Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-06-23

Iron ChambsrS journal. !

NATION: VI am IN early caller.
calls different tradesmeu ut early
hours, from 1 ill $50 10 tho morn
ing, and that 10 how l got ny liv.
ing. 1 gets up between IL and 1;
I goes to bed at 6 and sleeps TIL the
afternoon. I calls bakers between
l and 2-the bakers are the earliest
of all What sort of . living be
made 10 not recorded. A pound .
week, 10 should ssy, would b tie
outside Agure, and to earn that 10
would need Q couple Of scores OF
customers. The early callers fec 10
we'll earned, since but for bic inter.
veDtion bis clients would often lose
. days pay, II not thrown oat Of
work altogether, BY failing TO keep
time. Net % deserving Of encour.
agement are the 'tup. pennies, car.
rying on their vocatiops In those
quarters Of London where pawn.
brokers and poor people abound.
They are feminine intermediates
between the pawnbrokers and folks
anxious to raise . loan upon their
belongings, who, rather than trans.
act such business for Themselves,
arc willing to pay twopenee for ev-
cry parcel conveyed to everybo1ly's
"uncle" or redeemed from bis clutch
90. These go-betweens, Il 10 aver.
red, also receive . quarterly CON.
mission from the tradesmen they
favor with their patronage; and 20,
one way and another, oontrive TO
make . comfortable living ont Of
their neighbors necessities.
There sre men in Paris, birds Of
feather with tho chiAonier, who 30
from hospital to hospital collecting
the linseed plasters that have serv.
ed the turn Of doctor and patient,
afferwartl pressing the oil from the
linseed and disposing Of the linen,
after bleaching it, TO the paper.
Others make . couple Of francs Q
day By collecting old corks, which
being cleaned and pared, fetch, 10
10 said, half q franc per hundred.
A lady resident Of the FsuburR
St. German 10 credited with earn.
ing a good income By hstching red,
black and brown ants for pheasant
preservers. One Partisan gets his
living by breeding maggots out Of
the tool meats he boys Of the chit.
fOuiers, and fatteuing them up In
tin boxes. Another breeds maggots
for the special bshoof Of nightin.
gales; and . third marohand d'asti.
cots boasts of selling thirty and
forty millions Of worms every season
for piscatorial purposes. He owns
a greet pit at Montmartere, where.
in be keeps his store. Every day
his scouts bring him fresh stock, for
which he pays them from B to 10
pence per pound, according to quail.
ity; reselling them to anglers ut just
double those rates, and clearing
thereby over 900 o year.
This curious avOcation 10 not On.
known in England. Some twelve
years ago, Wa are told, Mr.. Wells,
q fishing tackle maker of Noting.
ham, In order to insure q constant
supply of bait for bis customers,
started q farm for the rearing Of lob
worms, cockspurs, ring. tailed brand.
lungs, and other worms in demand
among the disciples of Walton, who
abound in the old lace town. To
keep his farm stocked, men and
boys 60 out ct night collecting
worms in the meadows and pastures;
. moist, warm night yielding from
two to six thousand worms. Az
soon As they are brought in they are
placed in properly selected moss,
field moss tor choice, to scour until
they become little moro than skin
freshly caught worms being too ten
der for the anglers to handle; while
"when . worm 10 properly educated,
he 10 as tough % bit Of india rub
Der, and behaves a. q worm should
do whom put upon the hook When
this condition 10 attained, the wOrms
are packed In moss and pnt:up in
light canvas bags for the market
This worm merchant does not en-
tirely depend upon the industry Of
bis collectors, but breeds large
quantities himselfi In bis own garden
tho component partasof his breed
ing heap being . secret be not up
naturally keeps to himself.