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SOCIAL LIFE, AND SOME NOTABLE INSTITUTIONS.
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shabby quarters in another part of town, which were once simply a place of amusement, the Theatre Iturbide.
The museum, chiefly of Aztec antiquities, to which one turns with interest, is not of the extent or informing character that may have been expected, and is under by
means brilliant management. Its greatest attraction the arrangement of some of the larger fragments, particularly the great sacrificial stone from the ancient temple
of the war-god, in the court-yard. There is a setting of shrubbery and vines about them, and the sunlight striking in among these upon the gray old remains, produces some charming effects.
