Buenos Ayres

a city of Sout America, capital of the Argentine Re iting on the S. W. side of the La lat a, 150 miles from its mouth. It was founded in 1535 by Don Pedre de, Mendoza, and is built with great regularity, the streets uniformly cro e _ ing each other at right angles. It contains the palace of the President, the House of Representatives, a Town Hall, a number of hospitals and asy- Jums, a cathedral, several monasteries, nunneries, and Gatholic and Protestant churches; several theaters, a university and a custom house. The university, founded in 1821, is attended by about 800 students, There are also a medical school, normal and other schools, besides literary and scient i fie societies. Since 1889 the city has undergone notable changes in the way of local improvement. The most important is the creation of a new system of docks, involving the construction of five long wet docks and great basins, The basins have ample area for the largest ocean steamships, and along their walls are hydraulic elevators by which every hatchway of a ve el may be worked at once. Buenos Ayres is one of the leading commercial centers of South America, its exports and imports together annually amounting to over $60.000,000.