The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-08

and bitten by her ungrateful stock to
such an extent that she is perfectly
hideous. She sleeps in the middle OF
the sacks of ants, and her epidermis
has become so insensible to the bites
| of those insects that she slum bers
soundly and sweetly while hundreds
of them are endeavoring to extract a
meal from her thick skin. She was
some time ago compelled to remove her
quarters to a spot just outside Paris,
because the neigh tors not tunreasonably
objected to the stray mem bers OF her
farm skirmishing on their own account
in the pantries of the adjoining houses
Mile. Blanche supplies breeders and
keepers of pheasants, the geological
gardens, aquariums and large bird
dealers with ants eggs, and receives
never less than ten large flour sacks of
/ ants a day from Germany and else
where. BY keeping them in a great
/ heat and feeding them well they are
induced to lay vast quantity of eggs
/ 1t is interesting TO record that Mile
I Blan che is by this time possessed of
/ handsome fortune.
Dealers in second hand bread are
numerous 1t is collected by rag g-piclS-
ers from ash barrels. The dirty pieces
are placed on one side, for sale to rab-
bit and poultry dealers, dog fanciers
and others, and fetch three pence a
basketfuL On the other side are the
clean pieces IF bread. These are baked,
rasped. and sold to the ham dressers.
hotels and similar esta blishments for
powdering hams, etc, stufing, pudding
and like culinary operations. They
also cut the bread into pieces as big as
dice. bake and sell them in small pack
/ cts for putting into soup
"Artichoke COO tzers'' must be men
/ toned as a trade peculiarly French
I Artichokes are sold cooked 10 all the
restaurants, in the markets and IN the
+ streets Of Paris Some OF these cooks
/ do business to the extent OF twelve TO
+ fourteen hundred pounds sterling in
course of the season of four months.
( The vegeta bles are placed in large cop
per boilers TO make them keep their
! color. each layer separated by canvas
+ and allowed TO boil. When done they
are packed in baskets and kept warm
/ for few hours till delivered TO the
( market or fetched by the restaurant or
stall-keeper. The price varies from
/ halfpenny TO three pence each, accord
/ ing to the size and quality and the time
/ of year
Cat killers" are not numerous but
t the few who monopolize the trade make
/ great deal of money out OF 1t They
walk through Paris bout midnight
/ with sackeand a couple of terriers
/ and when they catch sight Of stray
T puss OFF go the dogs, who seldom re-
l turn TO their master without their
/ prize Their skins are sold To furriers
and their flesh 10 keepers of eating
houses in the su burbs, where 'ra bbit
! stew IS a fayorite dish Bat for stewed
ra bbit one likes 10 be satisfied that
bunny has been sacrificed. so the work
men who delight in this dainty require
to see a "a bbit's head. as proof OF the
bona fides Of the dish This vould
puzzle an ordinary individual. but the
''cat-killer' il a genius and a French
man. and Is not so easily disposed OF
He also deals in rabbit skins, and has
i an arrangement with the cooks iu the
+ neigh borhood 20 let him have the heads
of ra bbitz, and these are shown 20 ihe
( customers as prpof
Visitors to Paris will notice how ex-
frene.y clean the streets are com pared
70 those Of London or New YORK This
! IS al the more remarks be 20 the early
morning trave!er along The boulevartis.
vvho viii see AL kinds Of refuse and
dirt piled I'D IA front Of the houses On
+ the pavement There are 10 dus;-noles
( "a Paris. 80 every house holder !s CON-
+ PEELED by law 70 hare bis dust aud re-
fCsc PLACED in small metal tox q tie
+ edge Of the road. 20 be removed By tas
men appointed bJ the Town for that