Piassava Industry. At a recent meeting of the West African section of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce a letter was read from the colonial secretary of Gambia inclosing the following report on the development of the piassava industry ...

Of these, 80 turtled (65%), 26 hunted and turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).

He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint.

Mr. Chasanoff, who stopped collecting in the 1990s, sees such images as relics of an age that has passed, the predigital age.