Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-17
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Nice Places where American COusuls
Can Thrive if They wish.

cum exclaimed the ola diplomat, aS
he threw himself into an easy chair; Iii
you want un get the Consulship at Malta.
That's one spot where a man can grow
rich abroad on 81 800 a year. And as for
amusements, you will be simply crowded
10 death Everybody on the island works
and slaves al least sixteen hours day,
and he Is fortunate indeed who counts his
weekly stipend at 81 80 There never has
been theatre, or circus, or secular
holiday in Malta, and the popular amuse-
ment is confined to feast days, when the
people eongregate in one place and make
themselves SICK on pink candy. In the
evening, when the hot, blistering sun goes
down, you can go up to the basin, where
the sea leaves d placid pool in the rocks
and indulge in the gddy designations Of
bath on, yes: 90 to Malta and get rich.
You can live there in splendOr Tor 50 a
week, but at the end OF four years you
won't know whether YOU are a catamaran
or a blind fish. II that doesn't SUIT you,
try Jerusalem. It's a great place for
excitement. and. after a years trial, il
YOU can scrape together enough energy TO
write Our.pageTepOrt to the State De-
partment. I'm eat my head. There Is but
one redeeming feature about Jerusalem
plenty of olives. And as for oranges,
there is no place in the world where they
grow so large Jerusalem Is a splendid
town in which TO study the antique. and
Consul always gets rich there on $1,000
a year: but the first Consul became COW
et0us, and induced Congress TO indulge in
the extravaganza of raising his wages TO
$1,000.
"Do you like music2 Then get the
commercial agency at swansea, where
the slate QuaTrymen, the miners, ana the
day labOrers are all professional SINGERS.
Why. sir. at the last grand Eisteddfodd
the laurels We're carried away not by the
trained chOirs Of London, but by chorus
of rough Welsh quarrymen. SingG
Why. they sing the root oil the houses,
and every house on the downs and in the
crags contains a nightingale and har-
monioum. Down in the PenrhYn quarry
the universal occupation OF the quarry
men Of work is singing, and the men have
excellent voices. If you don't ike music,
try Welsh labOrer on theology. He Is
generally a nOnc0niOrmist, and the only
way / ever found to stop his religious dis
course was TO take him over to the Mon
mouth dstrict-thereby eYading the sun
day law-and I'LL him up with beer. In
the Welsh country printers on night work
get 50 y a week. and on day work 81 %;
shipwrights get 49, boiler makers about the
same, and the whole range OF mechanical
skill is fashioned on the general basis Of
50 a week. Therefore, 90 to Wales. You
may not have much amusement but you'll
get a gold mine of experience.
"Then there is Dundee, in Scotland.
Everybody drinks in that sin-cursed town,
and it is stated that its population Of 49,
9jl souls annually eXpend Sl,50O,OO0 for
spirits ana beer. Dundee, you know, is
the birthplace OF Hector Bruce, the his
tOrian; Halliburton, who was the first to
openly profess the reformed religion in
Scotland, and Furgersen, the poet But
if these worthless could come back tOearth
they wouldn't own Dundee. The city to-
day has $500 houses of only one room
each. in which there is a population of
1850, and 1881 houses of two rooms
each, into which are crowded 1874 men,
women, and children. Tito these be added
the three-rOOm houses, with the people
living in them, il shows that $4,000 Of the
10000 Inhabitants Of Dundee live in
houses OF one TO three rooms. Poverty and
misery abound, and yet II is the principal
seat of linen manufactures. and is an i'm
p0rtant centre for sugar refining, work
ing in iron, and shipbuilding. Dundee is
the saddest place to me on earth. Malta
is a CremOrne garden Of delights beside
that city. But / must say for the wealthy
citizens of Dundee that they have spent
and are spending millions OF money in
educational, charitable, and eleeSnOsynary
institutions, great parks, and magnificent
churches.
"Then there is Bordeaux. Now, If you
want to lead a giddy, wild life, that's Just
the place for you. Bordeaux Is one of the
most fiOurishing cities of Europe in point
of industry, commerce, and the cultiva-
ton Of the arts and sciences. That's
what the guide book says, but when you
sift it right down, its principal business
raatr
ing fruit. II contains the immense theatre
built by Louis XVI, accommodating
1000 people. The poorer classes are gay
and festive, and die young. Every work
lngman in Bordeaux has cOmmendable
vanity for tine clothes, generally deemed
incomplete without pair OF high-heeled
boots and a watchchsin and locket of gilt
metal. The great tobacco mandatory,
she gunpOwder mills, the satpetre re-
hrery, and the shoe factory there are
owned by the government, which takes
excellent care of its employees. There are
$1,000 female labOrers in Bordeaux, and il
can truthfullly be said that majority of
the unmarried women there are indscreet
and careless, There are 900 women
actually employed in the quarries and
10000 in the open fields. 1t is a beauti-
ful city, though, and splendid Consul
ship.
"lf you want TO strike "a temperance
town take Fayal, in the Azores. Drunken
ness is rarity there, and yet wine and
spirits are sold every where. The climate
Of the Azores is perfectly delightful,
rarely below rs degrees and never above
80 degrees. The AZoreans are particular
y fond Of dress, and very sOciable, but
they are nation Of cigarette smokers,
and are rapidly deteriorating ia physical
development. Fayal is an interesting lit-
Tie town Of 10000 people, and the princi-
pal exports are oranges, wine and oil. If
you want something romantic and Area
dian, Fnyal is the place for you.
"speaking OF temperance towns, would
also commend YOU 20 Catauia, Italy which
has a population OF about 100 O00, with
scarcely drink OF whisky or brandy IN
the town. Everybody, both high and low.
drinks the native Wine al meals. but no.
body drinks between meals. and drunken
man has not been seen IA Catania for
years, except now and then "a British
sailor. OBJ, there are hundreds Of places
! could tell you about where an American
could make money on a$l, 800 Consulship,
but life is too short to 20 through the
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