Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09
THINGS SEEN ~ IRELAND.
Several Interesting Matters Noted by an
American Reporter.

American Reporter.
One of the influences which incidentally
fiatter the American in Erin Is the evident
admiration which the Irishmen have for him.
They can detect him one block away, if by
nothing else by the fact that he wears rubber
overshoes, for these articles of footwear are
unknown iE Ireland. The hotel runners are
not like the burly, well fed hack drivers to
be seen about the Grand Central depot every
day, but are ragged and unkempt. They
stand around the gangplank in Queenstown
and whisper In feeble, supplicatory tones:
as thare any wan fur O'Crowley's, or Hen
nessey's, or O'Sullivans or Flannigan'sr
With an awed wonder the American observes
that these men do not feel that they possess
the earth and the fullness thereof
Ones baggage is taken by man who owns
an Irish express equipage. This consists of q
donkey and two wheeled cart The donkey
has head entirely disproportionate in size
to its body, which is SO small that the feet Of
an ordinary man when mounted would touch
the ground il the donkey permitted him to
remain on his back. The cart resembles much
the handcarts used by the Italians around
the City Hall park for peddling fruit. The
donkey is driven with lines made of rope He
has wicked eye in his head" as Jim Boy
WEIGH, the jarvey, says, land he'll kick the
bones out o yer body il ye tickle him on the
side nearest to the ground" By this mode
of conveyance it win cost you twelve cents to
have your trunk taken to a hotel As for
yourself there are two modes of conveyance
--the Jingle" and the jaunting car. The lat
ter is too well known to need description
This jingle resembles a Saratoga trunk set
on end on an axle. There is door in the
rear and seat stuck on in front like small
shelf. The seat is for the drivers use. A
jingle viii hold four persons comfortably.
The hotels are comfortable and homelike.
When tea is served the teapot wears quilted
cover to keep the heat in the vessel There is
gas in the hotels, but it is of an inferior quail
ity. The rooms in the hotel are heated by
open CRATES, i'll which soft Scotch coal is
burned The bedsteads are quaint and old
fashioned with queer little canopy extend
ing from the headboard. You retire for the
night by the light of a candle. This is the
custom even in the most fashionable hotel in
Cork, where the rates charged are as high as
those of the Fifth Avenue hotel in this city
You sleep on feathers into which you sink to
the depth of foot. Enough quilts and
blankets for four separate sleepers are piled
over one bed. There are no bootblacks in
the streets. Your boots are BACKED by a
housemaid. In the city of Queenstown,
which contains 1900 inhabitants, there are
no more than three newsboys. American
newspapers sell for twelve cents apiece.
An Irish barber shop, such as 70 patronized
by the mass of the people, is very interest
ing place. A specimen found in Queenstown
was SO small that three customers crowded it
uncomfortably. Small packing boxes were
ranged along the wall as seats for the "nexts.
A gentleman with a wooden leg acted as pro
prietor and cash taker, and two callow youths
of IS inflicted the torture. The operating
chair had legs which were bound like those
of baby who has learned to walk too soon
The head rest was adjusted by means Of
wooden peg hung to leather strap. Both
BARRIERS operated from the same lather pot,
the contents Of which gently bubbled over a
gas jet. "Wan swipe o. the metal on aich
side raped yer jowl." The BARRIERS were re-
markable for the freedom aud grace of their
movements, They stood OFF at arms length
from the victim.
In half the time that barber in America
would consume the job was completed. An
Irish barber does not comb your hair when
shaving you unless asked to do SO. Neither
does he apply alum to the face or use powder
or sprinkle cologne over his customer. He
simply reaps the superhuous hair and then
collects four cents.
The average Irish policeman is as fine a
specimen of physical manhood as ever served
on the Broadway squad. He IS usually six
feet tall, admirably proportional, and an ath-
lete He wears a light waterproof overcoat
with a cape. The lower part of his legs are
encased in leather leggings, laced up at the
sides. Upon his head, perched sidewise, just
over his ear, is a cap, which resembles nlarge
pill box, from which leather band drops
upon his chin. Ernest Jarrold in New York
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