Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-05
New Fancy Taffeta, $50 and $l.I8 yd

beef about them and peddle chunks out to
the passengers. All of these butcher women
had cigars in their mouths, and they smoked
as they chatted with one another etween
sales. Other women were selling laces
and others had baby clothes. saw one
or two shoe peddlers, and some were SELL
ing cakes, eatRble and sweets.
Ten Oranges for IA Cent.
The oranges were delicious. There are
none better to be found anywhere than in
Paraguay and none elsewhere so cheap.
l have bought a dozen oranges every day
since l came into Paraguay, and is is sur
prising how many one can eat. The poorer
people live on them during the season, and
it is not for a man to eat TWEEN
ty-five in a day. You can get them almost
for the asking. l have had ten for a cent.
At one of the stations, Santa Clara, l offered
a medic, worth three-quarters of an Ameri-
can cent. TO an orange girl. saying in my
gibberish Spanish:
"Quantos oranges por I'm medic, senor-
ita?"
"Ocho," eight replied the damsel, as she
gripped her cigar between her ivory teeth
and held out both hands full of oranges.
They were as fine as any raised on the
Indian river. They were fresh from the
trees, and had / been able to go to the
OrcndruS i mlSuL udNS pIODdDiy udu lucii
for the picking. Here orange trees are sell
dom cultivated, but they produce fruit Of
such sweetness and color that you might
think the sap was mixed with sugar and
gold.
The skins of the oranges are fun OF oil.
| They have so much that If you squeeze
orange peel bubbles OF oil will stand out
upon it, and if you touch a match to them
these bubbles will go off in a flash as though
they were powder. i should think that fac
tories for making marmalade and other
things from oranges might be established
! here at a prott.
J Queer Things in Paraguay.
l am surprised at the beauties Of interior
Paraguay. The country Is rolling, and there
is something new to be seen at almost every
turn OF the car wheel. There are orange
trees In the thickets and nearly every viii
lage of matched huts has orange trees about
1t. There are palm trees on the plains.
They grow in groves or in clumps rather
than in forests. Some varieties are loaded
with nuts, great punches of little balls, no
larger around than a walnut, but OF the
same shape as the large cocoanuts sold in
our markets. These little cocoanuts are
very valuable, and the raising of them is
one of the most profitable of the smaller
industries of Paraguay. They are ground
up and used for making soap.
Large parts OF Paraguay are natural pas
lures, with here and there clumps of woods
or forests scattered through them. 1t is
only the hills that are covered with trees.
The most of the other lands have a rich
growth OF grass. Nearly all of the land
along the railroad is taken up. 1t is held in
large tracts, many OF the farms being fenced
with barbed wire. 1t is queer to notice the
different kinds of pasture. Some are COW
cred with grass, which is coarse, gray and
dead, and right next to these you will ride
through meadows as green as Kansas in
June. The green fields are where the land
has been burned over to improve the pas
ture. AS soon as the dead grass Is burned
OFF the green sprouts come up. This burn
ing Is done by many farmers once every
year. l have found the grass better as /
have come to the south. About Pirapo there
is grass as high as your waist, and the cattle
are standing in 1t up to their bellies.
The cattle are OF a mongrel breed. They
are much like the long-horned stock which
we had in Texas a generation ago, and
which, until within a few years, was COM
mon in the Argentine. Now the Argentines
have very fine stock, and this will event.
ually % the case among the Paragraphs.
The most OF the stock here feed out in the
open without visible care. l have seen no
herding, although on some ok the farms /