Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-10-18
No. ALVIIl.
Queer Professions in Pnris.

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The Paris correspondent OF the Boston Atlas
gives the following interesting description Of sew
eral quaint modes Of earning livelihood, peculiar
to the canaLe of Paris: a''
The quarter of The Temple contains guud'mc-
ny queer professions. For example there lis old
Monsieur Beauis, rather infirln ord man, who
never, or very rarely speaks, but who necessarily
whistles. Take of your hat to him, heis Birds
professor-he teaches birds to sing. His esiab-
lishment is an immense ayiary cages of canaaes,
nighiingales, and starngs hang on all sides OF
the wall, hang from the ceiling and in the win
do@s, and, besides, are placed every article of
furniture. 1t is Babel Of birds. In the middl6
of the room there is canopy under which Pro
fessor Beaufls sits when he gives his music les
sons he takes canary bird on his knees and with
an imperturbable gravity whistles tHalIrOoh's ca
ra q gue,Te, and other dilties not above the com
prehension and the throats OF the birds. Profess
sor Beauils takes in boarders, (birds) and gives
private lessons at pupils homes; his private les
sons consist in hiring out accomplished canaries,
which are put in the same cage with the same
bird whose education has been neglected, or whose
young notes are to be taught to shoot, If the pu-
| pill has talentsit becomes an accomplished singer
in two weeks or two months. Professor Beanfils
assures TO form Maros and Crisis for five francs,
or he asks ten sous a week for the hire of one OF
his tutors. An ordinary canary is worth thirty
sous here, and the Dutch canary is worth sixty
s,us, but when they can produce diploma frum
Professor Beaufls they easily command six francs,
and twelve francs. His revenue from his birds is
about two thousand dollars year.
Hard by Madame Yanard lives-AIadame Va
nard is sesteusc. She married young, for she was
very pretty; but six months after her marriage
A
than small distillery, where he used to work TOR
the perfumers and the confectoners She contin4
ued his business as far as her limited knowledge
allowed her, she recollected TO have heard him
saw one day, as he stumbled over squeezed lem
on in the street, that an intelligent man might
make his fortune with the squeezed lemons and
oranges thrown away in Paris. The next morn.
ing she set out with basket on her arm and be-
gan her explorations with The Rue NlontorgueI,
the street of the fish restaurants of Paris (Phi-
ppe's celebrated fish restaurant is in that street)
After the chifonliers had taken all they wanted
from the piles Of refuse, she would examine them
and put into her basket all the lemon and orange
skins she could find in few days, the walters
observing pretty woman following in the traces
of the chifonniers, asked what she was seeking,
and promised to keep for her the refuse emons.-
When she had made some headway towards form
inc capital, she made contract with the thea
ire sweepers; and at the last she rented a place
for her mandatory, and hired male and female
pickers up; her mandatory is an immense room,
filled from the floor to the ceiling with immense
yellow baskets containing heaps of lemon and Or
ange skins; in the middle of the room and around
long table, are some twenty girls singing and
talking, and busy Zesting these squeezed SKINS
They pack them in bags and boxes, when the re-
fuse skins are called zeste it is then weighed and
sent to the different distillers in Paris, or France,
or abroad, who transform it into Curacao, Orange
ade, Citronade, Essence of Lemon, etc. Madame
Vanard is now woman of fortune, and has her
box at the Francois, the Italian Opera, and the
Grand Opera once week.
Her neighbor is Madame Thibandeau, and her
profession is to farm the right of sweeping stair
cases. She was porteress of house in the Rue
de Temple, which was occupied by two jewellers.
very rude winter having set in, she had the
economical idea of burning in an old cauldron,
which she used as hearth, all the Glitter" col
lected by her broom. She found it burned very
well, mixed with coal and peat, and when the
spring returned, and she began to decorate her
lodge TO suit with the summer season, by empty
ing the old cauldron of its cinders, she found-D
her great surprise-gold Jumps at the bottom Of
the old cauldron. 1t was not long before she re-
signed the Gordon, and farmed the right to sweep
the staircases of houses inhabited by working jew
ellers; and in this profession she had laid up so
much money, she is now able to carry on the not
less lucrative occupation Of landlady. She pur-
chased an immense tract Of land near Paris, while
it was cheap, and built quite village of Swiss
cottages on it, which she rents out to Paris shop
keepers desirous to breathe the country air once
week.
Another of the lucrative professions of the quar-
ter is the preparation of bouillie for eats The
family Berner are the most celebrated manufac-
turers of this cat alment. Bernier is an Auverg-
nat, and was coal seller, and being an industri-
Gus man, he employed his leisure hours in manu-
featuring bo,allie for cats, and patee for dogs
Dogs and cats occupy the position in French
mans house the Bible does with US; | mean to
say they are indispensable to every French house
hold. His reputation soon rose and began to ex-
tend itself, and now there is not cat or dog Of
the quarter that does not receive its morning and
evening meal from chez Benier. the canine and
feline Trois Freres of the quarter. He has even
commenced sending bOuillc and pates into the
most aristocratic quarters of Paris, and more than
one poodle and angora belonging to Warehouses;
and Countesses, has its account with Bernier.