Evening star., 1898-11-12
SOME QUEER THINGS
Where American Sunday Papers Are
Sold by Weight.
TROUBLE IN A SCOTCH Shoe STORE
People Who Work Because They
Like to Be Dirty.
BEGG AIRS OF PORT SAID

From the New York Times.
In Ecuador they sweeten coffee with
crushed beetles: in Japan they give you
gooseberry pie with roast duck; in Ceylon
the richest people beg. ard in London
man who refuses to tip a waiter runs a
fair chance of getting arrested.
These are some Of the funny things that
make the American smile when he goes
abroad. But they are not all. There are
more funny things going on in this big
world than ever its people dreamed Of But
somehow they never get into books. The
vast array of travelling authors and literary
men who have traversed this mundane
sphere have overlooked some of its funniest
customs and oldest notions. Somehow they
don't seem to strike the ordinary pilgrim at
the time hut when he comes back to his
own country and ponders over his wander
ings-when he thinks of the big hotel bills
he paid in the orient, of the girls he told
fairy tales TO on the deck of the steamer, o.
the guitar music of the tropics. and the
mescal of Peru-he must laugh now and
then at the funny things.
Now. for instance. in Australia country
that follows American customs very close
ly. the people have a great desire for Amer
lean newspapers. Every steamer lildl
riveS from this country brings its full quota
of American journals. which are immedi-
ately put sale. One day / was in Ade-
laide. South Australia, and l went into a
store to buy the Sunday edition of a New
York paper. The dealer took one, placed
it on a scales. which he scanned very care
fully. and then said Eighteen pence G}6
CentsJ
journalism by AvoiFdupois.
THAT costs about one-eighth much
IN New York l said.
'Cawn't 'elp that" answered the dealer.
'These ere papers is massi-e. They con-
tain lots of good paper, and We got to sell
'em by weight
Have you any cheaper?" 1 asked
Yes" he said again. I've got some
cheaper; this one is only 10d.; it weighs
much less; it has no pictures. you see" and
he picked up a Chicago journal of a mid
week date.
But 1 want a New York Sunday news
paper" / persisted.
We'll. those will cost you from IS to god.
(36 To ~ cents each. according to weight,
but l can sell you a Kansas City Sunday
paper for I'd. 02 cents) if you must have
cheap Sunday edition.
Then | found that the dealer would sell
separate sections of a Sunday edition if the
Customer didn't want the whole, and while
1 was in his store three men came in and
bought different parts of a journal, paying
as much as cents a section. of course
when the want ad. part was put on the
scales and sold To the fourth customer h
didn't know how interesting New York
news was until he got home.
OdOrs of Naples.
Naples is interesting and an odd CITY
because it lies so snugly at the base of
Nesuvius. whose burning lava appears
led and duh like a mighty beacon through
all the day and night. Some on wrote
See Venice and die ana followed it up
fr-
to the aforesaid ordinary traveller who ar
rivss at Naples by steamer ii occurs that
the author might truthful!y have sail
Smell Naples and faint" To make long
story short the introduction of a good
American sanitary system would improve
the place wonderfully. When you visit M
pies You want to go to a NeapOlitan barber
to ENJOY one Of the fast-fading customs
OF the primeVal ages. If d Neapoitan be =
Der came to the United States he might find
work chopplrg wood. If he followed his
own vocation he would be continually both
cred with warrants for assault and hattery
ne asks his customer to sit in an ordinary
chal-. and then with the deft strokes of n
man painting fence by contract fathers
IN" customer with glutinUus substance.
thr "dor Of which does not resemble that of
lhe modest violet. He uses no brIst-br,. :.
rag lie puts 10 towels on your coat but
Iets the lAther drip down 20 your shoes
Gu cannot lean back in the ordinary Way
but must sit upright while the razor il
being 1pp'icd. The effect is ghast!y TIE
chln strokes are accomplished in the same
manner that wharf laborer scrapas bar
na-!eS from underneath q dock They never
use bay rum or water. and turn Won ont
INTO the highways an object of pity ANY
one VINO goes to Naples can get inst euch
a ShdNe III the best hotels in the worst
quarters.
sfrOliing Singers.
There is another funny thing about
Naples, The guide books that are stumbled
sratuitOusiy on ali the steamers tell YOU in
pages OF fulsome fattsry that in the streets
ol Ihat city you can hear numbers of stroll
ing singers whose voices pale the best that
brlng 81 seat. and who sing in match
less grandeur all the great operas for the
pennies that are thrown at them" Now
lhe guide books are correct so far as num-
btrS are concerned. but .he only airs one
ever hears are Daisy Bell" and My An
Gelinc.'
In Paraguay it is considered the real
thing TO dine with the rich natives Al
European and American tourists who rea III
that IaT-away South American country find
great fascination in being invited to a
natives house. They never eat a meal
without drinking pint of water before
hand to prevent iEGIgestica nor vii they
serve a visitor who does not do likewise
1t Is needless TO add that Paraguay is full
E1 Indigestion. and the custom is continual
If Johannesburg, South Africa. ever COS
Out ot the diamond and MN ne business it
Manufacture Of rubber out of meat No
one Who has stayed away from Johannes
DurE these many years knows what trout Ie
is taken 10 cook meat until ii loses all sem
bIdnce OF It's original condition and becomes
nothing more than hard. dark-colUred rub
Der To the American who likes his GaiIy
steak rare. this city is not worthy of iIs
place In the geography. 1t is absolutely
Impossible To get beef cooked so that il
can be eaten. Once a commercial traveller
went into the best hotel there and said 10
the girl who attended his table: Il would
IKE TO have beefsteak, Please out tell the
cook that | want it underdcne cooked
blood red, very rare, and not to forget l."
The EirI went away with the order but
came back in great haste and told the trav-
cling man that the cook said il wasn't
healthy for him 10 eat meat cooked that
way The visitor offered to adv ance pos
1--WE PROOF tnat he had been eatin., under
done meat for forty-eight years and had
never suffered with anything Deyond a
longing TO get back to the United 5 .ates
but II would not go Persistent anpea :
hnaliy brought forth the cook in p,rsCn
VINO said that underdone steaks were
against The rules of the hotel.
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