The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-17
BRAZIL'S BIG BILLS.
YOU FEEL LIKE a BLOATED BOND
HOLDER WITH SOC. WORTH.
The Hard Money Still WOrse-A Few
Dollars Worth of Change Is All a
Strong Man Can Carry-Half Cents
Used to Drive Nails.

Used to Drive Nails.
From the Pittsb,lrg Dispatch.
RIO DE JANEIRo, BRAZIL, March l5.-As
in all countries where heavy duties are i'm
posed on imported goods, Rios port regula-
tions are extremely rigorous and often
vexatious. All incoming vessels are re-
quired to drop anchor off Port ViIlegag-
non commonly known as the "Pico"-and
there await the coming Of the health and
customs officials.
Those gentlemen take their own lesurely
time for 1t, and their convenience must be
awaited however imperative your reasons
for expedition. IL the steamer happens to
have arrived near the dinner hour Is p. m.
is the Brazilian rule for that most impor-
tant meaD or near the fashionable time for
promenading i'll the Rua do Ouvldor-say
an hour oarlier-or if a fiesta happens to be
in progress. or one of the political demon
STATIONS so numerous in the new republic,
no attention will be paid 10 it till some time
next day, aud meanwhile no communication
whatever is permitted between ship and
shore-not even so much as a passage TO
waiting friends or letters to catch an out-
going mail.
PLEASURES OF A QUARANTINE.
Should quarantine be imposed, as it Is
epidemic, though there may not be case
Of sickness on board-the vessel is sent away
back to Ilha Grande, sixty miles down the
coast. There is no accounting for QuarRn-
tine regulations, especially in times Of scare.
We experienced their unreasonableness to
the full few years ago. when sailing
among the West Indies. Because our ship
had passed place where smallpox was
raging-though no passengers were taken on
there, and nobody went ashore but tho
purser on his regular business-we were not
allowed to come within three miles of any
port. Though not a soul on board was i'll,
we could not visit Martinique, Barbados,
st. Thomas nor any of the places we had
come so far to see, nor send ashore for the
longed~for home letters waiting in the con-
sups Office, nor dispatch those we had writ
ten during the voyage PasseI gers who
must land were compelled to spend fifteen
days at the quarantine station-a pest house
to which were consigned the leprous and
and diseased of every class and all national
tiles, in which the chances were few for
person who entered in perfect health
to come out alive at the end Of half a
month
SAD STORY OF A PEST HOUSE.
Among our E3number was a charming
French family, who had been visiting in
Para and were coming to their home at st.
Pierre. OF course they were obliged to dis
embark at Martinique; and a mournful
procession they made-husband, wife, four
children and three servants, being rowed
away to the desert quarantine island in the
| custody of officers like criminals, headed
by the yacht of the health commissioner
with its significant yellow flag. Though
the family were rich and influential and all
in good health, nothing could save them
simply because they happened to take pas
sage on steamer that had stopped at an
infected port several hundred miles below
the place where they embarked. A year
later, happening to meet again the capita in
of the same steamer on a moro fortunate
voyage, inquired after the quarantined
family and learned with sorrow that the
husband and three of the children died of
yellow fever contracted at the pest house.
About ten years ago the Brazilian author
tiles erected a costly quarantine station on
Grand Island ulha Grande), aud have got
their money back long ago, from the
charges fixed by law, for their compulsory
boarders. The rates are as follows: First
class passengers must pay 5000 refs per
diem for semi-starvation or vlllainous food {;
second class, 800 refs; third class, 800 refs ;
children between and 10 years old, half
rates; and between l and years, one-third
rates.
CHARGES FOR DISINFECTING BAGGAGE.
Then all the baggage is disinfected, the
charges being 900 reis per kilogramme-
and the ordinary Saratoga will weigh many
kilogrRmmes. 1t is useless to protest that
nothing is the matter with your luggage
and you don't want it disinfected-it must
undergo the proc ass, or be dumped into the
bay, and you must pay for it all the same
In cases of merely quarantine "observa-
ton" which is usually from "A to 4S hours,
the vessel is required to anchor off Juruiuba
Point; but that is no hardship if ones bust
ness is not urgent. for the glorious view
amply compensates for being compelled to
endure sea food and stuffy state room
awhile longer.
After permission has been given by the
autocrats of the custom house for free prac-
tique with the shore, the mails are first dis
embarked; and then the steamer proceeds
to the upper anchorage, where the passen-
gers and their luggage are discharge. Gus
toms officials are at once put on board who
remain night and day at their posts until
the steamer is again ready for sea. All
baggage is directly sent to the custom
house, where passengers can claim it at any
time between 9 o'clock a. N. and 3 D. M
Nothing eau be passed on board without
special permission, not even your handbag
or shawl strap.
HOW TO PRESERVE NERVE TISSUE.
1t isa wise plan to pack the few things
needed for day or two into gripsack and
leave the trunks to their fete until you are
established in hotel and equal to engaging
in the customary wrestle at the Caes. One
should remember that passports are re-
CURED. both on entering and leaving Brazil,
and no steamship company is permitted TO
sell ticket to a foreigner until his pass
port has been properly viseei at the central
police station. For this no charge Is made
though the passport cost 81 at the Depart
ment of state in Washington, and another
dollar for the oath before a notary that
you are not somebody elsa specimen Of
"red tape" equal TO that which compels
needy females who are so fortunate to Sc
cure a S75 clerkship in Uncle Samuel'e
treasury to make oath and pay for tins
same) that they have never borne arms
against the government Recently Rios
police authorities have adopted regulation
requiring a consular wise before their own,
and this involves slight expense. There is
also port regulation which forbids any
communication with vessels in the harbur
after O'Clock p. m. without a special per-
init. Therefore. if you are unacquainted
with the Portuguese language and have
gone ashore merely for look about town,
you had better keep al eye on your watch
and not put faith in the rosy lights that
linger long on the mountain tops after the
sun has disappeared you want to
spend some uncomfortable hours In p ison
and require the services Of the United States
consul in the morning; and meanwhile the
ship may sail away without you.
HELD UP BY THE BOATMEN.
Passengers will find no difficulty in find
ing boats to take them ashore, for as soon