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 Rh, and benches girdling its circumference. Carlotta's gift is this, they say, to the city.

The sun lies hot on the house-tops, and wherever it can strike a pavement. The general costume consists of a shirt and pants: the shirt white, short, plaited all around, and worn often by the peasantry on pleasure-days as an outer garment—a not unseemly arrangement.



Every body is in gay costume, for is it not the first day of the year? And, in addition, does not the daily morning paper, named El Progresso, on the ground, probably, that it never