The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-26

Darrel-DungS Tor living. BOSTON Bentle-
man feathered his own nest by producing
wooden nest-eggs. new commercial bust
ness is confined to furnishing oil to be used
only on sewing-machines In Paris an 'Tn-
ternational Exhibition of Fans" is announced.
In New York there is house exclusively en-
gagged in the manufacture and sale of church
furniture. In Boston there is a shop devoted
to the sale of glass chimneys for kerosene
lamps
With patience, success in q retail business
devoted to single article is almost certain in
large city, Thus let a man sell nothing but
dolls heads, keeping his prices we'll down,
and remaining in the same store for years,
and although, perhaps, for long while
unnoticed, and strongly tempted to expand
his business into toy shop or a variety store,
if persistent in the one idea, he will eventu-
ally attract an exclusive trade, and draw GUS
toners for dolls heads from distant quarters;
for it is alike the observation of buyers and
sellers that the best place to buy an article is
that where only that article is dealt in. But
if the dealer in the case supposed were to
include the bodies, the garments, and the fur
niture of dolls, he might procure larger
business in the first few years, but with no
such prospect of ultimate increase or perma-
nency.
The specialties of scientific knowledge give
occupation to men possessed of thorough
knowledge of peculiar departments To emu
merate these special callings is but to give
the designations appropriate to the divisions
of science. The professions are similarly
pursued in individual lines; and we have
patent lawyers and divorce lawyers, cancer
doctors, and chiropodists. OF the last there
was one who went travelling from house
to house, before the days when citizens
hired "corn doctor" by the year to operate
monthly, whose reputation was founded
upon an alleged capacity for extracting the
roots of corns. After nicely trimming the
afflicted feet, he would affect to pull out the
said roots with tweezers. He bored small
hole in the corn, and his legerdeman was
very neat; but a gentleman on whom he
operated kept ''root," and examined it
under a microscope. 1t was a piece of a
fsh-bone.
With special reference to human frailty,
| there is business reduced to a system in
Paris, employing number of discreet
deputies, who go around to liquor shops
and places of public resort at night and
accompany, or otherwise assist to their
homes, for a consideration, inebri-
ated gentleman, who would otherwise fall
| into the hands of the police In that city
there is also, at almost every alternate street
corner, that most valuable of messengers,
the c0nnissiOnnd5re Licensed and amena-
BILE to strictly enforced penalties if he over
charges, defaults, or even blunders, he is yet
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reasonable compensation per hour, of the
greatest variety of service. He can procure
for you ball-ticket; order your dinner, and
summon your company; ascertain the where
abouts of book in the public libraries or
! the shops; perhaps even collect a bill or pre-
pare the preliminaries of an atdSre dW c0ur.
He is frequently employed by jealous hus-
band or wife to follow, and report upon the
movements of the suspected party and occa-
| w ba nv Ia
partners in domestic infelicity.
A business has grown into formidable di-
mepsions within a few years in London
which it is impossible to regard with COM
placency. The nearest approach to it in this
country is the Association for the Suppress
sion of Gambling, which, with worthier
motive, adopts somewhat similar means.
''Private Inquiry" offices are an invention to
the credit of which England is perfectly well
come; and we devoutly hope that nobody on
this side of the water will either copy or in
fringe upon their peculiarities Employing
great numbers of young men and women ap-
parently engaged in other pursuits as house
servants, clerks, etc., to collect and commu-
nicate to central Office all the gossip, soan-
dial, and personalities that they can pick up
and acquire in the families or firms where
they have such opportunities, these establish
ments obtain information in vast quantities,
which is carefully recorded and tabulated
This information, these family secrets OBJ
tanned by Infamous bribery and espionage
are for sale. To these offices husband or
wife proceeds in search of evidence when
thinking of applying for divorce. Thither,
also, go morbid wretches in search of food
for jealousy; partners who doubt each other;
employers who suspect their agents. And so
widely spread are the ramifcations by which
this institution has penetrated the privacy of
British households, that it is seid that an ap-
plicant rarely calls at an Office without find
ing that there are at least SO me details already
''booked" respecting the object of his in
quiries. But no profit which may accrue to
employers or employed can com pensate for
the utter loss of self-respect involved in such
an occupation.
When in literature the subdivisions of in
dustry are placed upon mere trading basis,
singular effects follow. Experience ia a re.
stricted avocation results in peculiar skill,
and the work of the expert IN some branch OF
literary pursuit is not apt to want dexterity
or finish. Yet, whenever the produce of one
mans brains is sold to be fathered as
another's, whatever benefit each may
must be injured. Although for years it has
been customary to sell sermons in England
and the practice is alluded to by the poe
Cowper, we cannot admire it. More recently
their newspapers advertise TO furnish either
sermons or the mere skeletons of sermons
with illustrations, on subjects selected by the
purchaser, or from general assortment; tC
be sent by mail on receipt of price.
Lecturers also can be similarly supplied
with "original MS. lectures Some of the
subjects are thus enumerated in an advertise
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