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Managua

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Managua Eeems to have been made the capital of Nicaragua becauso the two principal cities, León and Granada, ■were always flghting for the honor. León approaches the most closcly to the true metropolitan character. It covers a wide extent of country. lts public buildings are admittedly the finest iu Central America, and, besides showing a greater variety of race in its inhabitants, it is the abode of the old aristocracy. Then it has gone in for progress and education, and though it strikes one as a trifle incongruous to see even a railway station in a place like this, to say nothing of the other adjuncts of civilization, there is no blinking the fact that these same adjuncts are there, and that they represent an advance. And the cathedral of cut stone is a magnificent structure, covering an en tire square, and frouting the whole width of the grand plaza. From the roof I saw the wide Pacific shining like a thin rim of silver on the western horizon, white stretching away to the northeast I followed without sbifting my eyes the line of Los Marabios, which are nine volcanoes, some of them as perfectly tapered as an Egyptian pyramid. Managua has a cerain advantage in being situated on, the lemon colored lake of the same name and in being the seat of governmeut. -

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News