Arizona republican., 1898-03-31

they ever had any, has passed away.
 The Hotel 1nglaterra is considered a fine hotel for Cuba. You would not be satisfied with the cooking and gen eral conduct of the dining room if in the United States. There is scarcely any variation of the menu from meal to meal and day to day. It is printed in both Spanish and English, but as the walters cannot understand the English part of it, you are hopelessly lost if you undertake to give them an order. But I started to tell you about the bedroom. It is very roomy and at least twenty feet high. Broad cony. Iron bars perpendicularly placed make access to your room from the outside impossible. The floor is marble and the walls are covered with heavy dark paper of Moorish design. A half circle of colored glasses over your window makes a very beautiful rainbow effect on the marble floor when the sun shines into the room. The beds are a pretty picture to look at. The bedsteads are brass, with symmetrically curved mosquito canopy tastefully draped to protect the sleeper
 
 | business every month in the year. The picture is somewhat dispelled when you discover there is nothing between you and a very flexible wire mattress except one thin quilt and sheet The effect is something like getting into hammock Another peculiarity of the room is that the partition which sep arates you from the adjoining room Qi oh from the floor, and by standing on a chair, if inclined, you can look in on your neighbors We distinctly heard the voice of two feminines in liquid Span ish from the other side of the parti- tion, but, having an insurance policy insuring against all accidents, we went soundly to sleep without fear.
 It seems to a stranger in Havana that one-half of the population are engaged in selling lottery tickets. They are offered you by all classes, ages and sexes. They are hung on hooks in ele- vators, and the boy or man in charge of the lift suggests that you invest. Almost every store can supply you If you want them. Half-clad men, wo- men and children importune you in Spanish to help them out. The won der is where all these wretched people get the money to start in business. Probably they sell on commission. but it must take a great deal of confidence to trust them on the streets with so much valuable CD property.
 There is a considerable absence of drunkenness in Havana I saw but one person intoxicated and he was hanging around the American consul ate asking assistance. He was an American, I am ashamed to say. His story was that he had been stranded here, and being an American sailor, had been abused by the Spanish, to prove which he showed me the cuts on his head. He apparently deserved all he got.
 The cemetery is an interesting place to visit and one is repaid for the trou- ble of two or three mile drive to see some of the fine monuments there, es pecially one erected by the city to the memory of thirty-six firemen who per ished in a confiagration several years ago. It is of Italian marble, grand in proportions and elaborate in work manship. Medallions in life size of the dead firemen are cut in relief on one of the supporting blocks of marble, nine on each side The main shaft is surmounted with figure of an angel holding the dead body of a fireman in it's arms, and on each side and angle is some beautifully worked designs commemorating the occasion. The whole structure must be about seven ty-five feet high and possibly thirty feet square at the base. It was made in Italy, and must have cost several hundred thousand dollars. The Ha vana funerals all occur at o'clock in the afternoon, and soon after that time you see processions coming into the cemetery from all directions. The car riages remain at the entrance, while the bearers carry the casket to the grave, followed by the mourners. saw several funeral processions wend- ing their way slowly up the hill with out hearse or carriages. These were of families too poor to have anything but plain coffin. This was being car ried on the shoulders of men, and as the distance is sometimes several miles, it requires quite number of able bodied men, who relieve one an- other frequently. Nearly all the lots in the cemetery are inclosed with iron fences, and almost every grave mark has a wreath of metallic flowers at tached to it. There is an appearance of neglect noticeable throughout the cemetery, but that seems to be char acteristic of the people.-St. Louis GlObe-Democrat