McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-06
CURRENT NOTES.
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The human hair market. it appears,
is being seriously affected by the troubles
in China. Marseilles, the great European
depot for supplies for wigs, perukes,
chignons, plaits, false fronts, ETC., has
hitherto received annually as much as
forty tons of the treasured merchandise
from the long-haired Celestials, and an
ingenious calculation has shown that
upward of two million female heads
have been dependent for the coiffures,
directly or indirectly, upon the hair
trade of Marseilles. Now, through the
action of the Pekin government, or the
patriotism of the Cinnamon, the wig
business of France is imperiled, and
unless fashion steps in to make hairless
heads tolerable and false head-gear SUI
perfuous, NJ Jules Ferry may find the
dissatisfaction of French people any
thing but a favorable outcome of his
policy in China Boston Aduertiser.
Roger S. Austin's 10 year-old Wal
lingford boy has paid for wisdom in ex-
perienee, and he gave a good price at
that. He wound yarn around the head
of a pin and used it to fire through
blow-gu 1t was very funny until one
day he sucked the pin back into his
throat SO far that dozen doctors
couldn't get it out. Then they sent the
boy to New York hospital, where
some more doctors cut hole in his
throat, as they do sometimes when
child is very sick with diphtheria. The
hole worked well enough, but still they
couldn't reach the pin. They con-
trived to keep the boy alive by silver
breathing tube until they sent to Phila-
delphia and had an instrument specially
made for the case, and then they man
aged to hook the pin out.-HarJord
COHYdnt.
Women in German farmhouses are
occupied in driving wagons, cutting the
hay. spreading the dressing on the
land, planting and digging the potatoes,
barefooted and bareheaded, carrying
on their heads or their backs the farm
ing tools and the sweepings of the road,
harnessed to cart with a dog! She
must also tend her babies, cook her food
and bear sons to be compelled to do
military service when most she needs
them to rest her weary hands. No
wonder she cannot tidy her house, clean
her children, make her own person
womanly or smart. She merely exists
to labor, and to labor till age has bent
her double.-LOndOn Echo.
1t is not by reducing wages that
America is making her conquest, but by
her superior organization, greater eff
cheney of labor consequent upon the.
higher standard of living ruling in the
country. High priced labor means bet
ter food and better living, and these
supply the American workman with
that energy and nerve power for which
he is so justly celebrated. High-priced
labor countries are everywhere beating
pauper-labor countries.-Schoonhof's
Wages and Trade.
A case came to the attention of the
authorities the other day which may
stand for hundreds in this city which
are never brought to light. A young
girl travelled hither from Baltimore in
answer to the advertisement of manu-
facturer of women's Undertaking
which seemed to promise fair wages. At
ter four hours work on steam sewing
machine she had made one dozen under
shirts, for which she was paid 20 cents,
less cents for the thread she had used.
The man who employed her said that
his hands sometimes made 50 day.
In that case each must make 160 under
sh.rts.-Neo0 York SAM
''This is pretty time of night to be
coming home to your wife, must say"
81 know, That, my (hic) dear; but l
been out with the procesh'n, We shee."
"What procession, I'd like to know?