Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-01-27

main land. Opposite w. n the church Della
Saluta," as beautiful as a picture. We are at
the mouth Of the canal, just where The Gid.
decca, Islands Of the JewD-a wider canal
than this--south Of the main city, iOins II.
We lace the south. but just west of us the ca
nal turns norhward and makes the form of an
s through the city. Our hotel Is the Palace
Tirpolo Zu,cheli, u queer, old building, but
like all the palaces on this canal must have
been very handsome centuries ago The floors,
like all those that are not Of solid marble are
of this marble cement; the stairs make me
feel as If | were going up those on the steam.
er, unless hold on to the heavy cUrds--uscd
for bannisters--I will fall backwards. My
room faces palace next door, a few feet only
between, whose windows are barred and look
prison like. Can any one live there? The
weather is cold for Italy, and as / write, the
wind roaIs up the canal, and how dreary
sounds the rattling of the blinds and the
creakiny of some old door How full of the
romance Of possibilities the old palace is, and
how uany strange deeds may have taken
place here, or even in this room, 50 old so
old
On Sunday, we picked our way round to the
English Chapel, where we found full con
grcgation; it is in the pretty hall of palace
ON the Grand Canal, near the Suspension
Bridge; only a short ride from our hotel, but
quite walk, because of the windings in and
out through these funny little streets, the
smallest Of which are only wide enough for
| one person, the largest might allow two car
rhges to squeeze in between the houses, If
there were such thing here. Tde Nenilians
20 out to the public gard N to ride horseback
or out into the country to dine. The princi-
pal streets are lined with shops, and, when
| there is room, little stands outside or course
in Italy we are not surprised to find the 1st
day Of the week like ali others, except that
there is u morning service and some business
is stopped AS matter Of conrsr, we got
lost coming home, hut finally reached ST.
Marks Square, and then stopped to admire
the beautiful place, quite astonished 10 see so
large square in Venice. On enc side, to-
wards the canal, is the Imperial Palace, or the
old one used by The Viccroy of Italy in 1910 ;
the rooms on the ground floor are now used
rs shops. Here is Florian's noted restaurant,
where we stopped for lunch. On two other
sides oil the square are long buildings. Ar
cad,s are in front Of tho sc three buildings,
and always full of people, us st. Marks Square
is the great place Of the city. The church Of
ST. Marks stand at the east end, with the Cam
panile ia The S. L. corner The great church
struck me as very low and not imposing, but
rs one ex Imlnes it, every part outside and in,
i, is most beautiful just one mass of mosaic
f;,.,, ,ha
of the church, and smaller one over each
arm of the Greek cross. There are five front
entrances to the vestibule--over the two side
ones mosaic pictures on gold ground OF mo
safe Over these are five more. Over the
central door stand The four famous bronze
horses, that have travelled 10 so many coun-
tries since the time of Nero. Above the sec
ond row of pictures over the horses the gold
en- winged lion stands, and above that ST.
Mark and virgins knecing to him. ST. Mark
is the patron saint of Venice and because the
winged lion is his emblem, il has become that
of the city. The interior is very rich the
vauted roof of gold mosaic elaboratcly cary
cd with pictures, the floor in numerous pat
terms of mosaic. In the 10th century il was
the small chapel adjoining the Dogc's Palace,
aud attcrward built up in this elegant style,
continuing to be Il chapel till 1907, when il
was first made the Cathedral.
Monday we visited the shops on st. Mark
Square, and then the Doge's Palace, which, as
| said, is connected with the Cathedral on the
| Piazzetta which is between the Piazza and
the Grand Canal. 1t is a very beautiful pal
ace-arcades running around two sides and Il
splendid entrance toward the Piazzetta The
water rises three inches every century, SO that
since the erection Of the palace fifteen inches
haye risen, and as the pavement has been raised
| proportonally, the pillars around the arcadcs
look short and dctract from the beauty. The
mobiles in those old times were accustomed to
walk up and down these arcadcs to discuss
politics The Library within contains the
largest oil painting in the world, covering the
whole end of the large r0om-Tinoretta' S
Paradise" In one OF the rooms was a Gu
rious map of the world, made before 1402, in
which Africa is north and Asia south lii
the second story Of this palace is the Lions
Mouth" an opening in the wall, before which
used TO be the head Of lion into which were
put complaints against any one, with the COM
palmer being known. Sentence of execution
was proclaimed from between two red pillars
in the front of the Palace. The room where
sat the Council of Ten was shown, and adjoin-
ing it, the Senate Chamber. The pictures of
''The Marriage of Catherine" by Tlntoretta,
and Europa" by Paul Veronese, and others
in some of the rooms, were fine. At the back
of the palace is small canal and over this,
leading from the palace TO the prisons, is the
Bridge Of Sighs. We did not cross it, but the
sight of the black walls dibarreG windows
is enough for one. Close to the water is the
door through which prisoners bodies were
thrown down into the river below, with
weights attached
At the Pazzetta we took a gondola and Wis
tied the Arsenal, and the old Cathedral, where
is the marble chair that Peter used Then q
row up the Grand Canal, passing such splen.
did old marble palaces, rising up one after
another from The wafer, of all varieties of
architecture, that even under the blackness of
age, one cannot but eXclaim "how grand,
how beautiful and even though deserted
and put to various uses for business, one must
still obtain from these well preserved monu-