The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-26

one moonlight ride through all the dark, dismal,
I little canals, which really exciting. The
! gondoas are all black, and suggest funeral cere-
! monies The rapidity with which they are rowed
! and the skiIlful manner of turning corner are
wonderful. The gondolier has two cries which
he perpetrates just before turning corner. One
sounds very much like Sty-e-the other is beyond
the power Of the alphabet in my hands. They
are spelled Premi - and 80 Stall - and Ruskin
tells, in "The Stones of Venice" what they
mean.
Venice abounds in palaces whose fronts are on
the canals, but there is not house in Venice
which cannot be walked to. The streets are
more intricate than those of our own dear Bos-
ton, and l should soon think of trying the
Chinese language as trying to find my way
through these lanes. Mr.. Satchcl was gone from
Us one day, an unaccOuntable length OF time.
At last he came back with forced expression OF ,
serenity, and we found he had been lost among !
these narrow streets. Getting lost in Europe is
q very small affair, however, for one can get |
home in facre at any time for 80 centimes. |
One can ride all day for less than so cents an |
hour.
Nothing is more amusing to us than the people /
travelling who speak no language but the English. I
John Bull, in his own inimitable swell, came into /
Florian's one evening with phalanx of ladies, |
and went through various gestures and ejacula |
tions to get his coffee, &c. Finally he plead |
{" bring me your English-speaking waiter y
Alas there was none, and We left him in ex- |
quisite misery. \ baud plays three evenings in
the week in st. Mark Piazza. Consul Satchel /
sent card to the leader requesting the American
national air, which seemed to amuse the tat,
plumed gentleman very much. He said he would
speak to Consul Satchel shortly, but when he left
his stand no Consul was to be found, and Yankee !
Doodle remained unheard. There is one hotel in I
Venice to which it would be well for all fastdious
people to go. The following is its advertisement
in the guide book Hotel-kept by MIR. B.,
who speaks English, and is clean and comiorta-
bic in every respect Master Satchel cannot
see how clean and comfortable landlord adds to
the comfort of a traveller. In one of our cata-
logues of painting we read Paradise much
damaged
We met in Milan two very pleasant young
men from the United States. Strolling through
Paris one day they encountered an unusual crowd,
and concluded to investigate the affair. Enter
ing a church they were informed that 1t was
sG frst-class funeral.' Paris it seems has most
scientific method of disposing of its dead. One
man buries all Paris and his funerals are divided
into four classes. The fourth class costs but ten
dollars, which is not required at time of said
service. Every class has its number of carriages
and perhaps hired mourners like the Hawaiian
Islanders. Such a system has its advantages,
although it wears aspect of absurdIty In its
business-like precision.
In Venice is a rare collection of paintings,
chief of which is Titian's Assumption. The :
galleries are filed with artists copying the most
works, and they offer very tempting
little duplicates for sale. Still, not copy have
seen that satisfied one after having seen the
original. -...
Carlo Dolci's beautiful Madonna, 30 well known
10 US in America, is here, but the expression of
the face is thousand times more perfect and
beautiful than that of any copy. There is, or
was, at Schaus' in New York, beautifully finished
picture Of'the which surpasses all the copies
have found anywhere else.
Victor Emanuel resides here, and opens his
palace grounds to the pu5lic twice a week. In :
The palace is large collection of paintings to be
zen daily. The papers grew quito uneasy few C
lays since over the Kings riding in a third
lass car to avoid observation.
In pouring rain storm we visited Mr.. Powers
tudio, and it is of the most pleasant Euro
,ean memories We carry with US. He is an G
eedingly pleasant man, and spares no pains 10
make visitors at home in his domicile. He has
many beautiful works, is just completing three
ears work-Eve after the Fall. In Mr.. Balls r
tudio we had the good fortune to see his new o.
york-Eye before the Fall 1t is a wonder Of
Tba II of
Is it goes to America in few days its fame will G,
e widely known TO the art world. In Florence
leep Theodore Parker and Mrs. Browning. whose
ombs in the Suisse cemetery speak with much
selling to American travellers.
Two or three weeks in any of these italian
titles seem like the smallest bite of the apple.
We have packed off Consul Satehel to his post in
be sunny south, and are now reduced to>our
riginal number From German studies we pre-
lpitated ourselves into French, and now labor
nth half dozen different dialects. Pantomime -
Indispensable to a traveller. We find It very
in our lodgings. Our landlord-a u.
cry corpulent, 2miable man-makes continual
Sc of it and with great success. He has learned
say "good morning." and with a triumph
I'd smile greets with it at all hours of the
~, long after dark. We pay Ii francs for our Ar
ds, including service, 20 centimes for breakfast,
,out 2 francs fer dinner, 50 that S francs-94 In
uts in gold-eoFer the daily expenses. Rent -
9 rooms and taking meals out is much the most
onomical way of living, and much the most Sn
nvenient. We rush to Rome for rooms before K.
e great council of next month, when priests
III be as many as the sands on the seashore. =
SALLE SATcHEL, SPNsTKR. O..