The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-02

guese who were engaged in the same busl-
ness, SO that now everybody who carries
water is galiego. as in Mexico all English
speaking people. from either side of the
ocean, are gringos.
WATER CARTS AND JAR BEARERS
Until within few years the drinking
| water was peddled about the streets of
Para on horseback, each horse staggering
under four enormous jars strapped to his
back. but lately some benev olent wanderer
from the land OF Bergh and humane sOcie-
ties, plying The overworked equine skele-
tons, introduced carte; each to be drawn
by an OK or mule. But nobody thinks of
ameliorating the condition of the human
beasts of burden, and though several nun
dred water carts are constantly going the
rounds of the city, one meets many more
negroes and Indians, male and female
! bowed under the weight of water
| jars poised upon the head, each Of which
look heavy enough TO crush an
ordinary skull.
OUR LADY OF NAZARETH.
| On the way back TO town we stopped at
Nazareth plaza and took peep at the vo-
walls of its famouslchapel; for Our Lady of
Nazareth-so say the BraziiiaDs has
wrought more miracles than all the
other virgins and saints on record. Her
| festival occurs in October and draws great
numbers of people to Para from all the
Amazonian provinces. 1t continues fort
night and more, and during all that time
the square is literally packed, hundreds Of
famihes having brought their household
goods and encamped on the spot. The
trusting faith of the plous Brazilian, as
well as the efficacy of prayer and the
power of Our Lady, is exemplified by the
great number and variety of these votos.
There are thousands of busts and
arms AID legs and hands and faces,
either nodded in wax or carved in
wood, each bearing q more or less life
like representation of the particu-
far disease or infiruity with which it had
been affiicted-as, for instance. CHASTITY
caricatures of wounds, ulcers, tuners, pro-
truding bones etc. There are breasts
nearly eaten away by cancer, necks with
enormous goitres, and other horrors toe
many to enumerate There are paintings
also; graphic counterfeit presentations"
of ships at sea about to be dashed upon
beetling crags. and the virgin flying down
hastily to the rescue when appealed to;
pictures of men and women on beds of
sickness, and the same obliging lady CON-
ing through The ceiling with bottle of
medicine. One of them shows an invalid
sitting in an armchair, and the legend be-
low sets forth how the good man had not
been able to walk step for twenty years,
uati. following some directions hereceived
in dream, he became well the very next
day.
THE CATHEDRAL OF ARA.
There are several churches here. but
though several are much handsomer, there
Is none SO interesting as this of Our Lady
OF Nazareth. The cathedral is an enormous
edifice which boasts of the greatest variety
OF marbles from all parts Of the world that
was ever collected under one roof The |
great high altar contains no fewer than fif- |
teen different kinds, and the floors and |
walls and galleries are mosaic of count |
less varieties of the same beautiful mater
iai. Everybody has heard of Para's great
opera house, the largest on the South |
American continent and one of the largest
in the world. II is situated at one end of
plaza and is built Of brick and stucco, three
sides Of it having deep aIcovee supported
by massive marble pillars with huted
shafts and Corinthian capitals Behind
the pillars are extensive marble-paved
porticoes in which people may promenade