Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-15

70. Looked also at the TRANSPORTATION, !"
again-it Is q powerful picture. A man stood
looking at II the other day for bong while.
and could hardly be torn away. The upper
part Of the picture is the mount with the
prophets and three disciples. while in the low.
er part arc the other disciples failing TO cure
the little boy possessed with devil, while the
father holds the child with look of agonizing
supplication. This man could not take his
eyes off from that face; ii moved him to the
deepest sympathy lac said, and teals stood in
his eyes TO prove it,
, In the evening we went to see the " Marion
etts." or Puppets" They are one of the
sights OF Italy, and so often dcscribedin in books
of travel that perhaps need hardly describe
them to you. They arc little wooden figures,
supported by iron rods fastened to their heads,
and arc worked by men above, who pull the
mary wires for the different parts of the body
with such skill that they seem like real men
aud women acting. The stage is 50 small that
they do not look as dimnutye as they really
are; and the theatre itself is 80 wee, that from
oar boxes we could talk about the play! 1t
was very comical, The first play was spoken
like any other tragedy, but we sat 50 right
above the stage that we could not tell what
voices belonged to what man and that we
could see the whole farce Of the thing by
watching the man swinging the puppets down
from their hooks to suspend them ON the rod
above the stage. The funniest part was the
ballet, for that is always pantomime, and the
dresses and general effect were very pretty,
aud the dancig astonishing While the princess
was sleeping ON rock, and i'll an extremely
uncomfortable position too, Tor her head was
not IL: down enough TO rest upon anything,
the sea arose. ,(sreen turcton), and the fish came
swimming around, aud Neptune drove by in
his chariot, and finally big fish came down
and swallowed the poor thing. 1t was all
capitally done. Once, they say, they played
" Macbeth" aud in the Holy Week suppose
they ielt bound TO play something solemn, So
produced IIerod and John the Baptist"
From Rome, al one o'clock, to Naples, was
indeed lovely ride-frst the long extent OF
acqueddct and the many picturesque ruins
excited our admiration-then came long
stretch Of campagna very fertile and green
with grass and wheat. Between the rows of
peas were wide paths of grass. Wheat is now
hve feet high, l should guess; apple, peach,
and almond trees are in lull blossom or have
dropped their gay corollas for the quiet fructi-
Tying work. All the trees are coming out in
their green foliage, and the whole country is
fresh and beautiful. The olive trees are much
larger than in Florence There were many
pretty little scenes ON the way--peaSants in
their woUlen skirts, and white cotton hadkcr-
chiefs arranged on the head to make broad
shelter from the sun; and the men with
br.echcs and stockings, stopping work TO look
at the train; goats climbing the rocky hill
sides; shepherd sitting high upon the rocks
crook in hand, peasant costume, cooked hat,
sheep below; cities built up hillside, with
the houses close together and all of dngy
plaster except where'a fresh yellow hotel en-
livens the drab uniformty mountains, mon.
asteries, churches, donkeys with burdens three
or four times the size of the animals vine
yards the blue sky, all make us feel we are in
Italy. There is charm, too, in the thought Of
riding South to the warm, genial sun, and the
blue Mediterranean and the country of fruit
In the darkness, at s o'clock, at Naples, there
is only rain to greet us, and in the long long
drive away around the city side of the bay, we
could not tell in the obscuritY, where the water
was, but for the thousand gas-lights. Naples
is very full, and it was only at the third hotel
that we could procure room.