Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-05


Of at these people are the most ruthies
ne gaZers ia the world said Che servant
IN were the only gentlemen in til
a dining room! The hotel gives you
ls key which gentleman can carry in hi
Is pocket and not know he has ii until h'
wants it. A Western steamboat give
N you Il KEY attached 10 club, which, !
N it were round, would readily pass yOl
r I for policeman the old Galt House
& the best hotel that ever lived, gave you ;
- key with brass plate, which, with an
,e appropriate handle, would make gOOC
N gardening trOwel; and the Astor HOus,
! to-day gives YOU a key with ahuge meta
J. plate, cut into. sharp saw teeth, which
I. you can't carry about your person with
\ out serious danger of wounding yourself
4 always thought Of Hottentots, Fegees
q and the King Of DahOmey. 1t is nothing
- to say that guests are requested to leave
"a the key at the Office. The office VIII
b. contain a decent key rs well as baTba-
. rian instrument, and gentleman rent
s ing a room has right 10 carry the key
/ until lac quits it.
= Much has been said about the superb
o. Oritg of European railroads and cer5 As
! / compared with American. Without
q stopping 10 particularize, 1 must admit
, that the construction, management and
, comfort of the roads and ears are 50 far
, superior to ours that ours lack little of be-
ing national reproach.
There are many evidences that our
country and our leading men are much
thought of here. Stepping into the cafe
( Of my hotel the first things saw on the
walls were Niagra, several views of New
York and harbOr, and the largestcopy ofthe
Declaration Of Independence ] ever saw
anywhere emBgnificently Trained. Their
diligences are as large as two or three of
our old time stage coaches. Getting out
of one in the middle Of the night 10 hunt
some refreshments at an obscure country
inn, found in the little square dining
room five ornaments gathered in cius-
: ter on ono wall And what "A cluster
what an arrangement, what a meaning
70 an American Did the rude landlord
have any design IN il, or was il all aeci-
dental? In the center a map Of the Unit
ted SIates-our country; just In Ter that
/ 9 good engraving Of d most ghastly
skull-Our late civil war; Just over
/ it q lusty young fellow hggging and
1 kissing his sweetheart, just after
Z reconciliation no dOUbt-our present !
fUnion and future population ll0vers will
/ excuse me, l am pTactical); to the left I
/ Washington. the father and founder OF /
{ his country; TO the right Lincoln, its /
savior. Many strange things happen to 1
g stranger in a strange land, but this /
as the strangest that ever happened 10 /
me. BY the way, 1 see the pictures,
husts and paintings Of Lincoln every
where and of Mr.. Davis nowhere. An |
American must come to Europe to realize
the fact that already Lincoln stands side
by side with Washington, and IS des-
tined to occupy a more prominent place
than any man In modern history, with
the exception Of Napoleon the First, and
a far more favorable and enviabls one
than he.
Some peculiarities of manners and Gus
toms are worthy of note. Near Bremen
saw women driving OK teams through
the fields. In Hamburg, masculined dress
makers measure, cut, and iii garments 20
the fair sex. Stepping on the streets
Of a great commercial city early Sunday
morning, the first thing attracting my
attention was a large number Of well /
dressed lads, evidently the sons of we'll {
to-do, refined people, going out shooting. |
The next thing was a large flock of plump
lttle brown birds feeding in the streets,
and skipping cheerily aside to make way ]
for the approach of an awkward trundle :
wagon drawn by a man and a dog regu- {
larry geared in. / thought the man the /
bigger dog of the two, since having {
chosen his vocation and association, h- o
did not do his share Of The pulling, but ]
shirked of on the dog, whether servant q
or partner / could not tell. | afterward Il
found that il was quite common for men d
30 pull these wagons through the streets, +
by straps across the shoulders, and not q
strange 10 see a dog helping. @
Speaking Of wagons, everything that G
goes on wheels here is much more clumsy 4
than in America. The equipage Of gen ! n
fy, nobility and royalty, though well :
finished, and no doubt very comfortable, II
IS so heavy and strong that with US il n
-Ouid not be considered 4 neat ami grace n
'ul job. I had thought that from the \
Alps and the Seine TO the Baltic all was q
lair skin, light hair and blue eyes. o.
There is certainly a predOminance +
jf fair and rosy complexions, but on a
expressing my surprise at seeing so much g
5'ack hair, / was asked by German lady II
il had the same notions of Holland? ] II
nodded, Certainly She assured Ige f
she had seen more black hair ia Holland n
Than in the United States, and was gazed II
)ut of cOuntenance at a party in Holland IN
Dn account OF her very light hair Amer II
0ans must no; be too thin skinned nu the b
subject OF gazing when they come over il
here. These people can beat telescope r
gazing They do not casually glance at N
4 stranger with o. careful but hasty and M
sAiu apparently uiiilittiltioiiii view. II N
They stop on the streets, and ri
.urn round at the table, and
take deliberate aim ut you, especially el
q you are q lady. A disciple Of my Lord n
Chesterfield would say it was quite vul- /.
yar to do 80, but these people would an Ii
5Wer that il is quite natural to look at "a,
people and things, and isOnc of the modes n
IF learning. / had thought stove pipe {,
lats a piece Of Americanism generally h
aughed at and repudiated in Europe, n
ind, observing them quite common here, T
vas told ] could not 60 out in the even 81
ny or TO dinner without a stove pipe. | a,
lad thought that "beard with formal n
:ut," at least a moustache, if not pass N
jOrt into society, was a prerequisite, and Il
ind more clean shaved faces than I saw st
It home. nj
We sat down in one end Of dining
DOM at first class hotel and az the sl
,ther end was a table filled by evidently b
/ company Of gentlemen of the first ii
0clal standing, enjoying dinner party. Il
They attracted the attention of our VI
larty, and especially of the ladies, by s.
heir grace, dignity, fine looks, cultivated tC
appearance, and fine heads, for there is a,
something in the cut, carriage, and eZ- o.
PRESTON of 6 mans head that tells fo
whether he has been well engaged T
II well filling that never filed IS
mental magazine We could not Ii
lelp giving an admiring look in | ST
hat direction occasionally, though ] OF
-ow we did not gaze. Things moved fe
along very well, until one of them q
picked his teeth without holding his nap
,in 10 his face. Bull Run russell saw 1 vi
somebody eat with a knife in America q
md put itin his book. Presently, as the y
.Ourses and the glasses progressed. they al
jecame little more loud and animated o
1t was an uproarious din, we could not b
near ourselves talk at the other end OF al
he hall. Then, when about all the m
courses were discussed, one of them 4
While delivering a very deliber- b,
ite gaze at u, Gulled out a in
lest little black comb from his er
rest pocket and readiusted his hair while f-
everal more, with an easy grace and an a
iir of confidence which bespoke custCm W
md good breeding, lit their cigars and bt
luffed immense wreaths Of black, curl d
ne, suilocating smoke, which soon found ~
Is wav down 10 our end Of the hall. ! | q
nave omitted the looks, the interIectiOns. al
nd CALCULATIONS Of the ladies as all this y,
progressed. A clever German in our q
larty, who has lived i'm the States, lis &C
ened with genteel patience until be was 70
provoked TO reply: "Well, madam, do al
lot quite like 10, but against ihaJ 1 ti
will put an American shooting at is
your horTid spittoon and missing il, and re
his stuff all over the Brussels F; q,
,-w-a-h!" throwing his mouth, eyes, b,
hands, head, whole person into the most II
theatrical expression OF horror aud detes- Is
alton. Now how stands the account? f.
4 German, who, II he tilted his chair or III
al cross-legged i'm 3 drawingroOm, N
would not expect 10 lie asked there again, cs
will pick his teeth, comb his hair ana OF
moke his cigar al the dinnertable, n
Il which an American takes great c.
,ffense, while an American will l.
quirt a gill OF tobacco saliva at m
spittoon, and aggravate the o1fense by =
Missing the nasty thing, then draw his
hair to the fire place, lean it back far
.nough to frighten other people, throw -
me leg over neighboring chair and the
,ther foot on the mantel piece, and, 70 I.
void missing tho spittOon, viii throw