Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-19

wceklies and mOnthlies are published here.
Most Of the dailies are in Spanish, but
there are two daily English newspapers and
an Italian newspaper and also one in
French.
As to the school system, this is steadily
improving There are 500 more schools in
Uruguay now than there were in 1876. al.
though as yet only per cent OF the Dopu-
la,ion attend them, and the majority Of the
common people cannot read and write.
There are now in the neighborhood Of 1000
institutions OF learning, public and private.
There are about 1000 school teachers, OF
whom more than two-thirds are women.
Teachers are well paid, the average being
about S35 a month. Most OF the teachers
are foreigners. there being only Cos native
teachers IN the 1880 in service Normal
schools have, however, been established,
and there will be an increased number Of
native teachers in the future.
Monteyideo has university with eighty
five professors and 549 students. The course
In this is very complete, law medicine. en-
elneerlng and the ordinary college studies
being taught. 1t is supported by the gov
I ernment The government also supports an
industrial school, which has 243 pupils. and
military college, which has forty eight
pupils
graph system. 1t has over 1000 miles OF
telegraph lines and in the neighborhood Of
$50 O0O kilograms are annually sent. There
are 63G pustofIcos and last year the pest
office handled in the neghborhood of TO-
600, 900 letters and about 26,0OOOOO news
papers and packages
street scenes in Montcyidco.
But let us go through the city and look
at the people. We start at the wharf and
walk over the cobblestones up the hills in
the shadow OF three-story buildings We
stop to get our boots blacked on the corner
ana are charged cents a shine Newsboys
accCst us with the daily papers just as they
do in New York and well-dressed women
and men pass this way and that.
There are many odd sights. Men go by
us with loads on their heads or their backs.
Here comes a milk peddler. He is of the
same style as these you see in the smallest
cities Of the Argentine Republic. He sits on
his horse with his legs over the neck and
almost on the top of the FIVE leather buck
cts which contain his milk cans. Each can
is stopped with a round piece of wood
wrapped in dirty rag as a cork, and I
doubt whether he changes the rag from one
years end to the other. There, he has
| stopped and has gone into a house. His
horse stands still, although there is no
hitching post or iron ring in sight. He
has tied it by hotbling its front feet with
the whip.
Such men supply this city of more than ;
quarter Of a million with milk. They uset
to supply the butter, which they made by
gallopng their horses so that the joltint
did the churnng. Then, l am told wher
you wanted butter the man dipped his hand!
into one of the cans and pulled out chunk
Now it is not much different outside of the
cities, although Montevideo is supplied Will
butter from dairies. There Is really no butter
used by the common people, and there are
farmers with thousands of cows who ca
their bread dry
street Cars and Electricity.
Listen to the horns. You hear them ever!
| few moments as you pass along the stree
and you wonder whether it is the Uru
guayan Fourth of July or Christmas or New
| Year, and whether the boys are out for {
| holiday. You-soon see that each horn is hell
| by a street car driver, who thus notifies al
| to keep out of his way. He blows his horr
| at the corner of every street and now anC
then gives a toot between times. The car!
are all drawn by horses, and so far electric
| lty as a car motor has not appeared. Their
are electric lights, however, and at public
! celebrations the whole city is ablaze will
| incandescent globes of all colors.
There are few cabs. The numerous hills
and the cobblestone roads retard their use
and the people rely upon the cars as thei
| chief mode of transit. The draying ant
heavy hauling of Montevideo is done in carts
| to which two or three mules are harnessed
one on the inside and the others outside tn
shafts The driver usually rides one Of tn
outside mules These carts have wheels
from six to eight feet high, with hubs as BIZ
around as a scrubbng bucket and shaft
the size of telegraph poles. AS we go furthe
we see that nearly all vehicles are two
wheeled. We wonder why. and learn ina
taxes on such things are paid by the Vince
and that a two wheeled vehicle pays JUS
half as much as one with four wheels.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.