New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-11
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The soldier with words or approving Sunless aru E
liberal gent,eman's wife handed some Pas'lIess "
ne priest to hand to the child which the q ads
.,othsr returned thanks for and bade HIP. 5fer TO
the soldier; wbereupon the lady handed aim whole
raper full. which was then passed round, eccompa,
r;eS with such exchange of uIteses and feii0wed
by snch feeling of human fellowship among us'
that was tempted TO think that sunday morning
spht have been not greatly better spent In church
In the afternoon wished the company good |
VOYAGE received in return ther friendly valedlctions
and ahohteA at Bar-le- Due, which consists OF ue
cA tsvn knilt up on a steep hill, ard the new te~n
at no Eot Through tAe lower town run broad
streets and branch Of the Maine. High on the
outer edge of the upper town, whittier you ascent
nv narrow stairs and tangled ways is an epen place
where IT was pleasant to SIT under the shade OF
enormous hndeus and look out over cultivated
landscape of vineyards on the hills and new mown
meadows and following wheat fields.
The last few days of sunshine had disslpateo the
fears of bad crops which were entertained through
The prolonged wet and cold of May and June. The
Weld of bay was large and has by this time been all
cut and dried with the most favorable weather; the
grain was heading well; the vines were looking
well though the vintage must be late, and unless q
warm September counterbalance the cold June, Is
like to be of poor quality; fruit is unusually album,
dant. This statement holds good in the main, not
only of the strip of country lying either side OF the
Paris and Strasbourg road, but, as read and hear
of France at large. o.
Bar.le- Due is celebrated as the birthplace OF
Marshal Excelmans, and for currant Jams ana lei-
hes. once saw the Marshal at the Tmler1es quite
shriveled ike dried prune, with hardly room Oh
his brave old breast for the insignia OF numerous
knghtly orders, with which it was covered Us win
insurance plates. He is dead now. Ills towhsnleh
have helped preserve his memory IN monument
1t ia said not to be remarkable. The currant Jam
is toothsome. tasted it at the inn, where, as 1t
was comfortable one, and the town not being IN
tested with objects worthy the travellers attention,
took mine ease for two days. A cOp0us, we'll
cooked breakfast and dinner, thin but potable WINE
of that region I'D tbitun, and clean, elastic bed Tor
six durnal francs There is no charge for service,
but another franc is hoped for by the auxllares
These are in less number than would be the case IN
an American hotel Of similar quality-one OF the
two largest in the tOwn-but the attendance Is sutf-
cient though perhaps not as prompt as with
us. The French wait both actively and pas
siyely more quietly than we. The landlady
welcomes the coming, speeds the goiug
guest" knows the hours of diligence and rail-
way, keeps the books, gives orders, scods the
servants-is the Office clerk and man of the house.
The husband of q French landlady is invisible,
esOteIic mystery to the intelligent foreigner The
fact of his existence Is revealed Dy ms name over
the door-sfat nominis umbra; but the quidity and
quality of it battle inquiry and habbergast specuia-
zion.
At table two men differed in opinion as to the po-
htical results of the Crimean war; The elder, who
was getting worsted, said to the other authorita-
lively rous eteS encore jeune-YOu are young yet.
This phrase closed the discussion. 1t is in frequent
use in France as an GTgnmentum dd homlnem. 1t
corresponds, for logical force and purpose with the
American inverse phrase, " Old Fegy" Here the
superiority of age to youth, other things being
equal is accepted postulate with bOth and SO the
French pay much greater respest to their parents
than we to ours not that they for that anything
hike as virtuOus people as we. Moses, indeed, gave
the fourth commandment precedence of the seventh;
but Moses was an extremely old fogy; nOHsauOns
change tout celia. Considering the French code,
and the statutes of some of our States respecting
divorce, that old legislator might think with my
venerable friend NJ POupard. who, in course of a
conversation these matters to which / listened,
remarked, with shrug: Z" Mas mon Dieu, Mons
" JOhnkause, it wants to our bad manners cOdi-
a. 6caton solely to make OF them your laws"
WhereupOn TO me Young jenkins: Strange how |
these foreigners never understand our inst- |
tutiOns
Not to dwell too long on an indicate subject |
the dwelling in wonted injustice Of opinion respect
ing a whole people being often preferred-l will |
state that the population OF country town, like |
Due, in France, comes honestly into the
world as though it were born in town OF the same
size in Scotland. The proportion of ilegitmate
births in Scotland is as great as in France, where
il is one in thirteen and fraction. In England 1t
is one in fourteen and fraction. These facts ap
pear in official documents published by the Govern
meDts of these countries.
was saying that not all Frenchmen are polite.
Among them are profuse expectOratOrs One such
was in the cars the other day, splitting for pastime,
az it seemed from TOul to Nancy. In one of the
churches at Barbecue there is request posted in
large painted letters, to this effect: " You are be-
"sOught out of reverence for the place, not to
a. spit upon the pavement Of the church" On the
way I'D to the church, read on a sign, " COiSOn
L" cut pour b public" This indicates an arrange
ment good and economical for the pubGc's stomach
and pocket, and profitable for ColsOn. There is
witha fine breadth of rhetoric that Is quite
French. A ready -made shirt-shop on the B0ule.
ward PoissoniGre is dedicated to PUni1erSe, to the
Universe az if light cambria for Sirius faneHe de
SantE for the North Star Walter Scott notes the
magnificent reply to his intcrrogative surprise at
the want of sidewalks in French town: We
prefer the tOtalty of the street" An English
baker would take in baking for the neighbOrs; Col
son cooks for the public.
Speaking of national characteristics, car Is now
Get apart on the roads for smoking. This regulation
only month old in France, has existed IN Germany
ever since railways in fashions IN Holland, IL
Is the cars where smoking is not allowed that are so
specially set apart by inscription to that effect
the others are provided with little tin receptaces
for cigar stumps and ashes.
What saw and did not see in Nancy and Stras- |
bourp may be read in Murray. From Kehl, opposite |
Strasbourg, to Appenweier on the great Baden rail-
way, is a perfect fiat. rode on top of diligence |
from there up TO the valley of the Reuch, shut III |
ever more and more narrowly by the steep sOpng !
hills of the Black Forest, crowned with dark hrs |
and spruce and mantled down with waving gram
and vineyards TO the continuous green yeiyefy |
meadows over highway smooth as garden-w walk,
and planted on either side with walnut or ornamen-
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