The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-30
QUEER TRADES.
Paris Is City Where They Greatly Flour
iSsl and Abound.

iSsl and Abound.
Great cities like Paris and London,
abound in queer and odious trades,
such as Dickens and Eugene Sue have
exposed to view in their dismal novels
of London and Paris low life. This
was forty or fifty years ago, since when
the progress of science has added new
occupations for those BOhemians in
rags who are the accompaniment and
,equipoise of Bohemians III fine
linen, such as figure in the pages
iof the soidisant ''Englishman
,on Paris" The one class,
which piques itself on its distinction
as well as on its vices. presupposes the
,other. like the upper and the under
BLADES OF pair of scissors, find in =
Scurious French essay on The Small
sTrades of Paris interesting particulars
Prospecting one class of these vaga bonds
those who collect for the Paris labor
atories frogs, snakes, crickets, grass
hoppers, insects of all sorts. bats eats,
end such small deer as are needed by
students of Natural history. There is
also demand at the .lardin DIES Plantes,
the Aquaria, etc. for reptiles, water
hugs and the smallest specimens of
animal life that exist in mud and wa
tier.
These scientific needs have created an
hnscienJiiic class of petty sportsmen,
who are the ''pothurterS'' of the
museum and Ia oratoricS-specialist
with one common characteristic-stron
aversion to regular industry and intense
love for the vaga bona existence on init
innate terms with Mother Nature. At
certain seasons they start ont five or
Six times in month. and are gone four
or five days sleeping under the open
Sky at the back of wall or dyke and
subsisting of a morsel of dry bread
in a haversacll Al other times they
may he idle for three months. living on
salms supplied 10y the professors and
istudents whom they have served. or bv
advances made to them from dealers in
natural history supplies, which they
ieypect to repay when the hunting sea
son opens again.
" In winter these gentry often contrive
Ito get committed to prison for some
;snall offense dixie the clients of Mr.
ANDREWS at Saiem), in order to have ?
l>varm shelter and free lunches at the
ieXpense of the public In this case.
;however. they are TO be out again in
the opening spring. when the life that
.dimiy moves in pools and streams be
-gins to feel the universal impulse that
iLucritius dwellS upon. and hecoIses
;active and social once more One of
theSe Partisan savantS. known to med
ical students and professors, is called
FEATHER Savage" tPere Sauvagel for
want of his true name which NAV pos
Isibly be known TO the police or to some
frumseller who supplies him with the
strong drink he can not dispense with
when his spreeS come ON.
lie Is a man of sixty or siXtv-fve
years. tanned by the sun and wind and
bent over with age. but still hearty,
Hike Nordsworth'> leech-gathcrer. He
has SO much deXterity in his chosen
pursuit that he might have earned
competence by il if he were not also
one of the worst drunkards of the Latin
quarter. He has several specialties
but his most profita bile and attractive
one used to be TO catch the four sDecies
OF bats that frequent PariS-tha great
horshoe bat the little horseshoe. the
lnurin and the pipiStrella He declares
that these bats are the prettieSt crea-
lures IN the world and the most phjlop-
progeniti:e. nursing their numerous
young with great care. and very useful
also.-N. \. Recorder.