The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-06-22

cpDtS:' eject stew anu ha'I "'' y.
bread. s cents :" "a large bowl OF
soup and 4 loaf Of bread, . cents,
The bowls are very large. \ hall
loaf Of the bread weighs six ounces.
In the story above are several rooms
illrl with bare p|a"ks, six tret long
and fifteen inches wide, laid horizon
tally ON the small wooden horses
They are planned, but no bed clothing
is placed upon them. These are tue
beds. Between each plank anc us
neichbm is an interval OF fifteen m
ches. which serves as n passage: III
smaller room are cOuches made OF
two planks each, and c"vere" with
gaunt, rectangular suggestions OF
6edding, inc|osrd in 'd'ngy blue slips
of ticking. 1t costa ten cents to &c,
cupy one of these beds. with all
their poverty these rooms have one
element of aristocracy. No negt" IS
allowed to sleep in them: C"'ored
guests are given room to themselves
in the back of the house; the beds
there are precisely like those IN the
white mems apartments.
In the third story or attic live ko-
bino and his wife, an energetic little
Frenchwoman. The stranger, VINO
suddenly hnds himself in the middle
of the largest Of the five rooms, haV-
ING come, AZ it seems to him, out OF
the dark hold Of a vessel up a steep
and narrow flight of steps, is startled
while his eyes are yet blinking in the
daylight, with the scrambling atten-
tons Of twenty or thirty little curly
haired white dogs. Overlapping them
Nv nearly two feet. marches a stately
Newfoundland. Madame Rublno
makes polite but useless efforts to
scold them away with a vo'ley OF
French, while the visitor RECEIVERS
his self. possession. A big handsome
white cock of some remarkable breed
thrusts his red comb out between the
It Stats Of a little coop, and eyes tht
visitor inquiringly. The floor ant
bare rofters are black with age, an'
the occupancy of many tenants, bu
there is no litter in the room; a we'll
worn broom stands in one corner
+ Madame observes that her visito
y makes much of her pets, and con
ducts him into her front room. Her.
he sees each in its own cage, rae
coon, a monkey, and second Whit
cock. Their cages are piled on
upon another. On the other side q
the room are several cages of whit
rats. When all these have been ad
mirea, Madame takes her guest to
rude box made to hold candles. Sl'
lifts out of it a mass Of WOODEN clot!
and discloses a layer Of little red-ea'
ed, white rats, all trembling in til
draft OF fresh air. Warm expression
of admiration greatly pleases Madam
Rubino, and she tells how she
Itraining the dogs under the directio
of her blind husband. They are NJ
to lead blind men, but to perfor'
tricks. In one corner of the roo1
arc two light ladders and other piece
of apparatus on which the dogs pra(
tice.
~ Her husband opens the door of Il
large rat-cage and then blows a bla
er on q tin horn. Immediately the ra
lie crowd to the door, and as many
no can do 50 climb up on his hand.
80 is the intention of Madame Rubin
$ when she has completed the trainir
on of a number of her rats and her dog
to exhibit them. Then her husbau
can assist her, and will not have
beg. ;,
:, The dogs being in irrepressib
no spirits, Rubino took the reporter dow
Us, stairs to one Of tue restaurant table
10 carrying with him copies of II Pung
ne 10, u Milan newspaper, and 9th
on printed matter and manuscript !
en- cords. He has certificates shown
a lis appointment to various positio
It. a. teacher in Milan and Paris. /
IL wus a teacher of the fourth element
ng ~ class in Paris during the siee
NY While living in his cellar, as othe
. did, to escape tie shells of the &c
A man army, he contracted the dlsea
nel that destroyed bis sight. In 1873
at, left Paris with daughter, Josephin
zen about fifteen years of age, and
'rn two infant children, Alexander a
his Minnie, and went to England. |
led supported himself aud family in l."
IN don for a year by playing on his CO
certina, which had cost him $40
Paris. 1t is the same instrument
uses in New York. He also sold b
lards in the street. AT the end OF
wear he crossed the ocean and visit
-: the principal cities Of Canada, 81
10 porting himself in the same way.
80 was always led about by some me
' NO. Der of h.s family. Finally no w
. "' to New Orleans, where ho bough
i'm number of animals, including an
100 gator. He first took them to Queo
ss"d Iut after he arrived there determi,
' VS." to take them to Paris. Learning t
, ;U it would be cheaper to ship them I!
' am New York, he came to this city, Or'
o om ing some Of the smaller animals "
tho him, The others he left at the r
'"' road station in Quebec, to be forwa
,.oa ed to him here. This was q year 8
' %"t and Rubino says that he has +
h " given up hope Of ever seeing tn
es He thinks they may have been !,