The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-04-01

MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
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Friday MORN. April 4, 1870.
THE CAME OF LIFE.

| Out of so dry thing as the oihciai
statement from the Bureau of Statistics
of the imports into the United States,
for 1869, it is possible to extract some
suggestive incidents of that tangled web
we call life. Here. in the grim, lifeless
figures that spread before US in almost
endless profusion, are the records of our
health and our sickness, our meat and
drink, our faults and our vices, our pleas
ures and our tolls.
To take them as they come, we first
touch the article of amusements, and
find that the duties last year on imported
PLAYING cards were So, 1862 80, and those
on chalk for billiard cues $500 so fear
FIJI exhibit of masculine vice, no doubt,
some fair one will think, but let her wait
Her little cccentricites have a place in
the picture. Beauty calls for sos, 2l6
80 for her beads, 81 ,920 80 for her fam
CIV fans; and S396.36 for the dressed
feathers which decorate the little clam
shells that the girl of the period puts up
on her comely head under til, name of
| bonnet.
Turning to the matter of drugs the
physician will find an awful significance
in duty Of s., 433 IS on ergot of 1927,
49l IS for opium simple; and sl68, us
IS on opium prepared for smoking. Cal
omel, on the contrary, with which the
Faculty are said to dose us, only calls
for S ,254 60 and ipecac, $5,5 so.
Coming to what we eat and drink. J. of-
fee pays duty of 81 l,540,7l8 50;
rice-thanks to the sublime policy of re-
construction which takes Cuff out of the
field and sets him to making laws and
CONSTITUTIONS imported in such vast
quantities that the duties aggregates $500.
go So. Tea calls for 50, 7S5,43S So;
molasses for $4,l6S, 900 lG, and sugar
for $50, 645, 235 80, in which two latter
items we see once more the fine effects
of taking the negro out of the cane-tield
and putting hi n to legislate like learn
ed crow.
Mems vices do not make so great a
show as the constant harping on that
| theme would lead one to suppose, and
it is with pleasure we mention the cir
cumstances, in as much as it is pet be-
lief that the great mass of mankind are
much better than VIC take them to be.
F'usil-oil, the gentleman who lately made
such sensation throughout the country,
only calls for duty of Sl0,3l0. which
il little remarkable considering the
wonderful tales that have been spread
abroad respecting his universal use and
presence. For segars there is paid du-
ty of Sl,267,555 81; for meerschaum
pipes, Sl53,S65 10. and for the dandy's
walking stick, $13,0S5 so. This is not
so very bad record for the frivolities
of man, but, says some one, how about
liquor? We are coming to that. On
the brandy and the wine imported into
the United States during the year 1869,
the duty was So, 1882 so.
This is terrible, Of course, but it is also
terrible to know that in the article of silk
dresses alone, lovely woman calls for
duty of So, 1851 1892 go which rather
''sees" mems toddies and goes $500, 900
better. Lovely woman's laces, also. cost
S969,537 65; her velvet S624,2l2 81,
and her dainty ribbons, S2,249799 %.
Add to this the small miscellaneous item
of So, 221, $40 so for silk mixed goods,
g and the feminine exhibit rather overtops
r the male item of $6,771 so on silk vest
ings. Human hair for chignons pays a
duty of Sl28,6 $50 20 and cordials, liq-
uors, etc, Sl04,436 II. Railroad iron
pays 50, 513,658 40 duty, and WOODEN
dress goods S12, O61,295 46, Diamonds
and gems pay Sl99, US 20; Brussels
carpets calls for 81 l67, 1881, 10; pcrfu
meries and cosmetics 227 ,223 10, Su-
gar candy for the little one pays a duty
of So, 429 40, and the canarics that trill
so sweetly in our houses call for duty
of S31 ,436 on the seed they cat.
And so 60 the items which makeup a du-
ty on imports of sl77,151,126 q gold,
for 1869. Truely map OF life, and by
way of winding up this review in
manner, to defend poor man, we give
the duties in some chief articles used by
him as compared with some of the little
cheap things required by lovely woman
DUTIES PAID. 1869.
He. She.
seears 81 237 ,556 81 Ribbons.... s., 249,799 IS
Brandy and Silk Dresses. Dol W. 60
Wine. 5, Ill 1862 sol Fancy Fans. 1880 80
Playing C'rds 5162 81 lClignon Hair l2S,6o0 ~
Liquors.. 104438, Il Beads........ 96,2l6 %
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