The St. Johns herald., April 29, 1886, Image 4

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HEW YORK'S POOD SUPPLY.
Startling: FIjrares Showing- What a Good
Appetite The Metropolis Has.
New Yorkers eat, at a low estimate,
about 21,000,000 pounds of beef, mutton
and veal in a week, say 3,000,000 pounds
every day in the year. They eat more
In the Fall and Winter of beef, veal and
mutton than in the Spring and Summer,
but, and particularly in holiday times,
poultry fills up the nooks, cracks and
crevices and there is not so much room
for the more solid foods.
About one-third of the beef that New
Yorkers get outside of every day is
dressed beef, dressed in Chicago, shipped
In refrigerator cars and packed in New
York in big, iced storehouses.
The other two-thirds comprise un
dressed beeves, extra steers, primesteers,
good steers, fair steers, medium steers,
Colorado steers, Texas steers, all with
nothing but their hides and hair on.
Every- day 2,000 or 3,000 of the beeves,
each weighing 700 pounds when it gets
dressed, are devoured as porterhouse,
sirloin and steak and roast beef.
Calves weigh, on the average, when
they are hung up on the butcher's hooks,
100 pounds. The calves that weigh
much less than that arc young; they
aro "bob veal " and the New York Board
of Health seizes on to them when its
inspectors see them for sale. "When the
inspectors do not see them, the "bob
veal " is served in swell restaurants,
white and tender at double prices.
Sheep and lambs each weigh about 45
pounds. A million pounds of calves and
sheep and lambs are stowed away every
day in New York where thoy will do the
most good.
Hogs from 160 pounds to 100 pounds
are "hogs;" hogs from 100 pounds to
80 aro "pigs," technically. Fifty thous
sand of hogs and pigs are daily sacri
ficed to the Moloch of Manhattan Island
appetite. Tons of pork chops, thous
ands of pounds of honey-combed tripe,
miles of sausages and square furlongs
of crackle are put below.
Some people's bread is buttered, then
others spread it on thick. Together they
use 200,000 and odd pounds of butter
everyday, real butter, not oleomargarine.
It is calculated that the force expended
by pretty dairy maids on churning that
much butter would raise the Post Office
1,000 feet into the air and hold it there
for three hours.
One hundred million pounds of cheese
arrived in New York in 1881. and most
of it was consumed there. The number
of Welsh rarebits in that much cheese
is almost incalculable; a rough estimato
Is 290,007,000.
In one week, about Christmas time,
the people of New York have eaten
19,634 packages of dressed poultry, run
ning up into millions of pounds. One
hundred and thirty-eight thousand nine
hundred and sixty-five barrels of cran
berries made into sauco were swallowed
with the poultry. In that same week
there were used in Gotham 48,349 barrels
of apples, 138,965 barrels of potatoes,
2,791 barrels of onions, 1,884 barrels of
beans, 1,375 barrels of peas, 13,000
cases of canned meats, 3,635 packages
of dried fruits, 8,471 packages of evapor
oratcd goods and 4.994 bags of peanuts.
"Eobert Yale, pf Norwich, N. Y., has a.
historical cane, which probably is the
oddest walking stick ever built in this or
iny other country.
it contains 2,000 pieces cf wood, and
3nch inlaid pieco is given an artistic and
3ymbolic form, so that tho cane by its
various colored woods is given a most
artistic look, although no color is used
upon it. Ho planned and constructed it,
and the cane represents five months labor
Sixty of the 2,000 pieces of wood are
relics of great value to the relic hunter,
and comprise a pieco of wood from tho
oldest tenantablo house In America, tho
Fairbanks residence ouilt in 1G20, and
now occupied by the seventh generation.
Tho head of tho eano is from the treo
at Crown Point to which General Putnam
was tied after being condemned to death
by burning by the Indians.
Set in the cane is a wreath of hair from
the head of Ivebecca Bates, one of tho he
roines whose strategy drove the British
to their shipping after landing to attack
Scituate, Mass.
There is a pieco of wood from tho Char
ter Oak ; another from tho House of Han
cock, tho first signer of tho Declaration
of Independence; another from the house
where witchcraft originated in Salem,
and another from the building where tho
victims of that craze were tried.
Set in the cane is a small piece of Ply
mouth Bock, and also a piece of wood
from the Mayflower; also woods from
five different forts on Lake Champlain,
from Hawthorne's residence at Salem,
from the church where Boger Williams
preached, and from the tree beneath
which Jonathan Edwards preached to the
Indians at Stockbridge, Conn.; also a
piece from the curbing of tho well com
memorated by Woodworth in his poem,
" Tho Old Oaken Bucket."
The only foreign relic in the collection
Is a piece of wood from the Tasso oak.
The cane is a unique and attractive
piece of work, and is valued at $500 by
Its owner. Norwii Bulletin.
Had Jfevnr seen His tYifo and Children.
Several years ago a resident of one
of the suburbs had tho misfortune to
become totally blind, a cataract forming
over his eyes. While in this condition
his wife died.
A young German girl whom tho un
fortunate man had never seen was very
attentive to the wife in her last illness,
and after her death did what she could
to make the grief-stricken husband and
his two little children as comfortable as
possible.
Such devotion did not go unrewarded.
The blind man proposed and was ac
:epted. He married the faithful girl.
Two children were the result of this
union. During his years of blindness
the sightless never lost hopes that
some day he might again look upon tho
beauties of nature and the loved ones
iround him.
A physician was iki.illy consulted, who
igreed" to attempt the removal of the
cataract. The operation was successful,
a.nd he from whom the light had been
shut out so many years saw again. He
was almost beside himself with joy.
A friend who was at once recognized,
came in leading a lady by the hand.
" Do you know who this is?" he said
to the happy fellow.
" No.l-do not."
" This is your wife." and then tho
pair, one of whom had never .seen the
other, fell into each other's arras, and
a domestic scene of pathetic beauty eng
sued. The two little children were also brougnt
in to their father. He clasped tbem to
his beating heart, and all the miseries of
;he past, were forgotten in the pleasure
3f that moment. -Cincinnati Sun.
A Fortunate Foet.
Lord ennyson is said to have made
lour huntlrea ' thousand dollars by his
"poems.
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A Pen Picture of tho Great Rural Pastime. i
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un liunebuiiy, uy iuviluuuli, vrts in
tended a big corn-shucking at J. B.
Al ford's.
When we arrived at Mr. Alford'swe
found about fifty or sixty of the neigh
bors and their "hands" surrounding
immense piles of corn, and the shucks
and ears were flying in every direction.
We took a turn at the pile, and our
hands and wrists arc sore yet from
tho unusual exercise.
Gathered around the pile wero farm
ers, negroes, a justice of tho peace,
a lawyer, a merchant, an editor and
a physician. Mr. Alford made about
15,000 bushels of corn, besides a full
crop of cotton, etc. Very few farmers are
as successful as he. His farm is self-sustaining,
and he always has corn to sell.
Mrs. Alford and her accomplished
daughters had a grand feast provided
for the shuckers at noon, and while the
tables didn't groan under the weight of
edibles, as the stereotype writers would
say, it was a fact that they were crowded
with everything in the way of good vic
tuals to be had, cooked in the best style,
and our generous host and hostess did
everi'thing in their power to make every
body eat hearty and enjoy themselves,
in which laudable undertaking they
succeeded.
There was old ham, the sort that
makes red gravy, and fresh pork and
turnips and cabbage and potatoes and
chickens and chick pie and oysters and
sardines and cheese and pies and pound
cake and pickles and preserves, world
without end.
When we left at 3 p. m. constant acces
sions were being made to the shucking
brigade; commanded by Major Shelton,
and the work went bravely on. It was
thought that the corn would all be
shucked by 12 at night.
Mr. Alford's family is remarkable.
He has eight children, we believe, and not
a single member of the family have over
used tobacco in any form, and they are
all healthy and fine-looking, from the
father and mother down to the youngest
child. Hartwell (Ga.) Sun. ,
"Good Bcclaud Plenty of It."
The extreme importance of sufficiently
nutritious feeding in youth is well
illustrated by astory that James M. Nixon
tells.
In 1833 Aaron Turner's circus was per
forming on a route through Pennsylvania,
and at Pottsville Napoleon Turner, tho
old man Turner's son, took a fancy to a
wretched, starveling-looking boy, be
tween six and seven years old, who was
mooning about in the neighborhood of
the show.
The little fellow seemed to be a nice,
intelligent sort of boy for his age, but
miserably thin and weak. His legs
bowed out from simple inability to bear
his body's weight. All his limbs wero
thin and shapeless as a spider's, except
for their clumsy joints. His cheeks were
sunken, and his breast seemed to have
caved in.
Nap. found the father ofJJieiad and
managed to get the boy .ipprenticed to
him. The circus-non were amazed at
sight of Nap s 'protege, and free to
prophesy that he would never amount to
anyt,! .g.
J Never mind," replied Nap. ; "even if
he doesn't, I'll save him from starving to
death, anyway."
They found that young Whitcomb (tho
boy's real name) could not eat meat. Ho
had never eaten any. The smell of it
made him sick.
Tho first article of faith in a circus
man's creed is that one must eat beef to
bo strong, and as it was a matter of
settled determination in Nap. Turner's
mind that young Whitcomb should be
strong, and as Nap. was tho biggest,
young Whitcomb had to eat beef.
He commenced lightly on it, a little at
a time, and gradually'of his own choice
increased the ration. Uo was not put to
work at anything, but just allowed to
loaf around tho tent when the other boys
were practising, and try to imitato them
when he chose to do so.
Very rapidly ho picked up flesh, and
verified tho soundness of the circus confi
dence in beef by growing strong.
In a fow seasons ho grew to be a ro
bust, straight, handsome fellow, good at
leaping, tumbling, slack-rope walking,
and eventually, under the name of Henry
Turner, became famous as ono of tho
best four-horse ridors in the country
"thanks to good beef and plenty of it,"
as Nap. Turner used to say.
A Tattooed Cello.
Tho daughter of a distinguished naval
officer is ono of tho leaders of the
healthy craze. Her plump, well-rounded
figure and swinging gait can bo seen on
Pennsylvania avenue nearly every after
noon, rain or shine, and she has the rud
diest cheeks in Washington.
She looks the perfect picture of health,
but some of hor sharp sisters have been
tracking up the secret of how her pale
complexion disappeared so suddenly.
It appears, so they say, that the young
lady called in tin 'jerviccs of an old
sailor who had known her over since
she was a " wee bit of a thing," and told
him that she was miserable bocause she
never could have any color in her face.
She asked him to tattoo her cheeks a
delicate shade of red, and although tho
operation was quite painful, she stood
it bravely, and the consequence is that
she will have a red face even after
death.
It is said that several society belles
contemplate undergoing the samo course
of treatment. Boston Traveler.
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Uncle Sam's Publishing Business.
The United States Government is the
greatest publishing houso in the world.
By tho side of its resources such an es
tablishment as tho Harpers' becomes
uite small.
In the book of estimates for the next
fiscal year recently sent to Congress,
$1,380,231.68 is asked for for wages alone.
There are on the pay roll 400 compos
itors, besides a large force of superin
tendents, foremen, etc.
Fifty proof readers are steadily em
ployed, and 45 pressmen, 115 press feed
ers, and 34 ruling machine feeders.
The estimates call for 100,000 reams of
printing paper, or 48,000,000 sheets, each
sheet making eight or sixteen pages.
Discharged fox a Good Reason. "
The Paris police arrested a female
beggar named Louisa Martin. She stood
on tho steps of the Notre Dame church,
wearing a large placard bearing the in
scription :
"I have no Home and Nothing to Eat,
and am 100 Years Old.
In reality she was only sixty-fivo years
old. The judge said :
"You have been guilty of obtaining
money under false pretensesjluwnaking
out that you are thirty-five j!SfePer
than you really are, but..osjip0OB tho
first instance in the history ofiiSSiworld
of a womanclaiminirterlABMK'tten sho.
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