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Show No country manufactnres so many artificial pearls as France. For this purpose the glass nsed is the color of whey, and the glass or bead is filled with a very costly solntion prepared from the scales of fishes-a vessel holding a liter- about one and three-quarters three-quarters of a pint English- is worth several francs. They are of irregular sizes and forms, and are made to imitate pearls of black, gray, and other colors When plsced by the side of genuine pearls, even spread out and arranged in the same string like beads, it is not easy to. |