Category: Humour

Three gringos in Venezuela and Central America

ABOUT PARIS. $1 25. THE PRINCESS ALINE. $1 25. OUR ENGLISH COUSINS. $1 25. THE RULERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. $1 25. THE WEST FROM A CAR-WINDOW. $1 25. THE EXILES, AND OTHER STORIES. $1 50. VAN BIBBER, AND OTHERS. $1 00. (Paper, 60 cents.)

Chapters

1. Part 1

ABOUT PARIS. $1 25. THE PRINCESS ALINE. $1 25. OUR ENGLISH COUSINS. $1 25. THE RULERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. $1 25. THE WEST FROM A CAR-WINDOW. $1 25. THE EXILES, AND OTHER STORI...

2. Part 2

When you turn your back on the custom-house at Livingston and the rows of wooden shops with open fronts, you mount the hill upon which the town stands, and there you will find n...

3. Part 3

And so within five minutes after arriving in the mysterious harbor of Puerto Cortez I found myself at home under the roof of the outlawed lottery, and being particularly well tr...

4. Part 4

The grades are in some places very steep, and as the engine was not as young as it had been, two negro boys and a box of sand were placed on the cow-catcher, and whenever the ne...

5. Part 5

In the early part of the afternoon we arrived at another one of the farm-houses belonging to young Dr. Pazo, and at which he and his brother happened to be stopping. We had ridd...

6. Part 6

It was a bright, clean town, sitting pertly on the flat top of a hill that fell away from it evenly on every side. It had a little church and a little plaza, and the church was...

7. Part 7

There do not seem to be very many men killed in these revolutions, but the ruin they bring to the country while they last, and which continues after they are over, while the “ou...

8. Part 8

It is very well for President Zelaya, or Barrios, or Vasquez, or whatever his name may happen to be this month, to write to the New York _Herald_ and tell the people of the Unit...

9. Part 9

The top of our veranda was swept by a row of plane-trees that grew in the sandy soil of the beach below us, and under the shade of which were gathered all the idle ones of the p...

10. Part 10

The prisoner did not want his wife to know what had happened, and so sent her word that important legal business would detain him at the office, and that his dinner was to be br...

11. Part 11

The portraits in the state-room of the palace immortalize the features of fierce-looking, dark-faced generals, with old-fashioned high-standing collars of gold-braid, and green...

12. Part 12

[A] Since this was written, Professor S. H. Woodbridge, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been successful in having a bill passed which hinders the lottery still...