THE NIDWAY PLAISANCE. A COLLECTION OF SIDE SHOWS AT THE FAIR. Arabs, Turks and Moors Found Idv ing as in the Orient ~The Javan- Village — An International Beauty Show ~The Wonderful Re volving Wheel Other Exhibits, ose There are many strange things at the fair Midway earth with queer names, Plaisanes for instan does that mean?” hear it for the f mean alsewhere York Herald, it me side shows, The Hned with bulldings in wi are given, but it 18 har 1 to by a aw or Nah tath bat CLLR i AN AM the lgnoran Americans oy Are wim la, a the beanty f Ar Fayptians : TRY Fahima Osman, Hosma Bint Mitwall well and Falmi Hourl, Cur ties of « sorts from and bearing : the museums mir in oan he seen pe of the old streets of dueesd and tenanted with city and from Constantinop! pretty much the same soft of as their Rayptian netghbors features is a Ar department in service st the City I the Horn, The fire pump which ET apacity, HE sung Wi a on the shoulders of the natives, who trot through the streets astonishingly ast, When they reach the fire the water is supplied te them by carriers, who bear leather Lage that nre refilled from the wells as fast as their con tents are usd up, entertainment One of their AUST AR Gs Golden haa fn | a Moorish palace modeled after | and Northern { Hadj, Res Near the Tunisian and Algerian section is one of the old style temples which are found in Spain Africa. A restaurant, aooom modating five hundred people, in the palace shows that the Moors are a practical race, In the bullding i# an immense collection of gold coins, An Algerian merchant who erected villages ot the three last Paris expositions has put up a building in which are quartered a large sup ply of natives who maintain a bazaar, In which are digplayed precious stones, swords, pistols with na flint locks inces, hroocades wd table another store nee perfumery pastille attar and though these are daggers, overs, In weraglio wort reat the Mjue dreamy damsel Bedouin camp, presi hief, who, wat with n foun range mel Javans feel homesie With the Javanes who has K. hey are npr The hb furniture, Dr, Ul a German «thn wheal is the real triumph of the Midway Plaisan It represents better tha A ther exhibit the genius of American i ! It Ke» “thing like ti Ferris F'urkish luncheons are peddied by costumed | natives, who serve them [rom a tray, A saddle belonging to the Sultan of Turkey in placed in the Transportation Building, It I» covered with red plush and gold snd is | used by its owner only on the most solemn occasions, Arab horses of pure blood were allowed by the Bultan to be exported, A sliver hed, owned by one of the sultans | of Turkey, and sald to weigh two tons, Is in the collection, and a Turkish tent ohoo bee longing to a Persian Shah, and used by him in traveling. smbroidered cloth, WORKMAN IN THE CAIRO STREET. wheel of a steamer, multiplied, however, a hundredfold, Instead of the paddies it bears It is mado almost wholly of | passenger cars, and when It revolves the | returning to | Passengers get something of the sensation that a fly must have that sits on the side of cart wheel and feels it revolve, The wheel is 264 feet high and 2564 feet in diameter, It boars thirty-8iX passenger cars, each larger than a railroad coach, and with a senting capacity of sixty persons, When the wheel 18 “loaded” it contains 2160 citizens, They are carried up and then down like birds sitting in their nest, ” o ; 0 Com at tad anid ing bet cally tw ————— PROMINENT PEOPLE. Lipvresaxt Peary pr North Powe In July rb yor the Tae Du writes lye | Grerman Fren Tur Income of the | #75,000 a year, and h | raising bulls for the Npanish arena | Bursnon Wintiam, of Germany, is well grounded In classienl and current French and Is a great reader of French poots A MEMORIAL 10 the late Jay Gould ia to Iv erected at his birthplace, Roxbury, Delaware County, N. Y., In the shape of a Presbyterian i Chureh, hos Edinburgh oak wind languages Englis! Russian, “hh and Italian Dukes { VYVeragu makes that amount by Paesioext CLEVELAND uses the vory tiniest i of stub pens stu Jk Into a massive holder, and ! his handwriting i= small and very distinet, | Mrs. Cleveland writes in flaw large charme i tours, | Da. Wintian Eveners, who has been cent o3 Congress from Massachusetts, In one of {the host classical seholars in the country | He can quote offhand from almost’ any of the | lasalos, | Reoxxt advices from England state that | Miss Frances Willard, the temperanos advo | ante, Is entirely broken down in health, She | has been prohubited by her physicians from America until fll, and 0 | soem they are much concerned for her lis, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Frawk C, Auny, who killed Christie War den at Hanover July 17. 1881. has been hanged at Concord, N, H. The bh ging wa performed in a bungling manner I's r was too long, the conds muned man's triking the floor after the fell : Hing the If on drop ofMcers to 0, shifted it angled to desth in New York City to con United States Minfeter t unt to partners of Alabam nnd to jurls [ the Bherify the posi his Wa hington In penta 10 b neue he Lt M. Dum Arkansas, at Winnipeg Horton, of Illinois, st Athens, Gre H. Brooks, of Llinois, at Trieste Fux President and Mrs reception st the White H if the Presbwterian G wing apg ited States: M George Fr aK Cleveland gave n 1% Lo the men rr neral A Tue Presid t Nort! aster-Lioner Car Forelgn. Matamoras bras ol af Hevonoso tho Mes ine it Wl Ra wl wash family of Mex AWAY 1 named 2 { Inther ther aught in the flo in several pia Martine thr and i rowne were wl and led in Roberts s ol tory in Sedan, France All bands w work at the time, Twenty were said t been killed, Many more were injured Cossipenanee excitement was cause the oMelal announcement that a laborer fied of Asiatic cholera at SohifMuck Hamburg, Germany A Fuexen consul in Tripoll has been gonad by the populace and demands for re paration have been ma ie onthe Sultan of Farkey. Faxon troops have Riamese on the Me-Konz imminent, A TREATY of commerss has been roncluded between Spain and Germany Tue Russian cruiser Vitiask has been wrecked off the const of Corea, All on board were saved, Esrenon Winnian, of Germany, speaking at the unvelling of a monument to his grand. father, in Sllexda, stated that the very cxist ence of the Fatherland depends upon the passing of the Army bill, A vine at Trondhjom, Nowway, resulted in the loss of a nnmber of lives, Four putting were killed while jumping from a burning building, and three women and two children were burned to death in the flames, A POILER 6X] near defeated hy border and war is weeny ANEW LKL Hebrews fron wha th Tur Min folios on & Braziviax Gov into ar Lhe —————— THE NATIONAL GAl Tus Ni Ww Hr Lixo mnie, hs Fran in } Yes China Tae pros; a larg the epidemi Tas National Mary Was Association has selected the design and sign the contract for the monament which is mark the grave of Washington's mother Fredericksburg, Va ————. IMMIGRANTS THIS YEAR. Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistios Issued, Mo ington Tha Chief of the Bureau of Statistios reports that during the twelve months ended April 30th, 82.568 immigrants arrived at the ports of the United States. Of this pumber, 14.3% were from Italy, 12,20 from Germany from Sweden and Norway, and 0290 from 1h land, Ins number tha arrived during the corresponding period of the presedin was 75,008, J a —————— 5c Tre Government of Queensland claimed a holiday for Hy or \ her marriage THE INFANTA WELCOMED SPAIN'S PRINCESS ROYAL ON AMERICAN SOIL, Khe Repre. World’ Falr Greeted by Booming ( New York Harbor Immediately to Washington, Her Country's the Comes as sentative at _OBOn she Proceed wroeathed wild whe Muruga and Pris President's carvinge and the process svivania avenue toward the Arlingt Four buglers on horseback led, a2 the four troops of oavalry, one of whi composed of colored soldiers fron “Fighting Ninth,” yormed the escort royal party. Bix sergeants of oavalry us body guard to the Princess, and following ame onrringes containing he site and the members of the recedving party A crowd, the like of which has not boen seen since the insuguration, linsd Penney) vania avenue on either side, When the Ar ling.on was reschad the Princess alighted apon the arm of Reorstary Gresham, and fol lowed by her husband, the Prince. and the Spanish Minister, entered the summer annex A large bunch of sweet peas stood on » table in the parlor, and other floral gifts wore around, but the ohiel among them rested upon the table in the Princess Ritvats draw Ing-room, on the seeond floor, It was a trie bute trom Mrs, Cleveland, and consisted of a huge basket of magnificent American Beaa- the savalr Dogan he
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