Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

arcade, you will see stands of bears and
windows full of bears; wooden bears,
stone bears. gold, silver and ivory bears,
ginger bread bears; bears sewing, bears
smoking, bears playing cards, bears go
ing to bed, and bears going to war; but
most frequently the bear walking up
diagonal stripe of blue, waggishly waving
a long, curly, red tongue, for this is the
way he is painted on the Bernese coat Of
arms.
IEAT BEAR
of this description (without the colors)
every morning for breakfast, printed on
a butter pat. You can see in that bakery
window a large bear of white frosting on
the top of a cake. L am particularly
fond of the pastry-shop windows in
Berne; they bear witness to the countri-
fed tastes of the people; no elaborate
connections of French nchef' are to
be seen in these windows shaded by
arcades, but big, plain pound and fruit
cakes, and cards of old-fashioned, black
gingerbread, always covered with bears.
l suppose Bernese would no more think
OF eating anything that was not orna-
mented with bear, than Swiss IN
general would put on his hat without an
edelweiss in it. eve notice in the stores
here, hats are sold with the edelweiss
already in the band). You see In old
German Berne means bear and the place
was so named because the founder killed
bear on this spot. The bear has
always been the tutelary deity OF the
place, and for hundreds of years the city
has kept pit full of live hears just out
side the walls. These bears were carried
off by Napoleon 8 soldiers to the zoologi-
cal gardens at Paris, but the first thing
Berne did after recovering independence
was to send off to Russia for more bears.
They have q new pit now across the river
which is
QUITE A SWELL AFFAIR
as pits go. This is always fringed with
devotees paying tributes of bread and
carrots to the rapscious monsters below.
They are cunning things, these ugly
creatures, and one cannot help being
amused by their clever antics. Each OF
the three big ones has his own particular
method of attracting attention, and car
rots; the biggest one walks on his hind
legs with the ease Of q biped, another sits
up ana holds his hind feet with his paws,
the third rolls quite over on his back and
smiles annually. In the other side of the
pit (Which is like { large shallow cistern)
GIG eohC cups, anu tucS0 liibiO AOiAO"o
stand up and wrestle with each other IN
play like boys, then they roll over to-
| gsther like kittens.
But had forgotten we were sitting to-
gether under the arcades. / see by the
crowd collecting IT is nearly time for the
hour to strike. The old tower in the
middle of the way, under and through
which the street runs. was ones watch
tower, but now, as you see by the big
clock face, serves peaceful purposes. OF
course you have heard of this remark
able clock, though We never had before
coming here. Well, 1t is remarkable
old clock, and spectators are here every
hour of the day 10 ace II strike. All the
performance goes on around that little
puppet-man with the hourglass in his
hand, who sits like high relief in the
stone wall far below the clock face to
the right. The whole business Is on q
very small scale, and that is why these
pleople gaze with such
STRAINED AND PAINFUL EXPRESSION.
They are SO afraid it will ego Off when
they are not looking. 1t is three minutes
of tho hour. Tho little painted cock at
the left of the man with the hourglass
moves forward, lifts his wings feebly and
gives forth pitiful little minor wall
which is meant for crow. Silence of
two minutes, during which we all stare