Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
HUNTING THEIR FAMILY TREES.
snObs Who Are Anxious to Find the Eng
lish End of Their Pedigree.
philadelphia Cor. Chicago Tribune.l

My young friend had been abroad
several times, lived in delightful style,
and seen everything that was to be
seen, and at cost to himself of practi-
cally nothing. He worked scheme
that was quite unique and satisfactorily
profitable. He had come from what is
called here in the east good family"
lie had taste for the study of lineage,
and by way of occupying his leisure
and tickling his own vanity he
undertook to find out who and what
his people were. Without very much
trouble he discovered, to his own salts
faction, that he was closely related 10
some of the noblest families in Europe
and was entitled to bear q coat of
arms. He rightly conjectured that
there were lots of his compatriots who
would be delighted to have a similar
discovery made for them, and would be
willing to pay literally for the work.
He Immediately set about establishing a
business AS hunter-up of buried family
trees, and he has succeeded beyond his
hopes He has gone abroad every sum-
mer since that day in the interest of
some representative of the nouveau
richie yearning for a knowledge of their
lineage.
The other day babe him goodbye as
he sailed away with the commissions
and the good money of five PHILADELPHIA
ans in his pocket. II he succeeds in
finding any glory for them he surely
will deserve the $500 fee that each gave
him in advance. Two of his clients
made their thousands in the respectable
business of selling coal, thirl was a
dentist, another manufactured brown
paper bags, and the fifth founded his
fortune on scent whisky. Still, now
that they are all wealthy, they are
struggling to force their way into what
is called society. The most effective
means of doing it is to clear road with
good coat of armS-none genuine I'M.
less stamped.
asked my friend how he proceeded
in his researches lie explained that it
was simple enough. He had studied
the matter so thoroughly that he was
pretty well acquainted with the ramif.
cations of lineage of the 500 or 800 great
English families. A client was ex.
pected to furnish him with all the data
possible, time of the arrival of his
family in this country, inter-marriages,
and so on back as far as memory would
serve He then would hunt up all the
old records pertinent to any name in
hand that he could find at Somerset
house, and would. besides, look up ole
books in parish churches. 1t was very
seldom, indeed, that he was not re-
warded by the discovery of an esquire
or baronet. Still he was conscientious
as he said, and in a few instances hi
had been obliged to inform clients tina
they came of race of peasants dc
not personally know of any generous
client who was so Inundated. | rather
suspect that they always got what the!
paid for.
The yearning for a noble lineage
whether true or counterfeit, has grow
to be a passion in this town. Family i
much more discussed than art, litera
ture or science at Philadelphia recep
ton or tea. A woman who has grand
father who will bear talking about neve
ceases to turn him over and over in hi
tomb for the edifcation of her socia
compeers. The many women who hav
had grandfathers who would not cut
swell figure in drawing room of to-da
find their venerated progenitors ridi
culed and jabbed with words of con
tempt to their own shame and humilia
ton. Indeed, society at this bleSse,
moment is intensely interested i
the inquiry, "Was Evans Rogers
the father of Fairman Rogers
the great Newport swell, a mer
chant always, or was he in his yout
really a tailorl" Besides, society
anxious to know whether it is true tina
the mother of another great -well wa
really milliner before she married tn
swell's father. Back of that comes tn
grave question, 'Did the swell's fathe
before he struck fortune in q vein {
coal, really drive cart at 81 day."
Lungs Destroyed by Dust
Chicago Herald f'"'
At late meeting of a microscopica
society in London was shown a section
of Sheffield saw grinders lung, the il
ritation from the steel dust inhaled hay
ing gradually obliterated the lun
structure and rendered it perfectly use
less for breathing purposes. Section
of lungs showing carbon deposit fror
London smoke were also exhibited.
The Queer Sex.
IRed Bluff (Cal) News