The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-23
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Is cut ap in strips and weighed ont BY the
kilo-
Another high priced meat is fat pork
This is stripped from the hogs. Saitei and
rolled up in rolls Of about "A foot in ds-
ameser and two feet In length slice
from the roll Is cut OF for each customer
and then weighed The fat Is used for
cooking with beans. and. together with
the carne secca or Serke; meat. il forms
a part OF almost every Brazilian meal
There are plenty Of chickens and game
TO be had. The chicken stalls are walled
with cages in some OF which are guinea
hens. chickens and turkeys. and in others
black sucking pigs. who squeai as they
lie in them. apparently aparehensive OF
death Chickens bring about % cents
each Eggs are worth % cents dozen.
and you will pay s. for "A fat sucking pig.
fhe Porters.
Among the queer characters of the Rio
markets are the porters. who move about
among the crowd with fat baskets as big
around as a washtilb ana about half a
foot deep upon their heads. While waiting
for a JOB the porter carries his basket bal
anced upon its side upon his head. Ii is
only when he gets job thar he turns Ii
down and rests on the bottom. For the
baskets are So large that all others must
stand out or the way while the porters go
through. All the porters are men. mostly
Italians Among the market sellers are
many negro women. some of whom wear
turbans. They wear iow-necked dresses
and their arms are bare TO their shoulders
Nor few still bear the wounds of slavery
days upon them. but they laugh as they
SELL and they are, 1 am told, very sharp
traders.
In the Cafes.
There are restaurants and cafes near the
markets. There are indeed, cafes every
where in Rio. The people drink coffee
like the Germans drink beer. They drink
so much that il gets into the complications
and every other man you meet Is coffee
coiored. Some are jet black. some are
brown and some sallow bu, all are darker
than the Lord made them. The usual
price for coffee is a cent and a half a cup,
and for this you get coffee fit for a king.
IT is freshly made and IL stirs up your
nerves like a cocktail. According to a
naughty Brazilian prover5 good coffee
should be ''as strong as the devil. as
black as ink as hot as hell and as sweet
as love- l have not had great deal of
experience with hell and the devil, but
from what have heard of them ] am in
ciined TO think that Brazilian coffee fits
the bill. 1t is perfectly black and is
poured directly from the stove into the
cups. The usual cup is about as large as
an egg cup and the black fluid when II
goes into i, is of the consistency of Yer
mont maple syrup as il is thinned by our
dear Yankee friends for the market. As
TO the sweetness. This is produced by
half filling the cup with cane sugar, the
sort used in Brazil. and sweeter than the
beet sugar We buy In the lump.
All nave the shakes.
Drinking such coffee has "a serious effect
upon the nerves. and as the Braziiians
drink all day through they are among
the most nervous OF people They are
never still. II you see a man in a cafe
with his feet on the floor in nine times
out of ten one of his legs is bohbng up
and down as though he Were running a
sewing machine II he tries TO rest his
muscles he can do so for only a few mo-
ments before they begin TO twitch and
move about in all the antics OF St Vitus'
dance.
Another thing which is conducive TO
nervousness is smoking. Next TO every
cafe is a cigarette shop. Nearly every one
you meet has cigarette in his mouth
The people smoke them between the cours-
es at their meals and the majority of the
men. women and children are saturated
with nicotine.
FRANK G. CARPENTER