The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1895-01-04
IGS YOU CAN BUY.
" ARTICLES NOT GENERALLY
SlDEnED MERCHANTABLE.

IF ARTICLES NOT GENERALLY
slDEnED MERChANTABLE.
id Water Fer Sale In New York
lcity and Power Arc Daily Bought
View Has Value In Real Estate.
eWho Sell Their Dead Bodies.
CIV York, as in other great cities,
the fight Tor lie is iicrcest, there
rice for everything-even under
II Conditions for the very air we
8. Father Time himself is on sale.
estern Union Telegraph company
xks in the national observatory
Hhingtcn. Four minutes before
he wires Of the system al over
nited States arc cleared OF busi-
nd the instant the sun passes the
y-fifth meridian electricity car
enews to every city. The time
lis in New York at noon, in Chi
til II. m, in Omaha at 10 a. IN.
San Francisco at 8 a. H., i'll
aneoUs obedience to that single
rom tho Instrument at Washing
Ill the large cities the Western
has supplied business houses,
and offices with electric clocks
espond obediently to the daily
ta Each OF these rents for $l5
ar, and in New York alone over
have been pat up. Last years
81 to tho telegraph company from
eof time approximated 81, 500,-
ter is sold regularly to the ships
harbor, and the water boats, y
)iR tanks on board, are familiar
8 to all yachtsmen. Brooklynites
,ecall the discomfort Incident to
reakins Of a big main not long
aud the people Of Newark cannot
the annoyance and cost of their
ience three years ago. The supply
the Passaic was like mud soup,
or the time being the owners OF
tosian well in the Oranges did
trade in water. The householders
.oseville and those even farther
town watched for the morning
+ carts more eagerly than ever a
man was awaited and saw a suf-
mt quantity for the day provided be-
taking train for New York.
ylinarily there is no sale for air;
like water, when a man wants 1T
ants it mighty bad. y This for
le was the case at Libby prison,
a before the prisoners organized a
II government of their own, it was
mary for the stronger men to get
ar tie windows as they dared and
sell their places to weaker COM
who wero gasping for breath. Fire,
,urse, in the form of various COM
bles is q recognized commodity.
le frequently hears of those who
r,from strange and incurable dis
and who make comfortable their
lays by selling their bodies to the
Nns for dissection.
kohurch and other sorts of fairs
may sometimes be purchased, tho
fiarying according to the purse Of
b1ser or the charms of the kissee.
iced gentlewomcn often derive reve-
by chaperoning and introducing to
society the daughters Of the newly
Invitations to select balls occa-
ally represent large outlay. and
,obably costs as much to get into the
Il set as it does to gain scat in
ress. Tho social aspirant makes
esents, while the political is "as-
ed.
.elics, sacred, profane and CHASTITY,
. their price. Autographs of famous
pie are always III demand, and bit
he rope with which q murderer has
. hanged is valued by gamblers and
0nperstitious. In Paris it is custom
once a year, to sell at auction the
Bonal effects Of those who have been
coted, and this always attracts a
% crowd Of purchasers. Locks OF
( from the heads Of noted beauties or
Dbrated men are marketable.
harms, including, of course, the
bits foot, dear to the African heart,
ng revenue to their cunning devisers,
astrologers and fortune tellers have
clientele respectable in numbers.
Ky stones and madstones arc priced
those who believe III their virtues.
bnsumptiyes often pay for the priv
. Of drinking fresh blood as it pours
d the necks Of butchered animals at
slaughter house, hoping that the
guine draft may stay the ravages q
sase. The big hotels i'll New York
elsewhe. .Uderive some income from
sale of unspoiled scraps of food to
keepers OF cheap restaurants, and
u the latter arc able to serve theil
rons with large bowls Of stew at 9
ximum price of 10 cents.
IN the east side Of this city several
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