Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17

| as the name Majorca would indicate This
! is 50 by Al miles in extent, and has nearly
7 800, 600 inhabitants. We skirt the most in
/ hospitable coast, and see but few houses,
and on the mountains scraggy forests of sill
yer pines and wild olive trees The pam
Drama of the coast is almost startling, it
is so picturesque. Every moment the eye
finds some surprise, and each change is a
pleasure. The next island that interests us
is Minorca, with 200 square miles, ns near Co.
600 people, o mountain-Toro-1,200 200 feet
high, on which is q castle visible in fine
weather 40 miles
There is a schoolboy recollection Of
Majorca and Minorca that haunts me
some imaginative construction OF king
dom in the days of youth in the heart Of
the Mediterranean. 1t seems like song
heard so long ago that all but two or three
words are gone. What were Majorca and
Minorca to me? What was che to Hewha
or Hewha to him?" 1t is q conundrum
that needs not solution, puzzle the clew
to which is not worth finding; but the re-
frain was on Majorca, Minorca There is q
voice in the air can neither extinguish
altogether nor quite interpret. Already it
is perceptible that we have been running
north. Still we are far south of the warm
slopes of France next the Mediterranean,
but On the shady side of the boat we have
chill that, though not eager or nipping, is
not inappropriate to the season, and on the
sunny side there is the mildness of May in
southern Ohio or June in France. 1t is too
cold on one side to write on the deck, and
on the other it is too warm.
The Last Evening on tho Ship.
We have steamed 1000 miles, and fed
more than 1000 people ten days The cargo
was not heavy, and the ship stands high
and is easily lively. The last dinner on
board was to be festivity. but there came
a sharp breeze that ruffled the surface of the
sea and touched up the r;pples with occa-
sional dashes of foam The ladies said with
looks of alarm: "This is the horrid gulf of
Lyons; it is always dreadful here" The
ship was so high in the water that she
seemed to work on spiral springs, and took
fancy to swing and plunge that emptied
for the benefit of the seamen's fund-(there
is always a concert for those seamen). Three
Of the performers were dizzy and slightly
demoralized; but brave girl from Brook
lyn, with q rich, sympathetic, thrilling
voice, chung to the upright piano, and had
the nerve and the art to smile and cough and
sing, and carry the entertainment to sue
cess
The moon was at the end of the first
quarter, and appeared to be rising up to
follow the ship. The night was not un-
happy, though the ladies were resolved
that there should be great storm. When
the morning came the sea was again serene,
and we were in full view of the shores of
France, near Toulon. The next develop
ment was those most famous Southern re-
sorts of the world-Nice, Cannes, Monte
Carlo, San Reno. 1t is an Indian summer
air, minus the smoke, and yonder is Italy,
as Hannibal and Napoleon remarked when
crossing the Alps. Speaking of Napoleon, my
eyes have sought in vain in the blue tints
of the blended sky and ocean in the south
the lines of the mountains of Corsica.
MURAT HALSTEAD.