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Show iQUEER NOTES GIVEN VIED GCd ill Weeding Out Men for Military Mili-tary Service Reveals Surprising Sur-prising Situation. NOMENCLATURE FUNNY Many Ways of Earning a Living Not Known to Ordinary Civilian. LOXDOX, Fob. 17. The reports of the military tribunals, which are still at work weeding out men for the army, show that there are many ways of earning earn-ing a liviug which are not known to the ordinary public. The list of trades represented rep-resented in a day's application for military mili-tary exemption frequently reads .like an extract from a nonsense-rhyme book. For example, the report of a tribunal in the east of London shows applications from a sourer, a splatcher, a smutter-man, smutter-man, a weller, an uuhaircr, a tackier and a tenterer. A bargain letter, a monkey-runner, and a bull-dogger were among the exemptions ex-emptions granted the other day. A bargain-letter, it is explained, is the man in a quarry who arranges terms with the quarrymen from time to time as the work develops. A monkey-runner works in a steel mill, where he conveys the pieces from shop to shop suspended from block and tackle, while the bull-dogger stands by the rollers and receives the rolled metal in a large pair of tongs or dogs. Some Queer Names. An "allowance man'' is not what is known in the British colonies as a remittance re-mittance man, but is found in the breweries, brew-eries, where he is responsible for the allowance al-lowance of beer made to every employee twice daily. A ' 'jack-tenter ' ' is em-ployed em-ployed in the cotton mills, while employees em-ployees known as "jiggers" are found in a score of trades as wide apart as woolen weaving and coal mining. The coal mines provide many curiosities, such as kirvers, scupplers, thurlers, lock-erers, lock-erers, loaderers, getters and fillers. An " urbor-maker ' ' has nothing to do with garden- furniture, but is an important impor-tant cog in the watch-making industry. The "clicker ' ' is found in a dozen trades, but is especially prevalent in boot-making, which also provides such j occupations as those of the cordwainer i and skiver. The ehucker is employed j in the manufacture of coke, while the I heaver is found in the metal-working j trade. I More of Them. The masticator belongs to the rubber rub-ber industry, as does also the highly skilled workman known as the "hydrostatic "hydro-static bedniaker. " The "mango sorter sort-er ' ' deals with the manufacture of cheap cloth from shoddy. The "ironer" may belong to any one of fifteen trades, from umbrellas to boots. A " backer 'J has nothing to do with the race course, but may be encountered in half a dozen trades, from bookbinding to machinery. ! The "bookmaker"' is also found in sev-j eral trades. The "flasher" follows a wholly respectable calling connected with the manufacture of plate glass. The "raeeman" works in a lead mine and the "raiser" is a copper mill. The "bank walker" is not employed in a financial institution, but is engaged in examining the banks of canals and fivers to guard against accidents. A ' ' 1 hurrier " comes from the lead mines. ; A "bobby lad" has nothing to do with the police force, but is employed either in the mines or the cotton mills. A "datal man" is an agricultural laborer, but a "pig lifter" is not; ho is employed in a steel works. |