Show CURIOUS ceremonies AT NAPLES among the mate materials says a naples correspondent chich go to make ap p the olla podrida of events that take place it h naples I 1 must not omit the fete of st antonio the renowned god affire of hire fire and of four footed tooted beasts early last week piles might be geen baen seen at the distance of every fifty 11 yards in the streets of naples composed of the wrecks of ev every esery ery kind of household furniture I 1 here and tables on one the bust of the saint was placed with lighted tapers before him A facchino stood by and with sack or box begged for st antonio two iwo days before belore they were the images of chekin the eing king R at ald ard d queen which were thus honored but by a substitution easy among those whose names are registered in heaven st antonio bad now replaced them then in the evening many hundred plies piles were blazing through the streets they were a sacrifice to the god of fire during the lek weeks and the following sunday other scenes being enacted at the further end of the city almost every kind of four footed beast wah wab wa being driven to the church of st antonio in the suburb of his name there to receive the sprinkling of the priest prie stani stand and the benediction of the saint while I 1 wras fras there a lad rode into the court on the very extremity of a consumptive don key keys keyo s tail but perhaps that money would be thrown away ulson upon him bim hastily rode back A sorry white mule however stood his ground as did five donkeys and a half dozen horses the sacristan having given a peep went in to report there was a batch sufficiently large to justify a move and then their priests came out and kissine kissing his stole put it on his shoulder and proceeded to pray and ana to a sprinkle rinkie something for tor the exclaimed cf sacristan and rattled his bis box he the bbous is paid the figure of the saint Js is placed by tb the e animals ear two strings of biscuits are put ove over r his bis becky neck and the operation is over 41 do bo you know said a friend acin in whose gift the church of st antonio is no isi rii replied it is under tinder the ibe patronage of the cappellano maggiore of the royal chapel who lets it out to the hi highest hest bidder at loom or ducats dubats a year dont be sceptical its a matter of public notoriety |