Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-04-02
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Written expressly for the Dayton Emprel
A SUMMER In EUROPE
No " IXl
NO. xLIV.
FoNrAlNEmEA0--Loufs EAPoLEoN

Ak'"o eiiat 'ue "rlter ls attempting 70 ceaonbe
all that he saw that was peculiar or interest
lng in his journeyings, "l,esdug ideas and
prominent characteristics are all that he hopes
TO be able to notice in these letters, and in
saying farewell so soon to Paris, he wishes it
understood That he has failed to speak Of
many things that were by no means unseen
We were in Paris about two weeks. If we
had remained there two months or two years,
we would have probably found some interest.
ing thing to look upon every day.
Our first stopping place on leaving Paris
was at Foutainebleau some forty miles south
where there is q palace in which different
kings of France have resided during the last
six hundred years. II had been suffered to
fall into decay, but the present Emperor has
spared neither pains nor expense to restore
1t, and while the outside Of the buildings have
been permitted to remain as time has made
them, te inside, and the surrounding gardens
and forests, are as elegant as in the DAYS of
Louis Qnartoize. A large party Of us follow
ed the usher like flock of sheep, through
the rooms that are open to public inspection
They are as fine as can be- but glance salts.
ned US. After Luxembourg, the Louvre and
Versailles, tis net wonderful that we should
have become a little indifferent to palatial
splendor. We look upon such buildings now
with perfect GOODNESS though with undimiuish
ed admiration, and seeing them fit for the res
ideDce OF gods, wonder that the very ordinary
men who have lived in them, shonld have been
willing to run the risk Of having their own
lttleuess advertised by natural comparisons
Of them with their dwellings.
The Emperor's library is large, well light
ed room, containing, l should think, five or
six thousand volumes. The works Of Scott
Hume, Jones and Allison; and Of Dickens
Thackeray, and Tennyson, like familiar friends
looked pleasantly ont at us from their places
on the shelves The Emperor's residence in
New York aud London, in the days when he
was vagabond on the earth, made him thor
oughly acquainted with our language, and
gave him taste for our literature which, it
seems, he has not yet altogether lost The
diyan in the center of the room is a miracle
OF upholstery and the most luxurious thing
TO lounge upon imaginable. Every man who
loves books and appreciates oonvenienees for
reading, studying and writing, will believe
think as did, that this room is the one above
all others in the Palace in whose possession
the Emperor is most to be envied.
The suit Of rooms formerly occupied by the
First Emperor, here, as at Versailles, are the
smallest and eosiest of all. They are kept
with serupulous care, Just as he left them, and
the little round cherry wood table, occupies
still the identical spot on which il stood when
be signed his abdication upon i, in lsI4-I
The bed on which the lovely Empress reposes,
was also exhibited to US. It is an immense
afIair-brosd enoughland long enough to ae.
comodate much larger ianily than she and
Louis has, but suppose that their boy by this
time, insists upon trundle bed or a crib 10
himself.
We took carriage for ride through the
adjacent forest, or part Of it. II is sixty
miles in Oireumference-eig OF ten Of them
were enough to satisfy us. The driver took
Us to see the Weeping Rocks We expected |
something very wonderful and touching, but
the long dry spell bad exhausted its supply Of
tears aud healed its sorrows, and we could see
nothing about il very different from any other
big stone. The immense boulders lying sea-.
tered about, we're wonders to me, but they
were pooh-poohed by hose Of our party who /
had Travelled in New England Our driver
then took us 20 see two tolerably good sized
trees, standing near together, called the Broth.
ers, He evidently considered them quite 1
show, and was very much surprised aud dis. /
gusted At our indifference 9ycamores. twice |
as large, are no curiosiiies on the banks of
our western streams The trees ia the forest. 4
are mostly beech-some few are ash aud elm.
Alter tea we walked in the gardens in the |
rear Of the palace, snd found more real enioy- /
meut in feeding the hungry fsh in the pond |
there than IN 81 the balaDce Of the day. The i
voraeions fellows would grab at everything !
We threw them, and Il Il was not larger than
bAbys hst, would swallow il at gu,p with
perfect disregard Of the hygienie benefits Of
mAsiicaiion. was so thoughllesa as TO throw
my cigar stump among them, and one of thea /
was so thoughtless as 10 swallow il hissing hot !
With tap OF his tail and a wAg Of his hsao, |
he came as near making wry face over Il as
a hsh could, but in few momsRts he was with !
the rest OF them as active and hunRryas ever. I
Az old woman has stand near by TO furnish /
ldlers, like we were, with stale bread TO throw |
70 them, and We paironized her extensively. /