Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-26
Cthsr Means Of Getting Rich Than Work
ing a Nebraska Farm.
NOVEL WAYS OF MAKING A LIVING
Popcorn Trust, n BuIIfrOE Ranch.
Boarding Canaries and BanishinE
COckroacbes-GOod Money in
Cake Making.

the following collection Of unusual occupa-
! tons.
| OF the whole list Of unique callings that
have come to notice none is more peculiar
than the business Of DIR. Cockroach" Of
/ Louisville. For a stipulated annual consid-
/ Grafton the Doctor contracts to keep
/ ones premises rid OF cockroaches. He does
not whistle them away like the Pied Piper
Of Hamelin but at regular intervals he
comes around with queer booking tools and
mysterious powders, by means Of which he
persuades the cochroaches TO go.
Bird Doctor and Specialist is the sign
on the shingle which hangs in front Of an
establishment on Broadway IN New York.
/ The proprietor is a young woman who
takes mammals pet canary to board while
the family is away at the seashore or abb
/ sent from home at other times. She also
/ has a hospital for sick birds and teaches
/ backward songsters their mission in the
world. While Il might seem that this young
woman is making small use Of her time,
/ she really knows all about birds and their
/ troubles and is able to make competence
/ from her work.
Popcorn Trust.
\ An Englishmen possessed Of a small an
nuity and in bad health went to Ell Paso,
( Tex. The expenses OF living were so great
. IN Ine SOUTHWESTERN city liAhl ne HOuh AOhiiN
( his income inadequate. He invested all the
ready money he had in eight gilt and
gaudy popcorn stands with little engines to
run the peppers. The Idea worked and be-
fore long he branched out TO San Antonio.
I He soon worked up a baby trust which
brought him an income Of $500 year.
A woman in Boston makes business OF
taking inventories of houses which are
rented furnished. She comes to the house
and makes complete lists In triplicate Of
/ every article with description of its con-
I dition. When the house is given r2 she
comes again and checks over the house
hold goods and gods and appraises the loss
or damage. She has been so successful in
this kind Of work that her services are
much in demand.
An Italian in New York takes over the
rubbish from the garbage collections of
/ the great eastern metropolis at a stated
\ annual price and makes from $4,000 to
/ $50 900 a year from the business. He en-
/ ploys hundreds Of sorters and pickers. who
[ go over the rubbish to get out the old
, bottles, rags, rubber, leather and other
! junk 1t is said that he realizes from 1900
/ to 5000 a year on old rubber shoes alone.
A Memphis newspaper woman boldly ad-
vertised in the newspapers that for a con-
sideration she would prepare papers to be
read at womens clubs. write speeches for
banquets or trace pedigrees back of for
gotten grandmothers to the Colonial Danes
Her advertising was persistent until COM
missions began to come in, and many a
woman leader OF club life in this or that
particular town has shone in the reflected
glory OF this southern girls hard working
genius.
Boom in BIemished Shoes.
.kr g.
OF the Chicago department stores con-
4 ceived the idea of buying up slightly dam
! aged or blemished shoes from the manu-
/ facturers and retailing the same at a sac
/ rifce price. He opened up with one clerk
! in a single room near the roof OF sky
scraping Office building To get good pair
of IS shoes with nothing more than a little
scratch on them for 81 was such a bargain
! that customers came fast. The business
increased so rapidly that the original store
has been enlarged to fifteen rooms, and
| forty clerks are employed instead OF one.
The capital earned from the original store
has been reinvested, until now the con-
Germ owns eight large stores in other
! places.
1 A New Jersey girl. broken down by teach
| ing and Office work, was ordered by her
doctor to get some occupation which would
j
physicians advice by acquiring a Doggy
farm in New Jersey. where she began the
culture of bullfrogs. Persons who heard
/ OF the new venture smiled until they
learned that she was making lot OF money
selling frogs legs at big prices to New
York hotels and restaurants. In order to
/ get the fresh air she does her own killing
Attired in rubber boots she tramps about
the marshes and shoots the frogs with
small rife.
An enterprising New Yorker makes a
business OF matching buttors. But this
man is no relation to the famous BIN the
Button Man. who makes campaign buttons
and badges. BIN makes a speciality of
forecasting the action Of political conven-
tons Time and again this enterprising
man has successfully dehed all the political
prophets. In 1900 he staked his reputa-
ton on the belief that Roosevelt would be
nominated vice president and made big
cleanup from the sale Of buttons at the
doors OF the. convention hall
The United States consumes millions Of
olives every year, but they are nearly ali
unripe. About eight years ago a Cali
fornia woman while travelling abroad
learned the secret OF picking a ripe olive
in a peculiar fashion. The year after she
came home she marketed twenty gallons
of ripe olives. Three years later she could
not begin 10 I'LL the orders which came 10
her, and now she is annually marketing
over 10000 gallons OF ripe olive oil ana
picked olives.
Reading for other People.
A novel way OF making a living is to do
other peoples reading for them. In the
old days when a learned man desired to
write a scientific book 1t was a labor OF
years, Not 30 nowadays in the United
States. Suppose physician who has at
tanned great prominence as a specialist
in the treatment Of a particular disease
desires to perpetuate his fame by writing
book on that subject. What does he do?
Merely makes a contract with a profess
siOnal reader 10 provide the history OF cases
OF the particular disease recorded In the
medical journals OF all lands The busy
man then goes hastily over this collection,
selecting the instances NJ for his own use.
ana thus completes the work OF ten years
in one year. Not long ago one OF our great
physicians paid a professional reader 5000
for compiling certain information for him.
The business OF looking up family records
10 qualify a man or woman for admission
to the Sons or Daughters of the American
Revolution or other historical societies is