Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-02
CONTINENTAL TOURISTS.
Some Things Seen by GAINESVILLE
People in Classic Lands.
Interesting Sketches Sent to the Leaf
Chronicle as CulIed From the Letters
of Clarksville Tourists.

where lHey Floiteu thp lVis Nn"'
played such an importnt part in
the rebellion of 1881. "Our drago-
manor a guide-showed us Gen.
Stones cannon, which routed the
natives. The shells were two feet
long. TIE oldspart Of the city that
was bombarded and burned is
now being replaced by handsome
modern buildings and streets. From
Alexandria we were three hours on
the cars to Cairo, where we found
everything perfectly charming, the
weather like midsummer at home
Shepherds hotel, where we are
stopping, is the best in the city, and
that is saying a great deal. The halls
are so long and immense that one al
most gets lost in them. The front
stoopis covered with oriental avn
ings, splendid banquet salon, ball
room, tennis grounds and garden.
Our room is on the first floor and opens
into the rose garden. The windows
are covered with Marechal Neils in
full bloom, besides roses of every hue
and size, and sweet perfume, mign-
onette, phlox, brilliant hibiscus. In
deed flowets are everywhere, end an
immense bunch of roses and any
kind you wish can be gotten
for ten cents. Our dainty oriental
table is kept ornamented with an
Egyptian vase file with rare sweet
blossoms. The hangings, rugs and
ornaments are very oriental and
gorgeous.
Every few minutes camels are pass
ing the hotel loaded with grass,
grain, dates, sugar cane, vegetables,
fruits and everything that is market
ed. Many of them have their baby
camels following them. When they
are trotting or Looping along they rock
from side to side like small boat on
the ocean. The jolly thing TO do is
to ride a donkey. Everybody here
rides the donkey at some time. They
are small and good natured, but lazy,
SO the owner runs along behind and
punches him with stick all the dis
lance. They are as easy as rocking
In a chair. The owner soon finds
out your nationality and introduces
you to donkey, whose name is oil
that origin ours were Hanky
! Doodle and George Washington.
| There are great many English
soldiers here, and English stores
which make it very convenient for
us to get what we wish. We ulcied
out to supply us with thin apparel,
light gloves, chip hats,mus cravats
and white parasoi5. The natives are
Arabs and Turks. Their dress Is
. very picturesque, gorgeous. coats ano
caps, red or yellow shoes and black
silk gowns. The women wear thick
black W lis, which are kept in place be
low their eyes by curious gilt orna
ment on the forehead. They alst
wear black head wells and long blu'
cotton gowns. Often their feet arr
: hare, with anklets, bracelets ant
. necklaces in profusion.
5 The ladies of the upper classes Wh'
4 are driven about in their carriages
! wear wells of white tulle tied unde
= their eyes and also band Of tn
/ same around their fOleheads. Tthei
features are not entirely coDceale'
? and many of them are very hand
. some, but their figures are Away
Y muffled in long, black, silk cloaks
t You see great variety of costumes
owing to the class or avocation.
We spent the whole day in Oh
Cairo and have returoed to that 10
teresting part several afternoons
never having seen the half or ca
. tell the half we did see. The bullc
:, ings are very curious and irregular
7, and the streets very narrow. Tn
Is Mosques are the most interestin
!. features of Cairo; there are hur
II dreds of them we have been int
e more than twenty, no two alike
% Their chief beauty consists in insid
decorations, while the outside ma
y. be dilapidated and an obscure Ell
I. trance, only knowing it is to b
n found by the minerets rising di'
3, tinctly among the many otht
l. crowded together buildings, the IL
70 side may contain rare mosaics, arr
Ne besques, tiles, irredescent glasse
gilded inscriptions, (that we take Il
granted) swinging lamps from ma
u BILE columns finely carved wood desig
70 PLAQUES of exquisite bronzes, alabal
re ter, turquoise and mother of pear
& all lighted softly from quaint will
dows in odly elevated inches, or SIX
lights; sometimes an open cou
where play fountains and grow pail
Id trees, each with its peculiaritie
:" The handsomest one we have ente
- ed is at the citadel called NOLAN
med Ali 1t is built of granite all
alabaster. Another very handson
re one, but crumbling, is now held U
- by three hundred stone pillars. III