Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1886-03-18
ON The ooRso.
A Curious Mixture OF Character and Ma
tfonallty In the italian Capital.

A Curious Mixture OF Character and Ma
tfonality In the italian Capital.
have come In fresh from q stroll on
the Corso and q turn or two around
the Pincian. II has been glorious
mild winters afternoon. and everybody
was out for an airing The carriages
filed along duck-fashion, and inst as
slow, for on sidewalkless streets pedes-
trians appear TO have some rights
which coachmen are bound to respect.
There was such multiplicity and
elongativeness of tongues that the
bricklayers and carpenters engaged in
the neighborhood of Babel might have
gone by in procession and been mis-
taken for q deaf and dumb asylum.
All the Latin races have popularity
Of loquaciousness anyhow, so it
shouldn't cause any wonder that
tongues reverberated louder on the
Corso than ever sounded the hoofs of
wild Barbary horses there. All the
| languages Of this sphere, however,
seemed concentrated thereabouts, and
would you believe itP-English had
the call. actually heard more Saxon
speaking people than did Italians or
French. II rather fancy so, old
chap" "Wall, this here's Rome, 1
reckon" "Divil fear of it, ye spal-
peen.n and such like observations had
the effect of nearly deranging the COM
pass of my mind, for the needle pointed
at times TO England, again TO Yankee
dom and once, remembered it partic-
ularly, to the snakoless isle of St.
Patrick. / heard English spoken by
those in carriages and those on foot,
and the eye, as well as the ear, was
quick to distinguish the Anglo-Saxon
from the Southern races. An English
friend was my companion on the stroll.
"There seems to be no end to your
country people here" he said.
"Why, man, there's three English to
every one American who passes" ="
said 1.
"Do you call that a Britisherp" he
said, less than a minute later, pointing
to tall citizen of aged aspect, whose
attire, capped by a wide-brimmed hat,
indicated the far Westerner had
run ac.Oss the man in a hotel buffet a
| few days before, and had overheard
] ~
that the Madison Square Garden in New
York is a "durncd sight bigger than
the COLOSSEUM, and has got a roof on
TO boot" A couple Of elderly British
damsels happening along a minute
later, came to my relief, and when my
friend had noted the grotesqueness Of
their apparel, his silence conceded that
comparisons are "odorous." A CLEAN
of satisfied pride at the appearance of
an English turnout and its distin-
| guished-looking occupants had scarcely
| Slid from his chin when u. royal car
riage went by. In it was seated the
| Queen and by her side one of the ladies
Of the court, an American, who had
married an Italian Prince. The fair
foster daughter of Italy looked radiant
/ ly beautiful, as she must needs have to
do TO be even visible in the presence Of
the fascinating young Queen.
Again the eXponents of the two ma
tions called quits and good-humoredly
! thereafter discussed whoever passed.
| There's Mrs. X, Boston woman,
whose money and charms ought to
have secured her better partner than
that little Italian. Some one told me
oniN NtHAtiuaN -uuNf loohf lou Stt AlllH
gray-bearded man coming here? Well,
that's the old fellow who made IL warm
for that ex-diplomate who was caught
cheating at cards in a club down the
Corso few months ago, OH how do
you do?' said my friend, raising his
hat to a gentleman passing in a cab.
81 met that fellow few years ago at
Homburg. He's German Prince, and
none of your serene Highnesses either,
but a genuine Il. H."
And so he ran on. Heavens. II l
could only remember them! What a
medley we saw! l am happy to say
that the Americans one meets on the
Corso Of an afternoon are usually of a
fine stamp. They were mostly so to-
day. Rome Cor. Philadelphia Teie-
graph.