The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-25
AT THE GREAT FAIR
How Whistle Maker Adds to His
Earnings.-Brazilian Actors.

IoIn tne chicago Herald.
BUSINESS was not very brisk at Ali
Hassan's booth in Cairo street Yesterday.
Judging from outward appearances, but
Ali was not worried in the least. Ali is
ostensibly manufacturer of cane whls-
Ties, and has a monopoly in his occupa-
ZION. Ali Is shrewd, however, and knows
tne weakness of human nature as well as
good BOY knows his primer Besides
making whistles for the trade that drifts
into the street, Ali has an extensive pat
ronage among the natives who came over
with him from Cairo. They can be seen
almost any day palavering with Ali.
while he gravely puffs at queer shaped
pipe. Ali takes few whiffs, blows the
smoke through his nose with much salts
faction, and then hands the pipe over to
one OF his brethren who has paid him 20
cents in American money.
AlIs best customers are the three lest
ers who slap each others Jaws to the
great delight of the bystanders Yester-
day the three testers approached Ais
booth and handed him go cents The vel
low-faced whistle-maker at once produced
the pipe. He filled it half full of black.
gummy tobacco, and then reaching into
the ample folds of his gown he pulled out
lump of something that was brown and
about as big as an egg. With his knife
Ali shaved off a small piece and placed it
in the pipe bowl Then the gray-bearded
jester handed Ali a live coal that he had
been blowing upon all the while, and
in few moments there was haze of
smoke floating over Ais turbaned
head The old jester was the first to
get the pipe. One long and strong pull at
its stem set him to coughing so hard that
he had to lean against the side of the
booth. The black bearded Jester took his
turn next, with the same result, and re-
linguished the pipe to his younger
brother, who pulled at the pipe a couple
of times and then set down and went into
a spasm of coughing, Evidently the
stuff they were smoking did not agree
with them, but they kept on passing the
pipe around until they gasped for breath.
Then they walked away like men in a
dream. Their eyes were dull, their faces
were stolid and their steps were uncer-
tain. Ali emptied the pipe carefully and
put it away without looking up from his
work
what was that stuff they were smolz-
ing2"a bystander asked of the Egyptian.
''Opium," was the terse reply made by
Ali, and no more questions were asked.
Ali makes more money with his pipe
than he does with his whistles.
BRAZILIAN THEATER OPENED.
The Brazilian theater was in full blast
yesterday for the first time. The thrum
of guitars and clacldng of castanets float
ed through the door all the afternoon,
mingled with the singing of the perform
ers. There are seven men and six women
in the troupe. They are Brazilians, but
if they should stray across the street and
get mixed up with the savages from Da-
honey it would be hard to pick them out
if it were not for the clothes
they wear. The women are cOpper-colored
and rather attractive, and the men are
generally pronounced types of the negro
They come from the state of Maranhan,
in the interior of Brazil, and speak moth
ing but the Portuguese language. The
Brazilians are great dancers and fair
singers. They have fifty-four character
istic dances in their repertoire but the
one in which they take special pride is
called the lundun de cabocOlu. When the
theater is finished it will have an open
amphitheater in the rear, where the "bull
dance" will be given. This dance
is performed around a stuffed bull, the
dancers wearing costumes of feathers.
The dancing yesterday savored much of
the spanish fandango. The music was
that furnished by guitars and castanets,
accompanied by the beating of two drums
by the hands of as many big negroes.
Bright red waists, blue shirts and high
heeled slippers was the costume of the
women, and the the men wore dark blue
uniform with a red stripe down the legs
of their trousers. The dancing was lazy,
the singing noisy, and one could stand
outside and easily imagine himself listen
ing to band of negroes on some Louis
lana plantation.