The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
THE PALACE OF THE 1NQU1s1rIoN,

THE PALACE OF THE INQUIsITIoN,
and the present building completed about
three hundred and fourteen years ago.
1t consists of great courtyard sur
rounded by cloisters on the walls of which
queer frescoes are painted, supposed to- rep.
resent the arts and sciences. Doors lead
from the cloisters into the various lecture
rooms and into the great hall of the univer-
sity, where still hang the portraits of the
most learned men of Peru's earlier days.
The first full fiedged I'D. Do who was
graduated here was Don Domingo de San
Tomas, Spanish Dominican, who after
wards attained great local celebrity, whose
ugly countenance may still be seen in the
great hall The first graduate born IN Peru
was Don Juan de Balboa, professor of the
Quichud language and canon of the Lima
cathedral.
The cultivation of literature during The
time of the viceroys, though confined by q
Jealous priesthood within the narrowest
possible limits, made considerable progress
and was advanced by several men of learn
ing and ability, sprung from the noblest
families of Spain. Perhaps the most schol
arly of all the vice-kings was Senior Don
Antonio de Mendoza, a grandson of the
Marquis de Santillana, the renowned poet
and warrior of the court of John II, who
claimed the Cid as the founder of his family
But Don Antonio died in 1851, after very
brief enjoyment OF his power, and before
he had much time to do more than lend his
mighty influence toward the establishment
of this university
Since Peru's independence from Spain
and the general emancipation of the minds
Of her people,
POETRY, PAINTING AND MUSIC
have received great attention from the i'm
aginative but somewhat frivolous youth of
the country. But the truth is that the
modern society Of Lima is too dissipated and
artificial to afford very promising soil for
the growth of extraordinary genius III any
direction.
The benefcent institutions of Lima
though not numerous, are certainly very
creditable. Prominent among them is the
"Sociedad de Beneticencia," which was es
tablished in the year 1925 and has the gen
eral guardianship and supervision of all the
public charities. 1t also has the direction
of the bull-ring, the cock pit and the lot
terry, from which popular amusements il
derives considerable share of its revenue
| Private individuals frequently subscribe tt
| it generous sums matrons occasionally gel
up swell CHARITY Ball,'' much as the
same thing Is managed in the United States
and other parts of the world; and some
times the bellies and beauX of the city give
grand concert for its benefit, principally
with the music of mandolins and guitars
in which they excel.
| Here comes one of the sights of Lima,
FEMALE MILK PEDDLER,
who sits astride her mule, with a bare foo
and tin can dangling on each side of tn,
saddle. These milk men, in petticoats
neither toot horn nor ring a bell as d,
their northern brothers; but riding from
house to house, they stop at the door o.
each customer and give a peculiar shril
little scream, which the servants instantly
recognize. The quart measure of this ont
is gourd, just as it grew, except that
hole has been cut in one side and the seeds
scraped out; but whether nature made i
the exact size to contain what the law rec
ognizes as quart, we need not trouble our
selves to enquire, if the customers do not
Indeed that form of measurement is not 81
much in vogue here for liquids as by tn,
gourdful, or, still more commonly by th,
bottleful. Manufactured tinware is dear
and the people are poor, but everybod,
drinks wine, consequently glass bottles
such as ordinarily contain claret and holt
perhaps three pints or Whereabouts, abound
Many dealers have fixed price on milk
and other fluids for the ''bottleful" and tn,
''gourdful,n who would be puzzled t,