The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-02
HOW PEOPLE
MAKE LIVING
Queer Occupations In all Parts Of the
Country by Which Snug For
tunes Have Been
Made.
GOAT" IN LARGE STORE
One Man Raises Rattle Snakes by the
Wholesale and Another Get
ting Rich on WaIrus
W1iskers.


When the thirteenth census Is com
pleted, that is when the last compila.
ton has been made and each individual
has been put in the proper class, 1t
will be the most exhaustive classified
tion ever made by the census bureau,
says the Scientific American. For In
stance, while machinists WILL or
course, be placed under one general
heading, each of them will be classi-
fled according to the particular work
he is doing, and so with other trades
and industries. Some OF the sub
classes will contain but single name
This will bring to light number OF
queer ways in which some people are
engaged in earning a livelihood. AS
far as the work has progressed. there
Is only one man classed as snake
merchant This man has snake
ranch in Texas, and has for more than
seven years made business of ham
ding snakes. During the year 1910
he sold over 10000 rattle-snakes and
black snakes, the prices ranging from
% cents to SO each. They are sold to
ZOOS, side shows of circuses, medical
colleges and scientists
Queer Vacations.
Under the shoe industry one would
hardly expect to find persons sub
classed judges takers, and pancake
makers, but there they are. Another
man who will be all In class by
himself when the work is finished is
resident of Kansas City. His sole
business is to bottle smoke Of burning
hickory logs. He claims that when
this smoke is let loose In an alright
compartment where meat has been
hung it will produce the same results
upon the meat as though it had been
smoked in an old-fashioned smoke
house. Such titles as whittier" in a
straw hat factory. .tobies,' a maker
of stogies, dock walloper,'' a long
shoreman. "pouncers in a hat making
establishment vibrator" In clock
factory, "tonger" in connection with
oysters, "teaser" in a glass factory,
are some OF the other queer designa-
tions used by the census bureau.
Indeed there are as many women as
there are men who pursue odd ways
of earning money, one class of which
would be designated as goats were
common expression of the times
used, for it is their business to be
discharged" from the department
stores In which they are employed a
number Of times each day, or as Often
as necessity might demand. When a
grouchy or naughty customer makes
a complaint of diseourteous treatment
or what not against clerk one OF the
goat is summoned to the office as
the person in charge Of that particular
department. There she Is given a
good talking to before the angry Gus
toner and summary dismissed and
the complainant goes away rejoicing.
Women Policemen.
Women policemen are becoming
rather commonplace We have won
an chief of police in Kansas; towI
in Pennsylvania boasts fair deput,
sheriff, who Is college graduate, ant
Los Angeles was the first city to ap
point woman to its police force.
One woman in Pennsylvania earn
her daily bread by raising Persian
cats and selling them for from s25 t,
500 each. She not infrequently make
large sales to wealthy cat fancierf
Still another woman in Maryland de
votes her time to pigeon raising
claiming her income from the indus
try to be about 800 year
One of the most unique trades 0
the entire list however, is that carrie
on by man in Seattle. His bushes
and profitable one, too, is to secur
the mustaches from walrus killed i
Boring Straits and sell them to tn
Chinese for toothpicks. These stou
bristles are plucked from the nose {
the walrus by Indians, tied into sma
bundles and sold by him on the Pac
fic coast to agents, who ship them t
China, where they are in great d.
mand. In an aged bull walrus tn
bristles are about foot long an
nearly as thick as lead pencil. B
sides being extremely tough, they ca
when made into picks, be pushed b
tween the teeth without injury to tt
enamel. Last year this dealer cleare
something like a thousand dollars l
his traffic in walrus whiskers.
When the stomach fails to perfor
its functions, the bowels become d
ranged, the liver and the kidneys co
gested causing numerous disease