The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-05-30
ODD WAYS OF MAKING A LIVING
Some OF the Peculiar Means Of Live.
Tho ID 7 hat Civilization
develops

There are many odd ways of earning
livelihood in great city like New York,
and it is surprising to see how many per-
sons there are who readily adapt them
selves to new occupations. Type writ
ing, for instance, was unknown few
years ago, and now there are thousands
who support themselves by it, 1t has
supplied new and wide field for the
employment Of women, and has come
into almost universal use for legal docu.
ments. The invention of he telephone
has given employment to thousands in
the construction of the apparatus and
the attendance at telephone Offices, and
the number thus employed already rivals
the number engaged in telegraphing.
The introduction of electric lighting
has given employment to many persons,
as has also the comparative recent use Of
refined coal oil over the world for both
lighting and heating. 1t is only a few
years since the invention of the district
messenger service and the employment of
street bootblacks gave employment to an
army of boys.
The successful manufacture Of playing
cards, which were largely made abroad
until within few years, has recently
given employment to many American
workmen. The canned goods industry
has grown up since the war, and offers
an entirely new occupation.
Photo. .lithography and many other
quick processes of picture printing have
furnished employment to many within a
few years. There is an immense busi-
ness in ready.made clothing for women
and children that is Of comparatively re.
cent growth.
There are, at rough calculation,
about fifty men in the United States who
make their living by hardening steel for
various mechanical purposes. There are
three or four who earn living by de.
magnetizing watches, and perhaps about
as many who adjust compasses on iron
ships. There Is an odd and somewhat
intricate occupation in the insurance bus.
mess known as the adjustment Of aver.
ages, and the number Of men engaged in
it in great city may almost be counted
on ones fingers.
There are many men who earn living
by tasting various articles Of food, o.
judging of them by their appearance
There are experts in handwriting, il
chemistry, in mechanics, and all sorts o
things, who turn up in the courts ant
make litigation costly.
Civilization tends to divi ion Of labor
SO that in every profession there are mel
who get reputation for some particula
branch. Thus there are acknowledge,
specialists in law, who have almost
monopoly in certain class of cases
Some lawyers know all about patents
and others all about admiralty; others al
about criminal law, and so on. In tn
same way the doctors take each som
portion of the human body as specia
study, so that the old family doctor, VIII
undertook to doctor all sorts of diseases
is comparatively obsolete in crowde'
communities.
This division of labor leads to the es
tablishment in great cities of many quee
stores, or depots of supply for all sorts {
odd things of which the general publ
knows little or nothing. There are, fc
instance, depots for the supply of pecr
liar food for the various nationslities ths
center in the great city. The Chinamer
the Italians, the Germans, and tn
scotchmen all know where they can {
and buy things that are specially suite
only to their own taste.
A craze like roller skating gives en-
ployment to many persons. America
roller skates are now known all over tt
world. There is an American roller ska
ing rink even in India. The progress
mechanical inventions, while it throw
many persons out Of employment, al
furnishes new occupation to many, ar
does away with the apprehension that Il
machine NAV supplant the man.