The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-03-18

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law passed few years ago. The roo+or
OF the university is the chief of the estab-
llshment. The curriculum is pharmacy
natural science, medicine and surgery. and
Jurisprudence and civil engineering. The
curriculum necessary for graduation is. in
pharmacy and natural science. three
years; medicine and surgery, six wears.
Jurisprudence, seven years; Typographical
engineering, three years; and in the de-
partments of architecture, mechanical en-.
gineering, and bridge and roads. four
years. There are about 400 students at
law, medicine and the applied sciences
and perhaps half as many PURSUING a
classical course. The university also con-
tains the National Library, with reading
rooms free to the public; but it must be
confessed that ''the public do not an
pear to greatly prize the privilege, and
the reading tables are generally unoccu-
pied Most of the books are printed in
the Spanish language, richly bound and
kept IN cedar cases, with glass doors.
Theological works predominant, with
few sections devoted to law, science and
history, but nothing of light character,
as in our public libraries. According to
the latest official reports, made in 1898,
this small Republic has 5s5 primary
schools, with an average daily attendance
of 30, 900 pupils In the city of San Sal
vador there is also a kindergarten sus-
| tanned by private means. For secondary
education there are three official inst-
tutes, supported by the government, in.
Guiding that at the capital. San Salvador
also sustains ladies normal college the
polytechnic school, and normal school
for young men, Besides, there is the
| Salvadorean Lyceum, with 125 pupils.
and the national college for the higher
education of women, both lately establish
ed at the capital. AT Santa Teresa, t here
is college for girls and theological
seminary; at New San Salvador there are
two colleges for males and one for girls: at
Lacatecoluca, capital of the department
of La Paz, there is a female seminary and
college for boys; another at San Vincent;
another at Sonsonate; another at Usuluta.
and another at Ahuachatan. So You see
that education is by no means at low
ebb in this smallest division of Central
America.
The market house of San Salvador is
private enterprise and rather too small
for the place. 1t was mostly made in Eng
land, of corrugated iron, and has a floor
of cement. Outside the market proper is
the real market, like the postscript to
woman's letter-a long, open annex,
where the people exhibit their wares.
shaded from the sun by straw mats set
upon poles. Indians and half breeds are
the principal vendors, and the vast guam
tity and variety of articles brought to-
gether defy description. The market is
we'll supplied with fruits and vegetables
fish and meat from the surrounding In
dian villages. On Sundays and fiesta days,
such as Easter, the anniversary of indie
! peudence from Spain, OF the founding of
| the city by Alyarado, people gather at the
capital from radius of 30 leagues, with
merchants and traders from every part of
Central America, and trade is brisk in
deed. At other times people go to mar
ket in the dim hours of early morning to
purchase one days supplies, and by nine
o clock the market square is quite de
serted.
After the mid day breakfast we spent
the afternoon in trip to Santa Tecla, or
New San Salvador-the city which was
founded in 81 just after the great earth
quake in which old san Salvador was re-
duced to a heap of ruins, with the inten-
| ton of making it the future capital of the
Republic. The old capital however, was
rebuilt and the change in the seat of gov
eminent was not made. The two cities
are only twelve miles apart, connected by
a tramway. In places the grade of the
nor filings worth mentioning. The cars,
made in New York, with four mules at
tached to each, make the journey in a sur
prisingly short time, jerking their human
cargo up hill and down dale regardless of
bumps. Sometimes, for long distances,
the track is hidden a few yards ahead by
tropical jungle, and shaded by cocoa
| palms, bananas, mangoes and tall flower
| ing shrubs; anon it passes between two
dark walls of coffee bushes, at this time of
year laden with dusky red berries; again it
hurries past groups of Indian huts, or lit
tie market gardens and yam patches, and
sets all the dogs a barking in the one vii
lage through which it runs. Santa Tecla
seems tC have been built with an eye to
earthquakes, even more than old San Sal
vador. The houses are low, though very
| large, and the wide streets afford ample
room to shield people from falling walls.
It has several large and handsome parks,
it's central plaza particularly being Wild
erness of shrubs and flowers. Many of
the handsomest private residences, with
their rich, dark verandas and splendid