Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-01-28

would not keep the pot boiling. Whether
man gets his eye blacked in friendly
bout with glove, or by slipping on ba !
mana peel IN the street or in an alcoholic
hraWl the resultant discoloration is
always unWelcome 1t Is also slow to
cure, but rot 10 be disguised. Next
moTaIng he can slip away and have the
marks % sklilfully hidden under coat of
paint that even his wife or landlady can
bot perceive any evidence of the ordeal
through which he has passed
If YOU die IN New York, the notice of
the fact has scarcely appeared in cold
type when your friends will be visited
by alert canyassers who are prepared to
give life like portrait or other memento
Of you. Close on their heels follow the
energetic scouts Of some florist, who are.
dismally anxious to provide wreath,
harp or pillow Of appropriate blossoms at
the lowest market rates. Usually these
purveyors are escorted to the door with
impressive speed; nevertheless they con-
triye to drum up trade and make liy-
ing.
Should the owner Of saloon or office
be dissatisfied with his laundrcss, he car
get his towels furnished and daily
changed by supply company
Some wiseacre has said that New York
wastes as much food as Paris uses. This
IS not altogether true, at least in our
day. We do not cook as skilfully and
frugally as the Irench, but we utilize
our scraps and remnants more carefully
than Of vore The material sent away
from the tables Of big hotel is now in.
dustriously garnered and carted off to
some Of the minor restaurants, where
it is reconstructed into toothsome and
wholesome dishes for habitues who
count Their pennies before investing in q
meal Many a savory morsel that fails
to tempt the palate of millionaire thus
tirds its way under the belt of tramp
New York is great depot and mart
for statuary. Here you can have any
conceivable idea wrought out in bronze
marble, zinc or plaster of Paris. Most
of the elaborate designs are still imports
ed, but standard originals are repro
material and size One is liable almost
/ any day to meet in Broadway or the
t Bowery a squad Of men carrying objects
that rudely resemble the human form
and may remind you of primitive
Egyptian or Aztec statuary. The OBJ
iccts consist of wooden frame works
padded out with hay or shavings or
rags, and covered with stout bagging or
canvas. Some represents men standing,
others men sitting or reclining, others
boys, women or girls in various attitudes.
All of them are duly clothed in fine ap-
parel and do duty as dummies in cloth
ing houses.
Still another form OF sculpture now
gone to desuetude and decay is that OF
ship carving. With the departure OF
our merchant marine the old time figure
head has also departed, and but two
establishments now remain wherein one
can procure. if desired, grand old Nep
tune, or a smiling Aphrodite to deck the
PROV Of a gallant clipper.
Ia King of aquatic matters, some mer
contilve to earn their bread in precarious
o. gflesome occupations along the river
lheT gather up the flotsam and jetsam
which tae tide brings in or out, and not
infreluently they grapple : meat for th'
Coroner BY recovering the bodies o
suicides or persons accidentlv drowned
Ihey have their feelings like other men
but they cannot afford to be sentimental
Log Of wood or lifeless corpse-thci
bn mess is to clear away all such encum
) brauccs and incidentally make the opera
t!on as profitable as they may. A guile
Of specialists in the same element is tina
Of the divers who go down amid tn
bones of shipwrecls
'at-catohine is queer avocatiol
which ha, its experts and votaries in th
big city. The rat atchers have differ
cMt methods for ridt!ing a house or shi
Of .hose pests
our city furnishes profitable occupa
ton 10 many !ari iaries, but there is on
| one large establishments wherein preciou
stones 81 all kinds axe cut and polishe
~ well as mounted. The experts VII
% this work are mostly men who hav
learned their craft in Amsterdam
Within the past few years, however