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AN ITALIAN MAD-HOUSE.
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Or an upper floor of this horrid tenement we
desire to say nothing. 1t was place for Saliva
tor to paint, for devil to rejoice in for humanity
TO sicken and shudder at. We had been, as we
have said, in many mad houses before, but in none
like this; at once menagerie OF herceness, pig
stye Of filth. The motto to Dante's Infsrno had
been strictly applicable to this hopeless place. The
faces Of the maniacs were begrmed with dirt, and
their plight rendered more pitiable by the utter
negligence of the keepers There was small
ward at the end, in which the people were treated
just like wild beasts in a menagerie There they
lay chained to their beds frantic and foaming,
some gnashing their teeth in violent and sup
pressed rage at the manaces and chains they
could Rot break; others oscilIating their heads
and trunks from side to side without ceasins; or
threatening the destruction of their beds,eads by
frantic efforts. An outraged tiger would not have
been more to be dreaded than one awful creature,
who, having sip-chaia which gave him a few
fee, furough, as you chain mastiff at your gate,
sprang up high window-sill, and leapcd down
again on our apprt ach, with the agilit} of mon
key Along an open gallery of small extent for
exercise, we'll secured and guarded by .con bars,
there staked several whose situation was not quite
SO intolerable. inasmuch as they were only chain
ed bythe hands and wrists; but dangerous enough
were they even thus, as they strided up and down,
naked to the waist, some in suspicious taciturmty,
others uttering imprecatons. One there was thai
spat upon each vis,er as he passed, and tried t0
get his loose TO fight. In this dreadful! mad
hause all the mad dwell togeiher-the violent with
tue naore gente,he utterly bcret of reason and he
snat was mad but one subject. m'ddie-aged
'"an os very Interesting counenance held q book.
Waicn we asked TO see, and found it To be u
french work on mathematics We asked the
party he was a Capachin,) il he liked math.-
mates de said, "ies, bu, | am no great
proficient In them" On observing to him th,,
che book was shove our own reading he said ,ha,
he could read II we'll enough, but that his know.
ledge was not OF apraotical kind ..What studio.
did be chiefly parsue'" "a little of ALL" Bu
what did he prefer g None; he liked all stud,
for its own sake" We Can TO this hour place th,
whole picture before us. Twenty pair Of eye:
glazing, Wild, and distorted Twenty faces con
yulsed or collapsed Twenty pair of hands op
pressed by calling chains clanking around us :
Twenty tongues employed in ceaseless and vail
attempts TO expostuae against bonds or restraints
not 20 be endured with patience in calm stat
of health, and donbly unendurable IN the cxci,et
state Of u,adman's brain? The filthy bedding
the begrinaed walls, daubed and painted by tn
maniacsl the dirty floors, the scanty hight! asi'
naked bodies tossing about under the influence Q
disorderly will the hoarse din, the ldiotI
laugh the intense hate, the suppressed mailce 0
come, and the voiceless NO OF others, and amids
all the keepers indiaerence-all these were eie