Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-22

OF an American sailing vessel comes
down with n cargo " ice and apples
here once a year. He sells his Ice at
high prices and his apples. kept by tie
Ice ~ they cross the equator. mOie
than pay tho cast Of the trip.
Meat Ii sold by the kllogram. II Ii
cheap. steak bringing about cents n
pound. It Is queer thing that dried
meat brings more than fresh meat. y,
II the food OF the common people and
IL much liked by all classes. II II
brought by the shipioad to Rio Janeiro
from the Argentine and Uruguay. be-
Ing corded up In the stores M we cord
IN hides. The meat is sold IN Hat
sheets. each about one or two inches
thick u has strong smell and Ia
salty. When sold It IL cut W. In strips
and weighed out by the kiio.
Another hiEh-priced meat IL fat pork,
This u stripped from the hogs. Ealted
aud rolled up In rolls " about a foot
10 diameter and two feet In length. A
slice from the roll IL cut IN FOR each
customer and then weighed. The fat
II used for cooking with beans. aud.
together with the carnc aaccn or jerked
meat, u forms "A part of almost every
brazilian meal.
THE poRTERs.
Among the queer characters Of the
about among the crowd with Nat has.
keta ms big around na q wnshtuh and
about half a foot deep upon their heads.
While waiting Tor job the porter car.
rieH his basket balanced upon ita side
upon his head. II IL only when h. gets
Q Job that he turns Il down and rrsta
" on the bottom. For the baskets are
20 large that all others must stand
out ~ the way while the portcra 20
through Az the portcrs arr mon.
mostly Italians. Among the market
sellers are many negro women, aumr of
ncckcd dresses ana their arms are bare
70 thclf shoulders. Not n few stiii bear
the wounds ~ slavery days upon them.
but ihcy laugh NJ they sell. and thcy
are ] am told, very sharp traders.
IN THE CARES.
There are restaurants aud cafes near
the market. There are. indeed. cafes cv-
rrywhcfe In iiio. The people drink cuf-
Fee like the Germans drink beer. They
drine 20 much that II gets into the
compilations, ana every other man YOU
meet N cnffce coioreti some ARE Iet
black. some are brown and Fumo sal
low, but all are darker than the Lord
made them The usual price FOR cot.
fee W a cent aud u half a cup. aud for
this you get coffee M FOR u king. II
II freshly made and n stirs up your
nerves like cocktail. According 10
naughty Brazilian provVfb frsod cof-
fee should b. "nn strong ~ the devi,
~, black NJ ink. ~ hot ~ hell and NJ
sweet NJ love" have not had n great
deal of experience with hell and the
dcvll. hut from what l have heard 81
them I am inclined to think that Brnz-
ilian coffee fitn the bill n IL perfect
" black and II poured directly from
the stove into the cups. The usual cup
n about ~ large aH an cHg cup and the
black mud which gocs into II IL 81 the
consistency of Vermont maple syrup
~ II n thinncd by our dcgr Yankee
friends Tor the market A. tn the sweet.
ness, this IL produced by half nillnn
the cup with cane sugar. the sort used
In lirsxii. and uwceter than the beet
sugar We buy In the lump.
ALL HAVE THE SHAKES.
Drinking such coffcc has a serious n.
feet upon the nerves. and ~ the irnz-
Hans drink all day through they arr
among the most nervous Of people.
They are never still. n you see man In
cafe with his feet on the iiunr In
nine times out ~ ten one ~ hls legs II
hohhing up and down ~ though he
were running n sewing machine. n he
tries to rest his muscle he can do -
for only few moments before they be-
rin TO twitch and move about Ia all
the antics ~ Saint NituH' dance.
Another thing which Ia conducive To