Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-05-04


lighted to talk with young gentleman, who,
big az he was, could not sreak German netr so
we'll ns she, When asked II she would 20 to
America with Us, she eagerly replied "yes in.
deed" "Whatl' we said, ''and leave father
and mother and brother and sistersp Don't
you know itg long way OFF, @Oh yes"
she replied, but everybody ia rich () in Amer.
lea, and when get rich will come home
again" She was really in earnest about Il,
and cried when we told her we could not take
her with US. She said that although she was
only eleven years old, she bad Eve brothers
and sisters younger than herself, and then we
did not wonder that the child thought II was
time for her to emigrate
As We oAmeup In front Of our hotel, the
young wife Of Rn American who had visited
tao glacier with us, who had forgotten ell
her boarding school French, and was limo
cent Of the knowledge Of any other language
but our vernAeuar, hailed him from the third
story in evident tribulatiou Joseph, you
Joseph she called, 'polig pou some hot
water up here right away" These stupid
servants won't understand a word sayi' Jn-
seph flew TO obey, and we laughed 30 long
and loudly, that at last she left the window
with something like cloud upon her fair
brow. She loved fun herself too much TO be-
long angry with us, however, and graciously
forgSve US, when we met at dinner,
la the evening we started of to see the
upper glacier, but found that II was two or
three miles of though Il seemed but few
hundred yards, and we contented ourselves
with general view from a distance
Itstrikes every traveller among these ala.
cisrs as a very Singular thing, that fatal aeci-
dents ameng them are so rare. Thousands
are passing over and about them every season,
but the cAtastrophes chronicled by history end
tradition, do not number hundred in a hun
dred years When we remember that the CON
sequences Of single slip, false step, or
even Of an uncertain movement, is death, il is
marvel indeed, that any one with his wits
about him should venture upon such hazards,
except In obedience TO the call Of duty.
In 1921 . clergyman from Veyay iell into
one OF these cr0vices in the lower glacier, a
depth Of near 100 feet His guide was sus.
pected Of murder, but with rope tied around
bis body, and a lantern in his hand, he de.
scended agnin and again into the abyss, and
At last, when be was well nigh exhausted, he
found the corpse and was drawn with It to the
top. The travellers watch aud purse we're
found upon him, and thus the gallant fellows
good name was vindeated
An inn.keeper at Grindelwi.ld once fell in
to cavity, in the upper glacier some sixty
feet deep, and received no injury from the
fall but broken arm. But 70 climb up again
was impossible, and death by freezing or star
vation seemed staring him 10 the face. A
sound OF gurgling water fell upon his ear
however, and cropping sronnd he found a mar.
row channel through which il was Just poasi.
Die for him to draw bis bruised and stih.
eued body, and the hope flashed upon him
that this might lead out TO life again, and,sO
hs crept on in the darkness and the cold.
thinking no doubt OF wife aud children me
green earth and blue sky and wondering II
ever bis eyes would be blessed with the sight
Of them again; finding larger channels and
making easier progress until he at last
emerged from the gloomy cavern at the foot
Of the glacier TO be restored 10 his family and
friends, who were Just returning from
search for him, and wero mourning him as
dead.
As We we're travelling for pleasure, we of
course visited 9rapeyards quite often, and ney.
er failed TO find Ia them somefbisg 10.
teresting. All around the little church of
Grindelwald there are upright iron bars about
four feet high, on top OF each one OF which
is inserted piece OF sheet iron, about the
size and shape Of dinner plate. Thsse are
the Swiss monuments or grave stones. The
plate holds the Inscriptions They look as IL
thay might be the pendulums of soma old.
fashioned clocks, whose earthly career had
been abbreviated on account OF heinous de
linquencies, and who had been condemned 10
q burial with their heads downward. ~.
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