Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-03-03
INTER rsTIsG srArIsrIcs.

speeding the ailfnentatlon Vi Tic CITY VI ".',
are contained in letter from that capital
published in the Washington Republic:
The million inhabitants of Paris devour
annually 93, 900 oxen, %, 900 cows, 81 900
calves, 500, 900 sheep; it pays twelve mil
lion dollars year for bread, three millions
for cooked or prepared meats, (sausages, Sc,
four millions for cakes, pies, and sugar
plums. There are seventeen classes of pro-
vision dealers, according to the Chamber of
Commerce, upon whom the city principal
ly depends for its sustenance, viz: butchers,
bakers, brewers, burners Of coffee, cooked,
dried, and prepared meat sellers, chocolate
makers, confectioners, milk, butter, and
cheese dealers, distillers, mineral water
manufacturers, manufacturing grocerles,ice-
cream sellers, makers Of alimentary preserv-
es,piemen, sugar refners, makers OF pastes,
concentrations, &C., for the table, and mus
tard and vinegar manufacturers.
There are in the city 1878 patrons, or
masters, belonging to the seventeen trades
11S employ ten or more workmen 2,O66
employ from two to ten 1,494 work alone
or employ single assistant. Strange to
say, the largest establishments, those employ
ing ten or more workmen, are neither the
sugar rehners, nor the brewers, nor the dis
tillers the piemen are the first upon the
line for the number of hands occupied. The
1878 patrons give employment to lO,42o
work-people-7951 men, 1894 women, s.
1888 boys, The receipts of the alimenters
ofParis are about 230 600, 900 francs a year
Of this sum the butchers receiv 75,O00,00O,
the bakers 6O,000,00O, the sugar refiners
"a, 900 900, and so on in proportion.
There are 402 cake and pie shops in Pa
ris, principally in the rich quarters there
are 30 upon the Boulevard alone. Their
annual sales amounts to 10000, 900 francs,
or fifth ofthe consumption of bread. The
confectioners (eAtirely distinct in France
from the piemen) do business to the amount
of 1000, 900 francs year.
There are 604 bakers, employing 2 646
journeymen. The price of bread is regu-
lated every fortnight by the project of po-
lice, according to the price and supply Of
flour. No bakery can be established without
special authorization. None can be shut
up without giving six months notice to
the municipal government. No baker must
reduce, arbitrarily, the number of his batch
1
es; his daily supply must be regular and
reliable.
There are 391 charcutters, selling annu-
ally sixteen million francs of beefSteak pies,
sausages. pates de fois gras, stuffed fowls,
game, SC. The police regulations in re-
gard to tainted or suspected meats are severe.
The same writer thus describes the Gov
eminent establishment in the environs Of
P arts for cutting up and tuning to account
the bodies of dead horses.
This establishment has been so successful,
and the revenue derived from il so consid-
cradle, that it is in contemplation to erect
building for similar purposes in the outskirts
Of each che -lieu, OF shiretown, in France.
The object is two-fold to prevent any i'll
effects to the public health from the expo
sure of purifying carcasses, aud TO devote
the remains to really useful purposes. A
distinguished chemist has computed The
value of dead horse, if properly managed
to be from $12 to %. The hair, weighing
from three to six ounces, is worth, accord
ing to its quality, from So to Sc. The skin,
which weighs from fifty to sixty pounds is
worth from $3.50 TO $3.50. The blood is
worth from forty to sixty cents. The flesh,
weighing from three to four hundred pounds,
is worth for manure, or food for other ami
mails, from 81 to SO. The fat sells at IL
cents pound, but the quantity is not very
great. The shoes, the hoofs, and the bones
are all worth small sums, which make up
about the amount stated above. All the
worn-out horses of the capital are brought
to Montfaucon and killed. About sixteen
thousand dead and alive are annually cut
up and utilized at this establishment.
How TO ASCERTAIN TIE Ace OF 4 La
DY-I ask the lady accused her own age
| then enquire of her dearest friends |
next ascertain the difference between the
two accounts (which varies frequently from
five to forty years, and dividing the differ
ence by 2. | add that quotent to the lady's
representation and the result is the lady's
age, or as near as the ladys age can be as
certained.
E9amp7e-Mrs. Wellington Seymour
gives her self out to be %. Her friends, Mrs
NJ Cabe, Mrs. Alfred Stevens, Madam Cor
nichon and Miss jenkins Indignantly de-
clare that they will eat their respective
heads off if she is one day younger than Dc.
Now the disputed accounts stand thus:
Years.
Her age, as stated by her friends, as
Her age, as stated by herself, %
Difference in the two accounts, Is
That difference has to be divided by 2,
which, believe, will give 8. If that is adj
ded to Mrs Seymour's own statement, the
result obtained will be the answer required.
Accordingly Mrs Wellington Seymours
age is S7-a fact which, upon consulting
the family Bible, find to be perfectly cor
rect-and only hope Mrs. S. will some day
forgive me for publishing it.-Punch.
g. DR.. A H. Wilder, of Springfield,
Mass, failed some time since and went to
!. California, leaving his wife and family to
earn their daily bread for the time. A few
days since the several creditors of the
bankrupt met at the residence of their debt
ors wife, in compliance with her invitation,
when each man found under his plate the
amount of his claim. The husband had Ia
ken this method of paying his liabilities out
Of the first of his earnings on the Pacific
@S@A good deacon, at a conference meet
ing in the town of D, about thirty
miles, North of Boston, addressed his audi
tors on Sabbath evening as follows: z.
s'My friends, there is new doctrine go
ing about nowadays. We are told that
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