Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07

at home There are all sorts of meats, fish
ana vegetables. There are huge pears from
me argentine and oranges and pineap
from Paraguay, There are grapes as
nave been brought to the city from the
loothllls of the Andes, and there are
peaches by the bushel from about Buenos
aSIes' Peach trees are often grown for
iuei' ana there are so many peaches in
some sections that they are used for fat
tehlng pigs. Almost any kind of fruit that
grows IN the United States is grown in the
argentine Republic. As to vegetables
saw celery stems as big around as mint
TN cup and yard in length saw enough
onions to scent the breath of the continent
and vans and sweet potatoes of gigantic
SIZE. Nearly everything in the fruit and
Ses:Sdple lihes Is cheap, delicious oranges
costing about cents apiece Vepetahies
are usually sold in piles so that Won have
10 measure quantity as well as quality nv
me ti,e Eye, ana the butchers sold their meat
ny me chuhR or cut rather than weight
Chickens were sold by the piece 1rbav
ilao az peen dressed, the only feathers be-
ing left upon them being those of the TAN
80 iie4e "a ,aiI ieathers stuck out, showing
Midt the color or each chicken was before
IL was piucked. Why the tail feathers arc
not removed do not know The same one
tom prevails in China as to dogs where a
bit OF the dogs hair is ALWAYS Ieft ~, - =
end of the tail, even when Tho a,i, VI '' i
cooked. But this Is because the Chi,Iasa
consider the flesh of black dogs the he's
anu most certain to pat a brave Spirit into
the BODY OF the eater.
me hucksteEs of the Argentine.
chlckens are sold alive in Buenos avres
ny huckstcrs, who carry them from house
~ iioEsS III wicker crates swung over the
o''ch Oh morse There are no huckster
""sois' ana all peidling is done by men on
ioiSepach or on foot. Turkeys are driven
through the streets by peddlers Won Mol,
ana the owner will catch it for vo,, I,i.h
ana vegetables are sold NV Nor nh iI
through the city with baskets hune 70 H.
mus u pores on their shoulders and tho
tHiIh PcHdicr on horseback is stiI to he
iounu IN the suburbs of Buenos AyraS H.
mas Deen driven from the main MARI oP ~
clty ana ms place taken by the dairv con,
p"hieS' VINO now furnish good hutter ord
$50 ililk IN almost every block Until
WITHIN a very few years good buttar was
not 10 be had In Buenos Ayres The COW
Try mad millions of cows but not a score
VI 5000 butter makers. Farmers who
IMHeu zen thousand cows imported their
bulter IN tins from the United States or
Europe, and quantities came To Pnapos
Ayres from New York in firkins fan
Years. ago an enterprising Argentine estab-
ished large dairy outside the cit1, IL
Drought IN butter makers from Switzerland
ana now the city has as delicious butter as
can De found anywhere The butter is made
Ml.tout SAT-. L am told that sweet cream
ga
butter like cheese. 1t is sent to Rrazii and
don. ~ ioii-
The old style of milk selling was INV .
peddler. who carried his milk from house
10 house in cans swung on the sides of q
morse. Each can was stopped with niece
OF wood, about which an old cloth was
wrapped to keep it tight. This made tbe
milk so foul and unsanitarv that The CO..
eminent objected to it. Mlkmen still drive
tltlt cows from house to house in all towns
OUTSIDE of Buenos Ayres. They milk the
cows for you while you wait ana there &C.
no possibility of your gettinp cbaiis 80
water IN place of the pure extract of the
p by Ellie; Each COW has its calf with 1t, hui
.ne car mouth is protected by a leather
muzZle, so that, Tantalus-like. # is ever
within the sight and smell of the n,iIl
Mithout a cEance to satisfy its hunger or
'iirst. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
AS showing that war is no longer 81 nur-
uSrous as II was in former years the loss
or ilte at some of Napoleon's great hattIes
may pc mentioned, and the loss of tho
DerVlshes at Omdurman paes into insis-
nlhcance before the losses Incurred o+ thns
gigantic struggles. AT jena, for Instance
the Prussian loss was 81 900 out Of 1o5 00o
men, ana on the French side 10, 900 ont Of
5000 engaged, about one in five At F;vlau
the Russians lost % coo out of n 600 and
the French 10000 out of $1,000 a nronor-
ton of one in three for both sides At
NaSram the Austrians lost 25 600 ont Of
loo'ooo and the French 5000 out of 100, 600.
The bearskin of an officer of the Scots
Guards costs over $50, the helmet of a lien
tenant of dragons similar sum and tha
sable busby, plume and ring proper to an
omcer or the Hussars runs into Sovereign
more. The gold-embroidered shoulder hell
ana pouch or one Hussar regiment cost ii
guineas and the dress jacket of an officer of
the horse artillery amounts to what an
pears to be the ridiculously unnecessary
sum OF S115. The embroidered scarlet tunic
of queens aid-de-camp reaches nearly to
$3.50 In price.