Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-10

museum, containing as it now does the
older royal collections of antiquities and
| paintings, as well as the FRrDese collec-
| ton, tbs collections once stored in the
palaces of Capodimonte and Portlci, and
| the impressive excavated treasures of
| of Stabi9, Cuma, Pompeii and Her
| culaneum, is incontestibly one of the
most valuable and interesting the world
now possesses. Its cathedral Oh Du-
omo) q basilica with aisles OF Gothic
vaulting, with frescoes by Glordano and
| Soiimena, and Its tombs of Charles I. of
Aniou, Martel and Andreas, kings of
Hungary, of Innocent ". and Pope In
noeent XII, Is grand and imposing. Its
Royal Palace, Palace Angri, Garibaldi's
residence when dictator, Palace NADIA
loni, now housing the Bank of Naples,
Palace Miranda, containing Ruben's
Triumph OF Beauty, and other great
paintings by Spagnoletto, Guido and
REM. Palace Santangelo, and the Royal
Palaces at the port side and upon Capo-
dimonte, are each and all tremendous
piles, specimens Of every variety of archi-
tectural magnlicencs in establishment
during the past thousand years. The
Castle Nuovo, begun by Charles 1 of
Anjou in 1888, Castle dell Ovo, built by
william /, and Frederick H., in the
Twelfth century the castles of Capuano,
once the principal residence of Hoen-
staufen kings of Carmine, with its huge
round towers, and of st. Elmo, now dis
mantled and used as military prison,
are massive medieval piles, all glorious
in pictures, but each valueless for mod
ern defense Its royal theater, San
Carlo, is one of the most magnificent
opera houses in all Italy and is yeri-
table musical shrine, since the magical
numbers of Rossini, Bellini, Mereadante
and DoniZstti we're first given to the
world within its walls. And its great
thoroughfares-the Toledo trayersing the
entire city from bay to mountain heights
above, with the splendid streets of the
new or western quarter, the densely
thronged lanes of the old or eastern quar-
ter, the Marina, along the eastern water
side, and the brilliant Riviera di Chiaja,
with its fashionable throngs enjoying the
cooling winds from the sea, with all Ma
pies within the latter g Respondent villa
Rsale at night, repeating the scenes OF
the Marina at Palermo-are all unsur-
passed Tor diversity of picture, variety Of
incident and piquancy OF colorful en-
semble.,
Yet Naples itself possesses no one grand
predomlnating place, thing or character
is:ic of surprising interest. This might
perhaps be modified by saying 1t was
CITY OF WONDERFUL CONTRASTS.
-of the tremendously rich and wofully
poor; of the Oldest and best Italian no.
bility and the most wretehed of titled |
adventurers; of dazzling beauty and most !
hideous haggishness in women; of most |
learned saVants and the most sodden in
Ignorance; of the highest virtue and the |
most disgusting leWdness, SO shame
faced that even male devils aecost one |
everywhere with printed tariffs for licen- |
tiousuess; of the latest modes in dress |
and garb among the lowiy as ancient as |
the time of Tiberius; of frightfui activity |
and tropical siestaj OF deafening din and |
solemn hush; of the shrillest and most /
ceaseless shriekings day and night, ana
meanwhile the most sibylant and nele-
dious of tender Eoieings; OF content aud
despair; cruelty and kind-heartednsss; |
loyalty aud treachery; aud, as all Italy |
seems TO be in q hower-em-
powered heaven smiling over threaten
ing volcanic hell CT laughing-eyed hui
mans, with hearts in which the worst Of
human passions forever brood, ready at 1
an instant's kindllng for sedlfion, rapine
and murder.
: The old Naples OF ttsh66eks, which We
haes 4ll sat ifhssSpoh piAufS saue .ftamins
from f<sfslers Wales ana 4ists' : hmm
ipgs, has wholly passed aHsy. Among
tha simple fishermen of Procida, lschia
and, Capri yau will find none OF
the fiery Masanielios, like thst in
spired one who in 16H cried,
: Morte al mai governof' and at the
head of his Wild followers WIRING sone-