Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-24
BILL NYE ABROAD.
The Laramie City Postmaster in Dis
guise at Verona.

guise at verona.
Most every one has heard of the Two
Gentlemen of Verona. This is the place
hey came from. They have never re-
turned. Verona is not noted for its gen
demen now. Perhaps that is the reason
Why was regarded as such a curiosity
when | came here.
Verona is noted for the Capitular Ii
nary, as it is called. This is said to be the
uge8t collection of rejected manuscript
1he world / stood in with the Librarian
Hihe gave me an opportunity to exam
EGis wonderful store of literary work.
ih1da Virgil that was certainly over
I@!ears old. l also found a well-pre-
sTedCopy Of Beautiful Snow" Tread
It, 1t Was very touching indeed. Experts
SAID it was !, 200 years old, which is no
DOUBT correct. / am no judge Of the age
o. MSS. Some can look at the teeth of a
literary production and tell within two
weeks how old it is, but / can't. You can
also fool me on the age of wine. My rule
used to be to observe how old l felt the
next day and to fix that as the age of the
VINE, but this rule l find is not infallible.
gne time | found myself feeling the next
~! though | might be 1873 years old,
Ol' On investigation we found that the
VINE was extremely new, having been
made at drug store in Cheyenne that
same day.
Looking these venerable MSS. over, I
m r;I That the custom of writing with
t.I' pencil on both sides of the large
t,o o sheet and then folding it in six
, ,5a directions and carrying it around in
my MY pTcket Tor two or three centuries is
L ,os d Iate American invention, as I had
an SSvl leu 10 suppose. They did it in Italy
a aiuo centuries ago. l was permitted
iI Co ~ examine the celebrated institutes
o U"l ms. cams was a poor penman, and
a. ,i, ColN , IRON a close examination
ra ,r,T "oIk Ihat ne was in the habit of
voctot S..I ms manuscript around in his
g65e op nun a MS smoking tobacco. The
Ig t6o ooiu lllat was impossible, for smok-
mil ffiI = was not introduced into Italy
all 6S j comparatively late day. That's
much oS however. You can't fool me
The 90 ca4 We odor of smoking tobacco.
massiv e" M is a most imposing and
book TFP;t,, quote this from the guide
baptisnaaiI i n beautiful structure contains a
Of stono 'o u i0ht cut out of one solid block
an ins iS ana % made for immersion, with
nine fout diameter of two feet A man
without I'M Hlgh could be baptized there
great raSrl!ufy' The Venetians have a
ought moi oPtcI Tor water. They believe it
but to wa NO - De used for anything else
they ar p% ,,a away sins, and even then
Tberoe very economical about it.
It looks az ~ !, nice picture here by Titan.
Smokes though it had been left in the
Titan nai EaSe SOO years and overlooked.
Works Fbb, nrU great deal. You find his
have had o1 ever and anon. . He must
early daU oil ~, he could do in Italy in an
like his 1;o When the country was new.
found 81 pictures first rate. but I haven't
thing I GIe yet that l could secure at any-
"Ae a bed rock price.
since lAQuI Indians of Sonora long
kDou-o a9eu tactics of war that were un-
uprjsi n 70 civilized troops. In a former
thew n says the San Francisco Cal.
Who wo n'e attacked by Gen. Pesquerias,
Use bIa r9 much amused to see the savages
ders' b5I fe.s as a shield against the sol.
both epJ ,iess' Holding up a blanket al
The gronnSi 80 that the edge lust touched
boldly toIu, the Indian riflemen marche 4
eral ws was protection. The Mexican Gen.
sOOn alarmed hnu-n,ro,. A.. g.