Thrifty Ragpickers

The Italiaii ragpicker vies with the milkman for early risïng, and with the pig for untidiness. The city surely cannot comp'ain of his wasting water. Ha knows not what :i bath is. He ordinarily indulges in washiug his face ouce i week, when ho puts on his Sunl:iy elothes to go lo Qhuroh. He does the greatest part of liis business before other men begin to work. He makes more money than his fellow-countrymen pursuing other oallingS. Many ragpiogers have several thousand dollars in the bank, but relativo wealth liardly alters their nianner of tirtngi Their rooms resemble pawnbroker shops. Kvery available space is oecupied by bales, bundles and loes. The women gencrsily attend to the business of assorting the variona object pieked up. Incredible as it may appeac, there is frequently over i thcntoad dollars' worth of marketable goods in oue of those rooms, eonsisting of rags, suoh a few of my readers would touch with a poker, bones, scraps and shavings of paper, human hftir, feathera, bottles - in short, of t hings that are thrown away as valuelessenoumbrances. Nothingis useless for these people, and theycau hnd employment even for such articles as they cannot sell. A shoa thiit no human being could wear is use to repair other old shoes. Many of these Italiana are cobblers on rainy days, and besides mending their own shoes with the material above referred to, repair other people's, cbarging iifteen cents for putting on soles and hee'.s. The leather for these soles is invariably pieked up in the street. Besides making some money in other ways, the ragpickers prolit by the sale of stale beer colleeted during the day frora the kegs around the saloons of the oitT. This beer the inhabitants of " New Italy" drink witli relish. It is sold for one or two cents per glass. Eueiveseenre is produced in the dead lieer by the addition of soda. For those who have no regular homes, eating Ihihsos are established, which present a strange contrast with their sarroundings, for they are cdeanliness itself. Their barber shops are also modcls in their way. - N. Y. Sun. - Samuel Bromley, a barber f Mystic Hiver, Comí., oan breathe for a time without llie use of mouth or nostrils, as communieation is kepl up between hi.lungs and the ataaosphere througb hia ears. That this is the oase he (Icinonslratioii when iudulging iu u cigar, by exhalins the siüoke thro'igh the sanie channels.