The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-13

this, with sheet above and below, constitutes
the luxurious couch. I call 1t "coming down |
to hard pam"
Steam ferries ply the bay of SINH.
lar design and build rs those in East and
North rivers. New York. That relic Of
barbaric custom, bull fighting, Is still chung |
10 with pertinacity BY the average Spanish |
sport. They hsd y bull fight to-dsy-Sun-
day--acfoss the bay, and many hundreds
attended. One American did not.
Though the days are WARM here, the nights
| are pleasant, much more 20 than in Texas
when the days are equally warm as those we
are now experiencing here, which is very
m UGH like our June weather. 1t is hot but
not oppressive. There is always fine breeze
from the gulf.
There arc no manufactures on the island.
Cuba, like the south, pays tribute TO her
master. Emulating the example OF the
| United States, the cortes Of Spain decteed
that the
NEGROES SHALL DE FREE.
| The emancipation ia effected by gradual
system. A certain number are released
every year, and in four years moro the last of
them will have beon emancpated. The
Cubsns claim that this will work complete
overthrow of their industrial system, and
psralyze for many years all the resources of
the country. Evidently there will DO try
ing transition, such as the south experienced,
4 but Ms they grow accustomed to hiring their
labor, and tho negro grows to understand
that his freedom entails new responsibilities
that they cannot cat the bread of idleness-
both sides will reasonably adapt themselves
to the mutually of interests involved. Water
seeks its level.
,a.I, hn. To-, e. g al ~.
buidipgs. We put our plrnts and flowers
, principally in front of our dwellings--they
put theirs behind, in their court yards, and
they dry their clothes principally on the tops
of the houses.
Thefe arc hundreds of pcdders here. They
chiefly carry their packs on mulea, md some
take them on their own baclSs -as much as g
mule nught 10 carry. They carry crocbery,
aud everything ese; kind Of general mer-
chandise business in miniature, fire..
, quenty carrying two bureaus, or
dressers, one on each side OF
the mule each ~ large MS our
bureaus NJ homo, and presenting the
appearance of Il mule getting away with two
houscs.
! Some of the stores hero are the mos!
beautiful | ever saw; especially jewelry and
queensware The whole fronts of the stores
! arc open, and Mt night present beautiful
illumination.
Selling lottery tickets is great business
, here. Hundreds make there living from the
con missions thoy get selling tickets. They
cry out the number on the streets, making q
most unearthly noise. Even while | write
> oue is yelling vociterously, and making noise
A enough to wake the dead
III they had never been awake before,
But that they have been so we all nave read
And are to be 80 at least once more"
y Well, | must quit these cratic flights
Let's see; we were speaking of the LOTTERY
V :, tickets. Well, come spend all their lives, an(
i occasionally make an insignificant haul, ant
q few perhaps strike n bonsnzs. But "lt
= him that hath II shall 30 given" and, truo Il
y tho Christian axiom, tho fortunate ones az,
i, generally those that already have plenty.
~ Tho streets of Havana are narrow and al
, paved with stone. From tho
d NARRowNEss or THE STREETS,
e they are enabled to run canvas awnings from
e the lrst stories overhead clear across from
v ono sido of tho street 10 the other SO thai
s. somo of tho principal streets are covere,
10 from ono end to tho othor when tho sun |
a very hot, thus alofIing solid canopy owe
ID head, and cool ami shady thoroughtsr
er underneath. This is n great convenience, an
G, although 1t IA no. country, by tho method
ID they adopt for protecting themselve
from the heat, II is easy and pleas
- ant TO do business in this city. There ar
" abupdsnt ileas and mosquitoes here, but tn
m first have not the educated, progressive bit
st of an American flea, while tho insignidcsu
l. proportions sud pretentons of the latter ar
u, shaved by our noble American "gallinir
T. per- Well, rs to tho first we can success.
", fully fight him, and keep out the latter wit
Ii. tho proverbial Anglo.American cabinet
ID found in very vol regulated Spanish hous,
10 A parlor is not considered as furnished her
Or without score of chairs, ranged in sti
70 order around tho walls, and half dozen q
IN more OF rockers set with equal precision
Vi the center of tho room, like soldiers cor
or fronting each other in limo of battle, face I
d. faco.
tn These are q few observations have mad
", in the four days have been in Havana.
D, have tried TO interest you, and hope | ha,
,r. not altogether failed. Unless Bronze job
is should menace me shall probably rema
is in Cuba until the first of June, and il vo
No. encourage mo to believe that my scrbblin!
lg will prove of interest 30 yours readers, ma
m essay again crude outline of random dot
ly Anon. Toxan-ally thine,
Id w. N BRYANT.