Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-12

down with the sliding earth from aDoN'
TO the bed of the railroad, where thel
were now. OF course TINS r'plu hkn
across the sthmus did not permit me q
examine the canal closely, but ! did -
later. with result I have detniled.
The Panama railroad, ! am told. car
rics $1,000 tons Of freight annually iOl
the Pacific Mali Steamship company
which sets good amount Of money it
motion. II ! am correctly informed, tht
road earns q dividend Of or > per cent
on S7OOO,OOO. having earned as muct
as 40 per cent Ia the years gone by
Thus Il Is friuged with a black line Of
humanity. scattered IN huts or villages
WHO live upon IL In one way or another
The first thing thnt struck me was The
almost impenetrable taugle of growth
BarefOOted natives could Doc seen here
and there walking up th track with their
inuchete ia one hand. which Is ms neces.
s1iy us the staff 10 the blind man. Even
on either side Of the railroad there IS
scarcely three feet Of passing room,
sometimes not that much. Yet riders
phss now aud then on their brOncho
looking beasts when they are not struck
by the engine, which is sometimes the
case. Tho road d. pretty much all ON
made ground. through o swamp. and is.
therefore. lbc unto itself for it, own
purposes. with little provision for other
means Of conveyance thnr Is afforded by
its own locomotives
The flowers are mostly yellow the
rainbow over one Of the mountains look
ed yellow, and in Panama ] saw q little
poodle painted yellow Ii is country
Of yellow the typhoid yellow. The
dcadliest snake here has q black body
and a yellow tail The banana mud
plantain are yellow. The Battalion
Columbian is Uniformed with yellow
straps and cabs are strcakcd with vel.
low. The parrots are yellow green and
II the canary were Of bilious instead
Of u mercurial temperament hc would.
no doubt come ~ perfection here
Some of the trees have huge fungus
formations that remind one of elephnu-
uGsis They are ant beds with thous.
Unds Of ants. These ants strip q tree
Ia night aud play havoc with the
furniture on the quiet They took lodg-
ing In an empty chihouicr nt Colon, aud
when drawer was opened the whole
Of the inside fell into q mass of dust and
debris. Every piece had been honey
cOmbod.
PANAMA NOMENCLATURE.
70 those readers who have the Buckle
turn of mind It may be- Of interest 10
glance At some Of the names Of the
country az suggestive of its general
character and Of the natural tendencies
of the people. Tho list of railroad Btn-
tons may be- fair sample. The names
OF these stations have evidently grown
mp with the country aud come 10 stay.
First, Monkey HILL 20 along skiD-
ping hcrc aud thcrr- then Tigor lin.
then Lion iiill, then Ahorca LugurtO.
which translated means choke or hang
q lizard; Bucnu Vista, beautiful view:
FriiOlcs, bcuus, Bailumonos. monkey
dance; Mumpi, mice: bus Obispu. low
bishop; Hnnt Obispo. high bishop; Lps
Cascades, the cascades. notable chiefly
for the absence Of cascades. except. /
suppose at flood times, Culehru, suuke:
lucNrchu, "a coykrulch. IurWsu. para
disc. Pedro Miguel, Peter Michael: Mira
ilores. thousand lowers; puuumn, fishes
place Running q quick thread of g,n-
crnlizntou through these and gathering
them into some Kind of group we strike
but one spot that refuses tO Ice peue-
unted OF gcucmllzcd. The same is
Peter Michael The shady solution !
arrive nt be- that Mike. or the Irish dole
gaSln, has "pacutcd' the dominant
power of the country in the prcsty
Peter and now "stuud in" with that
telhng Tummany elbow touch that has
linked his name forever with the church
la the station Of Peter Michael
A symbolic, If imperfect. picture of
the country Is comprised I'm this list of
names Ia such fashion as prayers nre
These names ghow how the uatiyp mind
seeded out when loft to itself Thcn.
lcUpng across the Bay Of pannmn to
one OF the Islands, il left the name TO
the ilond Of iguRna, kind of lizard
10 that We have monkeys and wild
bcosS v0Tnints, rcptica, beans. the food
OF the country. bishops the rival bower
In tue republic. cockronchps ana STRETCHES
of hill brilliantly lowered. fish. I'M,
variety aud plenty OF which are mar
vcuus
II brhooves me, for the sake of LOGICAL
completeness, to record here tho well
verified doiugs Of the cockruach. whose
impress upon civilization hcreabouts bns
secured him place iu history. That
bug is Of deep bronze aud looks well
nrmorrd. lie is up and doing M pipIt
va me SECOND aud third stories of thn
ghostly old Panama houses. with their
hgh-nitohrl. dim rooms, resonant with
lonely, hollow-rycd, suugulpd tootbrl
vhllll backed sounds that for a time rob
any Que sleeping alone loo one of those
7rpulchrts of all his modern pnterpis.
anu push The cochrongh aud the ghost
ARE side Partners. fIhp cOrl,rourb's
hnbit is to come straight IN the point Of
the Slerpcrs toe He makes no ado nor
wakes the sleeper. lie cuts Tho tpp.nnil
on uoiselessly and ppmlpssly down IN
tue quick, ana then polishps of the hpol
IN the Samc way. The sleeper knows
uoih!ng OF Il until next morning. when
he finds himself unable IN walk cnm.
tortaby. II Is. therefore. much a.,
custom to look under shoot aud pillow far
ronches nc night before going Ia boJ
The lizard is quite harmless and Is mucb
petted 10y ahc gtouter hearted ms,
scorpion Is used mostly for mnutcl orn,.
mentS In glass bottles of alcohol.