The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-03-17
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VrNlcr. Teh. 2lth, 1881
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Give yau an il.auflt. letts z hafe
often Ica5 g descriptions Don
nctcr bad are leash conception gu .t
Is % IS n reality Wen to ael'a
n company nilh lour aicuds. leu
Vienna ut o'e..e. ai ile -Zad
During &c av So sei through
some very One SCENERY known as lhe
Jcumissiug. Tlersi'raad assembled
as Meh as two thousand, ciEeAt
hundred feet above sea level, ana
some al the mountaa scenery VAS
very fac Ga the Top the trees were
frosted. but lower they were natural.
as It was not SO cola We made hai
connections. ana hal % stay 6 hours
in Graz, the capital Of Sie.nmark, q
nrovinco of Austria Saw nothIngol
Interest except some o.dfe.ies Of lhe
Turks who we're here 10 Che 10Th cen
tury. We lelt Chat evening, passed
bad night, as usual on Che cars Next
morning the Alps covered with snow
were on one side Of Us, while on the
other we're prongs ofthe Addalie sea-
and 10 this valley olive trees are
growing, CHE olives are lust like
willows This too was fne, ospeci
ally when YOU consider the contrast
That day at 2 o'clock we reached
/ Venice. None 10 TIE party could
speak Italian I had learned a few
words, 50 the frst thing 20 do was 70
tell our Hotel, aad tske a GondOla.
Now what do you think a Gondola
4 is?-wcll nothing more than a canoe
painted black, With a cover over ihe
centre which contains four seals, one
I man paddles and you get along at Q
petty gCOi speed. / was very much
/ disappointed in them, bad expected
TO see something nice, hui AL ar'
J black, ard there Is nothing % al
about them attractive Venice a'
you know, was built on islands
canals e.the place of streets Con
dolas Of carriages; men and O
horses, &c, but you can 60 on Zoo
) "a you Ike The grand canal divides
the city into two unequal parts
others run an through The city, bu
these are smalerond not sd grandt =
: On The grand canal, are the many iin0
/ palaces that are 50 famous ! havl
i often heard OF these beautiful marble
palaces and expected 20 sec them q
white as snow, and as fine possible
but imagine my surprise when
found them dirty, diugy, sickly look
3 ing old bnildiags. The rlasterin,
, mas fallen from some, others look a
ifthe BRICKS will FAN out, aud Ia som
YOU can often soarats running in th
) cracks, in short, The grand canal don
come up TO my expectations in fact
is nothing like what ! expected q
see except there is a canal Of waite
with houses on the banks.
We have seen some OF these ol'
palaces and they are much dner insid
] than they seem 10 be from cXtcrna
appearances Tue churches are als'
very fine. In them ] see the diharen
styles Of architecture, which Is ~
teresung, as well as the many Ga
: pictures that are to be found in them
In the Palace of the Doges, th
ancient rulers Of Venice, there OH
some rare and elegant paintings
; is the most attractive thing 70 be seel
here The art gallery contains on!
few fine paintings, bat some wei
! worth the visit Here I FIRST saw mi
FIRST fine mosaics which ere to b
found in st Marks church, they seen
to be excellent, but suppose ! viii sd
3 Gner ia Rome Tho glass work
here are fine. + saw them spinni0.
it ont and makiAg I eads. I. can b
handled just as thread We ar
through with Venice and VIII iCay
g carly to morrow for Florence. al
glad { came, because Venice is q cit
! such as one can only see M Nenic
as thore is only one Venice, beside
1t represents so much departed mag
nifcence
The character anA type Of the pee
: + le cannot be called strictly Imianl
because there is quitea mixture, sinC
Venice was once Austrian and tic
an other mixture of races ] sh0ul
Ike TO have seen Il 10 Che days Of e
r greatness, when &c was certainly mas
nileenl, but to day much Of us graz
deer is gone, and it appears to BE o
the decline, which is q fact
: am as ever your aGeotianal
son, J NJ. BUCHANAN.