Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
The Bride Of the Sen.

of 100000, and controlled the entire
coast of the Adriatic, with important
naval stations everywhere, and was one
of the first military powers of Europe,
but the discoveries of the Portuguese
gave them the trade of the East; inter
nal discussions and corruptions weak
ened the Republic; one by one its pos
sessions were wrested from it, until
finally the Prince became the pauper,
and the beautiful city has ever since
been a football for other nations to play
with. 1t has been the property of Italy,
France and Austria-not Of it's own cleo
ton, but as treaty results between other
powers, until finally Italy has it, in
whose hands it will remain till another
general wal makes necessary a recon-
,%struction of the map of Europe and a
| new distribution of territory.
Amsterdam and Rotterdam are cities
of canals, but not as Venice is. In the
Holland cities there are beautiful streets,
and wide, spacious streets, with side
walks and gardens in front of the
houses, and all that, the canals being
used entirely for heavy traffic.
In Venice the canals are the public
highways, there being nothing like
streets. There are 1900 so-called streets,
but they are nothing but passages.
There are hundreds of ~..streetsh in
Venice that are not three feet in width,
the widest in the city being only II feet
in width, and that only 175 yards long.
The shops front on these passages, but
at the rear is a canal and another front
constructed precisely like the first, and
the better classes visiting these places
always come by the water way.
The houses rise out Of the water. the
'.front steps" being in the water. You
step out of gondolas instead of cabs.
The shops along these passages are mar
row, shallow dens, in which the SUMS
rays may penetrate an hour or such a
matter each day, when it is exactly
right, but most of the time it is neces-
sary to light them artificially. They are
all very small, all packed with goods
stored in apparently inextricable con-
fusion, but the shopmen seem to know
where to find what they want quick
enough for all practical purposes. But
how any amount Of business al be
done in them passes comprehension.
Everywhere on the poorer of the mar
| lOW SUlCCUS i SAOPS Ill WuACA CdUdO1CS
are sold, a fish of some sort, stewed in
loud-smelling oil, and a peculiar sort
of ground meat, in nasty-looking
masses being the favorite articles which
all the people, with very small copper
coins, buy and consume standing. They
are not proud, the Venetians. They are
willing to eat their greasy food on their
feet in the open street. The main point
with them is to get food of any kind to
eat.
The islands, or rather island, is inter-
sected by one grand canal, which is two
miles in length and 100 feet in width,
and is the Broadway of Venice. On
this canal are all the palaces of the no.
bility and of the Jew bankers, who have
taken the place of the old nobility and
rule Venice in a much better way
D. r. Locke, IN Toledo Blade.
"A woman complained to the Will
1iamsburg On. W police recently that
after she and her daughter had worked
hard gathering snow in bottles and set
ting the bottles in the sun, a neighbor
had upset and broken the bottles.
1'There was not much harm done, was
there?" inquired the Sergeant. eyes,
for not again in a year, and maybe not
then, will have the chance, the woman
replied, 'to get such u lot of sore-eye
cure. You know, April snow-water is
a sure cure, especially when the sun
shines on it the same day."-M. Y.
Graphic.
-Alligators, writes DR.. Henshall to