The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1856-02-14
What the american PeopIe DO.


pro. has been spending a few hours looking
they through the Census Reports, Cor The pur.
vide pose OF ascerIaining what occupations
ome are followed jy the people Of the United
very States. Here ore some Interesting STA
tislics which he has condensed in a con-
and venieDt form, Don't think thai the item
'hen IS dry one, simply because it deals in
slec statistics:
the 1--WE rejoice. as nation in having
nter two thousand rsons who pronounce
ngs, themselves artists, though there are prob.
ably not score Who will live in mems
bob. memories, and certainly II one who 3D.
eers pears likely to delhrone Raphael. OF
,ung authors, We bave. according 10 the CEN
sus, only eighty two are " Wiling to confess
MON to "genius and garret," though, if pub.
fishers advertisements are 10 be credit.
lade ed, every new month gives birth 10 a
pfH1 n5 STAR and one more brilliant than any that
Dec ever went before. To pass to bank off.
- GERS and brokers is a natural transition,
and Of the former we are favored with
raj seI fourteen hundred, and OF the latter six
ir0io itDior thousand, exemplibing the old adages
scd to that 1t never rains but it pours," and
: oced that blessings never come singly." Lnck-
JACK lily, there are hundred thousand honest,
stout hearted blacksmths, as a make.
TO 1 weight against this Egyptian plague oi
No1 flies in the shape Of brokers' and bankers
+. Fld Moreover, there are six thousand barber.
D, S,I ~ to shave the six thousand brokers, anC
81, nd thus revenge the community, which is 81
ISL, essentially shaved by the latter.
fraud We have leo million and half OF far
which mers; seventy thousand mariners; one
Fnmj G.U, hundred thousand merchants; sixty-iour
may . thousand masops, and nearly two hun.
dred thousand carpenters. We have
pec fourteen thousand Bakers to make our
T bread; twenty'iour thousand lawyers to
r set US by the ears; four thousand doctors
uE TO "kill or cure" and fifteen hundred
IL editors to keep this motley mass in order,
by the patent power Of public opinion
q controlled and manufactured through lhs
Brong press. .....
other other We have eleven thousand hatters; ten
DonloTthoussnd tobacconists, and thirty.one
"' = thousand weavers. Against thirty thou.
sand teachers we can set off fly thou.
+, the sand tailors, so that we care nearly twice
e ap- as much for adorning the body as we dc
Ihout for decking out the mind. Only twenty
two thousand people have been willing
sper, TO set themselves down as servants
thou though most OF US serve others i'll some
truth capacity or other, from the boot-black
who Polishes our shoes, to the bookseller
him who brightens the public intellect. No.
r his body, according to the census, follows
gs to the trade of politician, though there are
enough in this city alone, 10 have cen.
flee, demned dozen Ssdoms and Gomor
!, no, rahs' The census fails TO record, like.
,ba, wise, the existence of any patriots among
ding us, though we have long thought patriot.
bse, ism was especially profession, pro.
,ba, fession and nothing else.
The forty thousand physicians support
anu five hundred undertakers, which gives
,r !, the important statistical fact. that it takes
wou eighty doctors 10 keep one undertaken in
~ brief business. We have fifteen hun.
.. dred wagon makers; three thousand
watch makers; ;seventy-eight vinegar ma,
aa,I kefs, including, We suppose, all the eros:
wives, crusty bachelors, and verjuice old
.n. maids; thirty thousand wheel wrights; ant
I'T. lhirty-three showmen. We have four
'~.- thousand cutters; twenty three ,housant
saddlers; and five thousand railroad men
~ NJ We have one hundred and fny.four op
'r 49, ticians, and ten oculsts, but nearly foul
~ thousand confeclioners, proving that We
care infinitely more for eating than fol
" eye-sight. This reminds US that there
are five thousand brewers and seven hun
: '"' dred wine dealers; but the census
A"'O strange TO say, is silent as to the numbe
po' who drink beer and "quaff the rosy" Ii
'''. all, we have about five millions and
'' half above the age of fifteen years, whc
my are busily employed at some trade, pro
- -" fession, or other occupation, by whicl
P'- to earn livelihood. 1t is plain we arr
"''' not nation of sluggards. We pearl,
all do something, Nay, ii may be al
II so, idle drone is happily no recommendation
, sur in America, as it is in the aristocrat
lust and monarchial countries of Europe.
JOCK o. An old cyniC, at concert the 9th
IN The er night, read in the programme the It'll
The of a song, viz; '0h give me cot in tn
'eller' valley love- Reading it over attentive
S. y, the old fellow finally growled, 'Wsl
years if had my choice, l should ask for
bedStead.'