The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-05-31
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mule is unhitched, put at the other end
of the car, and off the vehicle starts.
The I~nfanta Isabella, of Spain. re-
called her decision to open the worlds
fair. 1t is said that the reasOn of this
decision was the lady feared that she
| would be obliged to stop at Cuba and
Porto Rico on the way to the states,
and. like all Spaniards, She was afraid
Of contracting yellow fever, which IS
especially prevalent at that season OF
the year.
An interesting east-side institution
in New York city is a cider saloon,
where a Duchess county man sells
cider OF his own manufacture. In spite
of the fact that the saloon lies within
the German quarter, II is thriving. anC
many of its patrons are Germans. The
proprietor provides a modest free lunch
of pretzcls and cheese, and men sit
about little round tables drinking cider
and nibbling the free lunch.
Old United States army regulations
say that the soldiers cap should be
worn jauntily, with a little slant over
the right eye. The origin of that Gus
| tuln NAV have been in the attempt to
shade the eye while aiming, but it is no
longer observed, and, indeed, most Off
GERS would reprOve a soldier who tipped
his cap or helmet conspicuOusly on II
side. The American soldier offers "a
marked contrast in that respect to the
English soldier on the Canadian militia
man. for they wear little pork pie
hats that are tipped SO far on one side
that they would fall off at the slightest
motion. were it not for a strap beneath
1hc chin.
-Eleauora Duse is absurdIy super
s]titious and in the most unexpected
ways. A stage carpenter at the flfth
avenue theater relates this incident:
%Yst before an e~"oIing performance ne
.aiupfc;eG some bit of work and threw
himself down to rest for q moment
upOn one of the stage properties, a
couch made of soap boxes and covered
with a buffalo robe. Immediately all
II buses support flew at him, chatter
ing in wild excitement and unintelligi-
cie Italian. Finally the stage manager
-pied him and pounced upon him.
"YOu must get off from that he said.
eff SignOra Duse saw you she wouldn't
let the curtain go up. She thinks it's
a bad omen to have any n except her
7eif rest upon that seat.
At a New York private dinner one
of the dishes was birds nest soup. 1t
proved to be a chicken soup with the
solid materials strained out and the
liquid thickened and enriched by the
birds nests, which were procured of Il
(TA;-o,,o ola LDllyC of f"o vol ,,op,,o-
sent the Asiatics as putting the nests
into soups and stewS. That is CANNON.
The birds who make these nests use,
among other materials, long strands of
tough, whitiSh seaweed, the strands
forming the outer shell or basket of the
nest, and by their sickness assist in
securing it to the rock. BY the time the
birds have emigrated these bits of sea-
weed are washed clean by rains and are
dried in the sun. Then is when they
are extracted by Chinese gatherers and
made into parcels for sale. They form
strips about eight inches long. some
what Of the appearance of Iceland moss,
light, shiny, translucent. and of no pos
Rive taste.
Som time Il great deal of money
will be made by the sale of islands hat
line the shores of Puget sound and eX-
tend nOrthward along the coast to
Alaska. There are thousands of them,
varying in dimension from mere points
Of rocks, uncovered at low tide, to
wooded areas larger than Staten island
and much more picturesque; for every
where in view is green and placid
water, enlivened by the painted canOes
of the Indians - vessels heWn from
monster logS-and there is a back
ground of magnificent mountains.
snow topped and Alpine in outline.
There are no such places for summer
residence in the world, and although
further north than New York the eli
mate is softer and more equable than or
the Atlantic coast. They could. indeed. be
occupied the year around by men doing
business in Seattle. Tacoma. Vancouver
and New Westminster, provided they
had private steamers to take them to
town. In the matter of beauty this
great archipelago far exceeds the Thou
sands islands OF the st. Lawrence that
sprang into popularity twenty-five
years go.
Sailor men who have seen pictures
and read descriptions of the Viking
ship which is coming from Norway
across the Atlantic to New York predict
that her voyage will be an eventful one
in ways lot so far set forth. She had
a narrow escape from being crushed to
splinters in the ice on her trip to Chris
tian>end. and her crew nearly frOze to
death. She was much smaller than was
LiefS ship, and sailor men say the
Viking ship was never intended for
ocean voyages. The bUlwark protec-
tiOn i not considered to he sufficient for
;hc wash of the big Atlantic waves.
The Viking ships We're not decked over.
This one is to nave a canvas screening 20
protect the but sailors don t
think this will avail much. The vessel.
they say, is little more than a big open
rOwbOat. excellent in its way and dav
and for the kind of trips the Vikings
made, but not calculated to well stand
2 long ocean voyage. Nen Lief's big
ship made a coasting trip to America.
The >eamen who are to bring the shin