Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-27

peoples Of the East Is almost inraloula-
ble Many an Arab finds his chief sus-
tenance in the cheese, butter and milk
of the mother camel. The flesh OF
young camels is also often eaten.
The Roman Emperor Heliogabalus Is
said to have reckoned camers feet one
Of the daintiest dainties of his sumptu-
Gus banquets, and he considered por-
ton Of tender camel roast thing 10 be
by no means despised. To this day, in
deed, came's hump cut into slices and
dissolved in tea Is counted relish by
the Tartar tribes
Camers skin is made into straps and
sandals, while brushes and ropes, cloth
and tents, sacks and carpets, are made
entirely from camel's hair.
Every year toward the beginning Of
summer the camel sheds its hair. every
bristle Of which vanishes before the new
hair begins 10 grow. For three weeks
this bare condition lasts. His camel
ship looks as II he had been shaved
without mercy from the tip of his tail TO
the top of his head, and during this
shaven season he is extremely sensitive
TO the cold or wet, shaking in every
limb If a drop Of rain falls, shivering
painfully in the chilliness Of the night
air.
By-and-by the new hair begins TO
grOw-fine, soft, curly wool that gradu-
ally becomes long, thick, soft fur; and
after this, the rain may rain as much as
it likes, the night air may be as chilly
as it will, the camel will not care n
grain. In that armor Of Natures pro-
yiding he will not shiver or shake any
more.
The hair Of camel, on an average,
will weigh about ten pounds. 1t is said
10 be sometimes finer than silk and
longer than the wool Of a sheep. In the
course Of my reading, a short time AGO,
l met with an account Of camel mar
ket in a town of Tartary especially
noted for its trade in that species Of live
stock.
In the center Of Blue Town, it seems
there is a large square, where the
animals are ranged in long rows to-
gether, their front feet raised upon mud
elevations constructed expressly for the
purpose, the object Of which is to show
of the size and height Of the ungainly
creatures.
The confusion and noise of this mar
ket are described as something frightful
and &c indescribable," with the cOntin-
ual chattering of the buyers and sellers
disputing noisily over their bargains,
in addition to the wild shrieking of the
camels, whose noses are pulled roughly
to make them show off their agility in
rising and kneeling.
Nature has given the camel, you must
remember, no means of defense except
its prlOnged piercing cry, and a horri-
BILE sneeze of its own, whereby the OBJ
ject Of its hatred is sometimes covered
with a mass Of filth from its mouth.
1t cannot bite its tormentor, and-at
least the Tartar camel-seldOm kicks,
or if it does, as seldom does any harm
with that feshy foot of which 1 have
told you already.
Can you wonder, then, that the air Of
Blue Town is made hideous with the
shrieking of the camels as, to test their
strength, they are made TO kneel while
one thing after another is piled on their
backs, and made to rise under each
new burden, until they can rise no
longer?
sometimes while the camel is
kneeling a man gets upon its hind
heels, and holds on by the long hair of
its hump; if the camel can rise then it
is considered an animal of superior
power according to the writer above
quoted.
1.-The trade in camels is entirely con-
Quoted by proxy; the seller and the
buyer never settle the matter between
themselves. They select different per-
sons to sell their goods, who propose,
discuss and fix the price, the one look
ing to the interests of the seller, the
other to those of the purchaser. Those
'sale.speakers' exercise no other trade.
They go from market to market, to pro-
mote business, as they say. They have
generally a great knowledge of cattle,
have much tluency of tongue, and are,
above all, endowed with a knavery be-
yond all shame. They dispute by turns
furiously and argumentatively as to
the merits and defects of the animal,
but as soon as it comes to be a ques-
tion of price, the tongue is laid aside
as a medium, and the conversation pro-
ceeds altogether in signs. ."--Harper's
Young People.