Jewish Highlanders In The Caucasus

The Caucasian Jews are Inordínately fond of green stuff, consuming it In quantities that amaze a stranger. Inpartaking of food, as in the mode of service, the old Jevrish customs are strictly íollowed. A wooden platter (or, if a guest be present, a handsoine eopper disli) is placed opon a carpet ou the floor. On this are set two cakes of unleuvcned bread covered with a cloth - woolen on ordinary occasions, but of silk on Sabbaths and festivals. Salt, onions. garlic and fruit are niuged round the bread, and all sit down npou the floor. The master pours water over hls two hands, recites a blessinc, then uncovers the bread, breaks the upper loaf into as many pieces as there are inales present, and gives each one piece. The pieces are dípped into salt three times and eaten. The second loaf is then served in like fashion and distributed among the feinales. The mistress of the house brings Ju the first dish herself; then, if a stranger be present, veils and withdraws. Everything is put on table, or rat lier on the floor, at once; and it is customnry to take a little of each dish served. When roast meats are eaten, a sharpeued piece of wood is employed as an aid to the flngers, but ordinarily fingers alone are de rigueur. The highlaud Jews preparo an excellent "mountain dew," and drink large quantities of the spirit without seeming to experience any intoxicating effects. - St. James' Gazette. The Manchester band netted $40 by their masquerade ball.