The Frankfort roundabout., 1893-06-24

Continent, where Pekin, Toxic, ALA
habad, Constantinople, Damascus,
Bagdad and Cairo are each in turn
paid q visit.
Our party of editors were first taken
to the glass factory in operation by
the Venetians where we witnessed
the making of fine Venetian and
Florentine wares.
In the Irish Village in which there
is faithful reproduction of Blarney
Castle as it appears in it's ruins, the
native Irish have on exhibition and
for sale great deal of the products of
the Emerald isle. The Arabs have a
palace of Damascus in which there
is fountain of more than 600 years
of age. In one end is shown the
furniture of modern use and in the
other the furniture of the ancient
period.
Across the yard from this palace is
a kind of stable or opeu shed in
which dwell dozen or more black,
hideous visaged Soudanese. One of
the women had an infant a few
months old which was an interesting
feature of the visit to the ladies of
our party, who stood at a distance
from the male members Of the Afri-
can tribe that a few years ago shed
large quantity of England's best
blood.
A cyclorama of the Bernese Alps
and one of the volcano of Mount
Kilauea in the Sandwich Islands were
next visited and enjoyed, by which
time it was close to the hour for mid
day luncheon which we agreed to
take in beer and concert garden in
"Alt Wein," or a street in Old Vienna.
The street Is lined with shops and
cafes kept by native Viennese, and
during the time we were there a
Maennerchor Society in one hall
could be heard rehearsing. while an
ACCORDION in another, closer at hand,
was varying the sounds of the clink-
ing beer glasses and the tongues of
many German waiter girls, calling
out "zwei beer und pretzels" by Wheel
ing one of Strauss waltzes. AS we
were about to leave "Alt Wien" we
sang, 'The Old Kentucky Home" and
received an encore from the Viennese
who had come out of their cafes, pie
bakeries, stores and gardens to listen
to us.
We then visited various smaller
shows. one being large model of the
church of st. Peter at Rome. in the
room of which are q number of in
teresting objects, among them Pa
pei bull and chair from the Vatican
in which Pope Leo frequently sat. A
building styled "The Congress of the
Fair'i was spherical in form and con-
tanned on platforms around the room,
the most beautiful and perfect types Of
woman-kind from forty nations of
the earth. Each woman was attired
in the costume of her country,
and those from India, France, Ger
many, England and the United States
wore gowns of the richest and
most expensive material. The East
Indian princess was ablaze with
Jewels and the French woman
had on one of Worth's most costly
toilets, but the beautiful face and fig
ure of the young lady representing
the United States so much surpassed
the charms of the rest of the women,
that when the division allotted to her
and having the American flag for a
background was reached, the whole
party involuntarily paid her the
homage of applause. Her cheeks at
this display of loyalty became suffnsed
with bushes, which made her appear
tho incarnation of beauty and mod
esty and caused a number of the edi-
torial fraternity to vow that her
smile of pleasure at the demonstra-
tion was a more exquisite delight
to them than their successful rubbing
of the valuable rabbits foot on hard
hearted door-keeper
The Moorish Palace has much to
detain visitors for hours The first
floor contains labyrinth so cunning
ly arranged with mirrors that it Is al
most impossible to keep from walk.
ing through glass at every step. The
devil and his imps, in all their horri-
BILE, horn and hoofed majesty, hold
their court here in a seething lake
of fire and birthstone. In room
of curiosities In wax may be seen
figures of the reigning sover-
eigns and prominent nobility of
the reproduction of the thea
ire box scene and assassination of
President Lincoln, the wounded
zouave who breathes and opens his
eyes at intervals in his dying mo-
ments, and many other novel and his
soricAl figures and groups.