The Yellowstone journal., 1894-12-28
THINGS YOU CAN BUY.
A LIST OF ARTICLES NOT GENERALLY
CONSIDERED MERcHANTAeLe.

fine and Water For sale In New York.
Electricity and Power Are Daily Bought,
and g View Ha. Value In Real Estate.
People who Sell Their Dead Bodies.
In New York, as in other great cities,
where the fight for life is fieEcest, there
Is price for everything-svenu under
certain conditions for the very air W
breathe. Father Time himself is on sale.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has desks in the national observatory
in Washington. Four minutes before
noon the wires of the system all over
the United States are cleared Of husi
ness, and the instant the sun passes the
seventy-ffth meridian electricity car
ries the news q every city The time
ball falls in NV York at noon, in Cni
cago at IL a m, i'll Omaha at 10 a. m
and in San Francisco at 8 a. m, III
simultaneous obedience to that single
click from the instrument at Washing
ton.
In all the large cities the Western
Union has supplied business houses,
banks and offices with electric clocks
that respond obediently to the daily
mandate Each of these rents for g 5
per year, and in New York alone over
5000 have been put up. Last year :
revenue to the telegraph company from
the sale IT time spproximated 81, 500,
600.
Water i sold regularly to the ships
In the harhCr, and the water boats, -
with big tanks on board, are familiar
~. 81 IL
will recall the discomfort incident to
the breaking of big main not long
since, and the people of Newark cannot
forget the annoyance and cost of their
experience three years ago. The supply
from the Passaic was like mud SOUP
and for the time being the owners Of
al artesian well in the Oranges did a
large trade in water. The householders
of Roseviile and those even farther
down town watched for the morning
water scarts more eagerly than ever a
nilkman was awaited and saw suf-
fcient quantity for the day provided be-
fore taking train for New York.
Ordinarily there is no sale for air;
but, like water, when a man wants il
he wants il mighty bad. This for
awhile was the case at Libby prison,
where, before the prisoners organized o
sort of government of their own, il was
customary for the stronger men to get
Is near the windows as they dared and
then sell their places to weaker com
rades who were gasping for breath. Fire,
of course. in the form Of various COM
bustibles is a recognized commodity.
One frequently hears of those who
suffer from strange and incurable dis
eases and who make comfortable their
last days by selling their bodies to the
surgeons for dissection
AT church and other sorts of fairs
kisses may sometimes be purchased, the
tariff varying according to the purse Of
the kisser or the charms of the kissee.
Reduced gentlewomen often derive reve-
nue. by chaperoning and introducing to
good society the daughters of the newly
rich. Invitations to select balls occa-
sionally represent large outlay and
it probably coets a. much 10 get into the
swell sec as it does 70 gain a seat in
congress. The social aspirant make.
presents, while the political is "as
sessed -
Relics, sacred, profare and ghastly,
have their price. Autographs Of famous
people ara always in demand, and bit
of the rope with which murderer has
been hanged is valued by gamblers and
the superstitious. In Paris il is custom
airy, once year. to sell at auction the
personal effects of those who have been
executed, and this always attracts
large crowd of purchasers Locks of
hair from the heads of noted beauties or
celebrated men are marketable.
Charms, including, Of course, the
rabbits foot, dear tO the African heart,
bring revenue to their cunning devisers,
and astroiogers and fortune tellers have
clientele respectable in numbers.
Lucky stones and madstones are priced
by those who believe in their virtues
Consumptives often pay for the priv.
ilege Of drinking fresh blood as it pours
from the necks of butchered animals at
the slaughter house. hoping that the
sanguine draft may stay the ravages of
disease. The big hotels in Ne, York
and elsewhere derive some inco1..- from
the sale Of unspoiled scraps of food to
the keepers Of cheap restaurants, and
thus the latter are able to serve their
patrons with large bowls of stew at
maximum price of ~ cents.
On thC sst side of this city several
people exc out q scanty living by writ
ing letters for the iIliterate Even the
four leaved clover may be turned into
coin. A big business is done in selling
electricity and steam power, while many
q man in New York is paying high
price for sunlight. A view" adds ma
terially to the value of y house New
York World
why Bulls Hate . Red Flag.