Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — Odd Occupations. [ARTICLE]

Odd Occupations.

We are fast running “ specialties” into the ground in this city, when an exclusive Baked Beans Company" is formed and put into successful operation. This is a veritable fact, afad* the wagonA of the New York and Boston Baked Beans Company now traverse the streets supplying the famous Sunday morning; meal to the restaurants and hotels with as much regularity as the milk carts. They do a thriving business. Another specialty here is Uie manufacture of whipped cream for Charlotte Russe. One -concern manufactures nearly all of jhis delicacy sold in the city. They use machinery, and by dealing in. large quantities of materials, and using labor-saving machines, they can supply the restaurants and confectioners cheaper than they can make it themselves. But the oddest thing, which, though small jn itself, is a big thing in its way, is the operation of a stock company for manufacturing the article of “ paste” for book-binders, paperhangers, newspaper offices, etc. The cost of this thing is so “light that it would seem there was no “big money” in it upon any conceivable terms; but in fact this business employs 100 hands, occupies a five-story building, and keeps three or four wagons and twice as many horses in constant use. They supply paste to the suburban cities and villages, mid on terms which prevent competition from private consumers. Another odd Occupation is that of a half-dozen butcher-boys in Fulton and Washington Markets, who make a business o. supplying cat and dog meat to wholesale grocers and others who keep cats or dogs to protect their property against rata and mice, f It is curried round to the stores, nicely cat up ready for use; and tradition says that fortunes have been made in this line of supplying cats’ meat by two retired butchers.—AT. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.