The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-09

roee.ve the visl,orna sap SIS -ivon n no.
f She student OF customs hsr,,1 "a,
pe caucasian ho may dnd ihe eti6ucito
or ms own race snhie.f of iu-
utrest when % Is shown m the plais-
aace lie will notice that the white
meh' IN tho street make 30 "a business to
rldiculo the Turks because thew wear
Mother Hubbard trousers. Likewise thew
invariably turn 30 stare at the Algerian
women whose faces are covered. The
sc3nt ralment of the Javanese always
calls forth some witticism about the cost
on clothing IN Java and the barefooted
Lanomeyans come in for ieers and re-
marks about natural footwear.
BoUGHT BRICKS FROM THE PYRAMIDS.
Ieel IL my serious, not TO say solemn.
duty TO warn all visitors against ENGAGING
III any business deals with a smooth
oriental gentleman by the name of Fattab
marco, who halls from de Fiji ward of
CAIRO, Egypt, writes an innocent abroad in
lue inter Ocean. He is q nice, pleasant
spoken gentleman, who asks after the
health of the folks at home and is ever
ready to sympathize with YOU in politics.
religion or dyspepsia His card intimates
ne IS a guide. His manner suggests he is
"a philosopher and friend" and all the
rest OF the quotation. He also interprets,
working it as a side line He viii do Won
English into satin glass finish while YOU
wait at tritiing extra charge
am at present looking for Fattah with
about two pounds or two pounds and a
quarter of old red sandstone. don't
mean to nit him with it, except possibly
as last resort. 1 want to cash in nv
cold hard rock and get back Is cents Of
mine which Fattat now has in his other
capacity OF a guarantee trust, loan and
investment Company-that is, unless [
can previously dispose CT it as chunk of
Vermont maple sugar
1t was sort of Cairo green goods, saw
dust game, and the way of it was this: I
was In the Egyptian temple, and Fattah
saw my emotion in looking at the plaster
PharaOhs from New Jersey. He accosted
me with the easy familiarity of a man
who has check TO be Cashed or a lottery
prize to collect in secluded back room.
Our talk naturally drifted to the pyra-
mlds. Fattah intimated he had some
thing l would like to feast my eyes upon.
He led the way to a secluded spot, and
showed me pile of stone. 1 admitted
that IL was real nice stone but I was no
contractor and builder, and failed to find
any excitement in it.
But" said Fattah, sit is from-ze
pyramid. re pyramid it is"
"YOu don't say sol"
u so inform you. By the whiskers of
Mohammed, it is. Buy2"
mo, | don't want your half bricks"
affecting great Indifference.
maybe you think-think l deceive
assure you, gentlemen, on the honor of a
decen-dunt, alas, of re Egyptian kings,
that 1 get him myself" He then pro
ceeded to swear by Allah that it was the
crpo N tod %rs-
no deleteriOus substances. He sent in an
appeal such as is rarely heard outside
campaign times. He confidentially ad-
mitted stealing the same one dark night
while the policeman on that beat had dis
appeared through a side entrance, and
he wound up by asking 81 for a piece
about the size of the graham gems they
make in the cooking school over IN the
Womans building We dickered and [
finally got much choicer specimen for IS
cents.
A little later I ran across an envious
rival of Fattah, who exposed the secrets
of his pyramid trust. Fattah got his
relics from a hotel with a Wisconsin sand
stone front, which is going up on Fifty
seventh street, and the stone contractor
over there may now learn what makes
his building material fade away so every
night.
Iuey Tell OInef stories OF fPDJan' s lnQuS-
try in the realm of fiction. He will pick
out Frenchman and show a piece of
stone, claiming that Napoleon l., feeling
great thirst when he first landed in
Egypt, eXpectorated on that very stone.
1t was picked up by Fattah's great-grand-
father and had been a family heirloom
ever since. He told this story to a gen
tleman. "A day or two ago and was told
ne was one of the greatest liars on earth.
"Hal Maybe-yesl" answered Fattah.
"What you know2 You know not You
never been to Egypt. You do not know
the terrible, the fearful, terrible thirst"
Fattah saw the volcano of Kilauea with a
lava foreground He also noticed they
burn coke over at the green house He
likewise detected some similarity in APP
pearance between lava and coke. He
thereupon took a station outside the vol
canO and sold coke to enthusiastic sight
seers for lava specimens, until his opera
tons were stopped by the volcanic
management. There is no telling how
many Chicago scientists have chunks of
good Connellsville coke lsid away in cot
ton in their cabinets.