Fair play., 1892-01-30
DR!PRICES
@a@a Paki@s PoKdesE
Used in Millions of Homes-4o Years the Standard.

The average ages of which IN oi
different occupations live are rs fol-
lows Agate poli>her-, 10 10 io wears :;
black smiths. 55.l years: brass found-
ers, 6O.i wears brass workers, - =
years brewers, 500 years britannia
workers, 422 Year. butchers, 80
years cabinet makers, 1873 YEAR ::
carpenters, 55.7 years cloth weay'rs,
575 to SO ycars workers i'll roal, % l
Years confectioners, 81 Years cop
persmilhs, 4S6 years cotton Oper-
atlves, AZ to so Years dye G3.7
years engravers, $40 years fertiliz-
er makers, 81 wears gas mtn, CO /" %
years gii,.er,, j3S years glass INT
ters, 42S years glass makers, 81 )
gears golismilhs, A years hai'ers,
5l.6 years laborers in bleaching
works, 80 to 50 ears copper forgers,
60 5 ears day laborers in dIstillerics,
535 years !; IocksmitEs, 49.1 years.
Machinists and stokers Oh railroads,
35 years machInisis and stokers on
steamships, 81 years masons. 300
years miilers, 4j.l years workers III
oil, Ga years paintcrs, 81 years pa
per makers, 376 years potters, 53
year printers, 543 years; railroad
employees, 397 years sad.ilers. 53.5
years salt boilers, 81 years ; scaven-
gers, 81 to GO years stonecutters, 80 )
years ; tanners, 81 2 years workers in
tobacco, 5S.3 Years varnishcrs, A
years watehInakers, So 9 years.
The "Prinicr's Devil" is almost rs
old as the art of printing. The cx-
preston had its origin in this wise
About the beginning Of the fifteenth
century, Aldus Manutius, a famous
printer of Venice, owned IL black boy
whom he had purchased from cor.
sair, and whom he trained TO assis'
him In his printing operations. The
art of manufacturing books in great
numbers and at small expense was
then SO little understood by the ma
joriiy OF people that the honor was
ascribed to Satan, il being impossible
for them TO understand how, without
the aid of magic, copies could be 81
rapidly multiplied. The suspicion
that the Evil One had something to dc
with the new art was intensified in
Venice by the presence in the office 0
Manuiius OF his black servant. Sc
strong was the feeling that there wa'
danger Of his house and office being
mObbed and his machinery wrecked
by AL Indignant rabble. To prevent
SO unlucky denoucment Aldus pro
claimed that he would bring his bo!
forth, which he did, placed him on
plato in the public square, and de
clared that any person not satisfied
that the boy was f1cslI and bloot
could come and ri:'cli him to make
sure. The mistaken impression was
thus removed but before this timt
the name "Printer's Devil' had been
attached to the boy and was thence
forth applied generally to the DO! isl
assistants in printing office.
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Just after the war. there was an or
der issued in some parts Of the South
requiring all the colored people who
had been married during their slavery
TO come before Il magistrate and bt
married again. The presumption was
and in rare cases it WAS the fact, that
they had not been married at all.
An old black man in Eastern NOrtl
Carolina had lived very unhappiI,
with his wife, to whom he had beci
married by a regular ordained minis
ter but he went out with the rest Il
the neighboring village, in obedienc'
to the order.
Standing before the magistrate
Uncle Jake asked, do you mean Il
say, sir, dat am not a married man 2
mo, slr," replied the magistrate
mot according to the law, for this or
der demands that you shall be mar
ried."
"Well, den," continued Uncle Jake
"ef aint married to old Dinnh, ain
gwine to be dat's sartain y AMI h.
could not be prevailed upon 10 submit
to the ceremony.
On returning to the big plantation
where he had lived the most of hi
life, he rushed into the house wher
his old mistress was sitting, and said
very hastily, "Missis, lie man out in Il
town who ha, to marry de niger
told me dat l wasn't married at al
and when l heard dat, tell you
fairly tlossomed.
Several years ago the Rothchild
held large quantity Of cotton in Ne,
Orleans, which they instructed thei
agent in that city to sell when cotto
should reach u certain price. Th
agent, believing that the price OF col
ton would go beyond the figure
named by his employ ers. held on ii
he was able TO sell it at n price wi,ic
netted $4,000 more than he woul
have go, for it it he had obeyel hi
orders from London. lie jo! fully il
formed his employers Of hi, success
supposing they would share his sa,i
faction u. the result. Imagine his SUI