Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-08-04

with patience. success in retail business devo-
ted to single articleis almost certain IN large
CITY. Thus, let man sell nothing but COILS
heads, keeping his prices well down, ana re-
manning in the same place for years. and although
perhaps for long while unnoticed, and strong
iv tempted to expand his business INTO toy
shop or variety store if persistent in the one
idea he will eventually attract an exclusive trade
and draw customers for dolls heads from distant
quarters for it is alike the observation OF buy
ers and sellers that the best place to buy an ar
ticle is that where only that article - dealt In.
But il the dealer in the case supposed were 10
include the bodies, the garments, and the furhi-
ture of dolls, he might procure larger business
in the first few years, but with no such prospect
of ultimate increase or permanency'
The specialties of scientific knowledge give
occupation to men possessed OF thoroueh hhoWi
edge of peculiar departments. 10 enumerate
these special caings is but to give the designa-
tions appropriate to the divisions OF science.
The professions are similarly pursued in indivld-
nal lines and we have patent lawyers and ai-
vorce lawyers cancer doctors and chropoul,s.ts.
OF the last there was one who went travelling
from house to house before the days when clti-
zens hired corn DOCTOR" by the year to oper,
ate monthly. whose reputation was iouhueu
upon alleged capacity for extracting the roo'5
| of corns. After nicely trimming the aiflicted
feet he would effect to pull out SAID roots WIN
| tweezers. He bored small hole in the corn,
and his ledgerdemain was very neat put gen,
| tleman on whom he operated kept '" root, anu
/ examined IL u lntCtoctupo' Az "'S - fN~~
| of fish-bone ~. -.
With special reference to human frailty, there
| is business reduced to system IN Ih.is,
| employing number of discreet deputies, VINO VINO
| go around to liquor shops and places OF pupnc
| resort at night, and accompany, or otherwise
| assist to their homes, for a consideration;
| inebriated gentlemen, 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 connas-
sionnai,p. Licensed and amenable to strictly
enforced penalties if he overcharges, defaults, oi
| even blnnders, he is yet your servant ior the
occasion, capable, for reasonable compensation
per hour, of the greatest variety OF service. az
can procure for YOU a ba-ticket; order youl
dinner, and summon your company; ascertain
the whereabouts of book in the public hbrarie'
or the shops perhaps even collect a pili, VI
prepare the preimnaries of an gratfe az cuW.
He is frequently employed by Jealous husband
or wife to follow and report upon the movement
of the suspected party: and occasionally I'M
same agent is hired by both the partners III
domestic infelicity.
A business has grown into formidable dlmen
sions within few years in London which It i
impossible to regard with complacency: I'M
nearest approach to it in this country Is the A.
socation for the Suppression of Gambling, wMeh
with worthier motive, adopts somewhat SHINE.
7 means. s'Private Inquiry" offices are an inSeii
tion to the credit of which England is perfect
I welcome; an, we devoutly hope that nobody
this side of the water will either copy or infring
! | upon their peculiafities. EnpioyhB Sre". nun
! bers of Young men and women apparently er
gagged in otherpursuits az house-servants, clerk'
y etc, to collect and communicate to central OF
flee all the gossip, scandal, and personalities tina
9 they can pick up and acquire in the families
= firms where they have such opportunities, tines
0 establishments obtain information in vast lnai
titles which is carefully recorded and tabulate'
u This information, these family secrets optalne
y by infamous bribery and espionage, are for sal
y 10 these offices husband or wife proceeds
u search of evidence when thinking OF applylr
1t for divorce. Thither, also, go morbid wretch,
70 in search of food for jealousy; partners vi
N doubt each other employers who suspect the
y agents. And SO widely spread are the rainiilc
d tions by which this institution has penetrate
: the privacy of British households, that it is sa
that an applicant rarely calls at an office witho
III finding that there are at least some deta \
Id already booked" respecting the object of
m INQUIRIES. But no profit which may accrue
IN employers or employed can compensate for d
utter loss of self-repect involved in such an occ
pation.-wILIIAM G. WycoFr, in Ha,per's Meg
sina fin. 4upuSj