Show M of beads beads are largely made in venice where gh glass making hag has been the principal industry jt is said that the tile invention of beads dates date from the thirteenth century and is duo to two venetian motti and imbriani who were urged to rn make ake experiments by tho tile celebrated venetian traveler marco jolo polo under the venetian republic and fur for some years after its fall says our consul at venice the exportation of beads lias has not reached the importance it had now attained this was perhaps owing to the of the furr furnaces inces and tho the difficulty and the length of the technical processes required for the composition of the paste the morelli however who in 1670 were the principal bead manufacturers had bad four ships at sea carrying beads to tho the E east ast on their own account and they became BO so rich th that it in 1680 they entered the ranks of the venetian nobility on payment of the tile sum eurn of one hundred thousand ducats dubats to the republic sinco Since 1815 this industry has become so important as to give it at tho the present time employment to about fifteen thousand persons persons the traffic is carried en on with all th the 0 world but the principal exportation of beads is to the ports of asia and africa an extraordinary stimulus us was given to this industry a few years ago by tho the prevailing taste for beads for trimming ladies dresses A great exten extension aion of the manufacture took place and tho the las as bor was paid so high that all who could do so gave up their usual trades for bead making but when the demand for beads declined most of the workmen who had been allured by fancy wages to the bead manufacture were thrown out of work and compelled to return to their former occupations whatever be the cause bead ma king has been the special privilege L of venice in spite of all foreign a attempts to manufacture this article elsewhere the wages in glass works arc are for a first master about eight francs a day for a second roaster master roase mase t e r f four our and a half franca and for the ordinary workmen from two to five franca francs a day during tha the lost last five years ehe av average 1 andua annual I 1 exportation por tation of beads has been thousand quintals quint als of the approximate value of five million civo ri hundred undred thousand francs |