The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-11-05

there Il incessant movement and life.
It's streets are crowded with q gay,
Festiculatcry and lOud-vOlced pOpuia-
ton. Many Of them. both men and
women, are hardly decently dressed.
The majority Of them seem tO he
dirty, aud CleanliBeas, with few eX-
ceptions, is entirely wanting. Al al
most every turn on the street beggErs
besiege you, and even lighLnngrred
gentry slip IN behind you and take
the very handkerchief out of YOUR
poeketl (Ours was saken). The his
altogether extinct. Pedlars also ssein
TO be everywhere. Foreigners are
sOOu reoOgnized In Naples ~ sOoD Hs
one appears he is besieged by men,
women aud children, offering him
eOFHls, lava WORKS, Walking-stieks.
and other trifles for sale, asking i've
times their value while perhaps q
dozen cab men rush upon him fuFi-
Ously and Ofler their services. Na-
ture u indeed all beautiful here
sea, Ghe landscape, the sky-but the
people are ugly in pefsOn, and we
fear there is an ugliuess iu their
moral structure. OF course, We ex-
clude from this category, tourists aud
travellers. especially tliuse frOul the
United States We are forced, how
ever. % make one exception. At
Flurence we formed the acquaintance
of 8 man who see1aed 20 D. "a gentle
man, who hailed, ~ he ssid. fnbnl the
city of Buffalo unds5tuie Uf New lOrk.
We travelled with him tO Rome, and
in eompany visited MANY objects Of
interest in The city OF seven hills.
Then we went lO Naples ttigether but
We had not been there many hOurs
beforu he began To develop unpleasant
traits Of character, 50 We gave him
iht. grand bounce. We going our
own way, leaving him to "traYel his
own nian te Jordan" Now We CALI
not nct0unt fDr tlils snd,len change uf
behavior, unless it he the vicinus in
fuenee Of the NtHpUlitan atmosphere,
or, perhaps. tile seeds uf corruption
were suwu nj his liOIne. aud uudrr
Italian skies hal grrminatrd aud
ripeued intu harvest Of iadness. tie
elalnipd to be All intimate atyiuaiui-
anes OF Grover Cleveland There j.
aB old adage that "evii uommunirs,-
tiOns corrupt good manners" IL goes
without saying that We mean NO per
sOnal reflection on the excellent Presi-
dent OF the United States Not only
the peuple, but the very animals bear
the marks OF degeneracy. Why, we
did not even see n respectable lOOking
horse, or an honest facesi dog on the
streets Of Naples All iHdnimdte
creation is beautiful, grand ,attractivt;
but all animate creation Is blighted,
demOralized, Cursed ! Il is said, there
has been great improvement Of late
years, that there has been In fact, All
upward tendency since the kingdom
Of Naples was annexed tO Italy in
1860. There is certainly ROOM for al
vancenient; for very low, now, is the
scale of civilization. With this epi-
sOde, we again take up the thread oI
discourse.
The topography Of Naples and
envirOns Is peculiar aud unique. Tue
soil Is entirely volcanic. Naples
itself Is 10 great extent situated ON q
slight volcanic eminence, formed on
one side by Vesuvius, the plain and
slopes OF which are luXuriantly fertile
and the whole district Is densely pop
ulated. On the other side toward,
the west, are the volcanoes Of the
Phlegrean Fields, which extend from
Naples to CumR, q place distinguished
in Greek and Roman history, and
where was the GrOttO Of the Sibyl
described by Virgil In his Knead
Indeed, ali the hills around Maple,
are the remains Of eraters. This ha,
been proved by their form and by the
matter Of which they are composed
The internal formations or strata are
covered with q vegetable soil Of sur
prising fertility. The average length
Of Naples Is about three miles, and
the breadth two miles. The city
rising on the slope Of the hill, make,
the land unequal, hence many Of IL,
streets are OF difficult sceeSs for ear
Fiages. There are but few public
buildings Of the beauty aud magni
tude one would expect in the largest
city In Italy. Perhaps the fines
building I'm the city is the Royal Pal
ace, standing on the south side OF the
semieircular Park, called the PiaZZa
del PlebiscitO. It Is, indeed, q hand
some structure. The facade, upwards
Of $50 feet IN length, exhibits In IL
three stories, the DOrie and IOni,
STYLES combined. The interior Il
magnificent and gOrgeOusly furnished
There are In Naples about 800 church
es-but few, however, Of any great In
terest. The principal Que Is ths
cathedral, which IL dedicated Ia 81
Januarius. It is In the French-GOthi,
style, with lofty towers, and polluted
arches. Like al other csthedrals, Il
is decorated, Ia the interior, with
gold and marble, paintings, fires
Goes, etc.
The National Museum OF Antiqui.
ties and Fine Arts" Is worthy OF in-
spectiOn. Amer having visited the
splendid Museums Of the Vatican and
Capitol at Rome, we naturally sup
posed that we had seen all that antiq
uity eah offer In Italy 10 please and
instruct. Hut the new and still more
surprising collections Of brOnZes
vases, sculptures, paplri, etc, found 10
POmpeii aud Herculsneum, as also
many objects Ia the fine arts, visible
ia the Museum Of Naples, soon cor
rected Us Of this illusion. The com-
plete enumeration Of the objects con-
tanned in the different collections
which compose this vast Museum
would form q yOluminOus work. lt
would be useless aud void OF interest
10 specify we can only say then
that the Museum cOmprehends over =
hundred compartments or Halle, and
70 every section has been given q def
mite classification. This may give
some idea Of its vastness and variety.
Il is interesting also 20 visit the Uni
UersifV, founded IN the middle ages.
This is q large edifice, and simple INF
its external appearance. Internally,
there Is q large quadrnngular court
surrounded by q pOrticO, with statues
OF iIlustriOus men-ainong Others
there ls one Of 81. Thomas AQuinas.
There are also connected with the in-
stifutiOn several scientific cabinets,
among which the most remarksble
and interesting are those Of Mineral
Ogy and Zoology. But We must leave
the city to visit Vesuvius, POmpeii
and Hercuianeum. These are the
most remarkable phenomena In ell
Europe. Nesuvius. about i've miles
east Of Naples, is situated In the val-
ley Of Campania on the north coast Of
the gulf. It's history Is very ancient.
10 Is the only volcano still Ia activity,
for the islands and mountains In that
vicinity that were once active vOlea
noe, are now extinct craters- The first
eruption Of Vesnvius recorded icy his
tory took place In A. ID. %, which de-
5tr0yed, together with other villas
scattered over this beautiful country,
lhe cities Of POmpeii, Herculaneum
and Stabia, which remained buried
for Ia centuries, and that chance &C
ength discovered. There have been
over 60 eruptions in all down to the
ast one IN 1872. which was one Of the