The Exeter Times, 1889-7-11, Page 7WAYS OF LIFE IN TRIPOLI,
'whiten%hij,, ef the DAM Jae at Anchor,
'
If tide village--Ammet el Z %ual—isindeed
Atoned after iHrunnatt the Valiant," that
breve Tripolitan thief, whose courage
freed for a time from Turkish op
preasion in 1703 that national hero has lite
tle curse to feel fletbered by the oomplimeet,
for a fouler place could haeclly be inewined.
An English treveler has Oescribed the pea, -
Sant log but of Ozer, of Raab as a place
where "you can cut the temell of cabbege
aoup with a hatchet, ard at night you oeu
hear the bedbugs bara," If you sobstitute
for "one smell of cabbage soup" a combined
fragrance° of deceyed fruit, foul straw, ditty
sheepskins, and unwathed hum an beings,
(supplernented by the stronger fiivor of
those unmentionables of which a Mnorish
fire on the border of the desert is always
composed,) this description would apply
fairha enough to any ordinary house of any
orcloYary village in ell Teipoli.
Nor are theta dens more agreeable to the
eye than to the nose. When you oome up
to one of these Equtire4 blank, windowkse,
lifeless blocks ot masonry-whioh are here
called by courtesy "houses," and see creep -
beg out from the blackness of the one low,
tunnel -like aperture that breaks ita ghoetly
white a gau au, brown, shriveled fame and
skeleton figure, ahrouded th a trailing white
matte, the whole proceeding is to abate:ling.
ly suggestive of a deed man rising from his
grave (especially when you happen to see it
about nightdall) as to be moon more striking
than agreeable.
If you venture tut deep into one of these
living tombs, the chencee are that you will
have barely titne to melee oub a shadowy
figure equatting in one corner cf the damp
interior amid congregated sheepskine and
water jars like a Darwinian Adam in the
midst of an evolutionary creation, when
you are greeted with a fierce yell, and a
heavy earthen pot smashes itselt to pieces
against the wall close to your heai, while
the hobgoblin springs to his kit like a
tiger to demolish the "infidel dog" who
bas dared to disturb hie evening devotions,
At times, however, you light upon a milder
barbarian, who greets you with the tra-
ditional 'Salaam_ aleikount," (peace be with
you,) and invites you to j in a subterranean
lunch of Moorieh coffee, %Oxley dates,
and thlok, gray, sticky bread, which looks
and tastes very MU011 like glaziers' putty.
But if you rashly set dewn all this as
"true Oriental hospitality," end prepare
to avoid wounding the feelings in ynur host
by offering him any sordid comment -whin,
you will soon find out your mistake, tut the
old gentleman's Mohammmedan prejudices
against Quietism do not extend to Chrie-
tian money, and he will take good oare to
see the color of yours before you and he
parte
Most of the houses are of the pattern td -
ready described ; but every here and there
one seee in the corner of an orchard or
setnntation a queer little bird's nest struct•
WM of canes intertwined with dried grass
and palm leaves, so light that one good puff
of wind would sue to blow it clean off the
face of the earth. A t Uwe you meet with
a still more primitive habitation, consisting
merely of two broad sheets of matting set
against each other at an angle of 45 degrees
and tied together ab the top, (very much
like those card houses which children are so
fond of building ) the house beink thus open
Arent and back to rain, wind, climb, or any-
thing else that may be rang. In this "eligi-
ble family mansion" you will find a Moorish
haebsaldman wreathing upon his little mat or
on the bare ground itself NI ith an air of am
plaoent proprietorship whioh is simply deli
cious.
But, intermingled with these artless dwell-
ings are obhers of a more pretentious oast,
embowered in shaggy tropical gardens
worthy of the "Arabian Nights," entered
by fretted Moorish archways inlaid with
colored tiles, and in some extreme aristooree
tic cases actually indulging in the unparallel-
ed ostentation of a small path of firm pave-
ment in f ront tf the door. These are the
homes of native grandees, who think only
of enjoyingthemselves, and care little
whether their coueery is ruled by the Turk,
the Italian, or the Frenchman.
La us stroll aroundthis harbor in which
the " shipi of the desarb" lie at anohor
(with their long necks out stretched upon
the warm, dry earth in lszy enjoyment) and
see what is to be seen, for it is not often
nowadays that we oan matt with such a
spectacle. It is a curious thought time
many of the wild fieures around us have
come hither from regions where no white
man has ever setfoot since the world began,
and that many secrets whioh the ablest
soientista of Europe are still seriving in
vain to penetrate are in the possession of
those barelimbed, ignorant savages, who
do not even know their value, This big.
flat nosed, one -eyed negro from the Western
Soudan, with no clothing save a noncles
cript garment suggestive of a coal sack
with the end knocked out, and the sand of
the Seller& crushed like brown sugar in his
• woolly hair, has seen things of which neither
Naohtigell nor Schweinfurther ever dreamed
and which would considerably astonish
• Stanley himself. That tall, lean, hawk.
eyed Tuareg, with his short brase-hilted
sword slung across his bony shoulders and
the fierce, elastic vitality of the wolf or the
tiger quivering in every sinew of his long,
gaunt limbs, has sat amid the ruins of cities
, older than Homer, for one glimpse of which
any archwological Professor of London or
Berlin would gladly peril his life.
Yonder scowling, low.browed fellow, with
his coarse black hair gathered up into a
kind of bush upon the crown of his other
wise shaven head, and the whitish soar
of a fearful wound running slantwise across
his bare, brown, sinewy chest, broke into
Khartoum in the forefront of the Alabdi's
motley hob upon that fatal _February morn-
ing four years ago, and could tell, if he
.chose, all that romans ,to be knowu re
spurting the fate of brave "Cilium Gordon."
This etately old Moor from Northern •Mow
woo, down to whorie girdle of crimson ailk
hangs a beard as white as the weeny -folded
turban which overahadowe hie swarthy face
und piercing eyes, has on the wall of his
'house in Fez a huge, antique, rusty key,
which once unlocked the door of the ancient
mansion In whioh ha ancestor dwelt beneath
the shadow of King Boabdinel-Chioo's
throne in Grenada. And with that key
were brought over to Africa in 1506, when
the Moots were finally expelled from
Spain, certain brown, orabbed, Arabia
manuscripts, which would have been ot
priceless value to Washington Irving when
writing the history of the great Spanish
crusade.
Nor is the merchandise which these
strange trades carry with them one whit
less miscellitneout than the trades them -
Helves. Here are bales upont bales of tough,
wiry grass from Mourzouk, goitig down to
the city of Tripoli to be Woven Into those
beautiful colored mats which are one of the
chief " specialties" of the place. A little to
my right two sturdy Arabia are laying on the
ground rather gingerly (for its weight is no
trifle even for their combined strength) a
magnifioent ivory tusk fully 9 feet in length,
from the fer-off kingdom ot Bormi. that
long -barreled gun so richly datneticened
win:, tenter, and with a thick Plate qt iverY
Upon the end of the stook, was bought in
the b, neer et Timbuotoo by thew keetneyed,
grayhooded Berber who is preeii ieo
eagerly upon this handsome young Meer
fah chief, and will evidently pomade him
to buy it before he has done with him.
Here, too, are huge bunclke of rags on
their way down to the coast tti be shipped
off to Eagleud end made into paper. This
epeoies f merchandise ict alwaye abundatet
in nlohammeclaa countries, although it
would doubtless b e a stertliog thought for
any pious Massulman beggar that the filthy
netters which hang around his unwashed
carcass teeny some day for•na a part of the
Entered Koran itself, „ Braider, all this, here
are ostrich feathers (for which Tripokt is
specially famous) foot the great central
plain, same from the louder of D rfour,
data and muskmelons from Fttz iu, em-
broidered girdles and saddlecloths front Sc -
iota, oranges, plums, apricots, and ponie•
granates from the ferthe uplands ot the
Meriheea, and other wares tuo many to
Through this cleans comes bunting as
recklessly as a Malay running " a.muok "
a wild figure almost wholly devoid of cloth.
ing, clutching it Moslem rosary in its bent
hand, with its shaggy black hair tossing
like a mane around a face as hollow and
lieshlese as that of a skeleton, in the sunken
eyes of whioh burns the sullen glare of un
mietakable ineanity. It is a fanatical "der
vish " of the demerit who either is or pre
tends to be orezy, and thereby eojoya a
great reputation for sanctity among his fel
ow -believers, who are almost as prone to
admire a fool ati the most civilized nations
of Europe. Fortunately, this excitable
gentleman passes too quickly to notice
what would otherwise he.at his religious zeal
to the boiling point, v:z., an opposition
rotary in the hands of a brown -hocked
raonk from Southern Italy, who has corr
over here to •preach the doctrines of th
Cross beneath the shadow of the Crescent
and posisibly to ascertain at the same time
how the Tripolitans would be likely to
to think and to act' in the event oi an Italian
annexation ,of their country —a preen
which is now rapidly assuming a very defir
ite shape indeed.
A litthe apart from this motley aseem
blage, and surveying it with a look of quie
professional contempt upon his hard, stolid,
wooden features, attends a tall, gaunt, wiry
Turkish soldier, who, in his scarlet oap and
olose-fitting uniform of dark blue, lake
very much like a bottle of wine with a red
seal. • See how savagely the "sone of the
desert " eye hini from beneath their bleak,
soowfing brows, and with what a murder
oustitopulse their hands blutch instinctively
at their dagger hilts; for here as in Arabia,
Mesopotamia, and in fact every other prc-
vince of the Ottoman Empire the Turk and
the Arab,, oo-retigibnists though theyt are,
bate each other with a perfect hatred,
Bat in this case theirhostility goes oti
baiter than frowns and muttered curses,
for these low, dark points that bristle like
bile torts of gigantic artithomes along the
crest of the ridge above us are the rents of a
Turkish camp, from which would swarm out
against them, at the &at call tor help from
this man who tands alone in their midst
with sech octlen disdain, bandreds of stalwart
grenadiers, as stout as thew who faced
Skobslefft Plevnit and Shenovo or charged
gate the death fire of the Shipka Pass with
aleiman Pesha. But these stanch Osmanli
.warriors numerous and valiant though they
are, are not more than enough to keep down
the turbulent inhabitants of this wildregion
Every man orthe motley crowd gathered in
this marketplace to -day has a knife in his
belt atd a long gun upon his shoulder, and
well knows how to use both. In fact, the
strength of the Turkish garrisons maintained
here la of itself a sufficient indication what
the (Montan Government thinks of the
temper of its Tripolitan vassals. Although
the province of Tripoli has a population of
barely 750,000 souls, the Turkish troops
quartered there rumber fully 25,000 men of
41 arms, a proportion of 1 soldier to every 30
inhabitants.
As the Turkish grenadier troves off to
ward his camp I follow • him In order to
have a look at it, and am agreeably 'sun
prised to find tbe orderly instinct of the
trained aoldier predominating even over the
irgrained carelessness and apathy of the
Oriental. Within the low earthen breast-
work thab encircles it the tents are ranged
in symmetrical rows'the arms are neatly
pied and apparentlyin good condition, and
TilE LA1E LlIOERNE.
.Crete ot the Mat wernaltut • or Atiropen
• Bodies of 'wow.
Among the ettreottve lakes of Europe,
the Lek° ref Lucerne, in Switzerland, is the
most charming in all that giVee beauty to
the elirrenndings. IN form alone contri-
butes to the delightful effect, the shores
being irregular and winding among lofty
mountable,• constantly unfolding, m prfn
geese is made ever the morfeoe, some new
grandeur and elluremeut cif landworpe.
The area of the Leke lei Lucerne measures
nearly forty.four rquare mike, and its stir,
Noe le 1432 feet above the level of the eon
Its length from Fluelen to Lucerne is
twentrywhree miler!, and its width from
Kussnaoht te Alpnaoh is nine miles. Though
the mountains appear to Ile to stand deep
down in the weber, it nevertheless reaches
soarooly above the ankle j pinta of these
Titans, since the upper basin, the lake
of Uri, is not more than 650 feet deep,
while the Frohnelpatock and the Uri-
Rethatook rear their proud crests to an
altitude of 8267 and 6617 feet reipeetiyely,
A peculiarity of the inner basins is that
the water there never fret zes, even in the
althea winter, the bordering mountains
Affording a protection against the frigid
winds.
Tne banks of the different basins or *de
"nue of the lake exhibit a rematkabk diver
-
sky of °builder here the boundory is the
booed end of a spacious Alpine valley; yon.
der ib is a ateep, rooky precipioe rising from
the very margin of the water; elsewhere it
is an expanse of grassy meadow -land, af
fording pasturage to numerous herds of
leek cattle, and planted with row upon row
of thriving fruit trete. At the points where
the largest valleys open, the eye penetrates
to the mountain heights, some of which are
oupeted with rich pastures and dotted with
e odzkes, while obhers appear rooky 9,ed
t barren, and yet others, the loftiest
of all, display them spotless vest-
ure of eternal snow. But even where the
cafe rise abruptly from the water, and the
prospect is consequently limited, we are pre-
sented with a aucoession of wanes alter-
nately magnifioent and romantio, now aw-
ing us by their wild grandeur, and new
captivating us byetheir indefinable charm.
Taking a steamer at Lecerne, a pleas
anti run is up the lake of Kusanacht, the
northeastern arm, to the Hohle' GLUM, or
Hollow Lens, at the highest point of the
neck of land that separates this lake from
that of Zug. Here stands Tell's Capel,
a very unpretentious little edifice, with a
plane portico, and a tint red spire rising
over the trees that encircle it The inter-
ior is decorated with frescoes of great
events in Swiss history, and a por trek of B.
Nicholas von. der Flue, honored alike as
natriot and a saint.
one or two of the caters' quarters have
even tiny gardens around them, whioh are
very neatly and prettily arranged. Clothes,
flattering like pennons in the morning
brecze along an outstretched rope show
that thee thrifty fellows are able to do
bheir own washing, while the gaping mouth
of a well in each angle of the increnohment
(from which three or for sturdy Carnanlis
are drawing bucket after bucket of water)
shows that the greatest neoessiby of Afri
oats life has been well oared for.
Wells are in truth the most characteristic
feature of this riverlesa country. Leek
where you will, you see in every direotion
ihe two upright posts of whitewashed stone
or clay that mark the well's mouth, and the
wooden crosspiece from which the bucket
hangs ontlined against the sky like a
primeval gallows. The very fields, with
bheir high earthen embankments, from nat-
ural tanks, within which, thanks to email
trenches and tiny dama of earth a few inches
high, the whole surface is out into miniature
reservoirs, (not unlike the *queries of a hugh
obeasboard,) in which the torrent rains
which fall at short intervals from November
till March are retained and allowed to sink
into the ground, instead of running to waste
as in Sauth Africa.
DAVID KEE
Two Ways of Telling the Story.
Lawyer—Now, Mr. Costello, will you have
bhe goodness to answer me directly and cate-
gorioally a few plain questions ?"
Witness--" Certainly, eir."
"Now, Mr. Costello, re there a female at
present living with you who is known in the
neighborhood as Mrs. Cabello?'
44 There ie."
ot Is the ender your protection ?"
i‘ She is,"
"Now, on your oath, do you maintain
her ?"
"1 clo."
" Have you ever been married to her ?"
"1 have not."
(Here weveral severe jurors mewled gloom-
ily at Afr, „Costello.)
That le all, Mr. Costello; you tnay go
down."
• Opposing Couneel---" Stop one moment,
Mr. Costello. Is the female in queetiott your
grandee° ther
"Yoe, elle N."
A Good isaeon.
Omaha Youth—I've called for my new
spring retie
Average Tailor—Sorry, but it is not fini
Omaha Youth--Whee you said yea would
have it done if you worked all night.
Average Tailor—Yee, butt I didn't Work
all night,
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Choke Recipes,
Renesnes.—If small ones, cut off the tops
to within one inch of the radish ; cut off the
roob end, gently scrape. to remove the small
roots, and let them lie in water until want.
ed. Arrange in a glass dish. If large ones,
peel and out in slices length -wise and
arrange on a pickle dish. '
DRIED APPLE 8.00E.—Wash one-third as
mway dried apples as you wish of sauce
when done, and pat them in your stew kettle
with twioe their bulk of water. Soak than
ten or twelve hours, add auger to taste, and
stew soft. Flavor with °ranee, lemon, or
MOLASSES CAICE.-0,ne cup tnulassos, one
cup sour cream, ono egr, two teaspoona so a,
one teaspoon cinnamon, and fine enough
to make 9, soft batter. Bake carefully, as
ID burns eaeily.-
STRAMBERILY ToE CREAm —Pass a pint of
picked strawberries through a sieve with a
woodeo spoon, add four ounces of powdered
sugar, and a pint of cream, and trete,.
i
11Alq CITSI'ARD FOR .oREAKPAST,—.Itf.,.a.e a
oustard of one qu tre of milk and six egga ;
edd about two cape of fiaely chopped ham.
and salt and pepper to taste ; tnix meat and
custard well together, pour into a deep dish,
put little bits of butter over the endure and
bake.J.E
L
LY —Ono cupful sugar, one egg, the
juice and grated rind of one large lemon,
one tablespoonfal of water, one tablespoon-
ful of flour. Place the dishin boiling water,
let it thicken; when cool spread.
GINGERBREAD, —One-half a manful of mo
lasses, one-half teaspoonful of sob, dissolved
in it, ont-half a cupful of sugar, one-half a
teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of
ginger, three teblespoonfuls cf leather, one
cupful of sour milk, two and a quarter cup
fate of flour, one-half a teaapoonful of soda
mixed with it, bake twenty or thirty min-
unes in gem pane; be sure to use one whole
teaspoonful of soda one-half in the molasses
and the other in the milk ; this makes six-
teen cakes.
SALmON Sean.—Prepare one can of sal-
mon by draining the oil away, removing bits
of bone, skin and fat, and breaking the 'per-
fect part into fiekes with a fork. Have
ready also three tablespoonfuls of nice mash
ed potato. Into half a oup of vinegar put
one tablespoonful of mustard, wee teaspoon-
ful of sugar, a pinch of salt, a duet of white
pepper, a pinch of celery seed, and the yolks
of four hard-beiled eggs rubbed fine. Mix
these ingredients till they are smooth, then
add to the potato and stir in the fish with a
fork ; pile it on the salad dish, chop the
whites of the eggs and sprinkle Over it,
squeeze the juice of two lemons over all,
and set the salad on be. Put a spoonful in
eaoh lettime leaf the last thing before supper
is Reeved,
gGa- SANDWICHES —Are made by chop-
ping hard-boiled eggs fine, and mixing them
with one-fourth the amount of chopped
pickle, a little mustard, some gotta vinegar,
and a dash of pepper sauce, as Halford or
Leicestershire Faure, and a little melted
butter.
WHITE OUSTA.RD—is made in this way.
Scald a quart of fresh milk and a pint of
sweet cream, and while hot pour it over the
whites of eight eggs well beaten, a tiering
all the while; aid rose flavoring or orange
and sweeten to taete ; pour it inbo little caps
which are first set in a pan et hob water,
cover with thick paper so they will not
brown, and set in a moderate oven till
firm.
Be Was Tired Of Than,
"Mamma," said the little loy, thoughtful-
ly, "will people eat beam, in heaven?
"It Is nob likely, Tickloveell," responded
the mother, i'that we shall know lad of the
Irma thergovern our intellectual growth in
the great heerafter than we know here in
Bostoin • Leguminous fuck Will be used to a
large extent undoubtedly, my eon,"
Alas How little we knove of the cameo
that make or mar the future of mankind 1
That boy vveut forth front the presence of his
Mother an avowed Baddhist.—[Chioago
The latest fenoy lo neck lingerie is the
deep falling plisse and the narrow uptight
ruche of rtulphur-yellow gauze.
The Oen Tilat ¥61Or 011een Ret May Illi are
Tea -drinking may become as vi0101101 a
far as the health of the individual is con
corned, as the debiting of alcoholic liquors
There are temperemente that cannot °nail'
8wafrletleYr tine' ' °IS :tine 01°0141. s iteyffs "ectoTf ottnisuu. mei
• tion of tea has beanie so enormous as t
have suggeeted a etudy of its effects upo
the health of the people. Titere ere time
who losk upon it as au evil (only .thoond t
that connected nith the exothewe use of
alcohol. Tea Is epoken of as an agreeable
cerebral stimulant, quiekeping intellectual
operation, removing headewhe and fatigue,
and promoting cheerfulnees and a sense of
well-being. When it is used to excess, the
digestive and nervous system are especially
affected. There is no doubt that there are
oaths of dyepepsia aeueed by the. inordinate
use of strong tea, and it is also a matter of
common observation than • sleeplessness,
pelpittrion of the hearb, and nervous irrie
tabtlity often follow the prolonged use of
this beverage. Tea -drinker , hy which we
mean those who Use tea to stomas, are also
found in all classes of +moiety. The fact
should be impreseed upon such persons that
tea 18 not a food, and cannot, therefore,
without risk to health, be subatituted tor
artialee of diet whith form both Rath and
bone."
The Tdepenclence of the habitual tea -drinker
on the beverage is one of the strongest
proofs of 'be evil effects, and should be
warning against its exoeesive use.
Another scientific) j lathe' says ; Tea ex•
eroises ajpowerful Inhibitory effect on salivary
digestion, and this appears to be entirely due
to the large quantity of tannin it contains.
It appears that tannin exists in two con
ditions in the tea leaf, Oae, the larger por
tion, ie ia the free abate, and is easily ex
treated by hot water; but about one-fourth
is fixed, and remains undiesolved in the fully
eoheusted tea leaves. Some persona have
supposed that by infusing tea for a very
shorb tims--only two or three minutes—the
passing of tannin into the infusion would be
avoided. This is a delusion ; you can no
more have tee without tannin than you can
have wine without aloohol. Tannin, in the
free abate, is one ef the most soluble sub-
stances known. If you pour hot water on a
little heap of tannin, it dissolveslike so much
pounded sugar. Tea infused for two rainutee
was not found sensibly inferior in its retard-
ing power on salivary digestion to tea inflat-
ed for thirty minutes. One gentleman of
my acquaintance days Sir W. Rtherts,) in
his horror of tannin Wae I/1 the habit of
preparing his tea by placing the dry leaves
on a paper filber and eirrnly pouring on the
boiling water. In this way he thought to
evade the presence of tannin in his tea. But
if you try the experiment, and allow the
product as it runs through the filter to fall
into a solution of perohloride of iron, you
will find that an intense inky black oolera-
tion is produced, showing that tannin has
come through in abundance. In order to
diminish aa far as poseible the retarding in-
fluence of tea on salivary digestion, it'should
be Made weak and used sparingly, and
ID shotild not be taken with, but after, the
meal."
, The momenta teepet glove rept the oder of
herbe, it is an evidence of look of daintinees
inTphreerpee wraitlilo4ni,yry
a4n do, .3reewd isseteepereopolree w on o widei lel
houeewife then the cook
° doubt the deleterious effews of tea -drinking
• Iwhen not carried to exthea, tut none dispute
its evil r IT on if trobe allowed to steep for
°I haunt or ie prepared without regard to pre-
' , serving its boat and Most delicious odor anO
°I node.— [ Pee Chrtstien Union.
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The "Pall Mall Gazette" nob long since
gave considerable space to discussing the
Reverel methods of preparing tea for export).
It is rather depressing, if not alarming, to
find that there is no such thing as e, strictly
pure tea exported. The journal says, in
part :
"The principal market for green tea is
the United Statea. Ewing fallen rather
into disrepute in the Old World, it has
established itself in the New World, where
ID is largely consumed and known as ' tea '
simply, in contradiatinction to English
'breakfast tea,' China tea,' or ' (Meng, by
whioh natnes the black teas are designated.
The reason for its popularity is no doubt ill
a great measure due to the intercourse nith
japan, where green tea alone is martufactur
ed, and which every year sends enormous
oargoes acmes the PaCifiC. the making
of tea, as in everything which this curious
people do, the Japanese have a way of their
own. It would startle an Assam planter to
see them in picking time ignatting down
before theOrees and stripping the branches
of the leoves, instead of scientifically select-
ing onlythe young, undeveloped leaf, the
first leaf below that, and half the second,
from which would be evolved, reepectively,
Broken Tips or Orange Pekoe,' 'Pekoe,'
and Souoliong.' Any one accustomed
to the elaborate maohines for rolling ' and
' firing ' the leaves whicill are in use on
European planbations might be amused at
the Japanese method, where the workers
roll and squeeze and tvvist the leaver' in their
nands on a parchtnent stretched over a cher
coal fire. Very fine teas are, nevertheless,
manufantured by the Japanese, and in the
celebrated district of Cit. rumor tells of tea
worbh $16 per round, though It is not defin.
itely started whether that price has ever
[Actually been paid for ib. Moreover, in the
oase ot teas intended for export, only so
much work is done upon them as will enable
them to be sent to the 'tea firing godowns
of Yokohama, where they are worked up for
the market before being shipped. As is now
well known, the difference between green tea
and black lies in the faa that in the former
fermentio i has been awe abed by 'firing,' the
color of the leaf being in this way partially
preeerved and fixed ; with the latter, by a
muob longer procest, fermentation up to
a certain point is permitted, and the
leaves are not ' fired ' until they have be
oome oxidized by exposure to the air. In
Japan the Naves, after being picked and
withered 'by a shorb exposure, are fired in
the way described above auffioiently to stop
fermentation, and in this partially cured
state are sent to the European tea merchants,
by whom they are again • fired.' In the
(godowns ' of Yokohama hundreds of wo-
men can be:seen at work turning the leaves
over and over end round and round in large
basins built over a charcoal fire. • The color-
ing or painting' is also done at this period
by means , of a spoonful of indigo and pow-
dered soapstone pub into each basin, and
thus disemmated through its contents. But
in Japan tete is not grown for export only,
but is the ohiefartiole of home consumption;
and these domestio teas as procured in the
ountry are probably the only samples of
unadulterated green tea which Europeans
are likely to meet with. They produce a
beverage which is refreshing, quite hathilees,
and which, notwithstanding the way in
which it is prepared, can, after only
a short residenee in the country,
he. readily distinguished from hob Water."
No artiole for the table needs more daiety
handling in preparation than tea; yet per-
haps no article, largely as it te ouriumed,
recietvea lets care. Water that has boiled,
for hours is mad in its preparation even in
homes where the preparation of foods is ,
ooneiderecl an itnportant matter. There
should be in every home a bright kettle IL)
deviated to the use of boiling watet for tea.
only, Thie kettle should be scalded and
dried as oterefulln ,the tea-pot, and kept ed
apart horn all ordinary kitchen utensils, In
this way only can oup of fruit tea enter be
obtained, The moment the Water Whir it
&amid be poured an the tea leaves, 'which i
peve boon put into the freshly scalded tea- a
hob, and be carried to the table at :once. k
Paris Fiera the Eiffel Tower,
When the train roue& the curve, and
Perla coma in view, you are sure to tete,
towering way above the bigheet housee,
that stupendous iron structure of E l. 11
your first viow f it is frorn the city, you
will be disappoluted. Even when standing
underneath it end looking up you do not
realiz r its veatt height.
You make up your mind ib is safe and so
deoide to go up, but you must wait your
turn at the hoist. You asoend the first
ttme where are restiturante and cafes at
which, by paying a price, you may refresh
youreelL From here you get a, grand view
of the extant and heaaty of the Exhibition,
Oa one side ate -houses made to represent alt
the ancient and modern dwellings of mate
kind ; and within the wigwams, tents aud
straw huts are inhabitants n ho speak French
and who will briog you milk and other re
freshing drinks. Near ny is the minieture
railway on which you must take a ride and
see the extent of the grounds. Yonder you
see the Seine taking its winding course,
and farther away are rhe towers of the
Trooadero, From the other side are the
gilded domes and glass roofed coverings of
the Exhibition; and farther out is the oiby
in all ite x lent, grandeur and beauty. To
the left the Aro de Tiiimphe, that massive
monument cemmemorat ing Napoleon's viotor.
Ns, rises itt olemn glandeur above the sur-
rounding buildings. From it run thirteen
Ottliltating the Lotus.
The very mention of the oared lotea of
the Beet bringe with it e hoffb of poeticel
and hiatorioat isuggeetioese. Beantifel sire-
ilies in allusion to it are oemmon in Oriente],
poetry, and for its it fi winos on actual life,
we have only to, remember how deeply ib
ha e t erected art. To one who thinks of it
ss a tore growth, set apart for high lamer it
,s a rather ritertling Not that k may be mil-
tiveted in this country from Came Cod eouthe
ward, eloug the coat,
it hed been growa here and there, experi-
onnteliy for some time, when Mr, E. D.
Sturtevant, c t Bordentown, N. J„ inumeetle
ed in really neturaliziog it in a pond near
leis house,
Nine years ago, he obtained a plant from
Europa, whither it had been taken from
Japan, and lt BOWS began to spread in ald
directions, blooming profusely, One sum-
mer it was nearly destroyed by utile which,
fiading the foliag,s sweet in • taste, waded
into the pond, and ate the plante down to
the water. In a year or two, hewever, the
Lotus had reoovered its lost estate, and last
summer and autumn it showed a solid masa
of leaf and blossom, covering three.quartere
of an &ere.
Its leotanioal name is "Nelanabium epee-
iosum. Although it is a apeoies of water
lily, its leaves do not fleet upon the eurface
of the water, but grow profusely above it.
The fi >war is at lead a third, larger than
our own lily, cf a rosy color, and grows upon
firtn, hard stalk.
lent August, ab the height of the blossom-
ing Beason, the pond at Bordentown was
oovered by a mese of foliage, in which the
ballesb man would have been hidden from
view. Five hundred of the beautifully
shaded flowers were open at once, and in
their lab stages of expansion they measured
from ten to thirteen in rhea in diameter. lie
some instances the flower stalks measured
eight feet in length
avenuera with their boulevards, green ehel The water of this pond has several times
teeingtrue and clean kept roads. Look to frczen to a depth of tett inches, and its tro •
,
the eight and you see the champs Elysees, veal inhabitant shows a curious "vegetable
, intelligence" in dealing with this plienom-
an avenue, one of the widest in the world
olean and well kepb, and with many a emu, with which it is quite unfamiliar at
shady tree. Even here you feel the heat, 11"ne in Egypt* India or "Pan'
for it is hot be Paris and may be warmer yet During the summer, its roots apread hori-
for the Frenohmen if he does nob turn over zontally in every direction, at a moderate
new teat, depth of soil. On the approach of autumn,
1St the head of the Chemin Elythers is the however, the root stalks desoend to a greater
Palace de is 'Concorde, a large, Open genre depth, sometimes as deep as eighteen inchee,
in the °entre of which stands an obelisks and there, below the frost line, tubers are
meriting the spot where once the guillotine formed, which lie dormant until spring
did its bloody work. Fountains are plating ..
When the warm weather warweather comes again, a new
on (Owlet side whoae water sparkles in the growth of roots amends to the normal level,
sunshine And geatbere its misty flekes ea ound, and the process of horizontal growth is
seeking to wash away what water cannot again resumed.
change. o
Farther down you see the "Turneries,"
and farther'still the Palaia 'du Louvre. In
tha distence, on all sides are ohuroh spires,
columns, high buildings and places, arch-
ways and glitteriug domes. As the eye
sweeps from the Arc de Triomph around to
the right you see the Madeleine with its
many pillars, the Grand Opera BOUM the
i
finest n the world, and the tall black oolutnn
of the "Vendome."
Towards the east, with a river on either
aide, are seen the two tall towers of the
grand old "Notre Dente ;" and neart
these on the left, are the single tower
of Sit. Germain and Se Jacques. Still far-
ther on the right is seen the dome of the
Pantheon, a grand national monument for
the reception of the althea of the illustelotte
dead. • You also ate the towers of Sb. Sul
pica and the massive walls of Luxembourg.
The view you have is grand, for the at-
mosphere of Paris is much clearer than that
of London. The gay capital is free from the
smoke that infests the manufacturing
t°wnot• Yare inspired with the view and have
increased your c oefidence in the tower,
so determine to go higher.
You can climb if you like or e'se wait
your turn at the °levet er. In either case
you musb pay for you OM get nothing in
Perk without the necessary cash and the
charges are "E ffer high.
The sight feom the second stage is even
grander and you are atnply repaid for your
climb. For miles in all directions you see
Penis vvith its houses, avenues, trees, towers,
steeples, spires, monuments, archways, and
domes.
Below you the many people running hi
ther and thither seem like litble children
playing and running about.
The Grave of Anne Boleyn.
A bit of old, old history came to light
somewhat unexpectedly within the grim
Fray walla that enshroud so much woe and
misery known as the Tower of Lem -
don. Sir John Burgoyne, who died re-
cently, had been officially connected with
the custody of the Tower, and had, doubt-
less, become strongly imbu.ed with a love for
the old building and for its share in history.
Death would soon remove him, he reasoned,
frotn hie beloved walls, and part him from
ttreasuree. Being a bold man he applied
'to the Q lean for permission to rest his bones
before the high altar, in the chapel of the
Tower, and in her Matesteds kindness to one
who was devoted to her service, she granted
bhe request.
In a short time Sir John was gathered to
his fathers, and the proposed. grave began
to be preoared; but, in turning over the
pavement in front of the high Mbar, an ob.
stacle of the deepest interest presented ID.
self, There had been an ancient tradition
that ten rersorts who had been beheaded by
Hwy V, II. had been interred in this spot
After their exeaution ; but, being a mere
traclitit n, no one seems to have taken the
trouble to verify it. Now, however, comes
the denottentent, The tornb being prepared
Lor Su Jahn Bargoyne disclosed in one long
row the heedless bodies of ten persons,
amongst whom—with her head slightly
Apart Inert her body—lay the corpse of the
beautiful and the unfortunate lady, Anne
Belem with her beauty unimpaired, and
ner face and hair as perfect as the day on
which she laid them down upon the block.
ID mediate to sly that, by command of
her M ,j esty, the bodies were left to rest in
peace in their original place of sepulture;
though, for the sake ot the nineteenth teen -
11 you are incliaed to giddinesa you dare tiny readers of laisthry, there cannot but be
• not look straight down or a fatcination will a' feeling of regret that auch interesting
Betz you to climb over and jump down.
Dey after day you come and always see
something new. Although the exhibition is
not yet finished you cannob complain, for
there is more than you oan see in fact you
become bewildered with the many things
that you forget half you have seen.
Do not go awad vsibhout seeing the Ex-
hibition at night and the .E ffel tower when
when lib up. At the top of the tower is a
revolving light displaying different colors
and all around the two stages are also many
colored lights. Everything is in a flare and
every body isout tO see it, for the evening is
the most plummet part of the day.
You sit—if you can obtain this much
sought after luxury— and enjoy the slgbt
until midnight and then wend your way
home with many hundred (whets, for the
Parisians do not retire until the wee small
hours of the morning.
If you are not of the .grumbling kind you
will be sure to have enjoyed your visit in
this gay city, and go back to tell your friend
of the gay sights they have missed from the
heights of the Eiffel tower.
A Touching Obituary.
The following lines are copied from the
obituary column of a rural New York jour-
nal " It is with de ep regret that we
chronicle the death of G—H. M—, of
—, New York. He passed away on Mon-
day morning, March 25th, after an illness
of little more than three days.... We had
been acquainted for five yeara We began
in the poulthy business at the same time,
both buying 'Wyandotte eggs of the same
man. The Writer soon gave up the breed
and kept only langshatts. But George kept
his Wyandotten bought only the best, bred
carefully; and though W3 have seen many
fine birds, we know of few which lay more
and larger eggs or breed finer tibias than
his do. We have had many fowls ahd eggs
et him, and would as gni& trust' him as
ourself to ship eggs dr to select stock,
relics should have been consigned afresh to
the tomb without sum photographic record.
being made of the event.
Are Thev the Lost Tribes of Israel?
When Stanley Africanun was in this
country several years ago he gave it as his
firm opinion that there is a white or light-
colored people somewhere in the heart of
Africa aed he entertained the preposterous
notion'that they might possibly be the lost
tribes of Isarel. He aid that be had found
traditions of such a people among the natives
of the regions through which he traveled,
and who believed that they were yet in ex-
istence. Livingstone himself entertained
some fancies about this matter, which he
had gathered during his wanderings, but he
died without throwing any light upon it.
We shall doubtless soon learn whether Stan.
ley has found any during the last few yeara.
Over a hundred years ago Swedenborg. the
seer of heaven and hell, told of the existence
r f a civilized people in the unexplored parts
of Africa, the spirits of sonae of whom he
conversed with in the obher world. The
fact that he spoke of these people as " Gene
tiles" might seem to preclude the idea of
their being Jews, but the term Gentiles was
used by: him to describe men born out of
the Chnetian church. It would be hard to
believe that the lost tribes of Israel are in
equatorial Africa, or, if there, that none of
their members have ever traveled away
from it in the course of ages. Bub we will
wait for news by Stanley —[New York Sten.
"Viiitoh Stich" is the newest oraze of the
crewel.andwilkfloaa young Women.
We are told that the frock coat, vehicle has
recently almost disappetered from London,
has been brought back through the influence
a the Prince of Wales, Hie Mende all have
abandoned the tall hat for raoe meetingit,
and the curious combination for mere's
catume, known as the "bowkr," or (thanked
coat, waistcoat, and trousers from three
different suits, are, under the Princede
leadership, in great fashion. A dark blue
A Novel Experiment. dress coat with brass buttons, is expected to
A oamel coach is to be tried in the Darling be the subjeot of hie next effort, though
River distriottNew South Weles, Tree Bun suck previous attempts ended in failure.
ry climate tries horses SO severely that the A recent sae of portrait by Itemney
manager of a line of meil °teethes thiliks that ne tad $13,500. Piattres by this old paint.
a team ot tamels will answet far better, et of the second renk have been increasing
wing to tt err capacity for enduring heat
ud drotq b. Muth curiosity is N16 as to steudilY in 'value. In 1875 "Lady Etandb.
bon at theSpinning Wheel" was sold
by -
he remelt of this navel 'nutlike in °crabbing, mrs. nrowne for 44,64.0, in 1879 "min,
onsideringahe hasty tempet of "the ShiP of Tiokell" was sold by Airs. Anderdon for
ho deserb.' — [Ex,
$4 200, and in 1882 "Miss Ramos " brought
$6,9 30 at the Cockburn sate. Tho Athen.
Pretty spenoere, bleuses, and Clatibaldis mon adds that $60,000 was offered and rai-
n surcih aillt, veiling, China silk and taffeta Need for a lady's potrait by Romney, but
re sold in all the shops, to be worn With any in this owe it was an ancestral portrait and
tna of ib skirt, the OWntr was enough of a "noble" todeolino.
• ne,
Wenn