St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-03-27
Along the Mediterranean.
Pisa, ITALY, March

ida we have been following the sani-
tary path of consumptives on the con-
tinent. Starting at the Charing Cross
station the London, Chatham and
Dover railroad carries fifty invalids &
day for weeks to Paris i'll ten hours
and on to Marsailles by the sea in the
day following. These people seeking
the sunny south gather at the comfort
groves on the slopes of the Mediter-
ranean and find the spring and every
comfort and pleasure, and sometimes
health. San Raphael, Hyeres, Can
mes, Nice, Monte Carlo, Mentone and
other places, sheltered on the North
by the maratime Alps and taking the
balmy breezes from the south as they
come over the waves from Africa, are
exceedingly attractive. Wealth and
art and taste have made every ything
beautiful. Especially lovely is Nice,
great gathering place of aristocracy.
| The carnival held there for six days
is said now to rival that at Rome
Music and dancing, feasting and mas
queratling and all sorts of gaiety and
| lunketing cOntinue day and night
Then comes Ash Wednesday and theiI
pleasures end in ashes. The people
are so weary with excesses they find
it relief to draw down and be relig-
| iOus IL while.
The exposition at Nice is now III
progress and affords fine exhibitions
of gold and silver work, silk and paint
ings. A picture of AlcohOl there is
the most powerful temperance lecture
| ever saw. | would like to see ii
transferred to the AthenHum at St
| .Johnsbury, where it would go for more
! than il does in the south of France.
! One invention | must mention in the
drawing up of cars to the exposition
building 10y water. An non pulley at
the top has strong rope passing
around it ; to each end is a car attached
running on il steep track up the noun
tain side. Both cars have tank un-
deIneath. The upper one is filed with
water from pipe there and as it de
scends it draws the lower one up full
of people. Each one is emptied by u
valve at the bottom and filled at the
top and the one descending finds it
easy to draw up the empty one. Ii
works to charm with the simple
power of cold water. That would be
an excellent way to go up to Danville
green. wonder no one has ever
thought of it. But the best sights by
beloved friends The sea-shore is very
rich in vines and olives all the way
around to Genoa and the views are de-
lightful. The olive tree is the pork
barrel of the common people. 1t is
to the Italian people what the pig is
to the Irish. 1t will thrive where /;
thistle would starve. 1t is thrifty OF
the mountain side, where there is lit
tie but rock. After the bitter is taker
out by soaking few hours in strons
I've it is very toothsome. A Vermont
hillside so rocky that raspberry briar'
could not grow would be IA paradise
for olive and grape vines.
Genoa still bears the marks of a fin,
city. Its palaces are very high will
flower gardens and fountains on tht
roofs. The carved gates to some q
the noble houses are forty feet high
The great name here is Christofort
Colombo. On one public square al
elaborate monument has been reare,
to him. He stands on the summit rest
ing OH an anchor. America is sitting II
his feet. Four figures stand OH pedes
tails lower wisdom, strength
religion and geography. Medallion
representing scenes in his life appea
of white marble. Looking off on th
sea toward the pillars of Hercules an,
rolling back the scroll of history Is
wears since his birth, how many an,
vast the events that have tranSpired
J Everybody knows about Pisa. 1t
an ancient city Oh the ArnO near it
mouth with broad campania sprea
out around tits glory gone like tina
of Venice three centuries ago. 1t
four great attractions stand as the
have for centuries leaning tower
the cathedral with swinging chande
her. where Galileo first conceived til
idea of the pendulum, proving the rC
tation OF the earth, the Campo Santo {
burying- place with the earth brougl
from Jerusalem, and the largest bal
tistry in the world. Genius has Lahore
here in the gone by years for the glor
of God as only in few other place
but all is still and peaceful now. I'll
great ones of another age lie silent
the sacred soil with their faces towar
the stars, having died i'll the glorioI
hope of the coming of the bright al
. Morning Star.
/, c. l.. GooDELL.