IN ALGIERS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1525, 2 April 1886, Page 4

IN ALGIERS.

The negroes are curiously enough white-washer*, as in America, an occupation to which they take kindly froiA contrast of colour or aome other mystic reason. The Spainards are generally industrious, but for some unknown cause, unless it is merely the jealousy of competing workmen, much disliked by the French. They are masons, quarrymen, terrace makers, and miners. Those in easy circumstances h*ve become farmers, and a few are numbered smong the large landed proprietors. The Italians, who are nearly all from Sardinia, or the maritime provinces of Italy, are market gardeners, fishermen, or follow the trades of mason, plasterer, painter, nd potter. The similarity of climate renders the change of residence of the Maltese to Algiers easy and natural. They become small dealers, keepers of restaurants and wine houses, porters or carmen, and sometimes small land holders. German and Swiss immigrants at once become farmers. Immigrants of all classes are obliged to learn French. Naturalisation is common. Children of all nationalities attend the communal schools and lyceums, and the process of assimilation of all these diverse elements into one nation, though not so rapid as in America, is constant and certain. The young man born in Algiers long since ceased to be a novelty. He grows up, receives a good education, rerves his military term in France, enters in the public service, or either in France, Cochin China, or Algiers, follows the trade or occupation for which his training or literary attainments have fitted him. He is from his birth more cosmopolitan than his compatriots born arid reared in France, partly because born a colonist, and partly because his surround ings are more cosmopolitan, and a strain of foreign blood may be mingled with that purely Gallic which trickles through his veins. San Francisco Chronicle.