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V i 9 4 THE CHRONICLE. 7V- ' : : - ' I' JTOXE8BOXIO. N. Or-? : The ancients knew how to ' cheat JDoaded dice have been found in .th a ruins of Herculaneum. a ;. r The Greco-Turkish idisturbance has had the effect of making Friday after noon in the .country school fairly redd lent of 'Marco Bozzaris." Twenty years ago a new postmaster in New York City would Have tne pow er to armoint 2000 subordinates, -wm now there are but two positions not covered by the civil service rules. The Louisville Courier-Journal says: Viewed from nearly every standpoint the outlook for the farmer is' becoming more encouraging. ' We have divine .ssm ran f.A that seed time and harvest shall not fail, and if our crops do not Almndance we are VvJp VAU -- W vim. I tm-ra nf onnn orh fl.Tlfl to SDare. . The misfortunes of India and of the ije panf will innrfl to our benefit. Un questionably a better day seems dawjn- incr inr cmr crre.Al ftflrricultural interests. O - O O I Mr. Germain, United States Consul of "knn'fh RwitsArlaTid. reoorts that within a year the price of alumiuum will fall to about twenty-seven cents' a pound, so that only three commercial metals iron, lead and zinc will-be cheaper. Last year the output of aluminum, owing to its comparatively high price, was 14,740 pounds dai of which 4193 pounds daily were pro TiVAd in the United States. This year the plants will be increased bring the daily product up to 42,460 pounds. f Official news has reached 'London to the effect that the Chilean Government is about to offer a State bounty of $125,000 to any foreign country or firm: Which will undertake to establish an iron foundry in that country on a suffi cientlv larcre scale. The action of the . 0 Government in this matter has been prompted, it is said, by the increasing evidences in that country of the exist ence of iron ore in large quantities. Ignatius Donnelly says the floods, are caused by sun spots. gieat Why the sun spots, which must exercis an equal influence on the entire circuit of the. globe every twenty-four hours, should cause the Mississippi to burst its banks and leave the Rhine, Dan or Volga practically undisturbed, may not be very clear. ."But since Mr. Donnelly has said .it, it is evident the planting forests or building levees on a broader plan is of no use. The only way to cure the floods, suggests the the New Orleans Picayune, is to knock spots off the' sun. A story was recently started by the newspapers, relates the Trenton J.) American, to the effect that Mrs. Cleveland had melted the spoons in the .White House which had been used by Dolly Madison and had had the silvei made into prettier spoons. The sjtory was a circumstantial one, going cm ai much length to state that tne silver smith had offered their weight in gold for the spoons, but that Mrs. Cleve land rejected the offer, sent the spoons to the mint, had them melted intcj in gots, and then required an affidavit of the silversmith that the same silver! was put into the new spoons. It is scarcely necessary to say that the. story was made out of the whole cloth. It was promptly denied at the White House, and the declaration was made that! the Dolly Madison spoons are still there. The denial has not kept pace, however, with the original story, which is still going the rounds of the press. A writer in PublicjOpinion observes: "The French and Germans have fre quently made much fuss about alleged trichina in our pork, and pretended that other of our exports, that they wanted an excuse for exoluding, were Adulterated; and all the time the peo ple of those nations have sent over here liquid poison, in the shape of wines, brandies, beer, ale, etct, and their confections have been notorious for containing deleterious ingredients. jdowi me utermajn ana ajxencn wines and food articles candies, etc.-t-are shamelessly adulterated, and ften with materials that are dangerous, to health. Not six months ago T chemists of the British Board of tested a long list of German" French, American and British food and , zftfeterials. r The revelations were de - cidedly favorable to the American ar- tides. ' and much . to the discredit of German and French honesty.. Several af t3ie 'German food articles were . feund "mixed with : stuff dangerous; te health.- and all the French and German wimes were discovered to-be about as . bad as bad could be. . - "'1: SOMEWHERE, Bomewtere, I know, we shall find thfem all, x&e rose tn iwi;iuo.,iw;" - - The star that hid 'neath an Inky pall i ? Just as we gtaggerea acru m "t : The bird that stifled Its cunning song Just as We pausea a moment w uo. The fruit ne'er ripened for which we long, i-; tkt .4 o rlranoH will Ail ba 6le&T. Somewhere I know that the kisses wait , For which we languished Jn days gone hy, And smiles will greet us alert, elate, r For which we waited in years that -die. The words tmspokeu-come loud and clear, ThA words withheld in the dim, sad past 6hall fill with rapture our list'ning ear, The heart's pest puises pea , fast. . . : BANDMOTHEB Melton lighted the kitchen lamp and set it in the middle of the ta ble. 'We might as well have, sup per," she said. "Your; father prob'ly won't be back till late." Fred and Polly drew up their chairs and Grandmother Melton brought a steaming bowl of mush from the stove i and dished it into two smaller bowls. "I'm as hungry as a bear," observed Fred, between mouthfuls. "I think it's a shame we have to go so far to school. There isn't a single boy or. girl in Springville that has to go half so far as we do. "I don't see why father doesn't move down there," complained Polly, pouring more of the rich yellow milk over her mush; "he could get to his work just as well, and it would be ever so much pleasanter than this lonesome place. " "You must remember that your father isn't a rich man," answered Grandmother Melton, gently, "He owns this cottage, and if he moved he would have to rent another home, and perhaps he couldn't sell this one." The Meltons had only been in their new home since the summer before. Both Fred and Polly had enjoyed it very much, indeed during the pleasant warm weather of August and Septem ber. Then the wide, swift Mississippi had gleamed through the willows, and there Jiad been unlimited boating and swimming and fishing. -But with the coming of winter the roads choked full of snow and ice, and the winds swept up the river sharp and cold, and it was a dreary, lonesome walk of four miles to school at Springville. As the win ter progressed they had complained more and more, and now for a week, owing to the spring freshets, .Polly had been unable to go at all, and Fred was compelled to make a long detour over the bluffs to avoid the lagoons in the river bottoms. "They'll all get ahead of me," Polly had sobbed; "and I can't pass my ex aminations." That morning Father Melton had gone up the river to help watch the levees. Keports had been coming from St. Paul, St. Louis, Cairo and other points farther up the great river that the water was rising rapidly. The levees must be watched night and day to prevent breaks. On leaving his home that morning Mr. . Melton had told Fred that he would be back before dark, and that there was no danger to fear from the water. All his neighbors had told him that his cottage was high . enough to be safe, even in the greatest floods. "It's after 9 o'clock now," said Polly, as she arose from the table; "I won der where father is?" "I'd go out and watch for him if it wasn't raining so hard," said Fred, and tnen he looked around toward the dporway, anxiously. - - He caught his breath suddenly. Then he half rose from the table and pointed at the floor. grandmother Melton dropped her fork noisily on her plate and her eyes followed the direc tion indicated by Fred's ffnger. Polly sat still and gazed at the other two, wondering what it all meant. There on the floor, crawling from the crack under the door, was a dark wriggling object. At first Fred had taken it to be one of the swamp rattlers so common to the Mississippi bottoms, and his first impulse was to . spring for his father's rifle which stood in the corner. . "It's the flood," said Grandmother Melton when she could get her breath. By this"! time the black ribbon of water was spreading, slipping into the cracks and creeping out over the floor toward the table. Polly broke into a cry. of terror. -Even Grandmother Melton seemed uncertain what to do. Fred suddenly roused himself. He remembered that he was theman i of the house, and that he must watch over and protect it in his father's ab sence. So he Bprunsr- from his seat and threw open the door, not without a throb of fear.' It was dark outside. and the rain .came down, in torrents. Curling up over the step they could see the muddy water: and they could hear the sound of it slapping against the house. It stretched away into the darkness in all directions as far as Fred eould see. He knew that already it must be a foot or-more high around the house. '. ' 'The levee's broken, 'J- said Polly, in a scared, awed voice.. "Do you think we'll be washed away?"' ? , ' At that.moment something' bumped against 'the side of the house i with so much foree that "the dishes rattled. Fred ran to the side of the window, peered put, and found that a big log had washed ' down against the build ing. - . , . . Grandmother Melton who was usu ally cool and brave, under the .most Somewhere, the laurel we missed while here J . . The Days our ioreneaas reaenea ior in vain," - Somewhef e the chaplet shall ne'er grow sere Nor loss prove victor o'er laggard gain; The glory be real that once was dream, The mountain be leveled to vale belowr "- And a bridge shall span the fiercest stream, . - Our feet no longer be halt nor slow. Somewhere, is the rest for which we strive, The breast to pillow a weary head, ; A priest to listen and cheer and shrive, A life of living where naught is dead; -, A peace as gentle as yonder eloud That flecks with beauty a shining sky, Shall fill eaeh heart, while the song-birds loud Are trillincr music that ne'er can die. Hamilton Jay, In the Florida Times-Union. trying circumstances, was wringing her hands in terror. t "Bun up stairs," shouted Fred, "and Polly and I'll bring all the stuff we can with us." Grandmother Melton waited no longer. She crept up the narrow stair way to the little attic. Fred ran to the cupboard and began filling his arms with dishes of food, while Polly in her excitement seized the first thing that came to hand grandmother's rocking chair and struggled up the stairs with it. " "We'll need clothing more'n any thing else," called Grandmother Mel ton. "Fred ran back. The floor of the cottage was now entirely covered with water. He splashed through it and seized all the clothing, coats and jack ets he could carry. Polly bravely wiped away her tears, and when Fred brought the loads to the stairway she ran with them to the bedroom where Grandmother Melton was sitting. By this time the building had be gun to shake and quiver as the water beat against it. . "She's going soon," shouted Fred. "I'm afraid the water will reach us up here," suggested Grandmother Melton. Fred locked up. The ceiling was low, and jut above him there had been an old trap-door, now nailed up. In stantly Fred seized the ax and burst it open. Above they could see the dark sky and the rain coming down in steady torrents. Fred piled a trunk on top of the table and climbed out on the roof. He couldn't see far, but he could hear the roaring of the water from every direction. His heart sunk; he felt sure that they would all be drowned. Suddenly something thumped heavily against the side of the building, and the next instant the front end of the room went up and grandmother and Polly slipped down toward the rear end. Fred narrowly escaped being hurled off the roof. "We're going I We're going!" screamed Polly. "We're just off the foundation," an swered Fred, as bravely as he could. Then he swung back down into the bedroom and- helped Grandmother Melton and Polly up through the trap door to the roof. He covered them up as well as he could and told them to cling to the ridgepole whatever might happen. Then he ran down, for a coil of clothesline. This he tied firmly to the window at one end of the bedroom, carried the other end up through the trap-door, along the roof and dropped it over the eaves. Down he went again and fastened it to the other window frame. It would do to hold to. Hardly had he finished his work when the building gave another great lurch. "Hold on!" shouted Fred. The words were hardly out of his mouth when he found himself thrown violently from his feet. He caught a glimpse of the water pouring up the stairway, and then the lamp was cap sized and. went out. Next he found himself pounding about in . the water. "Fred! Fred!" came the- agonized voice of Plly. "Here I am!" spluttered Fred. In falling he had caught the edge of the trap-door and Polly helped him to. the roof.. "We had all we could do to hold on," gasped Grandmother Melton. "We're moving," shouted Polly. They rocked and scraped and bumped along, with the water swirlpig and crashing around them. "It's our first voyage,"' said Fred, with an effort to laugh; "p'raps we'll wind up in the Gulf of Mexico." But Polly didn't laugh, neither did Grandmother Melton. A few minutes later they heard some one shouting far out on the stream and they saw the glimmer of a lantern. They shouted in return, but there was no answer, and presently the lantern was swallowed up in the darkness and the three castaways were even more lonesome and terrified than before. . They were compelled to cling firmly to the rope and the ridgepole all the time, for the house was continually bumping against obstructions in the stream and careening and jolting like a boat in a rough sea. Besides this, they were wet to the skin and shiver ing with cold and fright. Occasionally huge forms would loom up near them, and they would see the outline of trees or buildings floating xiqwn the river. They were momeirtarily afraid lest their boat should bump into something and be broken up. If this happened they knew they would have, small hope of escape. ' : ... ' ' - -.' . : ' , Quite suddenly they felt the build ing grind on something; and then, with a jolt, it came te a standstill. They could hear the timbers strain and creak and the current of the stream splashing about it, jbut it did' not move; "Well, we're anchored," said Fred! "I suppose we're out somewhere on a sandbar in the Mississippi. " . 'jv ' - "Do yott think we have reached Memphis?", asked Polly,, anxiously. To Polly it Beemed as if they ha$ been drifting for hours. - Foij a long time they remained al most still. - Occasionally " they joined their voices in a great shout, but. there was no answer. 4Fred said the water roared so loud, that no one could hear it, anywayy but it eased their spirits to be doing something." . - At last they started again with a jerk and a shiver, as if some of , the timbers of the building had given away. , They bumped on for what seemed an endless time, and then, after, scraping along for some minutes, they again stopped. By this time the rain had ceased and the moon shone out faintly through the clouds. - i "There's lights," cried Polly, joy fully. Sure enough, on the hill, not such a great distance away, they could ee many lights gleaming out over 4;he water.- Nearer, ' there were other lights moving about, as if in boats: "It's Memphis," said Polly, and then they all shouted at the top of their voices. But no one heard them. The water roared too loudly. So they sat for hours and hours it seemed to' them untif the gray light of morning began to break in the east. They strained their eyes as it grew brighter and looked off across the gray flood of water with its scattering heaps of wreckage to the town on the hill. "I thought Memphis was a bigger city than that," said Polly. "It isn't Memphis," said Fred, with a little joyful ring in his voice that made Polly and her grandmother look around quickly; "it's Springville." "Springville!" .And Springville it was. They could see the little weatherbeaten church on the hill and the red brick schoolhouse, and Judge Carson's home, and a great many other familiar places, although some of the buildings that had Stood near the river had disappeared. "But haven't we come only four miles?" said Grandmother Melton, looking greatly surprised. Half an hour later two boats came alongside and the castaways were car ried ashore. On the bank Polly found herself in the arms of her father cry ing and laughing all atr once. Father Melton looked old and worn and wor ried. He had given up his family for lost, and he was bravely helping the other people in the work of rescue. After the flood was subsided the Meltons went down to look over their home. Father Melton hardly knew what to do, but Polly spoke up quite promptly. "X tell you, father, let's leave it right here and live in it; Fred and I won't have so far to go to school." And what do you think? That is just what Father Melton did. He straightened the house around, built a new foundation under it, and the Mel tons are living there to-day, quite hap py and contented. So you . see the flood helped two persons at least Polly and Fred.- Chicago Becord. V ' : IIow Flowers Fascinate Insects. Professor F. Plateau, of the Univer sity of Ghent, has for many years car ried on a series of observations oa the mode on which insects are attracted to flowers, the results of which are pub lished in the bulletin of the Boyal Academy of Sciences of Belgium. His conclusions are not in accord with those of Darwin, that the bright color of ther corolla acts as a beacon to at tract insects. He believes that they are attracted chiefly by some other sense than that of sight, probably that of smell. In the case of the dahlia (single) and other species of Compo sitse, the removal of the conspicuous ray florets have but little effect on the visits of insects; nor had the removal of the conspicuous part of the corolla in other flowers, as long as the nec tary remained. On the other hand,, says Nature, the artificial placing of honey on otherwise scentless flowers resulted in their being immediately visited by numbers of insects. Where the same species varies in the color, of the flower, as between blue and white, or red and white, insects visit quite indifferently flowers of different colors belonging to the same species. The Compass Plant. .What is known as the Compass plant, .Pilot weed, and Polas plant in differ ent localities, is quite curious, and in former ays, when there were no rail roads, was of great value in guiding travelers. The leaves invariably point north and south: Mungo Park .has immortalized it as he,- says he was guided by it, when, otherwise his way would have been lost and he would have perished on the dry plains. The peculiar faculty of thus pointing to the north and south attempted to be ex plained by the fact that both surfaces of the leaves display equal suscepti bility to light whereas the upper sur face of, the leaves of plants, in general, is more sensitive to light than the lower; hence the vertical position of1 the Compass plant, as unerring as the mariner's compass. Professor Asa says of it "on the wide . open prairies the leaves are said to present their faces uniformly with the north or south.' American Gardening. Victoria's Double. . . - . Her majesty the Queen has a double in the person of an elderly lady - who oocupiesr occupied-- position, in the Middlesex Hospital, where she was known as the "Queen of Middlesex." She is the exact age of the Queen, and became a widow in the same year that the Queen lost heir consort r - ' Testing Steel. A new methoa of teBting, the hard ness of steel balls has been devised in German v.; Th voiia j . r. , , -'-o uxujjpeu irom a nxea hflirht 'nn ;wi. i-i.i.c.i'. an angle; if properly tempered they re bound into one-receptacle' and if thev tLTtk tM onft J i " - . - v vuoj cuup into anot ner. . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL - Germ any h as now electric lights in "over 1000 postal -cars, and Austria is about to adopt the same system." 5 Among 1318 children in the Weis- baden schools it has been found tnai only three, per cent, had sound teeth. TbA fallinar waters' f Kern Biver have been made to furnish the-electrio power for the town of -Bakersfleld Oal. f - - - -r. The Japanese Government has voted 12,800,000 silver dollars lor improve ments and extensions in th telephone service. . ;-' ; ' v -; - Y; ' - - . j-. ThA " errand total of the hydrauli power at Niagara Falls secured through electrical appliances is oyer cao,uuu horse power. v It has been estimated that an oak of average sizl during the five month3 it is in leaf every year, sucks from the earth about 123 tons of water. Tn a new invention for making ve hicle wheels, ; they ore, formed from sheet metal by stamping, .pressing or cutting out, and are - secured to the axle by bolts, bosses and collars. Herr Cuffey, a German expert, sent to BomDayby the Emperor William, has arranged for an animal hospital for the purpose of studying the plague poison. He intends making extensive experiments. , Barrels, casks,pails,etc., are made in Germany by molding wood-pulp in the desired shape, subjecting it to heat in the form of hot air or water,T steam or other vapor, and compressing it by hy draulic pressure. ' . t Paris and Madrid will soon be con nected by telephone, the construction of a line from Paris to Bayonne having recently been determined" upon. As Madrid is already connected with Ban Sebastian, it will be only necessary then to join that place with Biarritz. Professor Forbes, the eminent eleo-. trician, whose "appointment by the , Egyptian government to report on thr possibilities of utilizing the Nile catar acts for '; the generation of electricity was noted in this column some weeks , ago, has returned to Cairo and expressed himself as strongly in favor of the pro ject. ' ,-' Following up the researches of two German physicists, who were recently led to conclude that three lines of oxy gen in the solar spectrum were not at mospheric, Lewis Jewell considers that he has proven conclusively that the lines are, produced by water vapor in the earth's atmosphere, and that, therefore, the' spectroscope does not indicate oxygen in the sun. ' "Sundown Minister." "Sundown ministers, by which I mean preachers who are engaged in departmental or other work during the daytime and who preach evenings and days when on leave of absence," ex plained a gentleman who attended a recent conference in Baltimore, "get little or no consideration in our relig ious conferences any more, and' while preachers do not like to talk put at meetin', they have no hesitancy in speaking plainly in privaterconversa tion. Ministers have an honorable profession. They spend years prepar-. mg themselves for their duties, have no other occupations or employment, and seek no other. There is but little money in the ministry, after all, for though a few gifted or fortunate men. draw financial prizes by it, the great body of them do not receive the wages received by the average mechanic in the large cities. It is not strange, l therefore, that they should hot like Sundowners. They have, no jealousy toward workers in the vineyard who feel they can give their talents to the good work. What they object to is that persons should compete with them when they have other engagements un til after sundown. As a minister at the conference said to me, the sun down preacher is neither fish,-flesh, fowl, nor even good red herring." Washington Star. Why H Thought Them a Fake, -sr Carson City, Nev., has had to fall back on its "giant footprints? in a neighboring quarry as its star attrao. tion. A gang of convicts has been sel ; towork at hewing steps and paths lead, ing to the "footprints' in.the solid rock of the quarry. Among other tnihgs a tunnel has been dug, showing where the "footprints" disappear into the mountain. -' This tunnel is about as high as a man. A recent visitor brought grief to the unfortunate convicts who had to 'overhear the following shrewd deductions: "Pshaw, I thought it was a fake before, but this proves it. You say them feetsteps are of a beast forty one feet high, do you? Well, if that's so, you just tell me how the critter managed to walk into a tunnel which bumps my head to stand erect in?" It is said that when the convicts heard this, several of them went over to the, other side and: wept bitterly, and the guards did not reprimand them for it. . New York Sun. . - ..- :.; , -: :- -e v: APeeuliiwCEpItapii. Nora M. Hughes, J an unmarried wonuur about forty-one years of age, dred the other day; and left a will which provided for the division of her property.---estiraated at $15,000 or 616,000--among her relatives, and for r T11' ver ner grave wim ; this j . - - TO THE KZ1EOKY W ftirJ : who . was sACBiriczD :.sr i-fei I . - " SO-CAXXEI rBIZHD. " : 1 ; v - r .. ... .,..1 . ; i rliss Hughes's family knows o no in. cident in her life. which should ; occa4 IHarcouFtB Dirty Cldmney. -: - Sir William George Venables Yernon Harcourt, M. P., Liberal leader in the British House of .Commons, "has been fined $2.50 and costs ih a London Po- uce v;ourt xor allowing his chimney to been Weaned " c "- - - r..- . - - R. N. HACKETT, A t tjo r n ey" - a t-t a v, WXUKESBOItO, N. C. .71 - S-'B. - - - ... Will practice in the State and Federal -Courts. -: ' ' : ' I SAAC C; WE ri. B O R N , ; . .tto;ney-at-aw. X-lJ.lk el oro, ; XT. Oi Will : practice in all the courts. Dealer in rear estate.; Prompt attea ion paid t colbction of claims. ' T. B. '.Finley. ' , H. Ij, Greene. Flff LEY I GREENE Attorneys - at - Law, : WILKESBOIIO, N. C. r Will prajtioe iu all Hie courts. Col lectioTis.a Specialty. Ileal estate sold on commission. - - . volution of the Shot. In the eleventh century various ma terials were used to - make shoes, fine kid leather being" then invented , and sold for gcod round sums. A sacred song says; "How. graceful are thy steps in sandals, O Princess!" an allusio i to :the fact" that the He brews enriched the hitherto plain foot gear with strings of red, yellow and purple ribbons which they crossed in charming style "over ; the gleaming white skin of the "arch of the foot. There -v ras a ; time when shoes were ornamente d with precious jewels,' gold and silvei embroidery studded . with pearls anc '., wonderful to relate, had golden sol ss. Each sex and class wore difforent s loes, and if a man changed his statioi in lif 6 that ' iact was ex- " -I J.- ri . nV.i.nnVk ' Vi linn preeseu.. ujr wo iubdc, u i changed has shoes." - ; : : The Syrians wore yellow shoes. The Greeks and Bomans improved the sandal an d invented different forms and shades to be worn by the different classes : Plebians wore black shoes with one ribbon; senator's and patri cians wor s red and white shoes fas tened wit l four ribbons.- Only slaves and philosophers walked barefoot. The first Christians also walked barefoot. " In the twelfth century boots and san dals '.were worn, the clergy -using the latter exclusively. The next hundred' years saw many improvements as well as the introduction of the pointed toe shoe, which was afterwards so strongly attacked by the clergy. - Fashion pre vailed and the whole civilized world wore the shoe .'."whose points bend." This poin i was like a bird's beak plain people ware the beak half, a foot long; more important personages extended the beak jo two feet, "while princes of the blood added a half foot to that. The beak grew so long that it was fastened to the knee by a narrow gold chain so that the wearer of these mon strosities could walkl .This longand unoomfor ;able toe was discarded in a hundred years and the broad toe, some times a foot wide, came in. Then the stilt shoe became the style and heels were - worn so . nign tnatvwe cannot understand . how the 7 fashionables of that time could walk at all. The most perfect and graceful shoes were worn in AT I Jx a 1 i . mi iue Btsvtjxiteeuxu ceniury. xney were of velvet and brocades. . Red heels were the rage in' the time of Louis XIV. and during the revolution the shoe with the buckle disappeared. Napoleon I. introduced the patent leather shoe or namented with a gold buckle.. . v Distinctive Trades In Turkey. Distinctive trades and profession in for the Signing of all documents by seal is obligatory and everyone js obliged to have his name in Turkish cut or enpnraved on stone or metal the public letter writers, the itinerant cniropddists, - the bird fanciers, the herbalists who dal in tito itrnTttiPr ni ."simples!,", the sedan ; chair carriers, besides al vast and peripatetic throng of mohaiibe venders, windmill ped dlers, sakas or water-carriers, chim ney sweeos. tfrane-cabbaere. franciola w i A ' V- A , O f O (rolls), pklaf and sweetmeat peddlers. . 7 juonai toe is a sort oi cold jelly, com posed of grouhd rice and milk, and is served in brightly colored saucers, powdered with sugar and sprinkled with ; rose-water, with ofttimes a lump of . clottied cream added. ; . With his row of praily crilded saucers, his pol ished metal bowl; a stock of ' slim. metal; arrow-shaped spoons, and an urientau lask of rose-water sparkling and flash irnr in tVh a halibe vendor would tempt an , anehor- ue to eap. .Nor must we forget the outdoor barbers, who combine the of fices of dentist barb at n nrl Iac AK TVifl itinerant : coffee seller '-' confines his rounds to the business haunts, and at noon his trade is especially brisk, for very clerk .along- the street rushes out to supplement his luncheon of bread and cheese or bread and, olives, by the liquor that , he loves. : The gypsy women form another nnfailinc ftttrac- - tion to the Occidental visitor. ; They are wild, merry. Dicturesaue creatures, with flashing " eyes, and have various aevices lor - increasing their bank ac count beside that of fortnnft ? tellinfif. Some sejll lavender and herbs, and oth ers sing, play the tambourine,- or dance after the manner of the Etrvntian crirls. Thev are all fl.drmffliiA-i7f.fl on J in their vicinity the fruit from orchards and puiiets ;irom- ben yards vanish as vj rag tne. -The hew7 transatlantic "cable, which is to be laid between Brest and New York during the coming summer, will, it is said, be the longest in existence. The length will be ;9,250 nautical miles, land the. total -weight of the cable with its envelope is estimated at 11,000 to ns." Four larco shina are to be employed in stretching it across the uwauBDotiom. . v 7 -J -I-
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