Daily globe., 1882-07-02
NO. III

TURIN, Italy, June IL, 1sS2.-It
has been decided after much discus
sion and difficulty to hold general Ital-
ian exhibition in 1884 at Turin. Seven
hundred thousand dollars $500, ,000) have
been subscribed by private persons and
commercial houses, and the sum increases
daily.
THE GOVERNMENT PETITIONED.
A petition has been sent to the govern
ment for 100000, which. it is hoped,
will be granted. All the necessary COM
mittees are formed and working, and
several Of the most important points have
been settled. The ground selected is a
portion and continuation of the Valen-
tino, or public garden. 1t runs along
the Pc, and combines beautiful scenery
and fine shade with all the water power
advantages furnished by the river. Sepa-
rate houses are to be built, in which to
exhibit each century of painting, COM
mencing with the thirteenth century and
to include the present. Each house is to
be built in the style most popular during
the period represented. 1t is to be deco
rated and furnished in keeping and to
contain only such works of art as are
known to belong to the century indicated
by all that pertains to each house. This
arrangement has many, advantages. 1t
saves confusion and fatigue. allowing visi-
tors to commence and leave off where they
choose, without the risk of missing any,
thing, ,and, by being collected together, will
vividly impress the eye and memory, as
well as greatly facilitate art students in
comparing different cpochs and different
schools of painting. Great effort is being
made to make all departments more COM
plete than at any previous exhibition
Private collections will be called upon
largely; and energy and intelligence,
aided by money, are combined powers
that must lead to success
ITALIAN MANUFACTURES.
The exhibition held last year at Milan
showed, not only to strangers, but to the
Italians themselves, what the present
manufacturing power is in Italy, and a
still greater knowledge of this important
feature in Italy of to-day, is expected to
be not fully represented here in 1884, but
that the result will be mighty impulse
pushing it to more extended success.
ESTIMATE OF ITALIAN MANUFACTURES.
Many articles manufactured in Italy,
for instance, cloth, lace, silk, bronze,
ETC., are sent to France and England,
then returned to this country to be sold;
and all this because the above named
countries have reputation tor these
articles, and Italy up to last year not only
had no, or very little reputation for her
manufactures. But only few Italians
directly interested in commerce were
aware that these manufactures existed
WHERE FACTORIES ARE BUILT.
Those who have travelled here must
have noticed with surprise that few, if
any, large factories are built in cities,
and rarely even near cities. Some
out of the way village, away from rail-
roads, is usually selected. This is caused,
am told, by the extremely high price of
land and buildings In and near cities; by
the numerous and eXorbitant taxes; and
also because food and all necessities of
life are so much higher in the cities that
labOrers require higher wages in conse-
quence; and the only way for the home
manufactures to be able to compete in
price with those of other countries is for
them to select locality as free as posi-
BILE from the taxes that have such heavy
hold on everything and to obtain labor at
lowest rates. Convenience of position is
thing not yet possible for the Italian
manufacturer to take into considerations
Those whose good fortune brings them
to Turin in 1884 are sure to find collected
together much of great interest
ANECDoTE.
Although Sarah Bernhardt has been
married and long since left us, still the
journals are full of echoes about her
dOlngs. Her talent, combined with q
most astonishing wlll-force and activity.
seem to carry away even the most bitter
resistances. Just before she left this
city, Miss Bernhardt overheard a gentle
man exclaim that he would ssglve ten
years of his life for one drop of the great
artists blood" She instantly pricked
her hand, wiped drop of blood on her
handkerchief and presented it to the en-
thusiastic gentleman, and this precious
memento is kept under glass in a rich re-
ception room, as the one object worthy to
be admired
A VISIT TO ROME.
have just returned from a visit to
Rome. Leaving others the task of point
ing out objects of historical interest
along the route, and to furnish details
about what l ought to see in Rome. let
me note down some of my most vivid
impressions: Taking the express from
Rome that leaves Turin at Z O'Clock in
the evening, one can go there IN sixteen |
hours, but
PISA,
you know, is on the way, and it was i'm
possible to resist the temptation of spend |
ing day in that most interesting place. |
We went tconscientiously through various |
art galleries, through the cathedral
where still hangs the bronze lamp whose
vibrations are said to have suggested the
pendulum to Galileo; through the Campo |
Santo, all over the Campanile,-or fam
Gus Leaning Tower, and near night we
entered the Baptistry, beautiful edifice
entirely of marble, and built in q circular
form. We were weary from sight seeing;
our heads felt fairly saturated, to use |
HawthOrne's expression, and we walked |
on listlessly, paying little attention to the
loquacious guide. We stopped under the |
cupola to look at the wonderful baptis-
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