The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-09

and yielding fairly we'll; but all the rest remain comparatively unworked, prin- 1 cipally because of the eternal revolu-
 tions that distract the country.
 ! At the last Paris exposition were shown sixty different varieties of "Uru-
 quay marble" In Montivedio every
 house with any pretensions to elegance has it's marble entrance hall-fooring, gables and Sgrand stairway of the same
 beautiful material; and great deal of lit appears on the facades of both pub lie and private buildings. Yet, strange to say, it is nearly all imported, though vast quantities of the finest marble lie within few miles of the Icity. The great coal fields of the north ern provinces are also unworked, and most of the coal used in Uruguay is imported from Cardiff, at an average cost, when delivered, of s15 d ton.
 Since Uruguay lies within the temper late zone, it's fruits are much like those Iof the United tates- applesS, cherries, peaches etc. Strawberries grow to as tonishing size, and are sold by the piece Tor the dozen. never by measure. Green gages,' too. are enormously large, and being valued by good house. wives for putting up in brandy, they Icome high in market-ffteen cents the dozen. Nowhere do vegetables come to Isuch perfection with so little trouble, and therefore they are cheap; but pota- toes are scarce and dear, though cli- their growth, because the natives have mot yet learned to include them in the daily menu and therefore do not raise many of them.
 Grasses remain green and succulent the year around, furnishing the best of |pasturage In Uruguay as in Argen- tina, the pastoral wealth is due to the fertilizing constituents of '.pampa |mud,'' geologically associated with gi- |gantic ante diluvian animals, whose re- mains abound in these regions There are few forests except along the river banks, and the Sierras have no trees worth mentioning. But every hillside is covered with bushes myrtle, acacia, rosemary, mimosa and the ceido, with it's scarlet blooms; while the valleys are fragrant with bay and laurel, and car peted with crimson verbenas and other brilliant flowers. The great Rio Negro (Black river) got it's name from the fact that at certain season of the year it lis blackened by the sarsaparilla grow ing along it's banks; and other rivers are so impregnated with the root of the medicinal plant as to exempt the peo- pie who drink their waters from any skin disease arising from impurities of the blood. There are no scorpions, cen tipedes or tarantulas here to frighten unwary travellers, but enormous spiders are alarmingly common and are said to be veromous. The only dangerous rep tiles are rattlasnakes, and they are chiefly confined to the stony lands of Las Minas There is also a queer little viper called Ia vivora de la Cruz" be- cause on it's head are vivid marks in the form of a cross. Pumas Cnountain lions) are found near the Brazilian frontier and along the banks of the larger rivers. The ounce pronounced ween-ce), a small tiger. roams the wooded island; and there are wildcats. water hogs, tapirs, deer, foxes and mill lions of the little armad1llos ('ant-eat- ers,'' here called rnulitas, or little mules). sole remnants Of the ancient mastodons and rnylodounes. The os- trich, (Rhea Americano),) roams the plains. There are paroquets in the thickets and water fowl on the la goons; cartridges, quail, several speci- mems of the vulture tribe, and tall, lean, ruff1ed crows. The streams are full of fish, and it is asserted that nearly one hundred and fifty species of the finny tribes are found along the seashore. Taken altogether, Uruguay is not an unfavorable place for the hunter, the fisherman or the home seeker.
 FANNIE B. WARD.