The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-11

blue and gold. A country carriage
from Constantinople in pure white
with red and gold trimmings. This.
drawn by two white oxen, decorated
with bells, impressed us very much,
and brought to view city splendor
blended with rustic plainness. But
we may not dwell longer here-and
tits with sadness we beg your pardon
for overlooking the beautiful German
car, the English car in blue and gold,
with It's different apartments, the
lovely phetons, buggies, the double
decked picnic wagon, the white hearse
with gold trimmings and the black
hearse-too beautiful to describe.
Here We will invite you TO visit
with us the curriosities on Midway
Plaisance, where one has a call for
10, -. % or 30 cents for each apart
ment he enters. As one passes down
the walk, he finds community Of
Turks, in their quaint costumes, South
Sea islanders making their boats. and
wearing apparel only from the hip,
the Javanese. the Chinaman, and The
.;avanese. the most cleanly oi the
/ Monaghan race, and last the Esyp-
tian with his camel.
| We visited an ideal Javanese VII
lace. saw the matched rooted cottage
made of bamboo, the walls and floor of
which are made of bamboo. saw the
knife with which it was felled
which resembles quite closely our
common carving knife. The Javauese
being of low stature their homes are
only one story and We had to stoop in
order to enter the door to their room,
which was strikingly PLAIN. Their
wagons are indeed rude, much like 4
goodsbox supported by two wheels
made of solid wood and connected by
an axle.
From here we entered the streets of
Cairo, but here We are interested only
by the costumes of these people, which
were in blue, black, yed and white and
consisted of loose fitting gowns en-
tending below the knees. This with
the camel and mule riding were the
only points of interest to us. From
the streets of Cairo we raised our eyes
to gaze upon the Ferris Wheel,
which seemed so near t" us. This
consists of an immense wheel
$50 feet in diameter and 264 feet
high and supports coaches much
resembling our street car coaches.
144O persons may make trip around
the wheel at one turn for the small
sum of 30 cents each. From the top
of this wheel every part ofthe ground
is beautifully brought to view.
From here we visited the Moorish
Palace, which is an ideal reproduction
of the "Alhambra." We entered this
enchanted place through an aIchway.
hardly realizing where we were goi e
until we found ourselves in the midst
of the Grove of Palms. This Is con-
sti:uted of real palms over>hadowed
by blue sky. The thousands OF
lights which grace this grove, casting
their little beams through the grace
ful palms to the blue dome DER head
the reflections from the mirrors form
ing the walls. All these make the
place so wierd and fanciful that we
found ourselves almost dreaming.
From one side and extending ap-
parently miles away are long corri-
doris. These labyrinths are indeed
narrow, allowing passage for only one
person at time. At the end of these
corridors are quaint mirrors. which
gives the appearance of an indefinite,
receding passage.
One one side of this garden of
palms is the Devils GrottO' whose
recesses we entered to find ourselves
in company with hideous grinning
figures peering from every nook OF
the cavern a. if to make us the victim
of an awful conspiracy. This almost
froze the marrow in our bones. and
we sought refuge in the "crowd up
stairs" The room which we
entered seemed immense and
80 crowded that we found
OurselveSalmost unconsciousiy striving
to find an escape. Imagine our sur.
prise when we learned that there were
only ten persons in the room The
room was indeed small pentagonaI in