The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-27
BEWILDERING CAIRO.
Two.Lcggcd Dogs, Yelled Women
Wine-BibbinS Men, and Cos
mopolitan Cafes.

Cairo is apparently inexhaustible,
saws letter to the Philadelphia Press.
Every European tribe is represented
here and even the Arabs have become
so Europeanized that hundreds of them
dress and live altogether after our civ
ilized fashion. The hotels, and partic-
ularly the cafes, are simply countless.
There are thousands of these cafes,
some of which are elegant, indeed.
Usually there is large, long portco
in front, containing scores of marble
topped tables, at which French. Ger
mans, Turks, Maltese, Swiss, Arabs,
Italians, Greeks Russians. and various
other western types may be seen sip
ping their black coffee, smoking and
chatting. The familiar civilized way
of doing things seem especially appe-
thing after our long fast in the Orient.
Even the notes Of the Italian hand-or-
gan are quite welcome.
The red, tazzled fez is the headgear
worn by the Arabs, and by majority
of the Europeans also One can not
help admiring the graceful way which
the French and Italians have in partic-
ular of adapting themselves to the
people and country where they may be
sojourning. Even travellers find it
matter of economy to invest in the fez,
since they can make bargains to so
much better advantage when they have
it on.
1t is only on one or two of the broad
er main streets that cabs and barouches
can run, and the exiGency thus applied
has given rise to the donkeys and dom
key-boys of Cairo. These donkeys are
diminutive creatures, and have soft
saddles upon their backs, covered
with red morocco with gaudy trap
pings, ornamented in many cases with
strings of cowrie shells.
Now, half q dozen donkeys 90 by,
laden with fresh-cut grass to such an
extent that you can scarcely discern
the motive power. The procession is
wound up by n moving mass of clover
fully four times as large as any of thu
preceding. One is told there is came
under it, but has no ocular dcmonstra
ton of the fact, unless it be that tina
strange comforting protuberanco in from
is the nose of the camel. Alas, poor
long-suifering Egyptian camels!
Here comes company OF gayly
dressed dragomen, multitudinou
and ubiquitous fraternity in the east
the signal for o stampede from TIT
window, for the dragomen will no
permit any mundane obstacle to hinde
them from soliciting your patronage
providing they once catch glimpse o.
you. 1t is q Levantine proverb that
fire, plague, and dragomen are the
three nuisances of the east The drag
omen are provided with written kar-
acters' of course. There seems to be
4 strange sentiment abroad TO the eff
feet that dragoman is privileged
character; certain it is that the eXac-
tons OF this profession are only limited
by the ignorance or weakness of those
who may become their prey.
Here are some peddlers of bogus
pyramid relics and articles of Egypt
ian manufacture suitable for souvenir
purposes.
Here one, more enterprising than thu
rest, has q basket full of alligator
about foot long, and offers thes
vi ILlC 4NIlC III OIllS Oll
franc, sar" Across the street amounte
bank is swallowing knives and conjur
ing with snakes. The carriages of tn,
upper crust of all nationalities are pre-
coded by running servants, one or two
according to the wealth of the family
These runners are usually Nubians
with long white rod in their hands
and long black hair switches floating
from their caps. Their flowing white
sleeves are caught together behind by
means of aswitch, adding charm tt
the graceful costumes. They proceed
on foot so as to warn off all obstruc
tions, inasmuch as the streets are mar
row, crooked. and crowded.
One of the first things that a stran
ger notices upon arriving at Cairo il
the great multiplicity of dogs.
They fill every vacant space and live
upon whatever carrion or refuse may
come in their way Every day q Ger
tain number are run over, and killed
or MANNED Once year there is ;
regular dog day. and great man,
of the filthy, half-starved ours are pu
out of their misery. When a compan
of British red-jackets marches dow
the street, then the canine population
may with propriety look out for broker
bones. AT such times the yelp Of tn
dogs will almost tell you where tn
soldiers are marching. Ever SO man
dogs limp around on three and evel
two legs.