The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-11

After an Absence Of ten week. Dr..
John L Dicksy aad wife returned
"Wednesday irou an extended tour
through Spain and Italy. The doctors
objective point Wa Rome, where the
Worlds Medical Congress convened
thi. year. Three years ago the doctor
was privileged 20 attend a meeting Of
the same body in Berlin, and inciden.
tai with that trip he visited points Of
interest in Great Britain and Germany.
60 on this occasion he arranged hi. tin
e:a.y TO embrace the interesting por-
lions Ct Spain and Italy, and be eI-
pressed himself yesterday TO an INTEL
IGEScEGEeporlet a. beingdelighted with
what he saw, every spot having ! con-
Euming interest 70 him. from the trown-
ing rock OF Gibraltar 70 the sea gir. city
OF Venice.
ave took passage on the North Ger
man Lloyd steamship Fulda," said the
doctor" and our first s!op was st Ponta
Delgada, Oh the island Of St 3fichael,
the no~stimportcnt OF the 4zores group.
Our stay there was limited to two hourl.
It was a beautiful place. The
chief products OF the leland are tropical
fruits, being especially noted for the
~pineapples that are grown there. From
there Te pursued the "eyen tenor OF
our way" 20 Gibraltar, tina. wonderful
natural fortress whose frowninE front
hurls defiance 10 the powers Of the
world. The town has & population Of
abou. $500, one-di.h Of Thom are
eoldlers- This point in Europe ID visit
ed much more extensively now than il
used TO be. a railroad runs through
The southern part Of Spain, which makes
at easy OF access and Today representa-
t!yes OF every nationality car be seen on
the main street OF the town. The
for:ressi i wonderful Tith its miieg OF
galleries hswn OCT OF the soIid rock,
with here and there enormous guns
peering through holes read: to sweep
the sea with their deadly glance. Il is
s7id that the town OF Gibraltar is under
mined so that il any enemy 70 Eng
land even gained 4 foothold on iaud
they would be blown into the air BIZ the
touch Of an electric button, the secret
oil which is possessed By one man only"
"Tangier, the old Moorish stronghold,
JUST across IN Africa, was one oil the
most Interesting places We visited, and
a. the same time the most odd OF Its
.25,CU inhabitants 1900 are Moors and
5000 are Jews. It is peculiarly eastern.
as much SO az Cairo. The streets are
very narrow, abou, six or seven feet in
breadth, so that you have to squeeze
against the wall 70 pass a vehicle. The
Moore are q peculiar people, very dis
dsiniul and very Independent. They
will pass you on the street without go
much as looking at yoV.
What iatere.ted me most we're the
Genes in the market place with its
enake charmers and story ~teliers. | OBJ
served one group that was being enter
tanned by 4 story teller that e.. with
open mouths aaciutease gazs, entranced
by the WIND, earnestand poe,ical iervor
OF the narrator, whose theme might
have been some old legend or Arabian
Nights tale. Z few penniss seemed
ample recompensc 70 the entertain
er. There were other features of
this market chas were NOT 60 pleasant
10 contemplate, for on most every hand
q VIZ +" VIC u ILL4Lsk2A1OlG G-SGs
OF poverty and degradation-rags; come
beng merely as,ired in what looked
ike cast away coffee sacks. IsaE one old
woman, who, the guide informed me,
had Travelled twenty-five miles to sell
the bundle Of fire wood abe carried"
"Grenada. historical old Gre7ada,
with ats celebrated Alhambra eleven
hundred years old, was our nex. stop
ping point. II ia z beautiful city o; -
o0inhabitsrta- What attracted me most
WIS the klhanb,a- Not many persons
have 2 correct conception OF the a.
h1n5ra, familiar az il has been made
70 us through the immortal pen OF
Washington Irving. It is : village, q
hill, . collection OF palaces, fortIfca-
tons and palaces. The Spanish govern
meat Is taking great czre OF this ancient
pile, the mosaies and tile work in tho
palaces being alnos. aspertect IS they
were eleven hundred years ego.
Seville w:.h It's celebrated cathedral,
the third IN the Torld in point Of size
and architecture, vas our next stopping
place, and IRON there our itinerary took
us to Cosdova- There we're many things