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LIVE BY QUEER WORK.
CAININC a livelihood in oricinal
WAYS.
0 _ . d . oca .. ion o . c ___ - The
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sional “Cheerer.”
S Cli r,conic earn their liv
Herald. There is a man in the city
who makes a good income monthly by
turning ont especially artistic sofa
low- Another man will clear your
kitchen of rats and mice for a small
sum working in precisely the same
manner as the sewer rat-catchers of
Paris and other large cities. Ken
wood honrewives are well acquainted
with a bright young fellow who washes
dog-and takes regular care of birds
and other pets, and Oak Park has a
masculine resident who goes from
door to door collecting defective
gloves, which he afterward carries to
the small shanty which is home to
him, cleans, mends and returns.
is said to he actually saving money,
despite the fact that his charges are
■conmderably lower than those charged
by the downtown stores.
Nor are Chicago women less enter
prising than the men in the way of
doing odd work. One nouth hu e
woman writes sermons for a living,
another furnishes “original papers to
be read before clubs and bright
rhymes for menu cards and quotation
parties. There is another woman in
town who is a practical miner. ^ n_
otljer Chicago woman conducts a com
mission business on South ''“ter
street.
But the oddest occupation unearthed , ,
yet ih followed and was invented by a
woman. It is that of a sort of funeral
inspector and assistant. When her
services are required she goes to the
house of mourning, makes the shroud
when desired to do so, gives orders
for flowers, arranges them, takes mea
aagcH to the friends and relatives of
the household, bids people to the ser
vices, buys or hires the mourning gar
xuents, alters them if necessary, ar
ranges the rooms for the funeral, talks
matters over with the minister and the
Undertaker, sees thut the wishes of the
family are carried out, and, in a word,
stands between the afflicted people
and the world at large in a thousand
ways and performs a thousand small
but highly appreciated services. The
funeral over, she takes the flowers to
be photographed, rem ains m the h ouse
until the '"fir' family rt ^
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children, , prepares meal , if necessary,
stays to this meal .f requested and in
many ways helps along the dragging
machinery of life When affairs have
assumed somewhat of their normal
appearance and course she quietly do
parts. Another branch of her work
1s the assisting at weddinga or large
private gatherings of any kind.
V\ hen a wedding is in course of pre
paration perhaps she arrives early in the day,
or two days previous to the
great event, and again takes charge
of all the countless small details so
trying to the mistress of the house
Hhe it IS who sees that the bouquet
f ,a re 8<1ineas f ; ,r Dm bride, that her
nmk l . properly packed and
is every
th.ng that should go m it put in place,
and that all arrangements for the com
fort and convemenee ol the guests are
completed. Hhe it is who lutervmws
the bridegroom and makes sure that
the I mg is forthcoming, she it is w ho
crihcally 8njn‘nntt‘i\»t> the H
•billet at the final moment, in order
that her calm attention and uu
inspent ion may insure perfection of
detail. She it is who sees to the serv
ing of refrt'slkinents, the earing for
ami and tho . dreaded . .
wraps topcoats the festivities
“clearing up" when are
over.
1 wo people, a man amt a woman,
tlie former a college youth, follow in
Chicago the down-east avocation of
“professional entertainer." The ool
lege hoy is in such incessant demand
for "stag" and mixed parties that his
studies suffer occasionally. The state
Hu nt that he is "the life of’ every
gathering he attends is his recoin
mendrttn>n. He also superintends all
the necessary arrangements for the
affair. He is* held responsible for the
enjoyment ami entertainment of the
guests, and is treated as such himself,
Tho college boy is paying his way
through college by his work.
There is but one professional
“olieeror" NO far a 1 ' known, in Chi
rago. This is a young girl who,
«1h i\ plentifully blessed with Ihe
world's goods, tried to help others by
visiting them in trouble and trying to
bring sunshine to them. Later, when
hard times came to her own family,
York more
women do this work regularlv
In the top of a tall building which on
State street is a small office in
a man works busily all bauds' daylong.
making plaster casts of feet
heads, and so on* For women with
pretty members to have them
petnated in plaster, always supposing
that marble is bevond her pocket
book’s capacity, has been a society
fad for some time. This man seized
upon the idea, and has lifted himself
well above want by means of it.
Over in the Bohemian district lives
a man who is growing rich by painting
pictures for the use of beggars. Day
after day he works on, painting away
at explosion scenes, fires, battlefields,
and other gory and startling happen
In a big Wabash avenue building
may be found a woman who earns her
o ea ier wor never con 111 .mere
except by herselC It is a German
method, a combination of repousse
work, hammering and photography.
On the west side is a man who carts
bodies from the morgue to the medical
colleges for a living, and Chicago has
the only woman in America to make
colored medical drawings within her
gates. the list of
And so it goes on; queer
avocations followed in Chicago might
well be indefinitely extended, for the
people who are forced to think out
new ways to earn a livelihood are ex
eeedirigly numerous.
SPINNINC SILK FROM SPIDERS.
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Science Robs the Wily Insect of Its Del
cate Web.
The prize of $5,000, offered by the
an u f a( » tn r e r 8 ’ Union of England to
t) Hf inventor of any perfect process for
u tj]{ z j n g the web of a common spider,
baf) been aW arded to M. Cachot, an
eminent chemist of France.
The spider, unlike the silkworm, is
! w ild and warlike. Its short mandibles
are arme j w ith fangs through which a
! ( i t . R dly poison flows. It is a gourmand,
demanding large supplies of animal
foo( j and p i eu ty of water. It is the
hardest of all insects to manage. De¬
Bpde ay, these drawbacks science has
conquered the little fiend and compel
, ed it to pay tr i bu te to genius,
M Cachot recently invited acorn
pan _ 0 ( manufacturers to inspect the
workil)g8 of bja prt)ce ss. They were
ushered into u damp) ,U m l y lighted
roonij inhabited by hundreds of large
Madagascar spiders clinging to the
gide wal j g anJ upon tbe rafters. The
onJ food required by these curious
oreatures i 9 a diet of insects, house
diesand small living things of all sorts,
Th 0 atoh the victim, and, while try
• to imprison their prey, send out
their m(J8t va i nab i e webbing. It is
gtrong and permits of being
t „ rnji d off Readily. stands
(tre JAl! ,V>v of tbe room a
f, a e ,th bobbins worked by a
lu is i
^ turns around {he fly and then
webisauing ^ fro m its abdomen is
h( b ^ a d icate hook, fastened to
th# bob n d wound off afl fast as
tbe ‘ ider produce ‘ g it. One spider
wm jn . week 8ufficient w6b t
f a o
„„ a obbin ttH Iarge aa a pea nut. As
, “ HH it ig e gene rously fed it will con
tin e to crea te it s thread until it dies,
The lm ()f , he web ig a pale gray,
and , akeg a „ d g read i,y.
e ^ )erim ental purposes, a little
()f fhe g i er web was woven into a
^ It yieldeJ a fabric very silky
jn touch M flne as the best 0 f
()riental J prodnct8 . It is possible that
(he w0 e ,. ful| “ delic „te silks of the
ancient8 f 8pi( I er web, as with
ftU f tu# increa8ed facilities ami
k|lowle(1 ^ of nloder n times, they have
mivpr dupli( . ated . The robes
tbat oieopatra boasted she could draw
tbr()Ugb an earr i ng were probably
mad „ ()f tllia flnest G f oil known ma
toria | g The start has been made,
The development will be watcheduitb
i|lU , re8t T(ixtile American.
Coal Dust a Dangerous Element. ,
An instance of the ignition of coal
du8t l.y the sun’s rays is reported in I
tUe <;i„«-knuf, a German authority, j j
It appears that the surface works ol
be Maybach colliery, near Friedrich
„tahl, in the a district, are chiefly
td i rou; an ii „a certain girders the
floating dust, due to the tipping ol
,. oa i ou b , the time', jigging screens, becomes,
, u t . ourse 0 f deposited iu a lave:
lu „ve than an inch thick. On a work
llia n burning his hand, while repairing
ft pipe running through the corrugated
,,. on forming one of the south walls,
tbe otb ,.j a | inquiry showed that the
| HVer 0 f P()(d du9 t had been formed
along the whole length of the wall, and
although the dust contained a proper
tlo „ 0 f pulverized rock, the metal
plates heated bv the sun had ignited
it, the layer of white ash on the top
proving that it had burned for a con
siderable period. The circumstances
affords fresh proof of the ease with
which coal dust may be brought to ig
nition, also a possible explanation ot
fires at similar surface works—Bos
ton Transcript.
use of sugar or pure candies. lour
ists who climb high altitudes crave
sweet, and are greatly benefited by it.
The value of sugar as a part of the diet
of soldiers has been clearly determined,
It is said that after violent muscular
exertion the quantity of sugar in the
blood is greatly reduced, but tbat en
ergy is rapidly regained by eating
pure candy or othd good sweets.
The Ledger.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
J. W. Nall, of Troy, Ala , has been
appointed commercial agent of the
Central of Georgia Railway company
at Augusta to take the place of Mr. E. T.
Charlton, who was recently appointed
eastern agent of the Ocean Steamship
The report of Receiver Joel Hurt of
S^wanee Canal Company, has been
f ^ ^ states that the prospects for
re izing g d amount of assets from
lbe compaJ1 1 v - are encouraging. ° b
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j> r c. D. Wall, who was sent by
the Columbus authorities to Birming
ham a few days ago to investigate the
smallpox situation there, reported to
the boarijl of health that the situa
don is no worse than given out. The
board rocommended that the council
ldopt stricter vaccination regulations
lnd inaugurate a house-to-house ex
animation,
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much talked of Horse-Swappers'
State Convention will meet in Coving
ton, Gft , on tbe 21st day of Septem
ber an< i remain in session three days,
^ object of the convention is to
elect a president,. vice president and
other officers. Every horse-swapper
in Georgia has lias a special invitation
to attend, and those in attendance will
be entitled^© a vote at the convention
in any and all matters brought before
the union.
Mr. Phi! G. Byrd, Governor Atkin¬
son’s special commissioner, appointed
to inspect the misdemeanor convict
camps, has filed the supplemental re¬
port of his investigations which the
governor asked for some time ago. It
concerns the discovery and inspection
of several private camps that were not
known to. be in existence at the time of
the filing of the first report, and is a
complete ijfcu. nption of their location,
size and condition.
At Hahira, ten miles north of Val¬
dosta, Sam Parker, a farmer, who lives
at Cecil, four miles away, was killed
by Shelton Dampier, a young man who
worked at the wood rack near Hahira.
Three years ago Parker prosecuted
Dampier for stealing meat from him.
Dampier was convicted and sent to
the chaingang. He swore then that
he would kill Parker on sight when
his term expired.
settled. Tfie tuJ'3,u«i:iesH Commissioner has Nesbitt at last been has
let the contract for 3,000,000 tags to
Hie Dennison Manufacturing company,
of New York, at 45 cents per thousand
and a $2,500 bond has been made for
the faithful performance of the con¬
tract, which provides for the delivery
of 3,000,000 “G” tags and as many
more as the agricultural department
mav need, at 45 cents per thousand.
It is estimated that 4,000,000 tags will
he used be ore the year is out. They
cost this y, ar but little over one-fourth
of last yea ’s price.
A questi m has been sjirung which
may result in Chattanooga, which has
long been 1 nowu as one of the leading
cities of Te messee, becoming a Geor
gia town. Doubt has been thrown.
upon the alcuracy of the survey of and the
boundary 1 ne between this state
Tennessee, and if the theory of emi
nent tegal i uthorities is confirmed, it
may be f«i nd that Chattanooga is oil
Georgia so I. This view is shared by
W. <if A. Wimbish, special com
miasioner tlie state for the Western
^ Atlauti e. railroad , v lio has looked
,
into the qu X istion in his official capac
itr and e re8se d liis strong belief
tbat „ oorr 4 ot snl -vey would bring the
e it v0 f Chattanooga within the contiues
0 f this state
The fight for the courthouse and
county seat of DeKalb county grows
warmer as the time for the legislature
to meet grows nearer, and the lines
will soon be definitely drawn. Much
of detail is now being doue
by the Stone Mountain people ami
they will present a solid front when
the time comes for final action. Their
representatives have been in commit
nicatiou with a number of the legisla
tors and are getting their forces to
gether and organized before tbe bill is
presented to the general assembly,
It will be one of the first measures to
he acted oil at this session, as it is
desired that the question be settled
as soon as possible, so that
work on the new building may
begin immediately.
The Old Howard to the Front.
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desirable courses of study offered by
any college in the country. The col
i ege curriculum now includes all regu
] ar co ji e giate courses, a professional
course in Philosophy and Pedagogy,
and a professional course in Civil and
Mining Engineering,
The desirability of the course is at
trading students from all sections, sad
the opening on Sept 21 promisee to
be very large.
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