The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-09

tlIlu Vi NhliNi4 aiAN S'N'''
ing fish. They remind one strangely Of
the same class Of women who come UP
from tho Claddagh every morningin
galloway. But tho lives VI the former
arc SUMMER; and they are genial
kindly lot without u vulgar word oil
their endlcssly chattering tongues.
Over from Seixal, Aldea Gallega ana
Alcoc!etc every morning come boat
loads of market stuff and peasantry;
while down from the mountain Villages
behind tho city, stream The peasant
men and women. The women among
these bring along with every manner OF
small produce, some Of the prettIcst feet
aud ankles the bare.iooted habits OF
many, and the short-skirted petticoats
OF all, ever give unconscious display.
The crates, casks, pouches, baskets,
cwers and wheel-lilEc and gigantic
wooden plattcrs these women bring
with them, carrying nearly everything
upon their heads, are OF incredible size
and weight Thick. goitre-like necks
are the result; but their grncc and
brightness rs beasts OF burden are VIII
some surely. Intcrningled with all
these during the morning market hours
are capote-hidden women from the hills,
smart city servants with their endless
castanc,-lilic clinking 'of'woodch shoes
upon the pavcments; grim men from
the fields, leaning upon their huge OK
goads, which in Portugal always be-
come the travelling stalls noisy youths
hawking fighting crickcts in cages
scarcely two inches square,; all manner
OF men, many OF whom have fallen out
OF the ranks OF the aristocracy,
and boys selling halves, quarters and
eigits oil lattery tickets, for ever i'll
Lisbon it is a true saying that TO
morrow the wheel goes round" I'M
portant aud wa'p-waistGd military at
tuches dancing here and there in blue,
bull and green: grave and comfortable
padres, iInpervious 10 lOrgivable chait-
in. and badinagc; half naked urchins
with wonderfully bright faces; bcggars
with pitcous though sunny looks, rs
CHEEKY over rebuff Us reward: and II
bundled. other folk and factors SO
touched with the seini-barbaric and
oriental, that one awakens from the
weird fancies conjured by sight and
scene, in 4 sort OF half dislnay that i'll
this spot, where our own wondrous
civilization had its very beginning,
everything seems a'thousand years be-
hind.cven the drowsy progress ot.the
Europe to-day. -
VARIOUS TYPES.
Here and there throughout the
streets bcvies OF giggling senhoritas,
never alone and always conveyed BY
some bright-eyed old ducnna. pass from
shop to shop, ever seeming to avoid but
ever in reality compelling most ludi-
crous antics OH the. part. y0is all$malcs
from IS 10 50. Roaring and tearing
down from the heights as ii pursued,
comes one OF the cochciros OF the town
with his ramshacklc barouche, to which
arc often harnessed three donkeys
abreast. He has been nowhere. He is
going nowhere. liz, lnshcs andrscreams
and vents maledictions upon his beasts.
Suddenly the outlandish outfit comes to
q halt In an instant the violent cochc
iro is asleep on his box, and the don
keys heads droop doleiully between
their knees.
Now and then a. strange, horse and l
rider WILDE seem !Tlie!liorss is a pic
bald. The rider is 4 gentleman farmer;
4 'morgado" he is called in Portugal.
He sits upon; his beast in 4 semi-mili-
tary and semi-cowboy style, holds his
bride reins high in the air, wears 4
spur ands mustaciois OF wonderous
dimensions and amblcs through the
changciul scene like 4 hesitaut, hum
bled QuiXote. Everywhere are little
donkcys carrying fat people; burdened
with iurzc, brushwood, charcoal, dried
corn-leavcs and stalks, rusles and
straw, completely hiding them; packed
with twice their own weight in mer-
chandise going to or coming IRON the
quay; or driven double with great tim
hers across their backs. "Ande! Andew
their drivers shout, as they prod them
with blunt, iron-pointed pixies us long
and as heavy rs our own pitch-iork
handles. These and ox-carts, each with
box like half section OF huge wick
or basket, and solid wooden wheels with
iron-spiked sims which creak and shrek
like 4 Red river train on its way TO
Minneapolis and st. Paul, in the sixties,
are ceasclessly vending their way along
the thoroughfarcs to and from the coun-
try, the only means OF freightagc; while
each donkey and cart is accompanied
by more ablc-bodied, ever-yelling mule
teers and clrtmen than necessary 10
convey every ounce OF produce and
merchandise thus disposed upon their
own backs.
Water is brought into Lisbon in one
OF the worlds greatest aqueducts, the
aqueduct OF Agoastiorcs, from the
mountain village of Bellas, ten miles
distant. It extends across the near val
ley OF Alcantara upon series OF thirty
archcc, one hundred and seven feet
from pier to pier, the point OF the
highest arch rising two hundred and
sixty-four feet above tho valley bed.
The water is poured from this aqueduct
into an immense covered reservoir, and
is from this conveyed to the many chat
ariz or public fountains OF the city.
From these fountains, since the time Of
Joao ", nearly all private houses, pub.
lie buildings and shops have been sup
piled by Water-carriers, men and wo-
men. Most OF these, particularly the
men, are thus solely employed Many
OF the women are simply house and
shop servants OF the peasant class; and
probably the most interesting studies
for tourist,;writer or artist are to be
found among these lowly folk beside
fountains.
lt is. THE GALLEGASs.
AT everyone OF these moss.covcred
jetties groups OF bareiooted men and
women are constantly gathering. What
muscular, swarthyfcllows are the men,
and what graceiulattitudes and posings