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Show Deadly Industry. One of tlje most deadly callings, and one of which very little is known, is that of tho workers in champagne cellars. cel-lars. The work, which is light, and without any obvious elements of risk to health, consists in turning over the bottles cf champagne so that the wine may be clear and transparent and absolutely ab-solutely free from sediment. The men who do the wcrk spend eight of ten hours a day in the dark wine cellars turning over bottles by the thousand. This monotonous duty they discharge day after day in semidarkness, in a high temperature, unhealthy atmosphere at-mosphere and absolute solitude. These combined conditions affect the nerves and health cf the workers so seriously that few of them can continue at their posts until middle age. |