The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-22
VIC MOscO,c of To- Dan.

In Moscow, with its glorious undulat-
ing site, its long, irregular streets OF
handsome villas, interspersed with green
cry, its handsome naagazias, and its
constant rattle of equipages, you feel as
if surrounded by human interest, and
cease to wonder why neither despotic
power, nor long neglect, nor systematic
preference for rival, can wean the true
Russian from his love for the ancient
cradle of his race. And now it looks
brighter and gayer than ever. Paint
and lime and varnish have done won
ders, making even the old Chinese town
look sprightly and modern while the
glider has given to the thousand domes,
minarets and spires of Moscow a splen-
dor only to be appreciated by being seen.
Stand on the esplanade of the Krem-
lin, and, having first curiously examined
its battlemented walls, its ancient treas
ury, its grotesque church-the Assump-
hon-lts gay modern palace. and its
thousand and one quaint details, watch
for moment the people, high and low,
military and civil, as they reverently doff
their hats while passing under the sa-
cred gate, and then turn suddenly
toward the vast city that spreads itself
out beneath your feet count its innu-
merable church spires of delicate green,
bright golden, or royal red; learn to
distinguish its fortress-lke converts, it's
regal palaces, its great public institutes,
and you must admit that you are gazing
on panorama to which the civilized
world can offer but few parallels.
The Earrings of the Cochin China Girls
But human nature is weak, especially
feminine human nature in the adorn-
ment question, and vanity runs to the
ears of the Cochin girls. Their earrings
are wonderful to behold. They cannot,
indeed, be rightly called earrings. They
are more like the bungs of hogshead.
At the tenderest years the little children
have great gashes cut in the lobes of their
ears, tortoise shell plugs inserted to
stretch them, and as they grow older the
plugs are enlarged till, at maturity, they
appear with things like snuff-boxes, the
size OF moderate pair of fists, almost
always of tortoise shell, sometimes
OF ivory, plain for everyday wear, but
for grand occasions deliberately inlaid
with gold and silver, and on every grand
occasion the earplugs are of solid gold,
weighing n pound or more apiece, and
carved in the most distracting way. I
think I've remarked before that the
Cochin jewelers. are greatly skilled in
their trade, especially repousse work;
which is now getting so fashionable here,
and they expend their very best energies
on the earrings for the Cochin bellies. It
is wonderful how they work, with tiny
FORCES and tiny blowpipes blown by tiny
boys, enormous horn goggles and little
hammers and dammer. or soft COMPOST
ton, to form basis for their punching
operation, and the purest gold and sill
yer, and little bellows worked by their
toes. Fingers, toes, nose and eyes snap
and CLINT as they rapidly ply their task
-Four annas, or II cents, which is the
regular cody, or days wages for these
hereditary skilled mechanics (from this
cody, or days hire, comes the term
" coolies y for day laborers so hired),
seems trifiing sum indeed for the fairy
like results of their artistic labor.-Be,,-
gal Cor. Commercial Bulletin.
Turkish administration OF Justice
4 picture by Mayer, which hangs in
one of the private galleries of America.
illustrates the rough-and-ready methods
with which justice is administered in
Turkey. The Cadi goes out in the morn
ing without making known his intended
route. takes his walk with suitable at
tendants, and stops at the first bazaar.
He seats himself at random, in one of the
shops and examines the weights, meas
ures and merchandise He lends an ear
to ell complaints; nterrogstes any mer-