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A delicious dentifrice that cleans
the teeth and refreshes the mouth.

"Colgate Comforts"
on sale at all dealers

COLGATE & CO.

Established 1806

Makers of Cashmere Bouquet Soap-luxurious, lasting, refined

ing with Panama, but it made in the beginning and has made ever since very good bargains. It got it's money's worth.

Locomotives were not dumped into the Black Swamp, but a few od French dump-car bodies were, in an effort to make a broad-bottomed mass that would float upon the soft mud of the swamp.

Panama currency is not on a silver basis. The standard is the gold balboa equal to the United States dollar. Only pesos have been coined, however. The "dollar silver" does not pretend to be a dollar, but, as its legend indicates, is "fifty hundreths of a balboa."

Polite Americans are not disliked by Panamans, but the kind of hoodlum that enters the churches with his hat on, pries into the homes of the people as he passes along the street, speaks of the people in their hearing as "spiggoties" or "niggers," is looked upon as a "pig," although pigs are usually not so ill-behaved.

Trees and Plants.

The part of Panama that the traveler sees, the Isthmus proper, has little vegetation indicative of that which characterizes the less settled portions of the country. The route along which the tourist travels has been cleared and burned over for four hundred years, and hardwood trees get little chance in a region so subjected to change. Here and there, however, one sees a lignum vitae standing alone in the jungle, and in the dry season when its top is covered with yellow blossoms it makes a brilliant sight.

A writer in a recent number of Harper's Weekly told in enthusiastic terms of the wonderful future for furnituremaking along the banks of the Canal, picturing the region as thick with cabinet woods. As a matter of fact there is scarcely enough hardwood in any one mile along the Canal, to build furniture for one home. The more common trees along the route are the mango, characterized by its leaves of green, yellow, and brown; the espeve which the natives hew out for canoes; the cocobolo, which is so hard as to make good knife handles; orange and lime; coconut, and other palms of various kinds, the corozo being the most common. The royal palms seen here and there were brought to Panama from Cuba in 1883.

There is a wild profusion of ferns and grasses, the most beautiful being the bamboo, which grows in clumps along

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ASPINWALL HOUSE

ESTABLISHED 1877

ENGLISH TWEEDS

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SERGES

IRISH :: LINENS

COMPRISING:

Drills, Ducks, Sheetings, Handkerchiefs, etc.

INDIAN FIBRE BAGS

Full line of Dry Goods and Notions

Piza, Piza & Co.

Avenida Central and 8th Street, Panama

the streams; the most profuse, the wire grass that grows abundantly in damp places; the kind that attracts most attention from the tourist, the papyrus. Wild cane grows in abundance in various sections along the river bottoms.

The most noticeable decorative plants are the bougainvilla, croton, and ferns of great luxuriance of growth and scores of varieties. A great favorite among the Americans on the Isthmus as a decorative plant is the orchid in one or more of its scores of forms. There are two varieties especially affected because they are considered very rareSpiritus Sanctus, and Lady of the Night. The Spiritus Sanctus is a white bell enclosing a stamen formed like a dove, and the resemblance is remarkable. The Lady of the Night is so called because it is said to be fragrant only at night. The best collections of orchids on the Isthmus are said to belong to Dr. J. C. Perry, of Ancon, and Mrs. H. H. Rousseau and Mrs. D. D. Gaillard of Culebra. The tourists can see thousands of orchids on the way from Colon to Panama by merely looking from the car window at the older trees, many of which are literally covered with these plants.

Part of the contract of the old French Canal Company with the firm that did the preliminary work of building on the Isthmus was the construction of a Ancon Hos- hospital at Ancon. The side of the hill where pital Gardens. the hospital now stands was terraced for the buildings, and in 1882 a number of Sisters of St. Vincent were brought to Panama to act as nurses. Their superior was Sister Marie Rouleau, and it happened

International Pharmacy

D. FERRUCCIO BERTOLI, M. D.

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CENTRAL DRUG STORE

Avenida Central and 10th street, Panama
ESTABLISHED 1881

Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Perfumeries, etc.

Prescription Department in charge of competent
Pharmacists

Fine Manicure Sets and Toilet Articles

Crisfulina, the great ringworm remedy. "Remedio Renjifo," effective remedy for rheumatism and blood

SPECIAL AGENT FOR

purifier

Newbro's Herpicide

Nialocin Digestive and Laxative Tablets
Iron Tincture of Athenstaedt

C. N. Disinfectant

Special Agency for

ROYAL STANDARD TYPEWRITER

EMANUEL ESPINOSA, B.

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