The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-08

fear OF casting any renecaon upon the cleanliness
of the household. They are everywhere. they
keep one awake an hour or two every night; they
wake you up early when they commence to break
their fast; they accompany you on yeur wander
ings and annoy you to such degree that you
praise Jehovah when you can get chance to-
scratch. 1t Is no use Disgusting the word. Every
body scratches IN Rome, from His Holiness and
Victor Emmanuel down to the newsboys on the
Corso. Flea hunting is q favorite occupation OF
foreign residents in Rome. Natives let the tor
mentors have free run. They can stand them
Visitors suffer severely from them. The most in
teresting memento visitor could possibly take
with him from Italy would be q photograph OF
Roman patriarchal nea, one which has done duty
ever since the Coliseum was first built. would
suggest to the Roman photographers. who take
everything in the way OF scenery and ruins to turn
their attention to this branch OF industry, Every
visitor would purchase, especially II artistlcally
done, in imitation OF the three-bees escutcheon OF
the family Barberni. To further increase the HIS
torica interest, the photographs might he mounted
in border OF Italian half-lira shinplasters anu
the physognomes of few Italian railway Oilc ais.
The shinplasters would remind the traveller OF the
many annoyances to which he Is unnecessarily
subjected on Italian International railroads.
RAILROAD TRAVELLING IN ITALY.
At the Florence depot wished to procure a d.
rect ticket for Vienna. ! was provided with paper
money, yet found that with it could not procure
my billet. The fare was one hundred and seventy
odd francs, One-haf OF which then learned must
be paid in paper and the other hall in
gold. But" l said, ~ have only ma
tional paper money; can you not calculate
the premium, and allow me to give you the amount
In paper ~ No! half the amount must be paid in
gold. So had to purchase ticket for Venice, not
gold. In Venice the fare to Vienna was ninety
seven lras gold There, too, had to pay gOld
paper not being received for international tickets
or course can well understand that such fares
should be paid in gold but no one except an
Italian can understand why the traveller cannot
pay its equivalent in the currency OF the land My
baggage cost me twenty-five francs and few
kreuZers. This can be paid in paper. had, I'M
fortunately, changed all my money into gold l
had to pay gOld twenty-five francs, and the official
refused to recognize the difference in premium 1
hope the four francs he swindled me out of may do
him good. From Vienna to Berlin the fare is like
wise calculated on the silver bass but you pay its
equivalent in paper, and no difficulty Ii eXpe-
rienced Why cannot the Italian railroads adopt
the same plan9 The daily fluctuations OF gold are
slight, and the losses OF one day would be bal
anced by the gains on the next. mention these
viding themselves with gold when travelling from
Italy northward.
VIENNA.
The few hours l spent in Vienna do not enable
me to give a comparison of the prices now and as
found them q few weeks before the opening OF the
Exposition. The hotels are crowded and had
difficulty IN finding room, for which paid in
third class hotel four guldens per night. 1t Is
true that in every room there is printed schedule
giving the price Of said ROOM OF service and other
things; the same bears the stamp of the official
authorities. l am, nevertheless. inclined to the
belief that these stamped schedules of prices are
obtained by the hundred, and the hotel keeper can
place them wherever he chooses Private apart
ments are to be had in abundance. The Austrian
government does all in its power to provide for the
accommodation of strangers and to prevent their
being imposed upon. The conductors on the road
from Trieste Vienna distribute to the travellers
an Official notice giving the address OF the official
bureaux for apartments 1t reads as iolows:-
In the interest Of strangers visiting the Vienna
Exposition the City Council Of Vienna has opened
bureauX which give information gratis respecting
apartments to let. These bureaux OF information
established in each district.
First Dist,-ict-Innere stadt Rathhause, wip-
pingerstrasse, 8.
Second Disnict-Leopold stadt, Bezirkskanzlei,
Third Observation-Disclosures, Bezirkskanzlei, &C.
meindepatz, 3.
fVrn District Margarethen, Bezlrkskanzlei,
Hundsthurmerstrasse 49,
hilferstraSse, 10.
Seventh District-Neubau Bezirkskanzlei, Neu-
Eighth District-Josefstadt Bezirkskanzlei,
Schmidgasse Is.
Ninth District-AIsergrund Bezrkskanzlei, wan
The Communal Council OF Vienna, May Is, 1873.
SHAH AND EMPEROR.
What shall l say OF Berlin, now that the Shah of
Persia has left and the Emperor himself Is at
Schloss Babelsberg, recuperating from the exertion
and unpleasantnesses connected with the visit OF
the great Persians l arrive just in time to hear
all the Berlin gossip about the event.
The general belief here Is that the Kaiser's
sickness was fegned in order to escape the annoy.
ances caused and the breaches OF etiquette COM
mitted by the SHAH at Is curious fact" says
the wise PORTER Of my hotel "that the Kaiser was
better on the very day after the Shah left u.s."
'wei, what did the Shah do then Has he not
left good impression behind "Ha hal" he
laughed. "good impression Yes, on the schloss
window curtains, the carpets Of the royal apart
ments and in the dance halls. What do you think
he or his underlings did ~ al don't KNOW "Welb
he never came up to time. He made the Court
went to POtsdam he kept 1t waiting half an
hour while he was driven about the town
looking at the sights. Then at dinner, when
the dish of strawberries was handed round,
he kept the entire dish to himself instead Of
allowing it 10 be passed on. When he went away
he jumped into his carriage without making any
adieu. Another time, wnen he was at the OPERA
the Empress was seated beside him. She arose
from her seat to converse with some one, but the
Shah, thinking that she was about to leave him.
took her by the arm and pulled her to her seat
again. Then that lamb business. The servants
had already killed one in the beautiful apartments
of the castle before the royal servants stopped
them but not before the fellows had wiped their
bloody fingers on the lace curtains of the windows
The Court felt greatly relieved when he departed.
May His Imperial Majesty never send his dirty
warriors to this hotel again. Did not pay a
grOschen Trinkgeld. Did not even pay for their
harems. Said the Kaiser would foot the hills