New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-22

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~" my and suavity, but our first expert
Frenon 'y e-.ncs shook their faith in me nightly.
o. luggage was booked through 70 faris' ana nrs'
r.,.;nsd there; and of all custom house oflcer' IN
vn,o,e. the most pitifully mean and contemplate
49,. those same Parsians. We were detained an
Nour. while separate articles of clothing, especially
Eusu. were examined with microscopic mnuteness
A ascertain whether they had ever been worn. A
,.1v Who came in the same train was obliged 20 pay
autv on two or three pairs Of children's socks.
Since then, have been through Austria, Italy and
the domnions Of His Holiness, without meeting
,eyerpment officials 80 brutal and vulgar
Such cases are exceptional in France; but !"
no less true that while the French surpass all otner
yeople in the outward forms of Courtesy they pos
vess little of that genuine poiteness which springs
from Kindness of heart. There ia far more sincerity
and rood will in a Germans "Hn gchts thah Ill
. Fyenchman's "L suis rari de r0us uoU." was
almost repelled from making the acquaintance Vi
French Government official the other day-a very
inte)bsent aud interesting person-oh acoou"' u
The multitude of oblgipg aud ha'terios eApfesso"'
vhieh he employed, from sheer haot' "i'nou'
meaning any thing in particular.
On landing at Dieppe, had specimen OF hn-
allah independence which contraSted strongly with
Ali. G.Ibc trait. The night was warm, and went
;n,o Oh. ,efresbment-roOm at the station to get q
h,,,,. of Eronade gazeuse. While it was being
epeped, a solid mddle-aged Englishman standing
near me sad DO you need more than half
bottle, Sir1 want little with my brandy"
shared it with him. and, the bottle having been
paid for in advance was moving away, when he
called after me, {" How much must / payf
"Nothing," answered; :" there was more than
needed and had already paid for it," "Sir, "
said he, fercely al take nothing from anybody
] sm in the habit of paying for what get" But
J." replied, "am not in the habit of dealing in
soda water" and so left him; but he immediately
called the garcon, and satisfied his independence by
paying over again the price of half bottle.
] had not seen Paris since March, 1916, and the
transformations achieved under the NapOleonic re-
sme struck me with astonisbmcnt. The compile
ton Of the noble Court Of the Louvre the extension
Of the Rue de RivOli, and the opening Of the new
Boulevards, have completely changed the aspect OF
the northern bank of the Seine, while the lis de
Bouogne, then wild, unpruDed wood, has become
WlIDln tUTet yours tnc mo5b muBu'HCtuS puohc
park in the world. In its municipal regulations,
also, Paris now far surpasses all other cities.
There are no streets so well swept and watered or
10 admirably lighted no such cheap and well-ar-
ranged omnibus lines, no such abundance of hack
pey coaches with (perforce) honest drivers, no such
thoroughly organized and efficient policemen. In
these respects, Paris is model city, and Louis Ma
poleon successful ruler. When his enormous self.
ishness and bis interruptions ambition are cOnsid-
cred, less might have been expected from hun.
Certainly no one since the first Napoleon has done
20 much toward furtherng the material develop
ment of France SO far as i heard him spoken Of
it was with certain degree of respect, but with
out the least personal attachment.
From Paris we went by railroad through
Charleroi, Namur and Lege. to Cologne. At the
Prussian frontier were treated with pOllteness
rs marked as was the want Of it in France. Our
days ON the Rhine would have been considered a
heated term even in New York-the sky c'oudless
and ,ultry, and the mercury at 900 in the shade.
On the high table-laHd north of the Thuringian
Forest, however, we found fresh breezes ard
milder SUD, together with old friends and German
welcome. We again climbed the Wattburg and sat
in Luz hers rOOm looked from the Insesberg over
q wide sphere Of wooded mountains and emerald
dells; walked through the Ducal gardens at Rein
hsrdt.brunn; drank beer at Waltershausen and
ysited the gray mustached Forester at his secluded
home in Thai. So sped the August days, one after
another, all too short, and 1 would have made up
the deficiency by adding September to them, but
that had promised to show Switzerland to my
young companions.
We hurried away, therefore, crossing the hills of
the Tharpgian Forest to Coburg, on one of the
finest roads in the world. My sailor, Braisted,
who il very slow to admit that the Americans are
behind hand in anything finally confessed that we
don't know what roads are, at home nor do we.
The youngest English colony possesses better high
ways than the Oldest American State This
thorsuehfare through the little principaty of SAKE
Cohurg would astonish the Alegbanians. A broad
maoadamized road, smooth and solid as marble, is
carried by easy grading over mountain ridge 2 900
feet high, bordered everywhere, even in the wild.
ct districts, by squsrecipped, compact hedges of
dwarf spruce, with fountains and stone seats at
convenient intervals, and avenues of shade wher-
ever it 10 exposed to the sun. An obesk at the
highest point commentaries its completion
We spent day in delightful old Nuremberg, and
thence hurried on by the Danube and Augsburg to
LIdau on the Lake Of Constance, which we crossed
10 Romanshorn, and so entered Switzerland. There
was no call for passports, no examination of bag
gage, and the conductors on the train to Zurich,
although each one had the word SNoB (the initials
cr tha Carrnsn xrorle far ssSuiss he .starr