The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-12-07
JOIinstOH In Europe.

:. Col John X. Johnston, the artist. who
has recently retltrncdIrom q "trip across
the water, was not remarkably impressed
by the antiquities Of the old world. In
fact he is inclined to believe that there Is
4 good deal of, humbuy about them. The
following chapter Of his experience we
fnd thus summed up in the Cincinnati
Times Of recent date:
Went to Acknowledgement por-
ton of the great desert-on a calnels
back-easier for rich man to go through
the eye of needle than for camel to
paint portraits-desert no CRATE shakes,
got better dessert at an American ho.
tel dinner-throw sand in your eyes on
the desert-make you think it is big
thing. Went to Damascus-bousht a
Damascus blade-humbug-blade made
in Akron, Ohio. Went to Jerusalem
hired guide for his board-a regular
guide board-never was so much board
in my lfe-Jerusa!em full of second
hand clothing stores-bouSht fragment
of Solomon's Temple-enough frag.
ments of Solomon's Temple sold every
year to build Cincinnati. Visited the
Nile humbug--no water privileges worth
a dam-don't wonder no one knows tue
sources of the Nile-greatest wonder that
anybody cares where they are-Liclking
river beats the Nile. Saw the mummies
made in London, every ole of them, by
q Massachusetts Yankee, and sent 10
Egypt.
LOCKED at the pyramids. Recollect-
ell that Napoleon said to his soldiers
From the tops of yonder Pyramids
forty centuries are looking down upon
you No souch thing; went up there
and inquired; forty centuries hadn't been
up there at ALL Saw the sphynx-cap,
tai likeness of Ben Butler Went to It
aly-bought a monkey and hand organ,
and learned to speak Italian in two hours;
monkey died and hand organ exploded;
haven't been able to speak Italian sincer
"Saw Garibaldi at Naples He wept
bitterly upon my shoulders-borrowcd
half dollar and said lie wanted to come
to America ami be second old George
Washington.
''He is coming to Cincinnati next week
to open q lager beer saloon, as head.
quarters for distinguished organ-grinders
| bought palace in Vienna, and am to
pay for it in Confederate scrip. Crossed
over the Bridge of Sighs-no size at all
saw where the Dodge. Of Venice mar
ried the Adriatic. There was Mormon
there awhile ago. He not only married
the Adriatic, but all the streams in the
neighborheod. Saw where Canova's
heart was buried. When Canova died his
body was cut up and buried all over Eu.
rope. All big cities wanted a piece of
him. They do it different now. If an
artist gets great rcputation-like my
self, for instance-they cut him up in
the newspapers. Saw the ruins of Greece
-(lepreciated oil stock Mostly Saw
the old Observation-Disclosures daubs. One
of those old masters couldnL, get a stu
aation at house painting If lie were alive
to day. Went to Rome dined by Bu-
chanan Read and Randolph Rogers. In
quired for Julius Cesar, but he wasn't III
that day--gone to turkey shoot on the
Isle of Crctc-don't go much on the lie.
Saw Herculancum- all humbug--.hc
ashes that buried it didn't come from
Vesuvius-drawn on in carts. All a
speculation to sell relics Saw the He'll
e e;pont-wadad across it. Lem Ter drown
ell himself purpose iustto make q he
ro of himself. Went aud looked at the
Rhine-7muldy little dike--castles all
look like stone smoke-houses-went
across it--rather 90 "across the canal"
Saw eruption Of Mount Vesuvias--coun-
try lire works on the. Fourth OF July
beats i. any time. Tell YOU Europe is
humbug. Nothing in it.