Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-26

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A pleasant correspondent in Italy sends
10 the Boston Post gossipY letter about
the railroads in Italy and their peculiari-
ties9 After allhding TO the difficulties of
building railroads in so mountainous a
country, the writer proceeds:
There are three classes of cars on the
Italian roads, of which the third is gener--
ally crowdfd. the second halfor two-thirds
full, and the first only occupied by Ameri-
car. Epglisl's ansll BOW and then a stray
grandee from France or Germany
These latter birds are, however, rare, and
for the most part one hears only the English
tongue on the frst-class cars. These are
very comfortable and supplied with long
tubes Of hot water for the feet. The second
c.ass are provided with cushions, and are
plainly and neatly fitted up. They ere con-
venient enough for people in general, and
for gentleman travelling alone, especially
if he likes To- be 7sOciable and desires to
learn the language of the country. for the
Italians are very affahles and talkative
and return any offered civility with in
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They have disagreeable way, however,
of spittinge0n the floor, aud of eating guam
titles of roast cbesi nuts whose shells they
thTow1under foot or beneathithe seats, both
of which practices render a sCcOnd-class
car by no means pleasant or desirable for a
lady. The thiFd-elass wagons. or Ud0one
as they are called, are quite rude in their
arrangement; their seats are plain pine
benches, without any notifying medium
betw cen them and the susceptible part of
the human frame that comes in contact
with them, and, as applied to them, the verb
to sit issan active verb. Z Nevertheless they
do very we'll for the cOntddina, or peasant
Ty, and are both neater and softer than the
seats they are accustomed to at home, par
ficulaFly that class who travel with copper
kettles, hand-saws and live turkeys, and
so sfrikingly cali to mind Shernian's for
The custom of weighing luggage is not
near SO annoying to Italians as to other
nations, and particularly to our country
men and the English.
The Italians show most deInonstrative
and pestiferOus energy when i5s becomes d
matter OF money saving, and will carry |
more and larger boxes and bags and
Valises in their hands than any 9th er peo- |
pie l ever encountered. These they stow |
away under their seats and on the racks |
overhead, until l have often seen a passen- |
ger car strikingly resemble freight car
and really all the baggage in the car used |
for that purpose would not equal that
which was erammed into a passenger car |
with these compartments.
am almost Invariably asked, and often
urged, by the railway porters, to take into |
the cars in my arms my large black bag, |
bundle of shawls and coats, hat box and |
an umbrella, and they, rather wonder at my |
choosing to pay for the carriage of a part /
of them rather than be troubled with them |
at ALI; and i'm fact, considering now much
they know in regard to the pIundering Of
passengers, l am not surprised at their
wonder. The third-class passengers, it
seems to me, rather overdo this thing at
times. : ] certainly thought so few days
ago, when,I saw Voyager of that persna-
sion getting into car with large copper
kettle slung upon one arm, a long saw for
two men, such as is used for saving heavy
timber, on the other, while two live turkeys
were sluDg by their legs around his neck
and dangled down his back, with an occa-
sional asthmatic gobble Wrungs from them
by force of circumstances. This interest
ing spectacie passed up and down the
length of the whole station two or three
times, looking for hole large enough toi
creep into before it finally disappeared inl
The bowels of car like Jonah in the
whales belly. It was too common, how
ever to attract attention from any one butt
myself, and no one seemed to regard it as
peculiar, or even humorous.
1t is no uncommon thing to see a,woman1
getting into second class car with half a
Iozen live hens tied together by their feet,
yrithing and struggling in, a way by no
means agreeable to the rest of the lpassen-1
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