SOLOMON JOSEPH AND TA-RA-RA BOOM-DE-AYE.—As a group of uncompromisingly rapacious and mannerless patronage-seekers the donkey boys of a Street in Cairo were probably never surpassed, and of these Solomon Joseph was admittedly the chief brigand. He was noisy, persistent and altogether intolerable in soliciting people to ride upon his dwarfish beasts, and was always grinning and good-natured. Of the two, the donkey shown in the picture had probably the greater number of lovable qualities, though even ” Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-aye,” as he was called, appeared to have suffered by association, and bore in his face and manner an air of stolid depravity painful to witness. With a lady upon his back, trotting along the street, impelled by Solomon Joseph’s beating, the donkey’s look was one of desperate and enduring malignity, while that of the driver was the concentration of all impudence. The pair were patronized though, because donkey-riding in a Street in Cairo became a fad, and because the easiest method of getting rid of Solomon Joseph and his donkey was to submit to the former’s shrill demands. He will probably yet reappear in the streets of the real Cairo on the Nile to make himself once more a buoyant nuisance to tourists.