Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-07
UNDER ITALIAN SKIES.
Prof. John G. Cuttings Writes Entertain
ingIy for the Register" From Genoa

Prof John G.. Cuttings Writes Entertain
ingIy for the Register" From Genoa
Speiqt CorresDOndsnes Of the RegSster.
GENOA, August 11.-Beiore leaving
Naples. where we turned our faces
toward home, at the end OF our long
Journey, we visited the justly celebrated
museum and viewed the most important
relics taken from the ruins OF Pompel'
whence we had Just come. All house
hold utensils, surgical instruments, me-
chanical tools, paintings and statuary,
rings and canoes, irescOes, show that
those who lived here two thousand
wears ago were scarcely inferior TO US
in the comforts and rehnements OF me-
The heat from aOOut IL TO O'Clock Is
ovarDOweripg. and then labOrers sleep
wherever they are, or recline In the
shade. We saw drivers sleeping on
their boxes in the broiling sun, porters
stretched full length upon the
ground. and one sleeping IN
bis basket. which ne had
tilted against the curbstOne. About
n. m. a grateful breeze usually springs
M and the atmosphere becomes cool
much more rapidly than with Us. Inc
nights have been cool and pleasant dur
ing the past three weeks. In southern
Italy the foliage assumes a tropicai APP
pearance, while there are also many
trees that are familiar to Us, such as the
sycamore, locust, chestnut, aianthuS'
LoSiBARDY POPLAR,
and mulberry. There were no birds 10
be seen along the railroads, except a
few English SparrOWs and an occasional
crow or brown hawk. The little towns
we nassed were desOlate and dreary IN
aDnearaDce. being usually located upon
me point OF a high hill, and their small
windows stared lifelessly from the dlngY
stone walls. the Inhabitants being in the
fields. At nightiall they could be seen
stragQliug from every quarter toward
the pile of miserable stone huts, or else
standing n groups in the narrow streets
so silent as 20 appear sad. All along our
route we saw men and women WORKING
together in the fields, oItentlmeS the
women dOin2 the hardest work. Some
girls were mixing mortar, and they also
carried 10 to the men who were laying
the stone. Men were blowing In the
fields with OK teams-f0Cr oxen ABREAST
"A single yoke extending over them.
Yesterday we travelled from Rome TO
this city. a distance OF 326 miles; the
dav was delightfully."- cool and pleasant
and we had no discomfort, except when
ROUNDING THE GULF OF GENOA,
where re passed through more than fifty
tunnels. As we drove from the station
TO the Grand Hotel de Genes we passed
the celebrated monument 10 Columbus,
to which a marble wreath has been
added in this centennial year. We
found the columbus Exposition" open,
and the American travellers felt In duty
bound 70 attend, but there was rain at
night, and the attendance was not
large. We have been Informed since
our arrival here that Genoa is not the
birth place OF Columbus, but that he
was born 40 SavOna, few miles distant.
It's claimed that this fact is proven Oy
recent discoveries made by spanish Of
fciaIs I'm the archives at Madrid. The
railroad cars in Italy, as elsewhere IN
Europe, open on the sides. The oOSer-
walton ears have a platform connecting
the different compartments, each OF the
latter holding from ( TO 6 passengers.
The seats are cushioned higher Ihan
the head, and are covered with clean
white net tides, which are cool aad
pleasant 10 the touch. The cars are
coupled securely with double set OF
bumpers provided with springs, which
prevent much Earring and at the same
time keep the ears so far apart as 20 DO
away with the danger In coupling them.
BEFORE LEAVING ROME
We were at the palace of the Caesars on
the CaDOto'ine hill and saw markings
uron the plaster Of the soldiers quar-
ters. made by the men who were the
guard to this palace so many centuries
ago. We were informed by the guide,
an educated man, that In one OF these
Guard houses was found the first repre-
sentotlOn OF the cruCiiXlon; 10 was
made by a barbarian soldier with his
spear or some other sharp implement
liz is evident from the writings upon
these walls that there were Christians
among the soldiers OF Tiberius, ana lt
Is evident also that they were per
secuted and derided by their heather
comrades in arms The drawing al
uded 60 consisted or the ngure or q
mans tpdv with an asses head, suspend
cd upon a cross Underneath was IN
scribed iu ancient Greek: This is the
God of Alexameuus. Thus the first
picture OF the cruciixiOn is this crude
drawing, made by a heather in sacri'
Isqious derisiou. Upon the wall OF an
adjoining guard room was found
the reply Of Alexamenus to his
prosecutor. A cross was carefully
drawn and figure before il, in a de-
,ont attitude. underneath was written
the legend In latin: "AicromeHUS
fdeliS." meaning that Alexamenus was
faithful TO his God, despite his DerSecu-