The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-12
ODD HAPPENINGS IN TRAVEL.
WHERE AMERICAN SUNDAY PAPERS
ARE SOLD BY WEIGHT.

| crushed beetles; In Japan they give you
gooseberry pie with roast duck; in Ceylon
the richest people beg, and in London a
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 mum
dane sphere have overlooked some of its
funniest customs and oldest notions. Some
how they don't seem to strike the ordinary
pilgrim at the time, but when he comes
back to his own country and ponders over
his neutrality-suspicious. he thinks Of the Zig
hotel bills he paid in the Orient of the
| girls he told fairy tales to on the deck
of the steamer, of 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, a coun-
| try that follows American customs very
closely, the people have a great desire for
! American newspapers. Every steamer that
I arrives from this country brings its full
| quota of American journals, which are inn
| mediately put on sale One day l was in
Adelaide. South Austria nay a111A went into
| a store to buy the Sunday edition of
| New York paper. The dealer took one,
| placed it on a scale, which he scanned
very carefully, and then said Eighteen
| pencer CSC cents.)
f''Tb9t costs about ODe-cight much In
New York" 1 said.
"Cawnt elp that" answered the dealer.
These ere papers is massive. They con-
tain lots of good paper and we got TO sell
EN- by weight"
"IIave you any cheaper?" I asked
yes" he said again. live 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
midweek date.
But I want a New York Sunday news
| paper" 1 persisted. a.uab'i4
.'WelI. those win cost you from 10 to
20 pence (36 to 40 cents) each according to
weight. but l can sell you Kansas City
Sunday paper for 6 pence az cents) if you
must have a cheap Sunday edition
Then l found that the dealer would sell
| separate sections of & Sunday edition 4
| the customer didn't want the whole, and
| while was in his store three men came in
| and bought different parts of journal,
| paying as much as cents a section. or
course, when the want sd" part was put
| on the scales and sold to the fourth Gus
| toner he didn't know how interesting New
| York news was until he got home.
Naples is an interesting and an odd
city because it lies so snugly at the base
of Vesuvius, whose ever-burning lava ap-
| pears red and dull like a mighty beacon
| through all the day and night Some one
| wrote "See Venice and die" and followed
1t up by saying See Naples and die
also" but to the aforesaid ordinary trav-
| eler who arrives at Naples by steamer il
| occurs that the author might as truthful
| ly have said Smell Naples and faint"
| To make a long story short, the introduce
| ton of a good American sanitary system
| would improve the place wonderfully.
| When you visit Naples you want to go to
| a Neapolitan barber TO enjoy one of the
| fast-fadng customs of the primeval ages.
| If a Neapolitan barber came to the United
! States he might find work chopping
wood. If he followed HIS own vocation
he would be continually bothered with
warrants for assault and battery He
asks his customer to sit in an ordinary
| chair, and then with the deft strokes of
man painting a fence by contract fathers
| the customer with glutnous substance
! the odor of which does not resemble that
of the modest violet. He uses no brush
but a rag He puts no towels on your
coat. but let's the lather drip down to
your shoes You cannot lean back In the
ordinary way, but must sit upright while
| the razor is being applied The effect IL
| CHASTITY. The chin strokes are accomplish
| ed in the same manner that wharf la
| borer scrapes barnaces from underneath
| a dock. They never use bay rum or
I water, and turn you out into the highways
an object Of pity Any one who gets TO
| Naples can get just such a shave in the
best hotels or in the worst quarters
There is another funny thing about Ma
pies. The guidebooks that are supplied
| gratuitously on all the steamers tell YOU
in pages Of fulsome hattery that in the
streets of that city you can hear num-
bers of strolling singers whose voices pale
the best that bring 81 seat and who
sing Tin matchless grandedF aii9 the great
operas for the pennies that are thrown
to them" Now the guidebooks are cor
rect so far as numbers are concerned. but
the only airs one ever hears are DAISY
Bell" and My Angelina"
In Paraguay 1t is considered "the real
thing" to dine with the rich natives All
| European and American tourists who
reach that PARKWAY South American coun-
try find a great fascination i'm being in
vited to a natives house. They were
eat a meal without drinking q pint of wa
ter beforehand to prevent indigestion, nor
will they serve a visitor who does not do
likewise. 1t is needless to add chat Para
quay is fun of Indigestion, and the Gus
tom is continually kept up.
IL johannesburg, South Africa, ever
goes out of the diamond and mining bust
ness it may become an important center
for the manufacture of rubber out of
meat No one who has stayed away from
johannesburg these many years knows
what trouble Is taken to cook meat I'M
til II loses all semblance of its original
condition and becomes nothing more than
hard, darlS-colored rubber. To the Amer
lean who likes his daily steak rare, this
city is not worthy of its place in the geog-
raphy. 1t is absolutely impossible to get
beef cooked so that II can be eaten Once
a commercial traveller went into the best
hotel there and said to the girl who at
tended his table: II would like to have
beefsteak, please, but tell the cook that
I want IL UNDERGONE cooked blood red
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