The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-12

THE BULL AND TIGER FIGHT. ~
bis place. But the bull merely licked
enc panther on the nose and wagged
his tail at the other, while the show
was declared off on account of dark
ness. Then everybody filed out in dis
gust, and the man with the tiger, pan
thcrS and pitchfork made arrange
ncnts to sail for foreign shores by the
hIst steamer. Such was the last per-
lCrmance in the Plaza de Toros de
Nanila
Everybody smokes in Manila. Ma
hill's best cigars, made of a special,
elected tobacco, wrapped in the neat
est of tinfoil, and packed in rosewood
boxes, tied with stylish ribbon costs
lbout D cents, and is considered rare
1elicacy. Below this "Incomparable,"
which is so choice that few indulge, ~
Il, the professional smoker, if he be a
foreigner, and used to paying $50
thousand for his favorite brand, can
md the same thing here for about
Bl.S0 hundred. Below these grades
Comes an assortment of cheaper va
retes, including cheroots and the
three-dollar-a thousand cigar, which is
Il
wants his cigarette. and he gets it at
PIE rate of thirty for couple of cop
pers. 1t is perfectly good form to bor-
Tow cigarette as well as light from
your neighbor in the tram car.
They used to have considerable
eholera in Manila before the aque-
Ducts We're built and the natives
Frank vile, yellowish water of the
nyer. The aqueducts bring plenty of
pure mountain water down into the
town. Smallpox is perhaps the most
tatal disease at Manila, but nobody
Seems to be much afraid of it there,
tnd you are quite likely to sit in q
tram car with a Philippine mamma
slde of you holding in her lap scanti-
" clothed child whose swarthy hide is
Illuminated with these unmistakable
tnarkings. In one week 400 died in
fianila from the dread disease, and
pnder the existing sanitary conditions
PIE wonder is that there were not
1000. Natives, by the way, are very
puch opposed to vaccination. When
fhe members of the artillery band that
plays on the Plaza were vaccinated,
fhey discontinued their music until
the swelling of their arms should 90
pown. A native cannot endure the
discontinue and pain of being vac
flnated. He prefers to be pitted with
peck marks. But besides smallpox,
Fever is about the greatest enemy, and
PERTAIN types of the malarial variety
Beem so common that the sufferers
from them often walk into the club,
prop into a chair and say, Got the
Fever again. Means another lay-off.'
u they can keep about the old stagers
pever give up.
"A Manila newspaper consists of
Tour pages, the first two of which are
reserved fer advertisements. Half of
pne of the inside leaves is likewise re-
eerved and the remaining half is COW
ered with blocks full of gloomy senti-
ments which relate to the disease of
Wis or that person. In the interim be.
rween the arrival of steamers or mer-
ehant vessels, bringing the mail and
Aoreign newspapers. the news in the
pnper consists in telling the intelligent
pnblic that bad odor has been dis
covered up some side street, that a dog
tell into the river and was drowned
nat the perfumery store has received
new kind of linut fed scent"
DIR. Thomas Oliver of England, who
nas been investigating the cause
pa the compassionate disease"
Which so frequently affects workers in
tdlSSonS, has come to the conclusion