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CITY OF MEXICO.
A Glance at the Capital of Our
Sister Republic.
Quaint Houses, Rich Churches
and a Human Medley.
Take a stand with mo on the spire
of tho great Cathedral which faces the
plaza in the centre of the City of Mex¬
ico, writes Frank G. Carpenter in tlm
New York World. We are 200 feet
above the ground and more than 7500
feet above the sea. Take a look at the
city below. It is as big as St. Louis.
Its form is that of ono of the great
cities of Europe, and like the cities of
Spain, its streets cross ono another at
right angles, and tho centre of the
network of squares si the plaza filled
with green trees which lies at our
feet.
The roofs of all the houses are flat.
There is not a chimney in tho whole
city, and you could number the fur¬
naces and the cooking and heating
stoves on the fingers of one hand.
The Mexican capital does all of its
heating by charcoal, and a base-burner
would be as much of a wonder here as
a five-legged calf. If you will take
your glass you will note that each field
is made up of houses and that each
of the houses has a great well
or hole in its centre. These
are the patios or courts around
which every Mexican house is built,
and which in many cases constitutes
the only garden of the family. Where
there are horses this is sometimes used
for the storing of the carriages, and
you note that all the houses stand
close up to the street, and that most of
them are of less than three stories_
On the tops of many of them you see
white and gay colored patches floating
to and fro in the breeze. These are
family washings, which are usually
dried on the roofs, and those great
spires and domes which spring up on
every side of you are the buildings of
the church, which are fewer flow than
ever before, and which a few years
ago were tho richest and most impor¬
tant buildings of the city. The gov¬
ernment now owns these aud not the
priests. They are allowed to use them
only on sufferance, and when they
were confiscated it is said they were
worth millions, and that the govern¬
ment then took from the church prop¬
erty to the amount of $300,000,000.
This building upon winch we are
standing cost $2,000,000 to build, and
its roofs are shingled with enough
brick to pave a town of 10,000 people.
Bricks are the shingles of Mexico.
They are fastened down in mortar,
and there is as much masonry on the
top of every one of these churches and
houses as there is in its sides.
Take a look at this cathedral as you
stand here above it. It covers acres
and you wander for hours in going
from one place to another within it.
It has been a gold mine in its costly
decorations, and its choir lias a balus¬
trade of a mixture of silver, copper
and gold, which weighs 50,000
pounds, aud which is worth more than
this weight in solid silver. The walls
of the church alone cost $2,000,000,
and the treasures of the interior have
made rich some of the families of the
Mexico of today. It had a single
statue of gold set with diamonds,
which was worth $1,000,000, and one
of the great lamps which lighted it in
the past cost $70,000, and its work¬
manship was so intricate that it cost
$1000 to clean it. The altars were
once set with precious stones.
Come down from the Cathedral and
take a walk along the streets. The
crowd which moves with and by you
is as cosmopolitan as that of any Eu
ropean capital. You are in the Calie
de San Francisco, where the foreign
shops are located and near the princi¬
pal hotels. Here are Frenchmen, Eng-
glislunen, Germans, Spaniards and
Americans, and mixed with them are
the diverse elements of the great
Mexican people. A swell carriage
with great coach horses dashes by you,
its silver-mounted harness glistening
in the sunlight and its coachman
wearing a gorgeous sombrero and his
pants lined with silver. It contains
the wife and daughter of a rich ha-
cenaiido, who are going to take then-
afternoon ride on the Paseo. Behind
them rides a rich Spaniard iu Mexican
costume, with saddle, hat and har¬
ness as gorgeous in their gold and sil-
ver as money can buy, and at tho side
of the street runs a half dozen little
burros, with great bales of hay, al¬
most hiding their little bodies from
view, while in the rear is a poor In¬
dian driving them, with a like bundle
of hay fastened to his back and held
there by a strap that comes over tho
front of his forehead.
Here is a brigand-like peon from the
country in a blanket as red as the opal
which shines out of its diamond set¬
ting on tho necktie of tho American
dude at his side, and you note that his
feet are dirty with miles of travel as
they show out through his leather
sandals. There are two ladies in black
on their way to the Cathedral to mass,
and the younger ono casts a sly but
modest look at you out of her shawl
as they pass. On the other side of tho
street there is an Indian girl whose
wealth of black hair streams in a
frowsy way down her shoulders, and
whose plump form is bent almost
double under the great load of red
jars she is carrying, and now through
them all comes a squad of soldiers,
dark-faced aud sullen, under the com¬
mand of an officer, who looks down as
proud as Lucifer out of his saddle.
Here are water carriers and ped¬
dlers, millionaires and paupers, the
rich and the poor, the great and the
small all mixed up together in one of
the most picturesque and tho most de¬
lightful conglomerations you will
find anywhere in the world. Every
way your eye turns it meets a new
sight and everything is strange. You
glance about you in bewilderment and
wonder where you are. Y'ou put your
hand to your head and almost ask
when the curtain will fall and hide
the great show from view. As you
go on you are accosted by peddlers
and good-natured highwaymen in big
iiats and red blankets, who offer to
sell you opals and queerly carved
canes, and little Indians in ragged
clothes thrust boxes of matches into
your face and beg you to buy.
The newsboy is here in all his glory,
aud a dark-faced old man looks out of
the stray gray locks which fringe his
wrinkled face under his broad-
brimmed hat and asks alms. You give
him a copper and he hobbles off happy
and makes you feel like a benevolent
prince. And so you go on along the
street of the silversmiths, by jewelry
stores, whose gold, diamonds and
rubies flash their multitudinous rays
back at the setting sun, by dry goods
windows, whose stocks of Paris made
goods are as gay as those on Fifth
avenue, and on down to the great
doors, which, with their portals of
carved stone, admit you to the big
palace of the Emperor Iturbide, which
like all things imperial in this country
of Mexico, has fallen from its high
estate and is now turned into an im¬
mense hotel.
The Orange Industry In Paraguay.
The orange-tree is generally under¬
stood to have been introduced into
Paraguay by tho Jesuits, and the seeds
distributed by the birds. However
this may be, the orange has spread all
over the country,from the river-banks
to the tops of the hills, and from the
cottages even to the deepest solitudes
of the virgin forest. Paraguay is the
land of orange-trees more truly than
the country of Mignon.... And what
oranges! Juicy, perfumed, and of a
delicacy that Spain and Italy have
never attained. The chief industry
consists in the exportation of the fruit.
The great orange season is from May
to August, when the ports of the
Paraguay River from Humaita to
Asuncion despatch enormous quanti¬
ties by steamers and schooners. Vil-
leta, San Lorenzo and San Antonio are
the principal ports, and there best may
be seen the picturesque processions of
laughing and screaming girls and
women, who carry basket after basket
of fruit on their heads from the shore
to the ship, like a swarm of busy
ants. Up to the present no indus¬
trial use has been made of the orange.
Some sixty millions are exported
annually, the same quautily is con¬
sumed by the natives, and perhaps
treble that quantity is devoured by
monkeys and birds, or left to rot on
the ground.—[Harper’s Magazine.
“These monkeys,” said Chappie, in
the park, “remind me of my boyhood
days.”
“There’s a faint resemblance yet,”
said Maude, gazing first at Chappie
and then at the monkey.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Sulphate or chloride of zinc dis¬
solved in water is a good disinfectant.
An Albany, N. Y., boy sustained
and survived an electric shock of 2500
volts.
A Steubenville, Ohio, inventor lias
perfected a now process for making
iteel pipes directly from bar iron.
The brightest star in the firmauent
ivas called tho dog star by the Egyp-
iiaus, because it watches the rising of
the Nile and gives notice by its ap¬
pearance of that important event.
Both for scientific and industrial
purposes a standard of color has long
been desired, and in order to attempt
a solution of the question tho Society
of Arts is investigating the subject
through a committee.
Bicycle riders are watching with in¬
terest the attempts to manufacture
wheels out of aluminum. A steel rac¬
ing wheel now weighs twenty-four
pounds. If aluminum proves practi¬
cable a racing wheel can be made that
will will weigh only about eight or
nine pounds.
A great increase in eye disease in
Brussels lias been traced to a visit of
an Asiatic quack, who lias treated
many eyes with a weak boracic acid
solution applied with the same brush
to all. Virus of serious disease has
been conveyed by the brush to the eyes
which before had only unimportant
inflammation.
The method of purifying water in¬
vented by Mr.- William Anderson, and
now employed at Antwerp with suc¬
cess, consists in passing the water
through a slowly revolving cylinder
containing metallic iron in the form of
scraps or tilings. Tho estimated cost
of purifying a million gallons in this
way is about $1.50.
Dr. Giraud’s recent experiments in
France in the transformation of the
thermic energy of combustion into
electrical energy and the consequent
generation of heat have lesulted in
the construction of a stove which may
possibly, when modified and perfected,
come to revolutionize our present
modes of heating dwelling houses.
At a recent meeting of the Brussels
Academy, in a papeif “On a Curious
Peculiarity of Currents of Water, and
on One of the Causes of Sudden
Floods,” M. G. van del* Mensbrugghe
noted the fact that in a river the maxi¬
mum velocity of tho current does not
occur at the surface, but about three-
tenths of the depth below the surface.
A great deal of remarkable data,
which are of immense value in the
preparation of weather forecasts, have
lately been compiled from an investi¬
gation of cloud photographs, The
range of observations extended from
clouds floating less than one and a half
miles high in ah* moving at seven
miles an hour, to nine miles above the
ground in gales blowing sixty-five
miles an hour, while the surface
wind was only a gentle breeze of five
miles an hour.
How They Drive in London.
England is the only place 1 know
of where they drive to the left. Eng¬
lish drivers say that by sitting on tho
right and driving to the left thoy can
better watch the hubs of approaching
vehicles, and thus prevent collisions.
I don’t exactly understand this, but it
is the explanation they give for driv¬
ing to the left.
Quick-going vehicles will turn a
corner sharply, but the driver raises
his whip to notify the vehicle in his
immediate rear that he is about to
turn. “Cabbies” are more consider¬
ate concerning fellow drivers than
they are thoughtful about the lives
and limbs of pedestrians. All their
attention is given to the roadway:
pedestrians must look out for them¬
selves or be run over. That is why so
many of the London police are en¬
gaged solely in attending to street
traffic. Yet with all their vigilance
more accidents occur ill London, pro¬
portionately, than elsewhere. Lon¬
don drivers are polite and very civil
lo each other. If an obstruction ap¬
pears in front of a horse, or if for
any reason he is obliged suddenly to
slow up, the driver will immediately
notify the driver in the rear by hold¬
ing out horizontally his left arm; and
this sign is passed down from one
driver to another until the very end
of the line of blocked vehicles is
reached.—[New York Home Journal.
Some Late Legal Decisions.
Statute of Fraud*—A receiver’s verbal
promise to pay a creditor who releases a
sells iimupon property of which the firm the is receiver void.
for the benefit
Partnership Debt—Levy.—Partners be¬
ing severally and jointly levied liable, the satisfy prop¬
erty of either may be on to
a partnership debt, and the liability may
bo enforced against the property of each.
Legal Holidays.—After July 1, 1891,
the legal holidays in Illinois are Septem¬
ber 1, February 12, January 1, February
22, May 20, July 4, December 25 and
Thanksgiving day. All notes, bills,
drafts, checks, etc., maturing on above
days are considered as maturing on the
day previous.
Interest Law in Missouri Changed.—A
change was made by the last legislature
in the law of Missouri as to rate of inter¬
est, which will soon go into effect. Six
per cent is still the legal rate when no
rate is agreed upon by the parties, but
this new law provides that not more than
8 per cent can be contracted for and col¬
lected by law.
Lca e.—The fact that a lease has al¬
ways been in the possession of the lessor
is not conclusive evideuce that there has
been no delivery, since the lessor has .s
much interest in it as the lessee, and a?
much occasion for its possession, and the
fact that the tenant has entered under it
is it sufficient to sustain delivered. a presumption that
has been duly
Public Improvements—Damage. When
private property is demanded by the loca¬
tion and construction of a public improve¬
ment near it, and the property is not es¬
pecially benefited by the improvement, dam¬
the measure of the property owner’s
age is the difference between the value of
the property immediately before the loca¬
tion and construction of the improvement,
and its value immediately afterward,-.—
Mutual Benefit Insurance—Where the
by-laws of a mutual benefit association
provide that its members shall
bo subject to but oue as-
ssessment for each death loss, and
one assessment is made from which only
part of the amount due on a certificate is
piid, mandamus will not lie to compel
the levy of another assessment in order to
pay the balance, and it is immaterial
whether the first assessment was sufficient
to have paid the claim in fuller not,
Fraudulent Representations.—Where a
merchant represents himself as solvent,
though he knows that he is representations insolvent, and
on the strength of such
obtains goods, which he subsequently
pays for, and several months after buys
more goods from the same person, but
makes no further representations, and
transfers the last goods bought to other
creditors to secure precedent debts, the
seller cannot recover them from the
transferee, on the ground that the sale
was induced by fraudulent and false rep¬
resentations by the purchaser as to his
credit; for although the purchaser knew
that he was insolvent, and had in fact
given unrecorded bills of sale and chattel
mortgages on nearly all of his property, the
yet if, trom all the circumstances of
purchaser, hoped it appears himself that- the purchaser his
to extricate from em¬
barrassments and that he intended to pay
for the goods, the sale was valid not¬
withstanding the facts of his known in¬
solvency, his suppression of that fact
from the seller and his immediate trans¬
fer of the goods to secure other creditors.
New Paper for Eank Notes-
The secretary of the treasury has issued
the following notice in regard to the dis¬
tinctive paper for obligations and other
securities of the United States: “Notice
is hereby given that the secretary of the
treasury, by authority of law, has adopt¬
ed a new distinctive paper which will be
used until otherwise ordered, for all new
designs of United States notes, certifi¬
cates, national bank notes and securities
other than checks and drafts. The sill:
threaded paper, adopted in 1885. will be
used for existing designs of said notes,
certificates and securities until the supply
shall have been exhausted, after which
the new paper hereby adopted will be
used for all obligations of the United
States, except checks and drafts.”
The paper for United States notes,
national bank notes and certificates, is
cream white bank note paper. Its dis¬
tinctive features consist of localized red
and blue silk fiber incorporated in the
body of the paper while in process of
manufacture, so placed either as to form side a per¬ the
pendicular stripe on of
center portraits or vignette of each note
and other obligations. The distinctive
paper oi similar quality, with each therein water
mark, U. S. T. D., so placed
that it tnay show upon each separate
check or draft adopted in 1885 for United
States checks and drafts, will be contin¬
ued in use for that purpose.
It Quivered.
Visitor—“The wind seems to shake
that scarecrow over there a little. I’ve
noticed it quiver two or three times.”
Mr. Suburb—“That isn’t a scarecrow.
That’s the hired man working for fony
dollars a month and board .”—Street &
Smith's Good News.
I Lost
My confidence, was all run down and unable to
work—in an extreme condition of general debility,
when 1 was told that Hood’s Sarsaparilla -waft iuftt
what I needed. As a drowning man graaps at a
straw I decided to try this medicine, and to my
great surprise, from the first day I began to improve.
By the time I had finished my second bottle I bad
regained my health and strength, and from that
♦ay I oan say I have been perfectly well. I have
recommended Hood’s Sarsaparilla to my friends,
whom I know have been benefited by it. It to in¬
deed peculiar to Itself, In that
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
not only helps, but It cures. H. 0. Pincocx, 49 Dele-
van Street, Lambert rill#, N. J.
Child run Bnjoy
Tlio pleasant flavor, gentle action and sot th¬
ing effectsof Syrup of Figs, when in need
a laxative and if the father or mother be cos¬
tive or bilious the most gratifying results
follow its use, so that it is the best family
remedy known and every family should have
a bottle.
The trouble is that so few men are as good
as they think their neighbors should be.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the
system by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which en¬
riches the blood, tones t he nerves, aids diges¬
tion. Acts like a charm on persons in general
ill health, giving new energy and strength.
A man’s idea of being good to a woman is to
give her opportunities to be good to him,
F. J. CHENEY & CO„ Toledo, O., Proprs.
of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, offer $100 reward for
any case of catarrh, that cannot be cured by
taking Hall’s Catarrh by Cure. Send for testi¬
monials, free. Sold Druggists, 75c,
Van Winkle e Gin and Machinery Co., Atlan¬
Condensers, ta, Ga., manufacture Cotton-Seed Cotton Gins, Oil Feeders, Ice
iVachinery, Presses, Pulleys, Tanks, Mills,
Shafting, Pumps,
Wind-Mills, Etc. Write for prices and disc’ts.
F1TS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial
bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa*
If Yon Have a Daughter to Educate
Write to Otis Malvin Sutton, Pres. Mary Sharp
College, Winchester, “the Woman’s Tenn. University Mention of the
South,” this paper.
a German
Syrup”
For Coughs & Colds.
John F. Jones, Edom,Tex.,writes*
I have used German Syrup for the
past six years, for Sore Throat,
Cough, Colds, Pains in the Chest
and Lungs, and let me say to any¬
one wanting such a medicine—
German Syrup is the best.
B.W. Baldwin, Carnesville.Tenn.,
writes: I have used your German!
Syrup in my family, and find it the
best medicine I ever tried for coughs
and colds. I recommend it to every¬
one for these troubles.
R. Schmalhausen, Druggist, of
Charleston, Ill.,writes: After trying
scores of prescriptions and prepara¬
tions I had on my files and shelves,
without relief for a very severe cold,
which had settled on my lungs, I
tried your German Syrup. It gave
me immediate relief and a perma¬
nent cure. D
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A.
All ABOUT CLIMATE East Tennessee’s Resources FINE *
and Great m
KNOXVILLE SENTINEL; daily 1 mo.,
5 50c.; weekly 2 year, $1; samples 5<j.
Arininy agent, for W. h. Donttlni^Stsoe^
^ eecurtJth«
denier to rend for cat.loKue.
agency, and get them for you.
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WHY IS THE
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE CENtfgflEN
THE BEST SHOE W THE WORLD FOR THE MONEY{
It Is a seamless shoe, with no tacks or wax thread
to hurt the feet; made of the best fine calf, stylish of
and easy, and beccwwe vet makt more thott tki»
grade sawed than shoes any costing other from manufacturer, $4.00 $5.00. It equals band*
to
& ££ OO shoe Genuine offered Hand-Hewed, for $5.00; equals the finest French calf
ever
imported shoes which cost from $ 8.00 to $12.00.
J DO stylish, Hand-Sewed comfortable YVelt au.d durable. Shoe, fine The calf, besi■
shoe ever offered ut this price ; same grade as cus¬
tom-made shoes costing from $8.00 to $9.00.
(CO 50 and Police Letter Carriers Shoe; Farmers. all them; Railroad flnecalf, Men
wear
Beamless, edge. smooth Inside, heavy three soles, exten¬
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DO this fine price; cnlfj no better trial will shoe convince ever offered those at
one
WhOAV ant a shoe for comfort and service.
Amu 25 and $‘.2,00 strong Workingman’s durable. Those shoe# who
are very and
have given them a trial will wear no other make.
33 $2.00 by and the $1,75 everywhere; school shoes they sell ara
their worn the increasing boys sales show,
on Off merits, $3-*00 as Hand-sewed shoe, best
fi niae Dongola, verv stylish; equals French
Imported Ladies’ shoes costing from $4.00 to 01.75 $6.00. for
*2,50, best 82.00 and Stylish and shoe durable.
Misses are the flue Dongola.
Caution.—See that W. L. Douglas’ name and
price are stamped on the DOUGLAS. bottom of each shoe. Mass.
W. L. Brockton.
Tull’s Piss
The dyspeptic, the debilitated, whether
from excess of work of mind or body, drink
or exposure in
MALARIAL REGIONS,
will find Tutt’s Pills the most genial *e-
ttorative ever offered the suffering invalid*
“DON'T”
buy a ten-cent cigar when you can get a« good a on#
for FIVE cents. DON’T cigars are made of Havana
cuttin gs irom 10 -cent cigars, and are the best nickel
cigars In the world. If your dealer does not k cep
them, send ue 6 cents in stamps and we will mail you
five samples FEbt to try.
W, B. ELLIS A CO., N. t „ C.
W inston,
SMITH’S WORM OIL
Is Undoubtedly the Best, Quickest^ aud
Moat Reliable Worm Medicine Sold.
Athens, Ga., Dec. 8, 1877.
A few nights since igave my son one dose of
Oil, and the the next time day he passed 16 large
At same I gave one dose to
little girl, four years old, and she passed
from 4 to 15 inches long.
• W. F. Phillips.
Everywhere. 2S Conte.
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