The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-12

Count Dtxn0vftcis, Thirty~Six Years a
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Washington has the honor just now
of harboring Count Rocco Dianovitch,
Austrian nobleman by cause and globe
trotter by choice. For thfrty-six years
he has been traversing every country
on the globe: has been and lived among
all pecple-civilixed. semi-civilized bar
barrie, and savage. His sole motive. he
claims. has been n desire TO study the
characteristics OF the various consutu-
ent elements Of the human race: to
acQuaint himself with their habits and
customs. Inc from the specific and in
dividual data evolve CONGRATULATIONS
n deductions that may possibly IN
struct. IL not benefit. his feilow-men.
Incidentally Count Dianovftch has a
hobby: liz Is to become an inmate OF
Jails, insane asylums. reformatory In
situations OF every kind. schools and
colleges. to address their inmates. and
become acquainted with the methods
OF management in vogue In these insti-
buttons.
Rocco Dianovitch is not specially
proud OF his nobility. He says IL has
come to him like everything else with
which he was born. INC in all his ways
he is democratic enough to become a
x priest in the councils OF the Popu-
lists. His menas OF subsistence he de-
rives from remittances from his Dali
matian home, and testimonials from
hotels in different cities attest that he
has been a welcome guest there. He
is forty-eight years OF age; OF medium
height and well-knit figure: has dark
colleges, to address their inmates, an
mustache. clear, blush gray eyes, ant, I
for one who has exposed himself sol
~..A -. .~snI nnA w-nnhAr Iva a
cline. a rather forid complexion.
ENLISTED IN OUR NAVY.
Count Dlanovitch left his home when
but a boy. and after travelling through
Greece. Turkey, and other European
countries. found himself. in 1873. at
Lisbon, Portugal, where at that time
the United States ship Congress was
lying at anchor. He shipped on her as
a landsman. but was put 10 use as an
interpreter, and there mad the &C
quaintance of Lieutenant--now admi-
ral-Sampson. 1t was about the time
of the Virginius AFFAIR, and the congress
was ordered TO Cuban waters. but OF
arrival at Key West the news came
that Spain had paid indemnity. and the
subsequent proceedings interested
Count Dianovitch no longer. In 1874
he took his discharge from Uncle Sans
navy, and one OF the objects OF his Wis
Ii to Washington is to obtain n dupli-
cate of his discharge papers, which he
lost. These he is to receive today.
Count Dianovitch. according to his
story, has Travelled between thirty and
forty thousand miles or foot and many
more thousand miles on horseback. or
railways, steamboats,, stage coaches.
and other ordinary and usual convey
ances he has avaiied himself only in
extraordinary cases or when 'pedes
apostolorum" and horse power would
not serve the DlrnOSa Thus he roach
ed San Francisco by steamer from
Sydney, n. S. W., in 1896, and at once
resumed his tramp. 1t took him two
years and nine months to come. across
the country, and from Washington he
Will make his way to New York by
easy stages. There he has made par
|tial arrangements for the publication OF
his book, which Is to embody his expe-
riences in and his views on the coun-
tries n nations OF the earth.
TESTIMONIALS FROM CONSULS.
Count Dianovitch has forty-four
scrap-books containing testimonials OF
his visits from foreign consuis, mayors
Of cities, prominent citizens. heads OF
penal and educational institutions and
newspaper articles galore. He is an
enthusiast on the subject OF the United
States as a whole and the individual
States and cities no less. He declares
this country stands foremost in all
that goes TO hetter mankind materially.
mentally and morally. Nowher cir,
on the inhabited globe. he says. are
prisons, asylums and charitable insti-
buttons so plentiful and so well man
aged, and nowhere else are the poor
and outcast treated so humanely. AS
to the matter of tramps. he asserts
and Count Dianovitch should be an au-
thority-that the whole subject Is
greatly exaggerated: tina there are
comparatively few tramps in the Uni-
ted States, and his reason for this Is
that it does not pay to be a tramp. and
that, with but few exceptions, the
Weary Willies and their Xix must work
for allethey get.
Coun Dianovitch will visit the Jail
today, and, il permitted, will address
the prisoners. He will also pay his re-
spects to President Mckinley, by