The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-05-15
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
SUICIDES - NEWSPAPER BUILDINGS -
OLEOMARGARINE - BUSINESS THE
COST OF LIVIN'.
New YORK. May 13, 1874.

OLEOMARGARINE - BUSINESS -THI
COST OF LIVIN".
New SoRK. May 13, 1874.
THE WEATHER AND SUICIDE.
1t would be curious to trace the con
nection between the weather and suicide
The moon rules the tides and affects DO
tatoes and man, to such an extent, she
gives the name of lunacy to the craZines.
she is believed TO cause. and why should
not the weather of the last ten DAYS drive
perplexed and sensitive natures to des
pair and death. Seven New Workers, ol
! high and low degree, Suicided Ito use
the new world last week, and the wealth
| er was bad enough TO account for it.
! There may be no new thing under the
| sun, but we are getting the old constant.
| Iy done over with surprising variations.
as was shown by one of these unfortu-
mates, who hunted up newspaper re-
| porter. asking him TO accompany him to
a certain hotel on Staten Island. where
he would find a sensation, passed mer-
rv evening with him, and retiring for
the night. drank his last dram from a
bottle of laudanum and supplied his
newspaper friend with a capital news
item in the morning, as he lay composed
ly stark and stiff i'll death. One would
like to think that the favored reporter
would have saved the victim had he an
ticipated his intentions; let us believe
he would, although newspaper rivalry
runs high, and if 1 really wanted to be
stopped from doing any sensational deed,
| should not select the alert reporter to
do it.
NEWSPAPER BUILDINGS.
The rivalry of the leading journals in
this city, and elsewhere, shows itself in
the fine and costly buildings they have
got into the way of erecting for their
own use. The Times, the Herald, the
Stdats Zeitung, the Express, are housed
i'll magnificent structures of their own;
the Tribune is erecting one equal to the
best, and the venerable Eceping Post,
proposes to emerge from the straitened
facilities of Nassau street, and sit con-
spicuously down on Broadway. All this
Ostentation costs money, which must
come out of the earnings of the journals,
unless they rent the space they don't
use as a profit; and it really makes little
or no difference to a reader of any news
paper what sort of a building it is issued
from. The London Times occupies dingy
quarters on an alley and who cares
for that! The grand essential of news
paper now a-days, is neiCS, and plenty of
it. A Michigan weekly has a correspond
ent i'll neighbOring town, who under
takes to supply that commodity to its
columns. This is one of his recent items:
''The canponitors of cabarets, in Gales
burg. was visited last week by Mrs. II.
Ransom and Mrs. A. ii. Proctor, i'm
the interest of temperance They had
an elongated nuncupative Independence
with ID. Harris, who met their approba-
ton with approving sentiment. Mr.
Harris thinks they ar, ladies of urbanity
and pulchrytude, and lie likes to eX-
change his facts with him."
All Journals cannot expect such a
beautiful style Of correspondence as this,
but should do the best they can.
OLEoMARGARINE
is what they call it, 1t is made from
any fat or grease one has handy. into Il
substitute for the genuine old-fashioned
butter. Tallow will do, also suet, and
goodness what besides. Not only is an
imitation butter made out of this stuff
i'll full. but it is being used to adulterate
honest butter, and manufacturers of it
boldly announce that it is healthier
and better article than the real thing
furnished from the sincere milk of the
COW.
Cow Combroch is a very good COW.
She has been always true 10 the pail"
and is she to be driven out of the market
with her golden butter by the refuse of
the slaughter house. 1t is not likely.
People will continue to prefer lying
down to final rest under the green cover
let of the churchyard grass in despite of
cremation, and will still look TO the
kindly COW for butter despite O4eOmar-
garine. What a word. Pah! "The
gorge rises at it,
in the various departments of city trade
continues dull, with little prospect of
immediate improvement. 1t was sup
posed that when Congress should take
action upon the financial bill, that what
ever that action might be, business
would revive, because the country would
be done with looking TO Hercules for
help. and each man would put his own
shoulder to his respective wheel. Well,
Congress has acted, and so has the Pres
ident, wisely saymany; badly say some.
One thing remains certain so far Trade
has not received an impetus from this
action, and the season IS so far advanced
that little improvement is expected be-
fore fall. Agood many houses will have
hard work to pull through, and the
coming summer will try the bottom of
staunch firms. Meantime money accu-
mulates in our banks, lying idle and
tinidly looking for safe and profitable
investments, and to a much greater eX-
tent than is known, the money of the
country banks is used here in buying
business paper instead of accomlnoda-
ting their customers at home.
THE COST OF LIVING
is about as high as ever; in fact what n
family must have to live costs almost as
much as when gold was 200 per cent.
The best beefsteak costs at retail % cents
per lb. An average business suit, So,
(cOst in London, S25), fashionable
male hat, 50; ditto. female, $50. These
are aCdr prices, and yet gold Is only II
per cent. Good private board before
the war could be had in this city and
Brooklyn for a man and wife at Sl2 per
week. As good now costs at least S3o
| don't believe all this can become right
ed without tumble of prices, and that
of radical and thorough sort. 1t Is all
very well to have Il currency as good as
gold, but not if a gold dollar wont buy
any more than paper dollar did when
it took two of them to be worth Sold
one. 1t is true that prices have not de-
clined as our money became more vaiu-
able, as they should 90 and must do
But how and when?
The almanac says May, but the wealth
er says March. PIETi;O-