The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-29
STRANGE CONTRASTS IN ROME.
Nj Sorts and Conditions of Men Jcstls
One Another In the Streets.

Nj Sorts and Conditions of Men Jostic
One Another In the Streets
Perhaps 1t is true that the impress.
sions which Rome makes upon q
thoughtful man vary more accord
ing to the wind and the time of day
than those he feels in other cities.
Perhaps, too, there is NJ capital in
all the world which has such con-
trasts to show within a mile of each
other-one might almost say within
O dozen steps.
One of the most crowded thor
oughfares of Rome, for instance, is
the Via del Tritone, which is the
only passage between the Pincian
and the Quirinal hills, from the re
| gion of Piazza Colonna toward the
railway station and the new quar-
ter. During the busy hours of the
day a carriage can rarely move
through its narrower portions any
faster than at a foot pace, and the
insufficient pavements r thronged
with pedestrians. In a measure, the
Tritone of Rome corresponds to
Galata bridge in Coustantinople. In
the course of q week most of the
population Of the city must have
passed at least once through the
crowded little street, which some
how in the rain of millions that
lasted for two years did not manage
to attract to itself even the little
sum which would have sufioed to
widen it by a few yards. 1t is as
though the contents of Rome were
daily drawn through a keyhole. In
the Tritone are to be seen daily
magnificent equipages, jammed in
the string. between milk carts, om-
nibuses and dustmen's barrows, pre-
ceded by butchers van and follow
ed by miserable cabs, smart dogcarts
and high wheeled country vehicles
driven by rough, booted men wear
ing green lined cloaks and looking
like strange bandits. Even saddle
horses are sometimes led that way,
to save time, and Oh each side flow
two streams of human beings of ev-
cry type to be found between Porta
} Angelica and Porta San Giovanni.
t A prince of the holy Roman en-
/ pire pushes past a troop of dirty
school children and is almost driven
7 into an open barrel of salt goldfish
8 in the door Of a poor Shop by a
black faced charcoal man carrying
a sack on his head more than half as
high as himself. A party of jolly
young German tourists in loose
clothes, with red books in their
hands and their fieldglasses hang.
ing by straps across their shoulders,
try to rid themselves of the flower
girls dressed in sham Sabine cos.
tunes and utter ordinations of as
tonishment and admiration when
y they themselves are almost rur
is down by a couple of the giant Roa.
g%renadiers, each 6 feet 5 or there
about, besides nine inches or SO Of
crested helmet aloft, gorgeous, gi
gantic and spotless.
Clerks by the dozen and liveriet
messengers of the ministries strug
gle in the press; ladies gather theil
skirts closely and try to pick
IS dainty way where, indeed, there i!
nothing ''dain" "a word which DR.
s Johnson confesses that he could no
n find in any dictionary, but which
II he thinks might be very u~seful)
y servant girls, smart children will
nurses and hoops going up to thu
y Pinoio; black proved washerwomen
10 with big baskets of clothes on thei
5 heads; stumpy little infantry soldier
10 in gray uniforms; priests, friars
70 vendors of boot laces and thread
J. vegetable sellers pushing handcart
10 of green things in and out among tn
10 horses and vehicles with amaZin|
e. dexterity and yelling their cries il
% superhumanly high v~oices-there j
no end to the multitude.
Q If the day is %showery, it is a sigh
,. to see the confusion in the Triton
70 when umbrellas of every age, ma
u terial and color are all opened a
III once, while the people who hav
a mono crowd into the Goldfish shop
IS and the liquor sellers, and the tc
10 bacconist's, with the traditional col
permesso of excuse or entering whe
" they do not mean to buy anything
for the Romans are mostly civ,
r. people and fairly good natured. But
y rain or shine, at the busy hours til
IN place is always crowded to overflow
y ing with every description of vehicl
r. and every type of humanity.-Ma
If ion Crawford in Century.
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w A Typical English Joke.