The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, September 06, 1888, Image 3
DAILY HERALD: I'LATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. TJllttlBhAY. RKPTEMBEH C. 188. rLE. I THE MAGUEY 6f NTURY PLANT i'jncl National Drink of the Mexi- rau I to- It la Sold In tb Capital of Pur SUter Ilpubllo Sing ulr Cus tom. Pulque, tho national drink of Mexico, la dia lillol from tliu innuey lant, pronounced (iiagui, which i iil.-ntical with what i kuown L.-ro n tlia century plant, or will al J'uliio U to tlio Mexican fiopulution what beer iA to tho Germans, or at the present timo to the Americans. Ita color i nearly white, aul it tate ibiutewhat like aour milk, or a iim hetwuen aour milk anl weak letiinnad& It u more nutrition and ittrentheuinz than Iieer, anl fc-rve the native or eou popula tion as lfitli f.l ami drink, a a arua.il loaf of broad and a quart of puhjuu are aufllcient for a dinner for a working man. Although it duo not Heeiiuiigly havo that quick btiiuu l.iliu property that beer has, it baa a latent strength that will produce intoxication if a ufuY-ieiit quantity i drank. It only takes about a dozen 'a, tho aize of a beer glass, to produce on an inexperienced irson a most j!L'If ring case ' drunkenness. " EVERYBODY DRIXKS IT. Mexico City i a town of tion. They drink daily in tho city 100,000 gallons of pulque. It is drank by the whole Imputation, from tho youngest members of tho family to the oldest. It is sold in what ore callitl pulquaries, where no other kind of liquor U allowed to lo dispensed. It is Berved out of gayly aiutel barrels like milk thuti-t.it is simply dipped from the open Larrt-1 and the l.ts-tes filled with a lotlle. The families, of course, send pitchers, bottles, etc., to tho pulquuries, ami drink at dinner, etc., at their homes. As a verification of the Immense quantity used an officer of the Vera Cruz and Mexico railroad, which passes through the priucijinl valleys appropriated to tho growth of tho maguey plant, told me their net profit for freight alone on the arti cle areraged 1 1,000 a day throughout the year. It is one of the most interesting sights of the country to seo tho natives gathering the juice the plant and conveying it to the ferment- g houses. The plant is a virile, thrifty owth, some ten feet in height, with largo, a ted leaves, tho central stem attaining a n this a cavity is hollowed out a foot or so from the ground, somewhat as tho maple tree is subjected to in Vermont during tho sugar season. Tho juice from tho plant generally exudes and is caught in this cavity. Tho peons, lotb boys and girls, from 12 to IS years old, are generally employed in collect ing the juice. They have strapjed across their shoulders a pig or goat skin, tannedgin Euch a manner that it is pulque tight when it i sewed up, leaving only an opening nt tho mouth. and when theso are filled they look for all tho world like a young shote full aI fat. Each em ploye has a biphun, which he inserts into the juico, and after starting it with his mouth inserts tho other end into the pig's mouth, going thus from plant to plant until the skin is fulL Tims it is taken to the fermenting houses. When the article is finished it is put into vessels containing so rye fifty or sixty gallons each and transjxjrted, the most of it to Meii. o Cy, but of course every city, town and village, in the republic drinks its proper proportion. When distributing it to tho pulquaries they cart these hogsheads about the city and instead of drawing it off into some large x-eyscl they again insert the siphon into tho largo vessel cr hogshead and tho other end into the pig akin and thus dis charge it into barrels ut the place of sal. ANTIQUATED METHODS. These antiquated methods still cling to the Mexicans, und it will tako a long time before they adopt a more rational aud easier way of d jinj their labor. Another singular cus tom prevail there. They have improved abattoirs or butchering establishments, but the way they dUtributo the beef and mu.ton around tho town to the dealers in tyent is most amusing. Tiiey employ a large mule or horse, on which is placed a strong saddle or framework, in which are two or more up right wooden jxjst.s. In theso josts are sun dry iron hooks, and on these the beef, split into halves, is cooked. I have seen a horse staggering under a load of at least three or four animals. Of course the cattle are not so large cs our native steers, and it seems thej can carry at least a dozen dressed sheep or goats in this manner. In referring again to my original topic, pulque, the plant is a inost wonderful and useful natural product. Jfot only is this large quantity of nutritious beverage made from the juice. There is another and stronger lriuk distilled from the leaves, and I Ixieve from tho refuse from the pulque called talque, which is much like our whisky when they let it arrive at a sufficient age, but unfortunately they drink it soon after it is made and then it is a fiery drink indeed. Then tha leaves nre used to thatch cottages and make a very good roof. They make also a strong rope from the fibers of the leaves and likewise a good quality of coarse paper, and the root i$ used as fuel. Verily the maguey is a most useful and wonderful plant. Mexico Cor. FbiladeJphia Times. Hair of Southern AYoiuea. "Why do women have such poor hair now adaysP a very acute, observing man often asks. "When I was young the girls used to have hair they could sit down on, and so thick they hardly knew what to do with it, Now few women seem to have hair to cover their heads. The partings are broad and coarse, the hair thin on the temples and be hind the ears, so it is unpleasant to look at the back of a woman's . head and see the comb marks left on the scant locks. The ' Spanish women and Creoles have splendid hair. Why can't our northern women have itr The briefest answer is that southern woman perspire. Tropic warmth produces free flowing of all the fluids of tho body, free throwing off of all cflete substance and free nourishment of every gland and fiber. Con sequently we find in tropio women finely grained skins, continually removed, dis solved, and kept fresh by the delicate vapor which invests the body and hair of marvelous length and thickness. Next to southern types, the finest complexions and tints of Nur are found in Irish, Scotch and German "men working in the fields, where moist ephere, coarse food, and sunshine kindly ore for generous beauty than hard coo .is can do against it. Shirley Dare. ' The Peasant's Brief Penitence. peasant saw, in a river, a floating egg. thought he could catch it with his hand, , in the attempt, fell into the water. Tho r was deep and be could uot swim. In r be believed that Cod was thuspunish " i nreediness. To propitiate his fate he Hat if bo escaped be would never cat -V Instantly a branch of a tree "f to him, by means of which he - f the stream. Shaking ose, O Lord, that mo to say raw -ZCI r.ZGTAU RANTS. Interior of m Celestial Eating Honse on Mott fetreet The Stores. Most Chinese restaurant are situated upon the second or third floors. The following is a description of Hong Vlng Lo's establish ment n Mott street. Tho walls of tho din ing room ore bung with long scrolls of Chi nese writings, maxima from philosophers for tho entertainment of thote who eat. The Chinese are well educated jieoplo, and even the coolie who coi!iKe the laundry clas are used to tournament of poetry, debates and other exploits in letter which in China take tho place of prlzj flhU, bull ma'.chcs and homo racing. Theso scroll contain Kueh sentencus as tho following: "It is only tho superior man who knows what bo oats and what ho drinks." "It is here that heroes met and sages drank; why should wo abstain f "What thy heart dcbireth may thy bauds bo able to grasp." "Muy you meet ono at the end of tho earth anil find him a brother." Upon tho ceilings dangle fantastically painted great Chinese lanterns and flower boskets tiiat resemble bird cage. Tho rear room, which opens to plain view from the dining room, is tho kitchen, which, although overstocked with boxes, barrels, tables and cooking utensils, is scrupulously clean. Uikmi the walls and ceiling of the kitchen are suspended fresh killed ducks, chickens and pigs. At the tables are cooks busily engaged at their work, some of them earning large salaries. Tho stoves, if they can be called such, ore curiosities in themselves. They are long ranges built of low, broad bricks. In tho top are great pits, into which are firmly built iron gridirons imported from China for frying, tailing or steaming purposes. Two of the brick ranges havo only open pits, and there are places where the whole hogs are occasionally hung upon iron bars and roasted. They provide very quickly and sure facili ties for turning out a large roast of any kind iu beautifully brown and crisp style. Coal is never umccI iu these Chinese kitchens; only buy and hickory wood. Atr least five hun dred Americans take their meals regularly in Chinese restaurants in orthodox Chinese fushion, with chop sticks. This may be partly because Chinese diet is skillfully pre pared, so that certain dishes work certain medicinal results. Tho hygienic functions of cooking elevate the kitchen director in China to high social status. Many of these Americans have acquired Chinese gostro nomical tastes, and order dishes like Chinese mandarins; but as a rule the keepers do not cater to any other trado than Chinese, be cause the Chinaman frequently orders $2 and f3 dishes, while tho American seldom jays more than fifty or seventy-five cents for his Chinese dinner. Wong Chin Foo in The Cosmopolitan. Who la Most Cosmopolitan? Taking it for granted that travel is essen tial to perfect culture, the question arises, "What nation is the most cosmopolitan?1' It would be tho English, if they could have learned that first principle of oosruopali tan ism, namely, respect for those of another nationality, and the necessity of judging each nation by its own standard or that of the world at large, rather than by a pair of mental and moral balances which the traveler carries with him. In this respect tho French man, no matter how much be may be in fatuated with his own country, is far more geuercus than the Englishman. It would be hard to find a more agreeable traveling com panion than the intelligent aud traveled Frenchman. The Italians are modest in re gard to their own country highly appre ciative of what they find good abroad. Tho bonhomie of the Germans and Scaudiuaviar-s renders their, affiliation easy with all other peoples. The Russians are cosmopolite by instinct, habit, education and travel. Jn France, the readiness to appreciate foreign excellence Is augmenting. Elsewhere in Eu ropo it lias long existed. The spirit of an tagonism to everything foreign remains deeply ingrained in tho English ' character, and w ill so remain probably for some time to come. Tha American character is receptive. ; willing to imitate the good wherever found. This is tho secret of our progress. It is not; necessaj'y for U3 to go abroad to beoomo cos mopolitan, our country i3 so brood and has within itself such a variety of soil, climate and production, and so many elements of race and nation. Every foreigu people is known to us without the necessity of going tq sto the countries whence they came. Add f;p theso advantages that the people of up country travel so much, and we have reason to hoie that if the true cosmopolite is not already to be found among us tho time is not far distant when wo Khali have all tho cos mopolitan qualities that are consistent with an honorable iatrjotisrn. San Francisco Chrouiclo. Trying to Trick a Jewejer, "Tho Ilellebush jewelry trick," said an at tache of the Burnet house, "reminds me of a similar game which a man attempted to play on Lang, the jeweler, about ten years ago. IIo was a plausible fellow, with good ad dress. JIo told tlja jeweleif ha wa stjppiug at our house witl his wife, and wanted to purchase soma fine diamonds for her. Mr. Lang put about 2,500 worth of diamonds m a case and met the gentleman in our parlor at a given time. The would be purchaser was glad to. see him, and, after inspecting tho diamonds, said, "They are very fine, and, with j our permission, I will take them up and show them to the madam.." As he said this he held out his baud to tako them. The jeweler said ho would go up with him. "But my wife is en deshabille," was tho suave reply. Mr. Lng obdurately replied that ho couldn't help that Every where the diamonds went he would go. The visitor then said that ho would go up and prepare his wife for the calL Mr. Lang waited half an hour, and then inquired far his man at the hotel ptlice. We did riot kuow him, and the jeweler never saw him again. Cincinnati Enquirer. The Ugliness of Bohemianism. Whatever Bobcmianisra there is in New York 9 simply vulgar ajid repulsive. qu get the long haired poet, creature of narue less vices, drinker of a quart of whisky a day, smoker of opium and anxious borrower of money. You get tho heavy eyed, "pallid roue, tho completely contemptible ijnsulter women. Then there is the expansive actress, who seldom acts, but makes inquiries con cerning tho financial condition of her men friends soon after on introduction. She is Bohemian because she has no home. Other wise she is only elegantly low. She manages to keep several rich but weak minded men in J:?r train, and thus these rioh but weak men become a part of the great and ' fascinating Bohemia. They think it the finest sort of life imaginable. iVo have the poet of terrible vices, the boayy, blood curdling rgu& and the aetresa j who seldom acts, I think we havo nothing i elde of consequence. The rest are hangers ' on, nonentities, people who are - weakly I wicked. There is really no Bohemia in ew York. There is simply on extensive popu lation of intelligent people with a predilett ti.u for living a low, glittering, ugly life.- C. M. 8. In Kew York Press. GOT HAM '0 THE SODA WATER II A BIT. CARBONIC ACID THE BASIS OF MOST SUMMER DRINKS. Aftful tVilea of the l'aucet Turner Mlg Money Iu tfa nnaiaena How CinmI Kyrupa Are Made Tb "Foam" Flout ing- Ilanl. He was a pleasant looking young man. with a well trained lutng and a set f stock nniles sympathetic, questioning, confiden tial and deprecatory that would bavo done credit to an emotional actress. Tuken alto gether, a superior iierson. IIo is tho presiil ing genius of n $5,000 soda fountain, and what bo docs not know ubout soft drinks is as yet undiscovered. "Tho soda water business is better thun a gold mine this year," said ho. "Never le foro bavo carbonated beverages been so pop ular. See that man there fiilipg up on Vichy waterf That's bis tenth glass for to day. You see tho carbonic acid habit gets ns firm a bold on its victim as does the alco hol habit or smoking. Not generally known, but it's a fact. If wo once succeed in luring a man within our doors he's gone for the sea sou. This it is that makes the business good this year. Heretofore we've only had the women. They're all right, but speaking can didly, they don't like to spend much money on such intangible stuff as froth. It's differ ent with the men. Take that young fellow who has just called for a phosphate and egg; this b'quor will cost him (2 or 3 daily, so ho regards fifty cents worth of soda water as a men bagatelle His sister now, I'll war rant, thinks herself extravagant if shodrinks one, cr exiends one-half of that sum on sum iner beverages. It is cculiar to notice the way in which a man accustoms himself to he soda habit. Take tho steady consumers f mineral water for example. They wiii eemmence on a gloss u day, nominally for the sake of their digestiou, and end by cod ing into tho store every chance they get. Eia mojcey is IT. "Much money in it? Yes, young man, an income that would make tho owners of some first class hotel bars turn green with envy. One of the large drug stores pays its rent and clerk hire out of the profits from its soda fountain, and has u largo balance left. Ono thousand two hundred glasses ior day is per haps the best business done in this city. This includes all sorts of soft drinks and half a dozen seaii-hard ones, as soda with a dash of spirits of somo kind in it. It's safe to sav, 1 think, that 100,000 people in this city pa tronizo a soda fountain every day of their lives. This mast be soi, because there, are over COO fountains iu this city kept busy during the warm weather months. Of courso the number of tho all-the-year-round foun tains is much less. "Soda water, as you may happen to know, is nothing but pure water heavily charged with carbonic acid gas. When properly mado it is tho best and healthiest hot weather diiuk known. This is when it is taken plain as it comes from tho fount. When mixed with syrups of greater or lesser degree of purity its effects on the system is a matter of doubt "There is a lot of hocus-pocus about the business. Watoh that blonde junior of tliu draw the glass of vanilla and ico cream he's fixing for that 3 o'clock young lady. First ho put in tho glass an ounce or so of S3-rup, heavy, rich looking stuff, then ho idashes in a thimbleful of cream, then a dob of ico cream, and now watch him manipulate the faucet; he's nil expert, is that young ian; you observe, tha maximum of fizzy and foam with tho minimum of soda. Thero isn't in that largo glass, that will hold two-thirds of a pint, over two gills of soda water. But tho foam is there, rich creamy foam that looks hard enough to stuud alpup an4 thick, enough to eat with fm k. A RICn, CREAMY FOAM. "This effect does not all como from tho dis pensing. Good syrups are mado in this way: To tbo mixture of plain sugar aud water, clarified with sizing of somo sort, is added flu, antiseptic to keep the stuff frpuj fi;rmnting. This is usually saljeyjc jicid, which is ft very good thing fo thti purpose. Ntxt tho flavor ing extract is mixed with tho syrup. Tho other ingredient is a small percentage of a preparation sold by tho dealers called 'foam.' This is nothing more than clarified, gum arable dissolved, in vyftter, vlean muci lage, iu fact. T?4e pbjuct of this is to. give body tq the mixture pf soda and syrup, that bubbles of gas raised on tho surface of the liquid will uot subside. This practice is all right, because the public demand a rich, creamy foam, and it is to be obtained in no other way. But it doubles tho prot on a glass of soda water. "Tq satisfy au, absurd prejudice crushed, fruit syrups have come jn vogue, Wat&ke a lot of fresh berries strawberries, black berries, raspberries, or whortleberries and crush 'em aud mix the mass with syrup. A modicum of this is ladled into a glass, which is filled with soda. A more insipid mixture, cannot bo imagined. The flavc- of fresh fruit is too deUcta tq be. retained under suclj ciicumstanccs, and tha essential oils used in making tl essences from which regular syrups are concocted are fully as healthful, when used, as they are, in small quantities, as are tho juices of fresh fruit, "TheappUcation, of a spoonful of ico cram to a glass of soda bias proved the most suc cessful innovation of years. Never before, since ISS.2, when first used this way, has soda water with ft floating island in the center of tho glass been so popular. It has a sugges tion of 'a hot oyster with every driBl?' ahout it that is captivating. seems io be a bonus and that's taking. Convince the people that they're getting something for nothing and you'll have 'em around you in flocks. Tho ice cream used for this purpose is flavor less, and as a little of it goes a great r&y in. a glass of soda, h chestnut paragnapher to the contrary potittistndiiig, a skillful dis penser can sell the mixture for five cents a gloss, although almost all the downtown places charge either eight or ten cents." Chicago Inter Ocean. A lJyiiuoc,q in tbo City. In a great metropolis like New York, the methods by which people earn a livelihood are immensely varied. An old man who goes about from house to bouse begging for old tin cans says he make; a very guod living by roluag uut the sheets and then printmg small signs on them. A New Yorker makes an income of $10,000 to $15,000 a year as a broker of manufacturing buildings and sites. Perhaps the oddest trade is that of the man who goes around to the ragpickers and buys from them all the perfect paper &g which they gather. Taper cags are so cheap when new. that it would seem impossible that any one could make a living from buying and selling second hand ones. The demand fc.p them, however, is yery gr$at among tha small cui$ stanis which' are to be found in all of the principal streets. These fruit dealers, by the way. generally have a secret arrangement with employes in the bag stores, by which they get a generous supply of paper bags in exchange for fruit. This accounts (or the fact that on almost every fruit stand can be seen an assortment of bags bearing the imprint of drygoods, grocery and other house. New York Tribune. ' - THE GENTLER SEX. What Ibe Kewapapera Say Concerning the Lui;liter at Eve. A Saratoga woman comes out in nil red one day, nil whito tbo next, all black the third and so on. Tho Kings' Daughters of Atlanta, Oa., have just opened a hospital thero to bo under their exclusive charge. A negro woman who recently went iu lano at Atlanta, Ga., imagined that tho turn had erchtd itself on her head and sho could not shake it off. Miss M. E. Orr is sai.1 to bo tho fastest woman tj-po writing ojerator in tho world. In a recent tyje wviting tourna ment her average was niuct3-liro and one-fifth words a minute. More than fifty of the best known ladies of Cattlo Creek, Mich., have formed a dress refrm club ami declared themselves against bustles, high heeln, tight shoes, still corseU, etc. Mrs. Bates, tho "giantess" wife of tho celebrated Capt. Bates, died recently at their Ohio home, near Wadsworth. They wero tho largest married couple in tho world. Capt. Bates is eight feet tall, and his wife was seven feet and nine inches. Amelia Rives Chanler reads but few lxxks. Shakespeare, George Eliot ami Edgar A. Poo are among her favorite authors. She reads French readily, and has begun to take an interest in German. Sho expects to study English when she lias leisure. Mr. Capt. Tom i '- richest Indian wuiiia.i iu Alaska. Sho is worth about $20,000, and lives loyally at Sitka, surrounded by slaves. Sho supported two husbands until lately, having to give ono up when kIio joined the rresbyterian Mission. Mrs. Tom is ugly, fat and over 40, and is a shrewd trader. The young English poet known to tho world as A. Mary F. liobinson is now Mme. Darmesteter, having married tho enthusiastic gentleman who trans lated her English poetry into French proso not long since, thereby gaining for her some very pleasant praise from French critics. Mrs. Harvey, of Shanklin, Isle of 'Wight, has founded an institution there which is doubly philanthropic in it? work. It is a homo for old ladies and a graining bchool for servants at the same time. Servants who graduate thero command tho best wages, and aro always in demand. Mrs. Harvey has an income of $150,000 a year, and sho seems to know just what to do with it. Queen Victoria has won quite a repu tation among English agriculturists as what may bo called a royal farmer of the gentler sex. At the show of tho Isle of "Wight Agricultural society recently she took three prizes for farm horses, one for Jersey cattle and four for Dowu sheep, winning tho champion prize for tho best ram and the award for tho best pair of ewes. Last March N. Kato Gentry filed at Washington an application for a patent on a "remedial cosmetic." Sho failed to obtain her patent because she parted her name in tho middle The examiners held tliat the signature was defective, as sho had failed to write hei" Christian name in full. On appeal the corumis tioncr sustained tho opinion. The law recognizes but one name the first one and unless that is given in full the signa ture becomes worthless from a legal standpoint. Mme. Dieulafoy, who practically founded the Persian museum in Paiii has formally handed it over to the presi dent of the republic. She has definitelv adopted man's dress, and accordingly she appeared with short hair, and "dressed in a masculine suit of black trousers and paletot, tho latter buttoned up over the waistcoat, and showing shirt front and collar." &he was. also furnished with the inevitable chimney pot hat, v.hich, all tli9 time sho wa3 giving explanations to Mme. Carnot, the wifo of tho president. sho held in her hand with proper jnaseu- uua pouieness. The person who exercises by far the greatest influence over the queen of Servia at the present time is undoubtedly ner aunt, tho Princess Constantin Mou- rouay. Sho has been a veritable mother 5 x l i - . W to ner niece, ana lias advised and con soled her throughout tho long course of her conjugal misfortunes, Tho princess is an elderly lady, in appearance about 6-3, short; in figure, but none tho less dig nified, with a kind, motherly face, lit up by a pair of keen eyes, and shaded by gray hair. She has been a widow for many years, and invariably dvesses iu Eitnple black, witl a close black cap and long veil. Although her homo is in Rus sia a great part of every year is spent with uueen JNatalie, and there is proba bly no one more thoroughly au fait with all that goes on in tho court telgrade than la princesse. Opening the Dark Continent. The Dark continent is bein"? rapidly opened to civilization. Surveys, of tho Congo railroad have been, completed past the 235 vnilea of cataracts, and this, with the river itself, will, within two or three years, make it possible for travelers to visit the interior cf Africa without a cara van. In the upper Conso rejrion is an elevated tableland with fine climate fr-os from m;dana that has proven, to destruc tive to visitors. oj tho coast. When the iiuryey that wa3 formerly made pain fully through weeks can bo made in a day, the prophecy will indeed bo fulfilled, which declares that Ethiopia shall t'teh forth her hands uno God. The opening of Afriea; to Christian civilization is likely to bo the most important fact in tho his tory of the next fifty years. Bobton Pudget. Perambulating Ice Water TaV-. The Moderation Eooiety of New York bas a, pfaambulating tank of ice water, which is driven about the city all day and makes frequent stops that the thirsty may take advantage f the water. The tank holds 30Q galloua, and on hot days js filled three times and uses up 2,100 pounds of i;e. This 13 the second season of this mode of assisting temperance. New Orleans Times-Democrat, The "Walter L. Huffman, of Peru, Ind.,' has married over f ,200 couples and preached 1,300 funeral services. - Jiia, surpasses the ncord of any clergyman, in the state. ' ' ' . I. E STOVE - AND ALL HOUSEHOLD GOODS. -LATEST WINDOW KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND. PICTTTXIE IFrt-iLXvIES MDS TO OBDEH SIXTH STELE P, BET. MAIN AND -DEALEBS IN Pine Staple and -Ilculijuarters ruiiss and Oninjrt'ti, Ix-muns, JJunan.-i Canned Fruits PRICES LOW. 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