Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-24

from it by a revolving wheel. The
thread is wound on to the wheel until
there must be miles of length. The
fine thread is SO pliable that it can be
woven into cloth Or formed into fancy
articles at will.
AS we pass, the Javanese village is
on our right, and the black fellows of
that hot island of the Indies are
swarming about in great numbers.
Here they are, big and little, inter
esting objects to those who like this
specimen of the race. We never had
any hankering after an Oriental Of
any sort. Their village is fenced in
by sort of bamboo fence ten feet in
height, and woven together like a
basket-bottom chair. Their buildings
are largely of this wood and material.
They represent the huts or homes of
the people, their stores and bazars,
their market places and temples Of
worship. One feels himself in a warm
country as he examines these basket
built buildings and learns how the
people clothe themselves. When we
were there it was cold, and they were
dumped up under such covering as
kept them comfortable.
If you want little rest go into the
cyclorama building aud see the Burn
ese Alps. You will emerge from the
stairway and find yourself in an al
most new world, away up among the
lofty and snow-clad mountains. Here
are ranges and peaks without number;
yonder a glacier is pushing it's mighty
ice folds into the valley land there is the
precipice where you seem to stand
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of feet
above the dark valley below. Away
down beneath you can see the homes
of the mountain herdsmen with their
goats, cattle and sheep, feeding on
the steep slopes Of the mountains.
Ever and anon the eye rests on the
lake or pond which lies in the basin
place in the hills, and here and there
are the crystal streams that flow down
the ravines and valleys to rivers be-
yond. What an endless variety of
forms, colors, shades and scenes! If
you are growing chilly up so high
among the Alps, you can cross the
street and see the greatest volcano in
the world, where the red hot melted
lava is sweeping down from the era
ter to the sea- This is Kilauea of the
Sandwich Islands.
You will wish to visit the "streets of
Cairo and see the Egyptians. You
enter at once into narrow street.
There is a continuous row of dirty,
old, stone buildings on either side.
The doors are small the windows,
largely boarded Or curtained up, are
set in irregularly, and mostly widest
way along side the building. There is
every sort of a gable sticking out
from the sides of the buildings, and
no regularity observed in the making.
They look as though they were made
before the Pharaohs. The stores are
little rooms opening out on to the
street, not more than ten feet long by
eight feet in depth, with no opening
discoverable into the back store or
counting room. The merchant is
very sleepy looking fellow, who is
willing to show his goods and very
careful not to cheat himself in his
sales. When he has no other business
on hand he sits beside some sort Of
a stand and smokes his big pipe. This
is quite an affair; the bowl is me-
tallic concern, which is in his hand or
hn or nd of
sufficient capacity to hold from two
to four ounces of "fne cut" The
pipe stem is about five feet in length,
bent down from the bowl to the floor,
and then turned up to reach the op-
orator by graceful bends and prop
smoker probably gets more of the
genuine nicotine, but he is far behind
the Egyptian in artistic smoking.
There is a crowd across the street
and we step over to see what is there.
Donkeys, asses, little patient fellows
that look as though they had borne
abuse for years, and are too badly
used up to die. Those great, greasy
lubbers are riding them out to be rid
den by American children. The sight
and the ride is novel and exciting to
the children, while the little creatures
themselves seem to enjoy the associa-
ton And now the camels are COM
ing down; they have been saddled
and prepared for long trip toward
Arabia, or out into the Sahara. They
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cient to last them through their long
journey and are burdened with bag
gage that would load down an express