The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-24

pearance, Its dirty streets crowded
with dirty and ragged looking people,
the buildings half in ruins. The pariia-
ment Of Bulgaria being the youngest in
Europe, naturally attracted our attention.
The small room in the sobranie was quite
pretty, but very simple. Adjoining il is
library consisting of very few books. What
a small beginning to what may some time
be powerful nation!
Altogether Sofia is not place where
person would much desire to live, and we
did not envy the prince who in his solitude
suffers the constant fear of assassination.
DANCE AND WEDDING.
AS our train pulled out of Sofia two
things attracted our attention. One was
dance in the open air, in which men and
women took part; the other was Bull
garian wedding. About dozen men
walked in front Of q cumbersome wagon,
carrying flags in their hands. The bride
and groom were seated in the wagon
with the women of the party They
all seemed to be dressed alike, save that
the bride had a wreath in her hair One
thing sure is that no expensive trousseau
was prepared for this bride. Most all OF
the Bulgarian young women wear their
hair In q braid hanging down their backs,
while loose net is drawn over their head
From Sofia the train continued through
the Balkan mountains, but they looked
more cheerful than those we had left the
day before, where the snOw-coVered craRs
gave US an idea of the terrible sufferIngs
that the soldiers in the late Turkish Rus
sian war must have endured as they were
driven against each other. Here the
weather is mild and the snow has all dis
appeared by the time we reach Philopople
The country is fiat and thfnly settled and
many herds Of sheep are pasturing in the
fields.
: Going down the Martha river we
reached Adrianople at night, the center Of
THE GREAT ROSE OIL CULTURE.
This perfume is made in three qualities.
The first and best requires sixty pounds of
roses to make a few drops, but
the oil is so hard that it has to be heated in
order to pour it from one flask in TO another.
The second is still rigid, but the third is
more of liquid at the average tempera-
ture. the oil is bottled and sealed and
few drops will scent ones clothes for three
or four years before it evaporates, and even
then 1t still holds its perfume for twenty
and more years. IL is sold in Adrianople
for Sl.50 dram for the best quality.
On our way we passed few villages
with low, square houses and very high
roof, with all kinds Of wicker work made
Of straw to protect them from the colo.
The chimneys were conspicuous through
their absence and windows could not al
ways be found out.
CROSSING INTO TURKEY
we went through another pass revision
and before we could enter through the
/ gates into stantinople, we were
once more kept standing until q Turk
/ on one side and an Abyssinian on the
other, examined again our passports and al
| lowed US to enter the oriental city.
! Before entering Constsntinople the train
runs along the Bosphorus, a beautiful
/ body of water, and looking across we can
plainly discern Asia. We next pass by the
old Roman walls that grid the old
city and along the meanest, flthiest,
broken down houses with window panes
mashed in, and dirty dogs and dirtier psO-
pie moving in the street and we wonder il
this can be Constantinople.
The depot, however, is very roomy and
respectable looking building, perfectly
modern. VEBoNA b. POLLOCK.
COEsTANTINoPLE, Feb 10, 1892.