People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — The Assyrian Call to Dinner. [ARTICLE]

The Assyrian Call to Dinner.

The Javanese people at the world’s fair call the whole Javanese village to dinner by beating a tin fish with a big mallet. But the Assyrians have a queerer way than this. It does not look so odd, but it* sounds funnier. When it is time for the Assyrian dinner, and we shall hear some day what a queer dinner it is, the cook’s assistant takes a long pipe which looks' something like a flute and blows upon i> The pipe has several different sounds or notes which are the most mournful of any that you can imagine, and they are also what we would call sadly out of tune. The trumpeter blows as hard as he can upon the pipe, making all the different notes as quickly as he ean, and then winding up on one long, sad owe. It sounds very droll to call people to dinner to such mournful music. • ■ - U——— Tube is many a dynamiter who is afraSC to give bis mother-in-law a blowing naTaxoSiftirgs.