The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-15

In 1nt1 no ts 81. morn vish orient hses pfossayed
Fan castlod cli6 and brown monastic shade:
An touched the tatisman's resistless spring.
And To- what busy tribes were instant on the wing!
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xxr na1h1ss AxD LIFE Or ANCIENT foxs.
We will now proceed to people with
human figures the expanse OF brick and
marble which has been presented Ito oar
view, and realize, as we may, the actu-
al movement Of life in the great me.
tropolis, hearkenipg to the surging
murmnrs which stih seem to resound
across the abyss Of eighteen centuries.
Rome, at the time of which we are
speaking, was in the crisis Of that tran
sitional state which most great, CAPT
tails. have experienced. when a rapid in
crease in their population and transac-
tions of daily life has begun to outstrip
the extension of their means of accom-
mediation, The increase of numbers
must necessarily multiply the operations
of industry, which cross and recross
each other in the streets; and though
neither the commerce nor manufactures
of Rome were conducted on the scale to
which our ideas are accustomed, the re-
tail traffic which passed from hand to
hand, and the ordinary affairs of busi-
ness and pleasure, must have caused an
cver-incressing stir and circulation
among the multitude Of human beings
collected within its walls. The unin-
terrupted progress Of building opera
tons, and the extension Of the suburbs
simultaneously with the restoration Of
the city, must have kept every avenue
constantly thronged with wagons and
vehicles Of all sorts, engaged in the
transport of cumbrous materials: the
crush Of these heavy-laden machines,
and the portentous swinging Of the
long beams they carried, round the cor
ners Of tho narrow streets, arc men,
toned among the worst nuisances and
even terrors Of the citizens daily walk
Neither of the rival institutions Of the
shop and the bazaar had been devel-
-oped to any great extent in ancient
Rome. Numerous trades were exer-
cised there by itinerant vendors. The
street cries, which have almost ceased
within our own memory Of London,
were rife in the city of the Caesars.
The incessant din of these discordant
sounds is complained of as making life
intolerable to the poor gentleman who
2 is compelled to reside in the midst Of
them. The streets were not contrived,
nor was it possible generally to adapt
them, for the passage Of the well-at-
tended litters and cumbrous carriages
:of the wealthy, which began to ira
verse them with the pomp and circum.
stance of our own aristocratic vehicle
of century since; while the police Of
the city seems never to have contem.
plated the removal of. the most obvious
.nsases of crowd and obstrnc tim, IN the
display Of gymnastic and gladiatorial
feats, of conjurors' tricks and the buf.
foonery, If the lowest stageplayens,
Amidst tie most freqdented thorough.
fares. The noble seldom crossed his
threshold without q numerous train Of
clients and ,retainers; the lower people
collected at the corners of the streets
ia, heat the gossip Of the day, and dis
cuss the merits Of racers and dancers
the slaves lowered over the steam OF
thu upeu COOK shops, or i0ttered on their
errands, to gaze on the rude drawings
or pore over the placards on the walls.
TIE last eentsryrhsd filed tbel impen-
81 capital with multitndes OF foreigners,
attracted by curiosity as much as by
business to the renowned emporium Of
the wonders Of the world, who added
TO the host Of idlers and gazcrs in the
etreets,ef, Romeh pe11og- strange 7oos-
Time Sdd figures, and; when theyspoke,
Of speeAfMill stfsAgss WIN, while they
razed around them with awe and ad.
miration, became themselves objects Of
interest % crowd Of lounging citi.
sens. The marked though casual man.
MR. IN which the throng Of the streets
3 noticed BY the Roman writer's, shows,
IN the strongest way, how ordinary .
(s94nro Il was Of life in the city,
TArt1xn5Ep exohange says. "Eliza.
hafh. Elixa. TeabeI. Betty. and Bess are