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Show Modern Rip Van Winkle. Two Neapolitan brigands, Vincenza Cieco and Qinseppe Rosa, have been recently re-cently set at liberty after forty years' imprisonment. It is impossible to describe de-scribe their astonishment at the shht of the railways, telegraphs, tramways and other modem inventions, which had not been dreamt of in their younger days,; Still they are not happy. ,They complajn that' when walking in the streets of Naples they do not meet a single fanw they know, not even that of a former victim. Signor Crispi represen ts a paternal pater-nal government; the forlorn condition of the poor follows ha awakened his sympathy sym-pathy and he has furnished them with the means to return to their native mountains. moun-tains. Signor Crispi is a lover of old institutions, in-stitutions, and brigands were getting scarce in the Campagna of Naples. Le Voltaire. |