Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-06-02

| There is no race of people that despise
quite so heartily as the Italians, It would
require much paper for me to tel yen fpllllyy
why Fthink them SO contemplate. 8 race.
While there I learned to speak their Ian
guage with more ease than the jabberish
Dutch, or the smooth but miserable French.
Travelling cost me less in Italy than in any
other country. They are filthy and degra-
ded, and more thoroughly welded to the
church than any other nation, They are
constant in their ceremonies at church,
and after they rise. from their knees before
the Virgin Mary, they go to their several
employments bent on swindIing their first
customer. They have no business .prinei-
pies, unless it is to take all they can posi-
bly, get. If you go into restaurant and
ask the price Of cup of coffee and bread
before you eat it, you viii have to pay what
every one else pays; but if you order and
eat it, then ask what the charges are, you
win have to pay at least twice and some
times three times its worth. One must in
qpire the price of the smallest as wen as
largest article before taking it. Articles
sold at the stores are always valued by the
clerks sand prepFietofs ct -twe-eF- three times
their true value, expecting to come, down
If YOU know what it's worth and viii not
pay more.
The streets Of italian villages and cities
are unexceptionably filthy beyond endur-
ance, and there is no act of private life
that does not actually stagger a stranger
) Although, the people-ef Sicily, farther
south on the Mediterranesn, are Italians,
they are less filthy in their persons, but
much more dishonest in business; beside,
lIwould not like to be out much after dark
where they could take advantage Of me.
But what grand time had eating or
sngesl Cart loads of them in the street.
and such splendid looking golden fruit.
Qls,ceuld buy four large ones or five me-
dun sized but excellent ones for one soldo1
about cent?. Great bags of figs, too, are
everywhere exposed for sale, and a dozen
cost the same as four oranges, I tell you I
laid in good stock, for I never expected
TO Sicily again,
! While in,Sieny Il gave the most of my
time to studying the great volcano, .Etna.
the highest in Europe. cannot now tell
you the difficulties in travelling over the
great desolate fields Of black lava, the erup-
tive cones and vast masses of volcanic
sand and black cinders, the great snow field
/ had to traverse, and other objects Of in
terest on the route, To 60 up and return
requires walk Of "a miles, and the first
time that made the attempt to climb to the
erater which is more than 10000 feet up,
arrived to within an hundrsd feet Of the
top and had to give it up d was so late in
the day. Butt was caught in the dark
eight miles from any human habitation and
had to spend the night in a cave of the
lava bed, over 1000 feet above the sea. II
was miserable night. Iattaoked the old
volcano the same week again, however, but
set out on the journey at o'clock in the |
morning. Etna sends up a greet mass Of
white smoke just like the other. volcanoes.
but tie greet crater must be three-fourths |
OF mile across. 4 waded through several |
banks Of beautiful yellow sulphur at the |