Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-25

i bowed.
The young prince entered. He was a
handsome lad of twelve or thirteen. His
father told him to kiss me, He did SO. ar.
him, "can't you bear witness to NJ. Dumas
| read nothing but his works ?" '.1I' %"
"Oh, yes, his works-and Paul de Rocks
works, father" ..,,. ,,,..-.....
'sYou saticy rognen exclaimed the Duke,
laughing, and drawing from under his pill
low the volume he had concealed. 1t was
Paul de Rocks "Sister Anpe.pqr -,Jyi,aL
Twas greatly astonished when l heard
that this handsome, sprightly lad proved a
tyrant when ne became The Duke OF Par
ma. Chance has enabled me to give details
about his assassination which very few peo-.
pie have it in their power to give.
The little Duchy of Parma was real
emerald set in the gold of Italy, ~ 5lgG
A singular peculiarity of its inhabitants
! is, that in general the same man does not
speak five or six languages, but five or six
men speak each different language. Half
the inhabitants of Lucca are figure mOng-
ers. Those poor creatures we meet in the
streets carrying on their heads (Which are
protected by a pad) a board filled with all
| the Pagans and Christians who have ever
| lived, are for che most part natives OF Lucca.
| ] said to one of them, II never see you
sell any of your plaster figures; how do
you manage to make your livingM ''''.
| "Ah, sir, there are the accidents !" Ji1l
/ "The accidents! what do you meant"
"People break a great many Of our plas-
ter figures" .'.o'- -" I.."' "'' 4
OF a truth this is the real profit Of these
people,. People i'm hurry j0stle the poor
figure monger. Two or three statuettes
lose their balance in consequence OF the
shock and come tumbling to the ground.
They are shivered to atoms. The peddler
begins to cry. A crowd collects He is
pitied, and murmurs are raised against the
author of the mischief, He is in q hurry.
He knows the value of time, He throws
four or five pieces of silver to the poor
peddler and passes on This is the way
they make their living. y ...l....., ..,j o.
These figure mOngers 60 all over, the
world-to France, England, Germany, Hol-
land, Hungary, America, Oeeanica, and
even to China. They return stathmering
in broken accents the languages Of all the
countries they have visited. Hence it is
that more languages are spoken In the
Duchy of Lucca than in any other one
place. .. tr....r ...r, .,....t....-,....., ..,-
If one wishes to exasperate an inhabit-
ant of this duchy, one has but to tell him.
that when Christopher Columbus landed
for the first time in America, o native OF
Lucca was the first person he saw, and he
came up to Columbus asking him if he did
not want to buy statuettes Of Ferdinand
and Isabella lt.H .IiGJ la.Dlmr
About a quarter of the populations of
Lucca go to Corsica during harvest
tide. The Corsicans themselves are too
lordly to reap. These laborers live on four
cents q day, ,tand return after harvest with
thirty dollars in their pockets. 4, -,'..
! Meanwhile the rest remain at home, and
so carefully cultivate their sihgularly fer
tile soil that they are able to raise three
crops year on it,. .'' fnI bio o.
In going to visit the country house which
my friend is repairing two miles from the
Lucca baths met man employed by the
day. He told me that he had not for the
last ten years spent more than four sous a
day. He ate nothing but bread and drank
only water Another man heard him boast
of his frugality, and shrugged his shoulders.
questioned the latter. He spent six sous
a day, and had anchOvies for dinner, and
drank glass of wine at each meal.
| We went to-day to visit village called
Braga. 1t is situated on the summit Of one
of the spurs of the Apprentices. al.W 2
Braga was situated on the plain until
| 1900. When Castruccio Castroccianf-the
| petty tyrant to whom Machiavelli did the
! honor of writing his history--re-entere
| Lucca and was made leader of the Ghibe-
lines, he waged war adj the Guelph cities.
| Braga was then obliged to retreat before
| the conqueror Git was then a Guelph city, (;
| 1t climbed the mountains, and fortified itself
on the summit. The church alone remained
at the foot of the mountain, and indicates
to travellers where old Braga stood.
We were on the theater Of Norcino's ex-
| plOits. The conversation turned upon him.
One, of the persons present was the SON OF
a miller, to whom Norcino had done good
service. After two bad harvests this mil
Ter got behindhSnd in business" His land
| lord grew impatient for his rent, and at last
distrained. The rent due was two hundred
and forty dollars. Bills were posted ad-
vertising the sale Of the miller's property.
| The prayers of the miller, his wife and
children had all been in vain. The land
lord was inexorable. He ordered the sale
| to be made without postponement. The
following day was appointed for the sale.-
The evening before the sale a stranger pre-
sented himself at the mill, gave the miller
two hundred and forty dollars, and bade
the miller pay his landlord. =. 80 -.
The miller eXclaimed.' "But how can
ever repay you this money?rO1 '-1uI $3.50
The stranger replied, "Never mind that.
/ will repay myself. Take care to send u
messenger to your landlord to ask him to
come and receive the money in person, and
give you receipt for it,"1 l3tt HrG "-'nu,
The landlord came, received the money,
aud gave receipt in full to the miller. A
hundred yards from the mill, 'Norcino lay
in wait for him on his'return, and, as he
had said, he repaid himself. 1t is by actions
like, these that the Italian banditti secure
inviolable retreats for themselves, when
they are hunted.
The millerSs son told us another anecdote
of Norcino, which proved the famous ban
dit did not disdain to mix comedy and
tragedy, like modern dramatists. The first
time he was made prisoner. Norcino was
carried to the Pescia jail. He succeeded
in escaping from his prison by cutting a
hole in the WALL; As soon as the hole was
cut, it became very important that he should
be able to hide it from all eyes for whole
day. HeDasked the turnkey to give him a
sheet of paper, q pen and an inkstRnd, The
turnkey, granted his request He drew,ra
vessel, about to Sail, on The large sheet Of
paper, wrote under 1t, Domdnt bdYte -a-sS It
leaves to-morrowfe- pasted 1it ovenihis
hole,r In good truth the ,yesselWent the
next day, and Norcino with i'll .i,,.T ,,,,.,
/ have spoken of the frpgality Of the
people of Lucca. We had additional evil
dence Of it at Bfaga. Sighorl Talinucei
told lus that more than halflthe populationi
lived Ion chestnuts, gathered from the chest
nut trees with which all the mountains are
covered. ''As soon as the chestnuts are
gathered they are dried and gf6and to Hour.
Zach one secures his stock Of breadifor the
year by picking up ehestputs, Everybody
makes his, own, bread. It is made by mix