Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-16
and SEE NAPLES.
That is Doctor Porter's Advice To
Him Who Travels in Sunny
Italy.
Various Sights and Scenes of the
Place = Interes ing Trip to
Pompeil.
Beggars On MISUNDERSTANDING For
Coins In the Bay = Notes
of News.

NAPLES, y u 0.--(DolayeQ COrreSpOn.
dence.)-How are you to-day? I'm quite
wellsthank you, and I am having q
devil Of q fine time can assure you. I
was stuck on Rome, and I can tell you
that if I ever hated to leave q place
those places we're Paris and Rome. Be.
lieve I'm seeing everything pretty
thoroughly. I left Rome a few days ago
at $50 a. m. and arrived here at 2 p. m.,
passing through great mountain scenery
and beautiful valleys of olives and
orange groves. The latter so full of
fruit that n could hardly see the
leaves on the trees. Some one said
"see Naples and die" Another fellow
said "live and see Naples" Iagree with
the other fellow. Naples is the largest
city in Italy-population about one-half
million-and occupies one of the most
beautiful situations in the world. Nature
has certainly very bountifully lavished
her gifts on this favored spot. In the
older parts are narrow dingy streets,
and high and narrow houses with fiat
roofs and balconies which are not very
attractive, but interesting. The origin
and name Of the city are Greek, and it's
history goes back a thousand years be-
fore Christ. This is the greatest place
for fast driving, cracking of whips, rattle
of wheels, braying Of donkeys, shouting
of hawkers at all hours of the day and
night.
The cabmen all drive their horses
without any bits. They have a sort of
leather and metal band around the nose
and the lines are fastened on either side.
Men go around the streets driving a
flock (ten to ffteen) of goats, and when
any person wants any milk, they come
out with a cup, pick out or choose the
one they want the milk from, when the
nan halts his flock and calls out the
name of this one. She comes to him
and he miiks her right there and then.
Not much chance to chalk and water or
dilute that milk. The only way I can
see to beat that game would be to pump
all the goats full of water before starting
out.
The "Museum Nazionale'' contains
collections from the excavated treasures
of Pompeii, H~srculaneum, Stabiae, ETC.,
and is the first in Europe. The "Neapoli-
tan Aquarium" is a sight and a wonder,
and the best in the world. Contains the
most curious marine animals of every
descriptions, cutie fish, octopus, cleo
trio rays, which you are permitted to
touch and receive a shock-many kinds
of living coral. Beautiful medusae. and
crested blubbers, pipe fish, cray fish and
many exquisltely colored fish from the
Mediterranean.
Pompeii is only about eighteen miles
from Naples, and the visit to this once
prosperous town with a population of
about $4,000 is indeed interesting. This
ramble through the city of the dead is
we'll worth a trip to Europe. The streets
are straight and narrow, seldom more
than t%wenty-four feet in breadth, and
some only fourteen, but nicely paved
with blocks of lava. You can see deep
ruts in the causeways made by the
wagons. The houses are built of con-
crete. Some of the shop tables are
covered with marble and fitted up with
large earthern vessels for the sale of
wine.oil of the paintings on the wall are
in good state of preservation.
In the museum We see preserved casts
of human corpses, and one body of a
dog. Among the figures are a young
girl with a ring on her finger, two
! women, one tall and old, the other young.
Also loaves of bread charred from the
heat but otherwise perfect. One loaf
had the bakers name plainly stamped on
it, viz: "Celer. Slave of 2 Granius
Verus." Saw also honey, gram, nuts,
figs, pears, etc., and surgical instru-
ments, same az We have now, viz: Bone
forceps, bivalve %speculum, syringes.
Did you yer see a beggar on horse
back? Well I saw n yesterday on q
donkey. He rode up and held out his
hat for coin, and I was walking.
Wasn't that gall? Talk about western
gall, why We are not in it with the
Italians. While out sailing in the bay
the other day, men would swim out to
the boat and dive for coin as we threw
them into the water. They would get
them every time-no matter where we
threw them and bring them up in their
teeth, and then put them in their mouth,
and be ready for another. One per-
former had his mouth so full that he
could hold no more and had to go
ashore and unload.
We go up Vesuvius tomorrow. Can
see the smoke rolling out by daylight
and the fire by night. The mountain
side is covered with luxuriant vineyards
which yield the famous "Lacrimae
Christie" I sail for Egypt Saturday.
H.R. PORTER.
The Difference.
Mandan people are bothered at the