Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06

of gariands and boquets of cut flowers, con-
tinually renewed burden the air with their
fragrance, and the distant voice of the sea
sounds like requiem.
The Great Theater of Montevidco.
According to the ways of life-"From
grave to CAV, from lively to severe-mos.
strangers on the route to town after visit
to the cemetery, are driven around By tbs
great Opera House-Teatro Solis-the pride
of Monteyideo 1t is an enormous building,
with a pillared portieo in front and pair Of
huge oval wings, the whole covering an ELL
tire square. One of the wings serves as 9
splendid wine and billiard saloon, the other
contains the National Museum. On the
second floor of the main building is foyer
o. truly magnificent distances" furnished
with tables and chairs for those who wish to
smoke and drink.
The oval-shaped auditorium is very hand
some. capable of seating 1900 people, with
five tiers of boxes decorated in red, white,
green and gold. The fourth circle is the
cazuela gallery, reserved for ladies alone,
after the peculiar fashion of all Spanish
American countries, as we'll as old Spain.
Not even an Archbishop or dictator could
gain admission to The sacred precincts of
the cazuela; ard night after night it is filled
with the beauties of Montevideo, escorted
thither by their husbands, fathers or
brothers, who leave them at the door, and
go away to spend the evening as they like
elsewhere, or take seats in the gentlemen's
gallery above, but being dead sure to return
before the close of the performance to see
their ladies safely home
How a smItten Youth Behaved.
Though men may not enter the charmed
circle, no jealous rules can be rigorous enough
to control the Southern propensity to frta-
tion, which, like murder, twill out, the
more surely because of the mistaken notion,
of seelusion, handed down from their
Moorish ancestors, that environ aristocratic
females. 1t is said that most of the matches
of Montevideo, are made-not in heaven as
the old saw goes-but in this gallery,
though the ladies have no chance to extend
their firtations beyond to point of meeting
ewes and telegraphic communications with
fans and flowers and handkerchiefs-a
language natural to youth the world over,
as birds know how to build their nests
without instruction.
Though gentleman dare not speak to
the fair enslaver whom he has been staring
out of countenance night after night at the
opera, he can follow at respectful distance
when the author of her being hurries her
thencefnrth prance before her windows and
become her shadow when she goes to church
or promenades in the plaza The mischiev-
Gus god ''laughs at locksmiths' in Uruguay
as elsewhere; and though lover NAV not
call upon the object of his devotion, they
manage it someEow-possibly with the more
eagerne5s and success because no opportun-
ity is afforded for acquaintance before mar
riage.
Hospital Supported by Lottery.
Another of the handsomest editices in
Uruguay's capital is the Hospital de Carl
dad, three stories high aud 800 feet long,
covering more than an acre of ground and
containing beds for $50 persons 1t is one
of the richest hospitals in tine world and is
entirely supported and maintained by a lot
terry The scheme of the lottery is as fol-
lows: There are seven drawings every
month, the grand prize at one time being
s5G, 900; at another, so, 900, and at another,
S12, 900 What is called complete
ticket (un enterito), sells for s1O in gold,
NAV be bought separately at the rate of So
each. AT every drawing 1000 complete
tickets are issued, or 10000 quintos; and
there are 200 prizes Should all the
tickets be sold they would amount to
S120,000, whi.c the amount devoted to
prizes would be 500, 900, thus leaving to the
Hospital de Carload clear profit ofS3O, O0O
The hospital runs the same chances with
purchasers of wilmington the unsold
numbers
The lottery craze, like gambling, is
vice that grows upon the victims, and all
SpanishAmericans, male and female, rich
and poor, are addicted to it. The Loteria
de Carload has handsome building down.
town where its manifold busines, is trans
acted. 1t reaches 10 the remotest parts of
the Republic, and runs to Brazil and into
Argentina.
Customs of the Pos;ofice.
Another important institution of Monte
video in which most travellers are interested
is the postoffice. 1t occupies rather hand
some edifce built expressly for the purpose,
and is tclerably we'll conducted, considering
that it is managed by the natives, whose
rule of life is the transposed axiom, "never
do to-day what can be put off until to-mor-
row." Among its several queer features is
the open court yard into which you go to
post your letters There is an opening beside
the letter boxes, with the word "Inutiliza-
ton painted in big letters above it.; and
behind the opening stands clerk whose
business it is to "inutilize" or obliterate
the stamps upon letters, and Won must pre-
sent them to him before dropping them in
the box.
The clerk takes his own time for it, fin
ishes his conversation with some other em-
ploye before paying reluctant attention to
you, meanwhile smoking his cigarette; then
he stares at you curiously, reads the super
scription OH the letter, evidently speculat-
ing upon its contents, weighs it on his hand,
and finally condescends to put a blotch of
ink on the big blue square of the Uruguayan
stamp.
~ the way, have you ever seen the flag
of Uruguay? In my opinion it is the pret-
tiest in the world, next to the Stars and
Stripes of Goods country" and the sky
blue and white stripes Of Argentina This
is also in stripes of blue and white. with
golden sun in the upper corner
nearest the staff, where the square of star,
appears in the American banner
FANNIE T. WARD.