The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-26

with the rsua!!. candles. They are frequent on
many OF the highways; and it is not unusual
to find above them, and sometimes on simple
crosses, an inscription announcing that the
bishop Of so-and- 30 will grant IN indulgence of
forty days or moro to whomsoever will, for o
prescribed length of time daily, before the shrine
or cross, recite such or such a prayer. l don't
know as it is worth While to bother you about
our visit to Milan. Its magnificent cathedral
is alone worth o voyage across the ocean to
see. and it possesses n number of very ancient
churches-like that 81. Am~brogio-which are
chiefly interesting from their historical
associations and rs examples of the rudi,nent-
airy forms OF Gothic, Lombardean and Roman
esque architecture. TIE meanness of the
material-for they are built OF brick-grcatIy
detracts from whatever remains of architec-
tural beauty modern restorations have left
them. Though Milan is near the famous gran
lie Guarries of Bervena, and much nearer tian
home to the marble quarries whence lis marble
columns were transported, all it's medic val
churches are of brick except its cathedral,
which Is o! white marble from sub-base to its
highest pinnacle. l will not attempt TO de-
scribe so familiar an editice. least of all to
%criticise q work on which has been lavished the
patient art OF the. best architects and sculptors
OF l ally for hundreds of years. Its interior is
indescribably grand. Its exterior is as inde-
scribably rich in sculptured crnamenta;ion,
especially Ill statues and their accessories,
whlcl. are SO Iavistly employed that it seems
to swarm with petritied apostles aud saints
and giants, and what not Still richer in sculp-
tured reliefs is the splendid facade of tho cele-
braied Carthnslan monastery al Certosa, fifteen
mllos from Milan, built under the auspices of
the same Visconti who, i'll 1886, founded the
Milan cathedral. Many famous pictures, on
canvas and wood and in fresco, adorn the walls
of the old churches of hi an. and it has a very
valuable collection in the picture gallery of the
Brera-among Others. Raphael's Sposoll 2zio.
But its most precious art treasure is tho IA
nous Last Supper of Leonardo da vinci,
painted on the walls Of what was once tho re-
fectory Of a monastery, now cavalry barrack:
and, trough in a dilapilated condition, il is still
a masterpiece which transcends all tho efforts
of the most skillful copyists. 1t has been
many thousand times copied. 1t has never
been reproduced, .
s%S
For an Italian city, Milan is wonderfully
clean. While oherisliing its antiquities, 1t Is
also a THRIVING commercial, and manufacturing
city, full of the busting spirit of modern
progress. Tho general architecture of bust
ness buildings is mcdsrr, and some OF them
arc splendid. Perhaps no city in the world
contains so magnificent a commercial arcade
as its Galleria Nlttoria 1Imanuele. 1t has all
the apparatus of a great modern commercial
clty-railwavs, canals, street railways, motor
railways, and even thc electric light. A NOR
ciful Providence has thus far preserved it
from the telephone. Ii this. INV last sheet of
paper. had not given out, | was going to tell you
how much the fruitful plains of Lombardy
resembled Illinois in their monotonous fiat
nesa. and even in some of their characteristic
productions.