ot the allghtcat Idea what an hour gus looks like, and It won't hurt thema broaden their education a little alts certain lines. Of the hour glasses ad at present the three-minute claai III the lead. Thla glaas la used alnat exclusively to measure time In boll egga and Ita usefulness natural placea Its aale a Utile In advance of more sentimental varieties. N(t come the five, ten and fifteen mloa and full hour glasses, which bought chiefly by musicians for pl practice and by lodges and aecret r cletiea. Tha sand used in an he glass Is the very finest that the Wfld rltords. The western coast of IUt fur-lBhes most of It, as It has done K ".tea, past. The coot of hour glaasers r-jalod by the ornamentation of a tramoe. A glass aet In a plain rot-wood rot-wood case can be bought for $1, wN a mahogany frame cornea to $1.60 $3. Of course, the price can be broutt up atlll higher by fancy carving ei decoration. Swell lodges sotuotlmesP to thla extra expense, but moat P' are satisfied with the cheaper grade" |