The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25

sum of % cents suitable name Tor any
baby of high or low degree. All that the
parents need to do TO take advantage OF
her professional assistance is to forward
with the requisite fee such particulars as
to their position in life, temperament,
color of the baby's eyes. the month OF It's
BIRTH and one or two more of like import,
and by RETURN mail the applicant VIII re-
ceive a name, which, it is stated, is war
ranted to give satisfaction.
A little woman named Mrs Vincent IS
San Francisco modste who makes spe-
cialty of bridal dresses and stage costumes
for the freaks of nature and is known as
the Pacific coast "Worth' of the dime
museum.
Timothy Spangloss, and old soldier, and
once miner in a California mining camp,
lives in Pittsburg, Pa, md as living
barometer makes money by betting on
the weather.
In one of the great caraVansaries OF
Constantinople there is an old Turk who
makes a comfortable living by renting
pipes for temporary use to the guests OF
tho hotel. His stand is a little red-cur-
tanned bazaar, in which he sits with table
before him. On this table is ranged a
large variety of pipes of all sizes ana all
nationalities. The German meerschaum
is there. So is the American corncob, ana
the English briar and the Irish dudeen
sides he has the long r-stemmed cool
smoking Turkish pipes and the little slim
stemmed opium pipes Of Chinese manu-
facture. Behind him. ranged in scores OF
little pockets. are tobaccos of every con-
ceivable variety. The pipes are rented full
to the brim with the owners own choice
of tobacco for the sum of 1 scutarae, less
than one penny of our money. However,
the renter is compelled to leave small
sum of money as security for the pipe.
Two enterprising American lads have
gone into monkey and cassowary farming,
the skins of which are used for pocket
books. The farm is situated in South
Africa. More calls are given, however
for the cassowary than for the monkey.
Cassowary skin, when ready to be made
into pocketbooks, is delicate tan in color,
a shade or so lighter than the monkey
skin. 1t has the appearance of being
punctured with tiny holes. These pocket
books are most deliberately mounted.
Some not only have capped corners of
gold, but on them lies golden serpent in
seeming readiness to crawl over the cover.
Others have an enameled flower or two
for ornamentation, and the corners are
capped with enamel the same color as
Then there is the snake industry. An
old man named Abner Dodge, having nu-
merous friends among the rattlesnake
fraternity, has for years past utilized his
friends and extracted the oil from their
bodies, said oil being used as medicine.
He has a regular rattlesnake farm near
Denver Col. He has as many as 100 of
these scaly, reptilian creatures about him.
He keeps them fed and fat. He says 1t
pays to do so. With him this industry is
a paying institution.
Herman Kruger, an obscure Dutchman,
has started a French froggery a few
| miles west of Anaheim, Cal, from which
| he expects to reap harvests of coin. If
| this industry Is successful we may soon
expect to see the restaurants of Southern
California serving up frogs to their nu-
| merous customers and patrons, disguised
| under a high-sounding French name
| for frogs taste better that way-frogs in
| all styles, baked, fried, roasted stewed or
| boiled Frogs legs may be dished up in
mincemeat or hash, fricasseed or jam
med. F'roggeries are a paying institution
| in France: SO are snaileries.
| A new industry has come into existence
among the Parisians and camel steak is
displacing horse steak in the restaurants
| of Paris, Algerian butchers providing the
supply. III
Several dentists in New York city have
| retired from the regular practice of hav-
ing human patients and are combining
| themselves exclusively to canine dentistry,
manufacturing for the little pugs of the
|
times required, filling their teeth with
| gold.
But the champion instance of nineteenth
century enterprise is furnished by the
sympathetic girl who listens to the sor-
| rows and misfortunes of her fellow crea-
lures for SO cents an hour. I believe, as
the world is now constituted, the tender
| hearted young lady should never lack
| clients