Speaking of these Egyptian flies,
they are audacious and pestiferous in
the extreme. When I was galloping
at full speed they would light upon
my face and slick there like so many
leeches. I believe they would fly for
miles across the plains here if they
saw a man on horseback, in order to
overtake him.
Passing the Theater Francais, the
opera-house, and some British bar
racks, filled principally with Scottish
troops. I left the Ismailiya quarters of
the city, occupied mainly by Euro
peans, and plunged into the native
city, the devious crooked streets of
which beggar description. Overhead
the balconies of the harems projected
so that often you could only see a rib
bon of sky between them. Think of
having the second story of your
neighbor’s house approach within six
inches of your own! But the lattices
through which tke inmates peep are
so closed together that a person on
donkcyback can see nothing that is
within. Soon I was in old Cairo, sur
rounded by gigantic ruin of great
antiquity. The most conspicuous re
mains were those of the grand aque
duct running oil' the citadel, two and
a quarter miles distant, where I could
discern the two graceful miuais and
the huge dome of the famous alabas
ter mosque.
“Over there,” said my guide, “is
where they keep the English die.”
At first I was puzzled to know what
was meant; but looking over to the
left where he pointed, 1 saw a Chris
tian cemetery, and the light broke in
upon me.
A Case for Sympathy.
Wall Street News.
A New York drummer the other
day ran across a retail grocer in this
state who had been in the business
and in the same store for 34 continuous
years.
