Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-08-06

tails of her own door, were forced abroad oc
caslonally into the social world, if they wonlt
4 not willingly, and taken yearly to the sea- sid
Tor a few weeks, that hundreds and thousand
of wives and mothers who are now sickly
nervous and unhappy, would be in the enjoy
ment Of good health and cheerful spirits, Civ.
| ing light to their homes, and happiness to tht
hearts of their husbands.
Try The prescription, ye men with sickly.
toiling, exhausted wives, whose pale faces
haunt your homes like ghosts of former bless.
lngs. Pity them wisely, and hold them back
| while you may, from the low restng-places un
der the green turt towards which they are de
yISeen,sng with rapid turf.
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BAYAnD TAYLcR IN LoNDoN. We take The ftl
lowing interesting extracts from Mr. Taylor's lette
dated London, July L:
i "As II was Necessary that should visit LondO
on matters of business, before to Norway
l took the opportunity Of accompanying my brothe
home. Leaving GOtha 90 tho ii OF June we wen
| by rail to Bremen, by wayaf Gassal and Hanover =
The only thing in the former city which we had time
to visit was the celebrated Ratkskeier or crypt oil
the cid Hall of Council. This is renowned through
all Germany for its tuns Rhonish vine, Of the most
undoubted antiquity. They arc kept in great vaults
distinguished by different titles That the sTweye
Apostles has been immeralzed by Hauff and
Heine but the apostolica wines are not so fine as
those authors would have us believe. Each eask
bears The name Of one of the Apostles they contain
wine of the vintage of l7lS, which has now was
informed, Iungent acid flavor. Tint of Judas, a,
lone, retains pleasant aroma, and the sinner there.
fore, is il greater demand than all the saints ogeh,
er In he "Rose Cellar are enormous casLe vet
hled with liocheimer (Hock) Of the vintage of 1924
FOR couple Of centuries it was carefully treasured.
but the City Fathers of Bremen finally discovered
thatthe longer it was kept the worse il grew, and
now sell 1t to visitors in small bottles at moderate
price.
We set down in one of the stalls In the outer eel,
lar, and had bottle uncorkei. Think of drinking
wine which grew when the Plymouth Colony was
but iour years old-of the same vintage which Ari,
osto might have drunk, and Milton, and Cromwell,
and Wailenstein, and Gustavus AdVlphus. Shakes
peare had been dead but eight years when the grapes
were trodden in the watts; and Ben Jonson may have
sung his Drink to me only with thine eyes over
goblet of the COLDER juice. We filled the glasses
with great solemnity, as these thoughts passed
through our minds-admred its dark smoky, color,
sn'lted up reyerently musky, mummyslike odor,
and then tasted. Fancy mixture of oil and vine
gar, favored with small drop of kreosote! This,
as atterward recognized. was the impression made
upon the palate, though my Imagination too busy
at the time to be aware Of it, We all said, 1t Is
not so bad as expected and, by keeping the fact |
oil its age constantly before our eyes succeeded in
emPtying the bottle. Sopungent, however, was the
smoky, oily, acidulous flavor, that it affected my
palnte for full twenty.four hours afterwards, and
everything ate or drank in that time seemed TO be
0i the vintage of 1924
reached London in season to hear the last OF
Handels oratOres-LSrG lin EeYpt-in the Palace |
at Sedenham. doubt whether auy composer dead
or alive has ever had such an ovation. Two thou
sand sing rs and nearly three hundred instrumental
performers, interpreted his choruses TO audience
OF more than IL 900 persons The coup d'G, alone,
was subiimer than any picture. The vast amphi
theaer Of singers filling up the whole breadth Of the
western transept, stretched off into space, and the
simultaneous turning of The leaves Of their music
BOOKS was like tie appearance of " an army with
banners, or the rustling Of the wind in a mountain
LAT hat
the outskirts OF the multitude below AMI was fear
tul that we should not be able to hear distinctly
but might as well have feared not hearing the thun.
der in cloud over my head Not only was the quar-.
ter OF milo palace completely filled with the waves
ol the chorus in every part but they spread beyond
H. and flowed audibly the hills tor mile around.
Kept my eye en- The leader, Da Costa, whose single
arm controlled the whirlwind. lie lifted it, like
Moses, and the plaques fell upon Egypt; he waved
II, and The halstones smUe crashing upon the high
ways and the enpeNrOofs; he stretched it forth, and
"a NE NED sea waves parted and closed again on the
ehariots of Pharaoh. He was lord of the tunelu
hosts that day, and Handel himself, us he wrote the
scores OF The immortal work, could mot have mo- Q
perfectly incarnated its harmonies. Following him
trod In the thunder march of the two fold chorus
Of sound.
Mr. sumner is here, at Mauriey's Hotel. in Re
gent street have not yet seen him but some friends
tell me ho is looking very we'll No American has
ever been more popular in England than Mr.. Sum
ner, and he is at present floating the top wave of
London society. heard the other day good stery
OF his arrival here. lie entered his name upon the
book as simply "Mr. Sumner, Doston," and was ac
cofdingly set down by the host and his hunkies as
an ordinary traveller The next morning one of the
latter came to MIR. Summers room in some excite
ment, and said 'Lord Brcughamis down stairs, sir,
asking for you To the walters amazement Mr. |
quietly said, without exhibiting the least sur. |
prise, Very we'll; show him up Not long after
ward the former caae, stilrmorc excited 'Sir, the
Lord Chief Justice has called, and he asks for yOH"
"show him up," was again the cool reply. After
his lordship had departed the waiter came once
more, bewildered and little aggravated. "Sir, |
SIR, Me Lom Chancellor Of E9sf4hd has called
to sec you!', "ShOw him up, repeated Mr.. s.
These astonishing facts doubt at once COM
ing Post announced the arrival of ellis Exceilency
the Honorable Mr. Sumner" at Maurigy hotel.