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Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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of business has its distinctive em-blem. The butcher—elsewhere not a person noted forgreat taste in ornament—displays a crimson banner, andhas his brass scales decked with rosettes. His suppliesare brought him by a mule, trotting along with quartersof beef or carcasses of mutton on each side hung fromhooks. But it is especially the, pulque shops (correspond-ing to our corner liquor stores) w^hich devote themselvesto decoration in its most florid form. Not one so pooras to be without its great colored tumblers, and ambitiousfresco of a battle scene, or subject from mythology orromance. They delight in such titles as The AncientGlories of Mexico, The Famous St. Lorenzo, TheSun For All, The Terrestrial Paradise, and even The Delirium, which often enough expresses the con-dition of customers who imbibe too freely. On the tramways pass not only passenger-cars, butothers for freight. They move the household goods ofa family, for instance. There are also impressive cata- THE CAPITAL. 49
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50 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVIXCES. falqiies and mourning-cars, running smoothly along, withfuneral processions. You may graduate from a hearsewith six horses, driver, lackey, and four pall-bearers, allin livery, for $120, to one drawn by a single mule for$3; and there are cars for the mourners in the grandstyle at $12 and plain for $4. Both these ideas, it would seem, might be advanta-geously adopted by suburban lines of our own. Presently comes by a more economical funeral—acouple of jyeons (as the Indian laborers are called), at ajog-trot, bearing a pine coffin on their shoulders. Battered old churches and convents on a great scale,and of a grand architecture, now for the most part de-voted to other purposes, are extraordinarily frequent.Before the sequestration of Church propertj^—in the warcalled of the Keform, under Juarez, in 1859—Mexico waswell-nigh one great ecclesiastical estate. AVithout goinginto the religious question, and supposing only the opera-tion of ordinary

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