The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-10
Miscellaneous.

"A correspondent asked the st. Louis
Post-Dispatca at what age an unmarried
man becomes an old bachelor, and also at
what age an unwedded lady becomes an
old maid. The answer was: "a man at
30 deserves his contumely; an unwedded
lady becomes an old maid on her 18th
birthday" This is balm in Gilead for
score Of either sex in this city, who come
within the dates just by the skin of the
teeth.
Another instance of what advertising
will do is told by patent medicine sales
man. Patent medicine will sell only in
that section of the country in which they
are advertised in the papers. If, by chance,
a dealer orders remedy that has never
been advertised in his neighborhood he
keeps it awhile, finds no sale, and sends it
back to the house. There are only few
houses that have advertised throughout the
country, and SO there are only few medi
cineS that will sell everywhere. Their sales
are enormous. Advertising is the main
spring of the patent medicine business, and
no man need think of going into it and
achieving success unless he has 800, 900 or
more to spend Immediately in advertising.
The new two-cent postage stamps cost
the government just9 Is cents thousand.
They cost the contractors more than that,
but the profit comes in on stamps manu-
featured for the countries on this continent
south of US, who always patronize the con-
| Germ which supplies our government. They
have to pay from five to ten times as much
as We do, but they never grumble, and in
order to capture their trade the engraving
companies are willing to furnish the United
| States at less than the cost of manufactur-
ing This explains why it is that outside
parties are given contracts for supplying
postage stamps in face of the fact that the
government has a printing and engraving
establishment of its own
--Exchange The number of people in
the United States engaged in productive
pursuits, is l7,392,000. Of these, 1870
900 are occupied in agriculture. The num-
Der engaged in trade and transportation is
100000; in professional and personal
service, 3,074,0O0; in manufacturing and
mining, 3,S37,000. These facts present
some thoughts to protectionists. About
one-hith of the working classes are set
| down under the head of manufacturers and
miners. But the occupation under that
heading engaging the greatest number is
carpentering and joinerlHg, $4,000. There
are 10000 blacksmiths, $4,000 shoemak.
ers, 10000 butchers, 10000 engineers and
fremen, $4,000 painters and varnishers,
$4,000 plasterers, 10000 plumbers, $4,000
printers, stereotypers and photographers,
1900 saw and planning mill operatives,
and so on through long list of occupa-
tons not protected by the tariff. 1t is
| doubtful if there are one million out of the
seventeen millions producing laborers in
occupations protected by our present tariff.
A tariff which makes the clothing, the
blankets, the salt, the hardware, the build
ing materials and large proportion Of the
necessities of life of the whole body of the
people cost from 20 to 100 per cent. more
than they ought to cost is maintained for
the ostensble advantage of one million out
of seventeen millions laborers. This tariff
does not even bring advantage to this mum.
| Der, but is continued for the benefit of a
favored class of capitalists, who are virtu-
ally monopolists, scores and even hundreds
of whom have become milionaires In the
past twenty years. To these facts mechan-
les, operatives and laboring men generally
are awakening. When they thoroughly I'M
derstand them the system under which the
national treasury is overlooking with money
uselessly drawn from the people will cease
and undue and dangerous accumulations Of
capital in the hands of favored class will
not be so common.