The Republican journal., 1892-06-23
Rambles Around Rio.

-ao DE JANElRo, May ,, 1892. In no
..lf If the world, except Paraguay, are so
ry and diverse articles carried about
Yeoples heads, as in Brazil In the
.sneI country, (Which is peculiarly one
. women, you know, since most of the
..n we're killed in Lopez wars), when
Il TALL at house and hand the servant
n, ard to present to the mistress, she
his nj on her head and walks off with
h.rk braced as Stitfiv as if the bit of
Il. board weighed a hundred pounds;
.oi,ely rs the female porters ''tote" your
rks MP town from the railway station
r vum dinner. or laundried linen, OF
,.t blackened boots.
.alri III Rio everything movable is car
.tl HE head, from cakes to collins
pUses inside, from piano cases and
.aulrobcs To the smallest parcels.
-5 lulc the streets are TOO marrow for
and draws; horses are scarce ana
..r~ are numerous, and SO the latter
.. instead rs beasts OF burden. Dry
- puddlers pcrambulate the streets,
.u- jheir .\ardSticls sharply tpgeth-
sr elongated castIucts, in front of
4 rtse. followed 10y polters bearing
u. heads chests bales and boxes OF
w towers, feathers, shoes, under
auts. amt all the rest OF female tog
. rhis itinerant plan is OF mutual
am5aee. Ion it is considered highly
Tc,,ioliable and quite beneath the dig
RI of ladies' belonging to the better class
1sjt the shops; and it enables the mer-
hts to work off many things they could
he furniture dealer sends around his
1s and tables and sofas for inspection.
a attention, crowds every body off the
..w Sidewalk with his bullying load of
ury utensils, topped, perhaps with a
Tub or tin trunk, such rs Brazilians
,.tor travelling, painted sllyblue with
.a.cg and purple roses on the front.
uut. poultry and vegetables are borne
3 door to door on the heads Of market
and women. The butcher sends his
round with the odds and ends of
daghter house-tripe, liver, sheep S
a~ brains piled high on shallow
WateI-caricrs balance casks and
teJ- on their heads; cooks, chamber
ills and walters follow the universal
iou Ask for a glass of water, an
.A-c. a towel, and nine times out OF ten
,l he brought to you on somebody's
and should you die here, (Which,
81 heaven folbid' you would probably
utcd to Ca in the same manner.
.uyou see that stalwart Zenobia. whose
ANS and legs are round, firm and
,,t as polished ebony, stalking up the
zret with all the dignity of q queen and
a more natural grace, balancing IL
i cotton umbrella on top OF her
5g crest? Though her head is other
bare in the hottest rays OF the noon
sun, she feels no need of shade, being
qHfo heat. like the palms or orchids.
related that in the early days of rail
uilding in Brazil, the laborers en-
.5 i'm the work of excavation carried
thousands of tons OF dirt in baskets
-pr heads. Some Henry Bergh. a
"1Htor pitying their arduous toll III
~Neltcling climate. Went to no end of
Pile and expense to provide them with
ecp wheel-barrows. The workmen
tIe new-fangled contlivanccs with
ent distrust, but accepted them with
ID thurman. as IN duty bound. An
I alter when the philanthropic con-
.nI came down To see now they We're
tuu- on with the new labor savers
WIS his disgust to find that though
man filled his barrow to the brim
4ravel. he then hoisted it ON top of
Lead with the aid OF one of his fell
Ws. and trotted to the dump with it.
sad of being bent up double, as one
fl think considering the heavy loads
", constantly stagger under these hui
u beasts OF burden are straight as
u- palms, with spine> like the tenn
ad steel of Damascus blades. They
Ne HE Calyatides Of the present day
e AJantis and Tclamones Of mythology
l4It down to modern times.
toue who can arise With the lark, Il
NO Rios market place is enjoyable ;
MFel in the day, when the tropic sun
bead chance at the filth with which
Place abounds, vile smells render it
1AdUable 1t is down by the water
near the great stone quays, and its
-'1nous buildings cover an entire block,
a"l ou by sheds that Iamble down adj
N'A' streets ana several open squares.
TO 1854 Rio possessed no regular mar
place, but from time immemorial this
WAS used for the sale of fish, be
--e it was necessary to have one cen
ID place for that commodity on account
fac tithes Vigorously exacted from fish
rH Most Of the produce row sold in
brought in boats from the fertile
sands and shores Of the bay, During
lie ady part Of the day the market-place