Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-20
CONSULAR SERVICE.
THE MYSTERIES, MIseRIEs, AND De.
LIGHTS OF THE VARIOUS PLACES.
Malta and Jerusalem Swansea and
Dundee-Giddy, Wild Life at Bor-
deaux-FayaI, In the Azores
Catania, in Italy.


Fun - exclaimed the old diplomat, as he
threw himself into an easy chair at his coy
rooms. IF you want fun, get the consul
ship at Malta That's one spot where man
can grow rich abroad on 81, so a year. And
US for amusements you will be simply
crowded to death Everybody on the island
works and slaves at least sixteen hours
day, and he is fortunate indeed who counts
his weekly stipend at Sl.5o. There never
has been a theatre or a circus or q secular
holiday in Malta, and the popular amuss-
ment is confined to fiesta days, when the
people congregats III one place and make
them elves sick on pink candy. In
the evening, when the hot, blistering
sun goes Gown, yon can go up to
the basin, where tie sea leaves
a placid pool in the rocks, and indulge in tire
gitdy dissipation of . BATH. o yes, go TO
Malta and get rich. You can live there in
splendor for SC a week, but at tie ED OF
four years you won't know whether You are
a catauaran or q blind fish II that don't
suit you try Jerusalem. It's great place
for excitement, and after years trial II
you scrape together enough energy to write
u four page report to the state department
III eat my head. There is one redeeming
feature about Jerusalem-pienty Of olives
ard a. for oranges, there is no Place In the
world where they grow SO large Jerusalem
is a splendid town in which to study the an
tique, and a consul always gets rich on 81, 'oo
{, year; but the first consul became covetous
and induced congress to indulge in the ex-
extravaganza of raising his wages to S2,OOG.
ado you like music. Then get the COM
mercial agency at Swansea. where the slate
quarrymen, the miners and the day-labor-
ers are all professional singers. Why, sir,
at tn last grand eistedfodd the laurels were
carried away, not by the trained choir' OF
London, but by chorus Of rough Welsh
quarrymen. Singl Why. they sing the
roofs off the houses, and every house on the
downs and in the crags contains nightin-
gale and a harmonica. Down in the Penrhyn
quarry the universal occupatian OF the quar-
rymen off work is singing and the men have
excellent voices If you don't like music,
try a Welsh laborer on theology. he Is
generally a non-conformist, and the only
way ever found to stop his religious dis
course was to take him over to the Mon
mouth district, thereby evaiing the Sunday
law, and fill him up with beer. In the
Welsh country, printers on night work get
SO a. week. and on day work s1.53; ship
wrishts get 50, boiler makers about the
skill is fashioned on the general basis of -
week Therefore, go to Wales. You may
not have much amusement, but you'll get
gold mind of experience.
"Then there's Dundee in Scotland. Every
body drinks in that sim cursed town, AMI it
is stated that it; population of Ia, 951 souls
annually expend 81, 100000 for spirits AMI
beer. Dundee, You know, is the birthplace
IF ua,to- Rr,,.a ba historian. Ha Iihurto-,
who was the first to openly profess the re-
formed religion in Scotland. and Ferguson
the poet But il these worthless could come
back they wouldn't own Duniee. The city
to-day has SEQ houses of only one room
each, in which there is population Of 25.
GO, AMI 15 1857 houses OF two rooms each.
into which are crowded a. 374 msn, women
and chiiren. If to these bo added the thres-
room houses, with the people living in them.
it shows that 1lS00o of the l40 900 inhabit-
ants o. Dundee live in houses of one or three
rooms. Poverty and misery abound, AMI
yet it is the principal scat of linen manu-
facturers, and is an important center for
sugar refining, gin, iron working and
ship-builliny. Dundee is tine saddost place
to me on earth. Malta is a Cremorne garden
of delight beside that city. But must say
for the wealthy citizens of Dundes that they
have spent AMI are spending millions of
m )ney in lucational, charitable. AMI elee-
mosynary institutions, great parks, and
magnificent churches.
Then there is Bordeaux. Now, if VOC
want to lead giddy, wild life, that's
just the place for you. Bordeaux is one OF
the most furnishing cities in Europe in
point of industry, cDmmsrco and cultiva-
ton of the arts and sciences. That's what