The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-02-02

How SOME PEOPLE LIVE IN PARIs.--A gos.
sipins correspondent OF the New York Daily Times
gives the following insight to certain Glasses in
Partisan life:
The Walkers or Wakeresscs-f1r none but women
follow this proessIogale individuals whose occupa-
ton 1t is To from sleep, at early hour, such
persons AS have business at the ket and must he
there beiines Then wages are two sous "A morning
Tor each subscriber rou>ed. 1t seems strange that
profession hike this should require any particular ap-
titude capabi!ly, but it has been found that
woman will wake her customers just hall The lime
required by another. In tunes gone by, When the
MAJ kct people ivcd hudded together in The inmedi-
ae vicinity of the liaies, good re,eii!eure woud
wait upon h.teca twenty subscribers every morn
ing and thus thirty forty before da, break.
But that the Rue de Rivoli has pierced The
quarter its denizens have been dispersed, and the
wakeresses fUd 1T impossible to more than a
half dozen customess i day. The trade Is falling in
10 dIsuse.
The Eye Witness is who lives by crime
not by that which he commits himself, bu, by that
perpelrated by others. The momen, he hears of a
murder any other catastrophe Of that sort, he iul-
mediaiely repairs the OF he affair, he
knows all abou, ii, picks up all the details he
find, adds to them, recounts it over dozen times,
gets sort OF notoriety the individual " that was
there when IT happened" " leaves his name and ad-
dress at The inc shop, and awaits tbe effect,
The examining Judge hears VI this we'll informed
gentleman, and IN view to elucIdatc the case, has him
sent for. lie comes, is sworn, and makes
totally irrelevant deposition; he tells what somebody
else SAID that he hous ht third person had ina med
and what he guessed wac the motive OF tho quarrel
Beyond that, he can throw no light the affair."
But he has earned his two fiancs--the wages If
erv witness summoned to testiiyaud by his earnings
in this way he lives,
The Second Hand Witness hangs about the palace
Of Justice, and gentlemen who have testified,
from the various audience rooms he asks them if they
to draw their tao francs II they do not, he
duplicates them, for the love o God, and for syDpa-
Thy " th wife and tho usual number of children, to
pass 10 him the paper emitting the bearer to the
lwo francs in question. The second hand witness in
this way makes ha-haLa. money enVuga to iive pre-
carously aud die in The hospital.
/ The Guardtan Angel is man hose duty II is TO
frequent the drinking shops, and the moment a man
gets tipsy, TO take him home and put him to bed
The individuals practising this profession picked
men--men who never drink themseves-who have
the necessary moral authority force obedience from
the drunken creatures they conveying hoinc-who
defend hIm agaius attack, aud more than all, can
prevent him from drinking the shops their way
The price ior this ten sous; and there not an
INSTANCE on record oil an ndividual thus protected
home and put 10 bed having failed to dischagg th is
debt Of honor. |, is "A rule at the drink ing shops
when a man cannot stand he must be taken off, and
the Angels are KIND y treated by the shopkeepers
whose interest it s that Of his customers
comes to harm. They receive the odds and ends o
the dinner, and are recommended to the neiebbsrs
when a reliable man for confidential erIand Ii
wanted. Their honesty is pro7erbla, and Baccha-
nalian with a hundred francs IN his pocket, who i:
confded their charge is morally OF finding hi.
hundred francs where he left them. when he wakes
the next morning.
A rich tppler, lately deceased. who spent the las
year Of his te in drinking bae wine at the barrier
left in his will thousand r,1cs to each Of tie Guas
dian Angels who alternately conducted him home
afer his nightly pota,ons at the Watering-ro 0
Monmartre.
il ln,y safely be said that one person out Of
huadred OF the inhabitants of Paris is Of the
dexs,cncc 4 saeh modes ol obtaining living. Th'