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STRANGE PEOPLE FROM OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.

FAMILIES OF COSTA RICANS, SANDWICH ISLANDERS AND FILIPINOS.

We have delayed the publication of this historical narrative until the last possible moement in hopes--which as we go to press we are gratified to be able to announce have been fully realized--that our special agent sent to Porto Rico and the Sandwich and the Philippine Islands would be able to secure the finest representatives of the strange and interesting aboriginals of the West Indies and the intermediate and remote Pacific isles, now grouped by the fate of war, the hand of progress and the conquering march of civilization under Old Glory's protecting folds.

These insular and oceanic chiefs and warriors, with their dark-eyed wives and wildly cunning children, uniquely and fascinatingly complete with ethnological scope of the Congress of Rough Riders of the World, which thus adds the last and greatest of living novelties and racial object lessons to keep step with the marvelous, potential and gigantic expansion of the nation; the most stirring and romantic episodes in whose history it alone perpetuates, in both personality and heroic action. In semi-civilized and barbaric dress, ornaments and arms, these roamers of tropical jungles and surf-beaten volcanic shores will faithfully illustrate the martial, heathen and home peculiarities of their lives of intermingled feud, pastimes and superstitions; introducing extraordinary feats of strength and skill with primitive weapons, singular and sinuous dances, supple gymnastics, pagan ceremonies and peculiar sports, such as comparatively but few Christian eyes have ever seen.

Paradoxical, too as it would naturally appear in connection with people born and raised under such insular conditions, there will be found among them horsemen fully meriting the high compliment of a place in COLONEL CODY'S Congress of Rough Riders of the World; equestrians full of nerve and dash and sure of seat, even if their accoutrements seem outlandish and their methods surprisingly grotesque to continental riders and audiences. Elsewhere they will receive and everywhere certainly secure, the wider recognition their fine physical characteristics and novel accomplishments so well deserve. Meantime, COL. CODY begs now to, for the first time, cordially introduce them to his and their future fellow countrymen.