Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-05-26

cent Worlds Fair ticket It II very broad
100 feet wide over all. Every concession.
,ire'-more French--pays a percentage
of his receipts to the Worlds Fair Ways
and Means Committee Guarantees are A.
forded that the exhibits are worth the price
Oi admission.
4 Tower of Babel is built near the entrance
20 the Plaisance. II is 400 feet high and has
q diameter at the base Of 100 feet. This
tower deviates from the plan Of the original
by having double track electrical circular
railway from the base to the top. chime
81 bells is installed at the top. from which o
good view ~ the ground is had.
-.Ord and Lady Aberdeen have been inter
csted in making display OF the cottage in
iustries OF Ireland Towering over a row Of
Irish cottages in fac-simile is a reproduction
Of Donegal Castle Throughout this exhibit
there are specimens OF the work OF Irish
peasants and.s0me OF the people themselves
4 Kerry COW has been brought over specially tC
show one OF the means OF livelihood. Lace'
and -hawls are made and sold here. The
simple architecture Of these homes. lik'
lnat Of the convent Of la RShida, is pleas
ant reife- 90 the eye after the stuccO flower
ana figures crowded on too many OF the
buildn4t
Conc v,th me to Cairo It Is shown by
street scene peopled with more than one hun
dred and fifty Egyptians who were taken
from the midst Ot their dancing, smokinganc
trading and dumped into the Windy City
Dark brown beauties from the banks Of the
Nile who dance oriental measures, loos
lOqucttishly upon the Yankee, their big eyei
winning his attention as soon rs they nasf
them upon him They wear spanSies, chains
beads and gilt bands. Black slave boys wan
upon the dainty ladies' some Of whom cover
II 4. - r,1kfrp ~ fha Ea.f
Arab traders. donkey boys and came
drivers are there. While the dancers arr
performing in the theatre the merchants sci
beads. turbans or shells from the Red Ses
and other curiosities. and the snake charmer
subdue reptiles and the magicians show
lheir familiarity with the black art. There
are performing monkeys, too, and parrots
II Is truly glimpse Of an Eastern city, and
Aere and there one gets q Whit OF 1t.
An old priest goes up into the tower OF
the mosque at daybreak and calls upon all
believer in Mohammed to pray. The people
perform their ablutOns and then bless the
prophet When they have done this the
iong-bearded merchants take their pipes and
squat in the bazaars. looking indolently al
the passars-bv. while the women and chill
dren raze in wonder and smile knowingly NJ
the Ignorance o. their ways betrayed by the
Americans, who are as great show to them
as they are 10 tho purchasers OF admission
tickets
Fanda. caudily dressed woman. rather
lat IS the beauty Of the party. and among
thcm are Egyptians bearing such names ne
Fahima Osnan. Hosma Bint. Mitwali Naba-
Weih and Faint Houri. CuriOsities OF divers
sorts from the museums Of Cairo and Alex
andrla can be seen.
One OF the old streets OF Stamboul is repro
duced and tenanted with people from that
city and from Constantinople, who show
pretty much the same sort OF entertainment
as their Egyptian neighbors. One II their
features is a fire department such as j;
IN service at the City Of the Golden
Horn. The frc pump. which has
big capacity. is slung on poles
on the shoulders of the natives. who trot
through the streets astOnishingly fast. Wher
thew reach the fire the water is supplied to
them by carriers. who bear leather bags that
are renlled from the wells as fast as their con-
tents are used up.
Turkish luncheons are peddled by costumet
natives, who serve them from e tray.
A saddle belonging to the Sultan ofIurkey
is placed in the transportation Building II
Is covered with red plush and gold and Is
used bv its owner only on the most solemn
occasions. Arab horses OF pure blood were
allowed bv tho Sultan to be exported.
A silver bed. owned by one OF the sultans
OF Turkey. and said 20 weigh two tons, Is In
the collection. and Turkish tent once be-
longing to Persian Shah. and used by him
In travelling. 1t is made almost wholly OF
embroidered cloth.
Near the Tunisian and Algerian section IL
a Moorish palace modelled after one OF the
old style temples which are found in Spain
md Northern Africa. restaurant, accom-
modating five hundred people, in the palace
shows that the Moors are practical race. In
the building is an immense collection OF golc
coins.