Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-12-11
BULGARIAN WEDDING.
a ST. Louis Lady Describes One
Which She Attended.

in n most furious storm OF thunder and
lightning and She rain pouring in tor
rents, sky black rs Egypt's night.
The crowd OF ruflians at the depot
added anything but a secure feeling,
and they took us In as il we were SO
many savages taken around for exhiDl-
tion. Our trunks had to be gone
through, likewise our hand baggage,
and they actually insisted upon OPEN
ing every small tox and package inside
uur trunks. They held a long discus
sion over 4 shawl Ia one Of our trunks,
but finally decided to stamp our trunks
through. While our courier was at
tending TO this, the natives were taking
Us in, and l never saw such awful look
ing men. They looked as il they wan
tel TO kill Us.
We spent the day very agreeably,
fGst driving up 10 the barracks. whers
we had n good view OF the sourround-
iuEs and saw quantities OF soldiers, two
ut which lovely specimens of men In
sisted upon US visiting an old well, built
by tie Romans, and We started down
the steps 10y the light Of a candle, the
Servian leading the way and Cousin
-- and 1 following, but keeping very
close To our courier. We persuaded
attempt 10 come down, IS it was so
very damp and dark and so many steps,
So LETT her up top with another individ-
usIl, who kept talking to her IN his own
language all the time and pointing TO
the steps, aud finally assisting her
down. -, to our ,urprise, when half
way down tie winding stairs we heard
ler calling TO Us, and rs she was very
much frightened and excited we turned
buck without reaching the bottom of
,Le 40 steps. These poor people are
So Wild 20 make a penny that they in
sist upon making you DO things IN
order 10 reward them for their services.
From tie barracks we drove TO the
museum. and then visited the palace of
King Miiau's son, then drove to the
park.
We let Belgrade at 10. 80 p. m and
rs there are no sleepers en- route We
made ourselves Is comfortable as pos
siu.e for the night, but 1 cannot say
rested much The scenery along the
ruJI WIS very pretty. The Balkan
looked quite bare after
~Ul.EaglInd and the train seemed 10
crawl When we reached some little
stat ON a dozen soldiers jumped in and
entered the ear and began talking
among themselves and TO Us and as we
could not understand we took II for
granted that We had reached a new
country, and opened our satchels for
them 20 inspect They opened every
lON, more from curiosity, l suspect,
than any other reason, and emptied
our fruit baskets of all the grapes,
which they divided among themselves,
and then stamped US through
We are tonight in Bulgaria, in a
comfortable hotel and where we do not
feel as Il our lives were in peril. When
we lr-t landed our courier put us in Il
carriage and started us off by ourselves
with % COaChman dressed in a sheepskin
coat, white SHIRT and loose white trou-
.rs, with a broad belt: His costume
might have been pretty when new, but
was exceedingly sOIled, and he was very
lark, with small, Jet black eyes. As it
was noon Sunday, all the country peo-
pie were IN for the day, and 1 never
rIw such variety of COS tunes in my
lfe. some very fancy, with lots of
coins, etc, worked stockings, with skin |
,audals laced up the legs. In fact. it |
reminded me of pictures l have seen of |
he Holy Land.
He inquired if we could be permit
ed To enter, and we soon found oursel- |
res escorted into the country villa OF |
he governor of Sophia, where the |
IOuse was filed with guests, assembled |
Il the marriage OF his sister.
The bride came forward to meet us |
n her wedding gown, veil and orange !
lessons. We also were presented to |
he groom, the bridesmaids and their !
leauN, the landlord and his wife and !
% the mother OF the bride, who spoke !
% US in French. One of the relatives |
II the bride spoke 10 Cousin - in !
Ierman' They insisted upon our re-
to the ceremony, and we were |
1resentei SEATS of honor on beautiful |
I.us satin furniture. The ceremony
was not in Bulgarian, but Greek, with
,eveu priests, candles. incense and high |
mass. We were kept standing Just one
hour.
In the middle Of the service their
Photographs were taken. They were
.Iowued with orange blossoms and the
men all embraced afterwards; also the
ladies'. One of tue bridesmaids WAS
very pretty and spoke English. She
made herself very pleasant and wanted
To know if 1 had ever met friend of
hers, Miss B., who was attending
school in America Now that / have
described the wedding party, let me
give you an idea Of our appearance in
such distinguished company.
After spending all night IN the smoky.
dirty train and with no accommodation
for toilet, we reached here at II noon,
hurried through some luncheon, brush
ei our head, and, fortunately, pu. on
clean gloves. SO we appeared amidst
silks and satinS, in travelling hats, dress
rs and the largest shoes We possessed,
and feeling like tramps. l think we at
traCted Is much attention as the
bride.
Afterwards we drove through the
park and then walked through the trad
ing part of the city.
Our courier Is a native or COnstanti-
nople, and says the Turks are n very
dirty people and never kill any living,
iJ being part OF their belief that God
created everything for a purpose except
the Christians. He says fleas are
natural production of the country and
that We must not mind them.
an Elephant Remembers a Friend.
An elephant attached to WomweIl's
mruagerle was treated in Gloucester
shige by u druggist for internal spasm,
The animal recovered and duly depar-
ted from town. This was in 1870. But
IN 1879. when the druggist stood at his
shop door to watch the menagerie again
enter the town, the elephant crossed the
street, advanced to the man of drugs,
placed her trunk in his hand and grun-
ted aCreeably to show her remembrance
Of pas. kindness. At night, IN visiting
The menagerie, the elephant drew the
druggists attention to her side, To
which blister had been applied nine
Nnnra Lafnre In 1881 the alenhant