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NICARAGUA'S CHARMS.
COL. DOMAIN SOUNDS THE PRAISES
OF THE MUSQUlTO RESERVE.

Tropical Trees and tho Luscious Fruits
Thereof-Cotton, Corn, Cofleo and
Sugar Cane-Honest and Truthful Ma
tives-Growth of Trade-Climate.
The pin,applcs we took on board at Blue
fields, Escondido river, measured, some OF
, them, twelve, sixteen and eighteen inches
in length and weighed eight and ten pounds,
and they are sold at about 43 cents n dozen,
about the sarue as tho small West India
fruit, one being equal to from two to four.
The charm to the visitor from this region is
the wonderful forest foliage and the flowers
Nearly every tree bears flowers OF fruit
, The largest forest treeS-tho ceiba treo for
instance-grows to the high Of ninety or
lpO feet, straight as On arrow and without
q limb. At that hight from the ground 1t
widens out to vast parasol.shapcd ALTAR,
| literally covered with punches OF crimson,
bell-shaped flowers. Out OF one OF these
trees can be made boat which will carry
forty or fifty men. All their boats are made
there of ono piece
TREES AND THEIR FRUIT.
I saw q great many mahogany boats from
thirty to fifty feet in length, forty.six feot
where 1t is all immense tree, as largo as
the largest living oak in Florida, with green
foliage. The bread fruit looks like small
watermelons 1t forms tho principal por-
tion of tho fool of tho inhabitants, who
usually split it open, pu: piece of salt pork
or other salt neat i'll it, and bake 1t, and
then eat it Ono troo will supply whole
neighborhood with fruit The tree that is
pronounced the mos5 beautiful is the mongo
trea 1t grows to an immense size, from
twenty to fifty foot in circumference, and
from seventy-five 10 lG0 feet in height 1t
is an immense uinDrella-shaped trec, with
featherly-like foliuge. Ono tree will bear
$3.50 mangoes. The fruit is heart or kidney
shaped, and grows to the weight Of one or
two pounds each. It's favor is that Of oil
our best fruit combinel-the PLUMB and
grape and something Of the pear Tho
cassara is substitute for bread. The yam
grows every whore. 1t grows solid and IS
very different from that Of this country. 1t
is more like root. Tho root is fifteen or
twenty feet long They break it up i'll
pieces and sell it in sections
The cocoanut palm abounds everywhere.
One tree drops a nut every day in tho year.
1t drops jGJ year. The banana produces
bunch month every month in tho year.
1t is perpetual in its growth. All they have
got to do to cultivate it is to clop tho brush
and stick in tho plant, and it nee;ls 10 curi-
yation. 1t is the same with all their fruits.
Tho sugar cane grows from twenty to
twenty-five feet ligh. l was tod that by
the officials, and it produces 5000 to 10000
pounds to the acra II never needs replac-
ing, but grows Just like clover Cotton
grows in tho same way, reproducing itself.
1t becomes perfect tree and bears L great
amount Of very 1ino i,brr Coffee grows
abundantly, nnl Nicaragua coffee is amchs
tie host in the world. NO iner coffee is
provided 'anywhere That country is pre-
eminently country of lazy peopl& Ono
can live there as nearly WITHOUT work as
anywhere else. Tie people arc very inde-
pendent in spirit and only work when they
feel like it Gne strange thing is that tho
English language seems to be the coming
language OF all America Spanish and
English are spoken, but the whole business
of tho place is principally done in English.
BECOMING CCNTANINATGD
The people are all honest and truthful. l
was told by Capt j. e. Sargent, OF Maine,
who is tho Uritel States consal there, of an
y
and spent tine whole day looking through
the street for tho man who lost it Uu-
fortunately, they are becoming q little con-
talninated by our high civilization. The
American politicians who have got to going
down there are damaging the character OF
the people very much They arc tho most
universally polite people l ever saw. Every
body saiutcs you, oven the little negro boys,
and if they havo not got hat they will
pull at their hair 1t is very amusing TO
hear them say good morning. They have
Il whining manner of drawing it out-Goud
morning, sab. All their costumes ere
of the very thnnest and lightest materials.
Even tie ladies arc accu,tomeI to array
themselves in native simplicity. Physically
they are very fine race-indeed, the finest
race being the Indians. Somo of the women
are superb in figure and handsome in feat
ures In the town the population consists
of negroes Indians and every cross between
these two and Spanish and English that
they have got in from the Unitel States
They are al making money. There is not
ono there who is not making money. Tho
fruit trade, which is just besi ming, is des-
tined TO becone Of immense Importance.
Tho climate is OF courso warm. They have
no wintor but you never really suiIer from
tho heat. May and September arc their
worst months. / was down there in May,
and ell tho time wore tho same CLOTHES
have on nov, except that l wore linen un-
dcrclothas, but with that exception made
10 difference between there aal here in my
clothing Tho day from 10 o'clock until /
is usually hot and not much work is done
during those EourS but people do it who
have TO. Up to 10 O'Clock the temperature
is delightful, AMI at ! o'cloc!: bree!.o rises
every day. At nights you always sleep
under blankets. You never think Of Sleep
ing without Il BLANKET While was there 1
Only saw two mus !utoes, and gnats are un-
known Tnoy have no Troublesome insects,
bat some times they havo an invasion
of Ices brought in from other regions
the country.-Co. Tat Donau'S Letter.
Use for the Younger Sans of Peers.
Mr. konleike's latest proposal is that de-
cayed unemployed gentle!nen shoufri Ge
ull!i cd for tue purpose Of IN escort supply