The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-04
RIO JAGEIRO. j
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Contraries.

The COW is said to be the original sur
veyor of Boston, and the narrow and tor
tuous streets of the Athens of America
are pointed to with pride by the Atenian
Yanks in attestation of the truth of the
assertion. Who the original surveyor of
Rio Janeiro was is neither known nor
conjectured, but the chief engineer of the
extension of the city during the last fifty
years up and down the mountain sleeps
and along the rocky lodges 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 benefit of the others din, by ham
mering on pan if he be tinker, or by
clappng two sticks together if he be
dealer in dry goods and notions, or by
shouting if he be vendor of glass or the
like. And when the right bower cannot
he played and wash boiler disposed of
advantageously, haply the left will be
able to sell spool OF cotton and take the
trick.
A window without woman in it is
exceptional in Rio. And sociological
consideration of the City of the Royal
Palm without woman in it is impossi-
BILE.
The Fourth of July of Brazil is the 1th
of September.
The Cora Pearl of Rio is Susanna. She
has one of the toniest turn.outs in the
city-a carriage lined with white satin,
pair of moldy looking mules, white
Ii veried driver, and other symbolic signs
of purity about her; but the very stones
cry nut against her for all that, with a
strun y-strump-strum, as she goes
over t. lem.
The plaster of Paris image maker Of
Rio will not sell his simulacra of Christ
and the s, Ints-not he, for that would be
gross sac. 'ilege; but he will swap them
for as much sinful lucre as may be agreed
upon by the party of the first part and
the party of he second part
The beast of burden, of even more com
mon use than the mule, in Rio, is the
human head A single head is employed
in carrying everything in weight from
box of matches to barrel of flour, ant
in shape from pumpkin to pig, Will
four are taken generally for a bureau ant
six for piano. AS with the mule, vari
ations in color occur, but while a pink
ish, mold. colored mule is preferred to tn
rat the mouse, the milk, the tar and tn
piebald, a sable head is generally re
garded the best, requiring the least pad
ding and insuring the hardest knocks
as well as being the most willing an
showing dirt the least. In carrying bul
&seis up and down the stone stairway'
along the precipitous lodges and into tn
intricacies of the labyrinths in which tn
hllCutuS are lUCdleu, ~ 10 ihNaiuetolo'
About the only place Brazilian doe
not smoke is in his coffin.
A niger with whitewash brush
mean colored calciminer, an individu;
nwhom nature and art combine to pr
serve the equilibrium of the universe;
chiaro.oscuro incarnate; an existence lik
that of the earth, revolving in light an
shade! what figure to be put in blac
and white in the infnity of his poeti
philosophic and picturesque phases! II
seen in the streets of Rio as in ha
the cities of the globe.
The bad boy of Rio is restricted in h
range. Every garden in which there
anything that can be hooked or destroys
has in front high fence of iron, with
gate locked at night, on the sides and
the rear a stone wall, backed, like FIRE
full porcupine, with broken bottle
There is no future before him until JUL
Cesar, the subsidized genius of invent
of Para, shall have succeeded in maxi
his flying machine fly, Or until the b'
boy gets, as well as the good, pair
olden goose wings.
The baker Of Rio distributes his bre
in a great quadrangular basket which
borne by the common beast Of bnrd'
the human head, and which is lined W
ablanket Of a color so fiery that, see