The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-02
"ITALIA UNITA" UNMEANING
COMMERCIAL TIES STRONGER THAN
 THOSE OF RACE OR LANGUAGE,


 Periander Visits Italy and Draws Com parisons-Grand Dukes and Duohesses Are Now Seen Only in Germany-Con- centration as Destructive in the Old World as the New.
 Bolognia, May 16, 1897. ITO the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 Did you ever see piece of soap chained up so that neither could 1t run away, nor could any one take it away? If you have not, all you have to do Is to enter the Grand Hotel de Milan" at Milan; go right through the main hall till you come to the wash-room; enter and open your eyes. There is the thing in question. In the first place hole Is bored through the soap; then staple with big head or button on it is run through the hole, and then the chain is screwed to the other end on the staple. At least that Is the way it seemed to be done. A close examination would have
  Whether in case of fire or invasion the landlord would have time to unscrew the precious article and get away with 1t, Is a question which might be left to the Greeks and Turks. That is if they use soap.
 Another thing to be noticed in Milan Is the present style of buggy. The body is like the body of an old-fashioned, two-wheeled cart, with comfortable springs, a low-backed seat, but no top. The peculiarity is in the shafts, which are from two to three times as long as ordinary New Haven shafts; and which, in addition, are so attached to the horse that they only reach to his middle. That is his verticle middle. So that the horse is quite a distance from the cart, and the two are quite distinct from one another. The effect ifs peculiar. The carts are gotten up in fine style, with various devices and bright colors, and are evidently driven by bowling swells; Milanese noblemen in their poverty being no longer able to keep up the magnificent stables which distinguished them years ago, have de- vised the cart to show forth that they still have style. The horse, virtually by himself, has fine opportunities for display. He ought to take steps and to be about first or second cousin to a cir GUS horse Some of them realize their distinguished positions superbly, give great pleasure to pedestrians and excite warm applause. which the swells seem to enjoy. There are some disadvan- tages to the rig. Turning round is a beautiful evolution, but it can only be done in a broad street and must be pre- ceded by flourish of notification to omnibuses, tram cars, etc.; as for the time 1t takes up the whole street. In a narrow street turning Is impossible. Nor is stopping in a narrow street de- sirable, for the long shafts may span the crossing of another narrow street and oblige pedestrians to duck under or to climb over them. This the police would regard as irregular.
 Every town in Italy of any size must have at least one Victor Emanuel street one Victor EmanuaI square and one Victor Emanuel statue. Milan has been waiting a long while for it's Victor Emanuel statue, and has just set 1t up in the big square in front of the cathe- dral The king is always represented on e huge, savage horse, which no one else could possibly ride, but which he masters as an ordinary being would master rocking chair. He is always looking or pointing about three points off the starboard bow at his country $ foes, whom he is about charging and exterminating single-handed. The Mi Ian statue answers all the stock re- uuirements and fills all the stock expec- tations. It has ir addition on each side of it's enormous granite pedestal huge marble lion. It Is very evident that the sculptor could not persuade any lion to pose, and was helped out of his dilem- ma by the kindness of Scotch terrier It Is equally evident that the Scotch terrier entered fully into the fun of the thing. The conscientious artist, lover of nature, could at no stage of the work divest himself of the pleasant idea oi the elated terrier, who, on his side, tries his best to look most large and fierce If you only had a photograph you would appreciate the whole thing at g glance To be up to date the Journa and Courier must have an artistic de partment. People nowadays have nc time to read long accounts of thing: which they can understand at a glance
 Milan looks shabby, like the premises of a man whose income has been so re duced that he has not been able to re
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