Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-12-06
TBE ODDITIES OF RIO JANEIRO.
A Place Where Everything Appears to
Go by Contrariss.

glnal surveyor oil DoStOn, ana lne mar
row and tortuous streets of the Athens
of A nerica are pointed to with pride by
the Athenian Yanks in protestation of
the truth of the assertion. Who the
original surveyor of Rio was is neither
known or conjectured, but the chief En-
gineer of the extension of the city during
the last fifty yeas, up and down the
mountain sleeps, and along the rocky
ledges, presumably, has been goat.
The Italian peddlers of Rio, like the
jacks of euchre deck. go in pairs. In
this way, in traversing street, each
gets the the benefit ofthe others din by
hammering on a pan if be be tinker,
or by clapping two sticks together, ifhe
he dealer in dry goods and notions, or
by shouting if he be vender of glass, or
the like. And when the right bower
can not be played and wash boiler dis
posed of advantageously, haply the left
will be able to sell a spool of cotton and
take the trick.
4 window without woman Ill 1t IS
exceptional in Rio. And sociological
consideration of the Royal Palm with
out a woman in it is impossible.
The Fourth of July of Brazil is the 9TH
of September.
The Cora Pearl of Rio is Susanna.
She has one of the toniect turnouts in
the city-a carriage lined with white
satin, pair of moldy looking mules, a
white iveried driver, and other symbol
ic signs of purity aboat her; but the
very stones in the streets cry against
her for all that, with strumpetty-
strump-strum, as she goes over them.
The plaster of paris image maker OF
Rio will not sell his simulacra of Christ
and the saints-but he; for that would
be a gross sacrilege; but he will swap
them for as much sinful lucre as may be
agreed upon between the party of the
first and the party of the second part.
The beast of burden, of even more
L
human head. A single head is employ
ed in carrying everything in weight
from box of matches to barrel of
flour, and in shape from a pumkin to a
pig, while four are taken generally for a
piano. AS with the mule, variations in
color occur, but while pinkish, mold
colored mule is preferred to the rat, the
mink, the tar, and the piebald, a sable
head generally is regarded the best. re-
quiring the least padding and insurine
the hardest knocks, as well being the
T most willing and showing dirt the least
: In carrying burdens up and down the
: stone stairways, along the precipitou:
, lodges, and into the intricacies Of the
: labyrinths in which the kitchens are 10
Gated it is invaluable.
: About the only place Brazilian doe
= not smoke is in his coftiu.
A Niger with a vhitewash brush.
: mean colored calcIminer; an individu
d al in whom nature and art combine L
I preserve the equilibrium of the universe
d a chiaro-oscura incarnate an existenc
: like that of the earth evolving in ligh
:, and shade what a figure to be put il
0 black and white in the infnity of Ii
II poetic, rhilosophic, and picturesqu
: phase. He is seen in the streets of Ri
J. as in half the cities of the globe.
l. Every garden in which there is any
l. thing that can be hooked or destroye
a has III front high fence of iron, with
e gate locked at night. on the sides and
Al the rear stone wall, backed like fret
l. full porcupine with broken bottles.
The baker of Rio distributes his brea
in great quadrdngular basket, which
borne by the common beast nt burdel
the human head, ana which Is line
A. with blanket of a color so fiery tha
seemingly. only fresh and warm brea
can come from its folds as if from IL
n yerv oven In which it had 6eIn baked
A large house in Rio is IaL eled in lars
n. letters, "Fabrica de Flores OrpLanal
J. gica.' Whether iti.-but what bett'
IN can be expected in a city that is calle
ne river? Ali, Juliet, with your simp
ee question, "Wfat's i'll name r.
I'd YOU Titled dreamed Of The wea
l., mess that would result to the spir
oil Inc NOTlu anu Ills NllC W bhC NhN
at time in their endeavors to answer l
as otherwise, long before you did, W
re would have swallowed the fatal draugt
orl The measure OF the respectabillty of
funeral in Rio is the number OF mules
III the hearse.
tie 1t never rains in Rio but it pours, a,
when it pours it makes the street cro'
nm ings at the foot OF the bills impossible
'P polished shoes and boots. But the bal
of one is the benefit of another. IL
nd big negro who has been out of work
en- fortnight now finds fortnights wo
tor compressed into few hours carryi
VI gentlemen and ladies from one island
10 another of the municipal archipelago.
ny The advertising fiend has found
at way into the most retired recesses OF X
When a stranger, with his soul athl
nat for music and his stomach for beer, {
ere ters the Passeio Publico in the event
lad and sets his mug momentarily on
ou- marble top of the table before him,
her eyes, in following it, happily fall On
Tho footprints of the tiend, in the form OF
ch, advertisement of soap or castor oil, u
md conyerts in an instant the concord
bod sweet sounds in his earsinto a saw-till
wife and cat fight, and the nectar Of
hen German gods in his stomach lnto a &C
int bination of b lge and bile.
Whatever may be the vices OF
len, Brasileiro, he is not drunkard;
her whatever may be those ofthe Brasile
led. she is rot a smoker of tobacco.