Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-28

situation, and rs repulsive rs 10 gamo-
ling and it's attending objections. After
a short visit, We took an afternoon 8
drive TO Mentone and stayed there q
couple of days. Mentone Is frequen'ea
by invslids and persons with sens'-
tive lungs, and when we there
was getting itself ready for the
winter season just about beg'n-
ming. 1t has every comfort and
convenience, and many resources
for pleasure and occupation. lnnu-
merable lemon.trees show that the
thermometer does not 60 below
freezing, as so much cold would be
fatal to them. We were told that mil
lions of lemons are exported from here
annually. Some of the olive-trees are
extremely old in this neighborhood'
and il is said several of the trunks
date from Roman days. When the
branches are rotten or too old to bear
Cruit they are cut off and fresh gratis
put on the trees.
THE REAL SIAHI.
From Mentone we made our real start
on the driving tour. We had car
rage drawn by four horses, with bells
around their necks and foxes tails
dangling from their heads. The baggage
was satisfactorily packed up behind,
after q good many ways of arranging 1t
bad been tried, and we started off for
San Reno, expecting to be there IN a
couple of hours. We soon arrived at
the customs house, and after the officers
had walked around the carriage several
times ard talked over things with the
driver they retired into their office, !
presume, to discuss things over again ;
and after a while they reappeared and
gave us leave to 60 on. Wethought we
had finished with the customs-house, but
we afterwards came to the Italian one, the
first having been the French. Here
there was nothing for it but to have the
well-built-up pile Of baggage at the back
of the carriage hauled down and taken
in for examination. As there is little
business done at this point the officials
gloated over the unusual occurrence Of
having several packages to handle, and
went leisurely through the pleasant
performance. AT last we started again,
but did not reach San Reno till the
crescent moon was shining in the cloud
less sky.
A LAND OF PALMS.
1t was lovely drive. We literally
passed through q land Of palms and
olives and sweet-scented heliotrope, and
past the home Of " DR.. Antonio. ="
Many Of the palms, especially at Bordl-
gheTa, had their branches twisted round
their stems so as to be kept in good
order for the time they are needed at
Rome in the Church professions on
Palm Sunday. The next morning we
were up in good time, and were of
soon after 9 o'clock. Most of the day
we saw the island Of Corsica on the
horizon like a heavy, well-deined
cloud, too far Off for us to distinguish
any thing on it excepting that we thought
We saw snow on the mountains. At II
O'Clock we stopped at Oueglia, and in
less than half an hour luncheon was
ready for US at the wayside inn. The
whole country is thick with oliye-trees,
and Oueglia and the neIghboring towns
near are chiefly occupied in making oil.
BY 2 o'clock we started from Oueglia,
and arrived at AlasSio about 5 o'clock.
There were two guests in the hotel /;
one was a deaf gentleman who had held
undisputed possession for six weeks ;
the other was lady who had been in
residence for two days only, and who
vigorously endeavored to communicate
all her ideas and opinions to the deaf
gentleman who did not want to hear
them. The latter complained bitterly
OF her to one Of our party, so we some
times wonder how they ended up. On
the registration-board in the hall of the
hotel was a list of the names of the
King and Queen Of Sweden and suite,
but these guests had left three
months before. Alassio has a good
beach and is a summer bathing-place
much visited by the Italians. Mex.
day we lunched at Finalmente and made
hurried visit to handsome renaiS-
sance church, designed by the noted
architect Bernini. We slept at Sa-
vona, a town charmingly situated, but
within it has an ultra-democratic def
ant look that scarcely harmonlzes with
its surroundings. AS we left next
morning We saw young man, about
twenty, lolling against a post with an
ease and grace and true comfort impos-
sible for practical people to attain to
whose Stiffness Of mind keeps their
bodies rigid and refuses to lend itself to
any such Sybarite relaxation. We often
see men wing down on stone benches
or sitting on stone posts with more than
the exultant air Of enjoyment that a
small darby has on q barebscked mule.
But our friend at Savona surpassed
them all. lie reyelled in that stone
column for a resting place, and looked
as if no other luxury in the world
could tempt him away from 1t.
A BIRTHPLACE or COLUMBUS.
From Savona we went to Cajoleto
one of the many places on this shore
claiming to be the birthplace OF COlum
bus. Whilst luncheon was being pre-.
pared we walked back to see the
blouse Of Columbus" and found a
fresco of him on the outside and th'
well-known Latin lines about his having
found a new world. Our next hal
was TO Genoa, the point where the two
Riyieras meet. This drive through the
western one had revealed a new aspect
Of Italy to us. We had passed through
some old towns with more than a sus-
picion Of likeness in many ways t
others all ever Europe, but in the main
they are vastly different to those where
travellers usually stay, and where tn
hotels are but a slight variation frOu
those of London or Paris. These oil
towns many of them very smalD hay'
houses in them as high as ordinary New
York ones. The principal street lead
ing between these high houses, an
through which we usually drove, is s.
narrow that any foot passengers in then
at the same time that we were had {