The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-26
SCENES m NAPLES.
Some OF the Incidents OF the Street Life of
the Neapolitans.

Some of the Incidents Of the Street Life of
the Neapolitans.
The commonest people of Naples sell
dom buy anything from the stores II
shops, but ~patronize peddlers and street
hawkers almost exclusively. At the port
able kitchen booths a bill of fare is Of
fered to the hungry wayfarer that is
laughingly reasonable in price and
varied in kind. Besides the ever present
macaroni the principal articles Of food
are the frueti di mare, "sea fruits, in
Guiding mussels, polypi and sea spiders,
all regarded as most tempting delicacies
by the ever hungry lazzaronie.
Then there are roasted fishes of all
kinds, maize dumplings, SO called
spighe, and finally the national meat
food, called braccinole, which is really a
dumpling or cake made Of lamb meat
and lard. Snail soup is another delicacy
as we'll as cheese with bacon Ga pizza(:
Like all southerners, the Neapolitans
show a marked fondness for sweets of
ali kinds, and they would DO quite lost
without their portion OF s~truffoli, q
rather tough cake made principally Of
honey. Then nothing appeals to the laz-
zaroni appetite so insidiously as the ia
nous Easter cake of Cassatello, which
is sprinkled most temptingly with fluid
pork fat, and in which whole eggs are
baked, shell and all, o questionable
dainty to uneducated palates.
The lazZaroni women are seldom
beautiful and generally not even pretty.
They ere usually poorly built, with
swa-thy compilations and irregular fea-
lures. Now and then one finds a lustrous
pair of eyes OF great beauty, but rarely.
Tho Neapolitan women are not to be
compared with the women OF the
Try IS seen in Rome and in the Cam
pagna, whose trim figures, graceful
movements and frequently charmingly
fascinating faces SO often greet the eye
of the traveller. Their fullness of form,
proud bearing ana fine profiles are all
~conspicuously absent in the wives of the
laZzaroni. And how could it well be
otherwise? Are they not beasts of bur-
den" for beasts of burden?" Are the
facchiai, by reason of their occupation,
lAAASl4I lOAS LLlaI Glss-IlC1IIC dUu SOuu~
try.
Cobra Venom.
Dr.. Calmette began his experiments
with the most powerful of the reptile
poisons and made aa analysis Of the
venom of the cobra.
One Of the most curious, facts in Gci-
ence is that two substances having al
most identically the same chemical
compositions can have effects 30 differ.
emit upon the human body as 20 repre-
sent the best support of life ON the one
hand and the quickest termination of il
On the other. The albumen. or white
OF an egg and the poison Of the cobra Of
India are so nearly identical in coinp&
sition that it takes d very careful analy-
sis to detect the difference.
lt was long supposed that the fatal
principle of snake poison was an animal
alkaloid, but late analyses have caused
the Abandonment Of this idea. The fact
which, for a long time, placed cobra
poisoning beyond the reach Of o remedy
was It's very similarity to albumen. it
being held that no specific which woall
n~entralize o. destroy IL oOdad be pro
vented from ~neutralizing and destroy
ing the albunnen OF the blood a. well.
The roisorscontains two distinct albn-
minoids<~orie coagulable and the other
persistensiy liquid in form. The latter
IL the active andsdeath producing pr:n-
ciple and rcAsains superior 20 o heat Of
$50 degrees , rs well IS to eyapora-
ts1n, the solid essElt retaining all the
|Lcsaly proeertiea sf tho liquid-Ec-
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