Rosario
the third city of the Argentine Republic, and the largest in Santa Fé; on the W. bank of the Paraná, 190 miles N. W. of Buenos Ayres. It has an excellent harbor, and carries on a large commerce direct with Europe; the exports exceed $100,000,000. The houses for the most part are of a single story; for the rest, the city is laid out, on a smaller scale, on the lines of Buenos Ayres, with narrow streets, few and paltry plazas, and only one monument of note-a lofty marble shaft (1883) bearing a figure of Victory and surrounded by four statues. ways run in every direction, and there is a telephone to Buenos Ayres. The city possesses an exchange, a theater, a great bull-ring, two markets, hospitals, steam elevators, a sugar factory, etc. Rosario was founded in 1725. Pop. about 250,000. 3. Glorious. - The Resurrection, the Ascension, the Descent of the Holy Ghost, the Assumption, and the Coronation of the B. V. M.
There are also the Rosaries of St. Bridget, of the Seven Dolors, of the Immaculate Conception, of the Five Wounds, and the Crown of Our Saviour. (2) The beads on which any of the foregoing forms of prayers are said.