Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — Put to Many Uses. [ARTICLE]

Put to Many Uses.

Sharks furnish quite a number of Valuable products. The liver of tho shark coutaius an oil of a beautiful color, that never becomes turbid, and that possesses medicinal qualities equal to those of cod-liver oil. The skin, after being dried, takes the polish and hardness of mother-of-pearl. The tins are always highly prized by the Chinese, who pickle them and serve them at dinner as a most delicate dish. The Europeans who do not yet appreciate the fins of tho shark as a food produet, are content to convert them into fish glue, which competes with the sturgeon glue prepared in Russia. As for the flesh of the shark, that, despite its oily taste, is enteu in certain countries. It is employed also, along with the bones, in the preparation of a fertilizer. The Icelanders, who do a large business in sharks’ oil, send out annually a fleet of a hundred vessels for the capture of tlie great flsh.