FROM THE TUB TO AN INCOME $1,000 A MONTH.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 116, 20 December 1879, Page 2

FROM THE TUB TO AN INCOME SI,OOO A MONTH.

—, *, It is not alone iu mining operations that fortunes have been made. Mrs. Snruh Hay, an old Irish washerwoman, whciwn« uinnng: tho <u»rliu*t- .oiiU., l>™» a somewhat romantic history. Hor stock in tradu wlieu she camo consisted of a pair of tubs and a washboard. She began business under an 6M nino tree cm the liillsiile, having no means of hiring a house. She soon, however, got together with her own hands a rudo slab cabin, and as business was good at s2."io per dozen for washing, sho gradually began to provide for her wants. Sho got a camp stove, and, after furnishing her cabin comfortably, began to accumulate money. Tho town began ts grow in tho direction of'lrer cabin, find after a while she employed- labourers to put up a log house. As there was a great demand for miners' boarding houses, Mrs. Ray concluded to abandon the"washtub and start a boarding-house in her.qew edifice. Iu this-idea sho received great'encouragement, arid tho house was opened with Mattering prospects. In this venture she •proved to bo very successful,' and made m&ney'and Baved it. . Byitbe growth of tho city her house finally-got to be in the very centre, and, as-tho j; streets wero hud out, it proved to occupy a location on the, comer of and State-street. Business was good and sho continued to jnakamoney, which sho invested wisely..,, flho built another log housoaudrented.it. Then v eho put up a frame building, which was rented before it was finished. About this time spnio of the land grabbore disputed her titlo tothe lnnd, and tried to dispossess jMjr. But tho old lady had so -many dotcrrained friends amongst the miners that tho effort was given up. Several of $lO, 000 for her property;, »n,d ■ unci that time she was buflt a two etory block fronting on ttorrisori-avohßi, and as deurable a piece of property u any in Leednlle. • She etfll ,W in her log | house, but.she now.;intend* to tear ft down block in its pl*oe. When her improvements aro 1 completed sho will have an incomn of more than SI,OOO a rrotty good record of business success for an old washerwoman.-Jjcadvillo letter to, VoAvu IJeruld.

• * ?UB» HroSlreeTritSt'Livier .near. Cha-1 tasii'SaJJa*; *a» planted iu 11$% by the ! •••••fflWwntPta'-of^ , SaUW*..v'wlio--.in.; 1150 | founded establishments in those regions; so it is tSWe-tbAn 700 years old. The 4r^nk-abo&t mx feet' from the • ground measures "ii±' k> inetreß''~in'' circnmfereuce, and near the ground ten metres. The • foUage.darkens a space.of 100 metres round and about 30 motres wide. j A clergyman writes. to a paper as '•follows':—" Some time since I inserted | ' in the papers- the statuary notice as ex-! .' ecutors' of a ■ late brother olorgyman,! : : 'k'n(? ; in a day or two* received a letter; payment for a cask, of ale | ''•spec-rally prepared for colonial ..use.' •'•sly friend's- widow denied ever- having j •' had this.' The'station: master in ■ my | "• Uito'frtond's-parish could fiud no record, • : 6f having delivered the cask, whioh was . eaid't&-have>beoni>sefht' by the railway. And'nbw/'on 'inquiry from the polico, iwVfind that- thfe claim; is, as we thought ' alF'along, an" imposition." This, letter brought its'writer two-letters from exe--1 ciitors .stating that .similar applications for cask of alff had been made in tßbir CfceSr '•' ;,; '-'; : '-'--" "■ Alexis §t Martin, Whose open stomach . furnished,|)iv BeaMoht an opportunity fop. studying' directly jirocesses of gnstrio digestion,'' is' still living at St. Thomas, Canada. He js described as hale and hearty at the %e of 87, though the- orifice in his stontecli is still opeu. It will l)e remembered" that tho wound was tho result of a'charge of buck shot accident- " ally received, laying open the stomach so that food could be injected and removed at will by the attending physician, whose observations were of suoh groat value toiuudicaF science. It is now 57 years ,F;']ici.'theacci(leiitoccured.--SeieiitiHo American, August 2nd.