The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-29

they sang to their own music, like the
wood-cutters of the south of France,
alluded to by line Sand in her story of the
''Maitres Senneurs." 1 have heard of Italian
peasants who could write verses aboat their
friends and acquaintances who were working
in the fields, and sing them (instesd of work
ing themselves) in clear, soft, theatrical
voice. | have heard of other peasants (also
Italian who could play the flute or flageolet,
and dance as nimbly as a balet-man: aud of
others who could fence and play at chess. 1t
will be said mot without reason) that these
accomplishments are not likely to be of much
use to bard-working clodhopper; but cer-
tain civilizing or refining influence may be
attributed to them, just as Doors are likely
to be improved by being brought into the
society of ladies. All tile Year Round.
The MonNoN CURRENCY. The Mormons
reached Salt Lake Valley in an utterly i'm
poverished condition. The cash capital of
the entire community, says writer in the
OSeylaHd Monthly for September, would not
probably have exceeded $1,000. The Oalifor-
MIA migration furnished them market for
their surplus products; but, as they had but
small use for money, they preferred taking
of the miners, instead, something which
they could either eat, drink, or wear, and
not procurable at home. AS they increased
in numbers and means, merchants
to use their small stores Of money in
the purchase of needed supplies. Their
great distance from market, and the small
proportion of their crops which would bear
transportation, have, however, at all times
made money extremely scarce, and have led
to the pe1petuation of q complicated and
often amusing system of barter. Hundreds
OF farmers, living in reasonably comfortable
circumstances, and having large families to
cloYha 81, r,;n -,
money for years. Such farmer wishes to
purchase q pair of shoes for his wife. He
consults the shoemaker, who AYERS his will
ingness to furnish the same for one load Of
wood. He has no wood, but sells calf for
a quantity of dd0beS, the Gd06eS for an order
on the merchant payable in goods, and the
order for a load of wood, and straight
way the matron is shod. Seven watermelons
purchase tickets Of admission to the
theatre. He pays for the tuition of his
children seventy-tive cabbages per quarter.
The dressmaker receives for her services four
squashes per day. He settles his church dues
in sorghum molasses. Two loads of pumpkins
pay his annual subscriptions to the newspa-
per. He buys q Treatise on Celestial Mar
rage" for o load of gravel and bottle of
soothing syrup for the baby with bushel of
string beans. In this primitive method until
the advent of the railroad, was nine-tenths of
lIe DlSlD6S5 Vi Tue l6IIllOCy COQuuCCeu. AnU
even now, in the more remote settlements, q
maj ority of all transactions are of this charac-
ter. The merchants, purchasing their goods
in New York or San Francisco, must, of
course, have money TO pay for the same but
they sell their goods for cattle, -four and
dairy products, which are then marketed for
cash in the adjoining mining territories.
The Colon OF THE SKIN.--Iu Europe we
find fhraa yapiatiag nf nnlOrafinnc of SlyiD
viz. olive brown, with black eyes; black hair
and beard; auburn hair and beard, with dark
blue eyes; and fair complexion, with fair hair
and beard and light blue eyes. The Scytho
Arabic race has only a half of its representa-
tives in Europe and Central Asia; the rest is
spread southwark towards the Indian Ocean,
differing in complexion from blond to
black between the latitude of the north
ern frontier of India and that of it's
southern extremity, the Hindoos of the Hima-
layas being almost blond; those of the Dec
can, Coromandel Malabar, and Ceylon being
darker than many tribes of Africans. The
Arabs olive and almost bload complexioned
in Armenia and Syria, are decidedly swarthy
in the Yemen and the Mascate country. The
Egyptians present chromatic gamut, rising
from fair to black between the mouths and
sources OF the Nile. The TuarikS, dwelling
upon the southern slopes of the Atlas range
are simply olive complexioned, while those of
their brethren in the interior of Africa are
black. The ancient monuments of Egypt
represent males of a reddish brown COM
plexion, while the females, who lived ex-
cluded, have pale-olive complexion. The
Mantchoo Tartars, during their long stay in
China, have become almost fair; and the
Chinese women of the upper classes are as
fair as Europeans. The Jewesses of Cairo
and Syria, whose faces are always
concealed from public curiosity, and
who rarely go out of doors, have, in con-
sequence, a pale rather than fair COM
plexion. Among the copper-colored races of
Spnda Straits, the females, closely covered,
and seldom allowed to go out of doors, pre-
sent the same feature. The Equimauy,
during the severity of the long winters of
their desolate regions, gradually become
fairer. These phenomena are doubtless the
results of several simultaneous influences,
and light is not the only element that con-
tributes to them; heat and minor conditions
intervening in those chromatic acts, although
the particular and effective action of lumi-
nous radiation is unquestionable.