Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-14
PAPERS FROM OVER THE WATT 3,
Rotterdam -AnsWeTp = TusseIs
Paris -Lafayene's Grave.
From the EverinE aaiI !

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From the Hague to Rotterdam the |
traveller sees the usual variety Of Hol- I
Iandish landscape, including the regular
number of canals and windmills. Rot
terdam Is busy place, aud Ike Amster-
dam. its streets are canals, and its canals
are streets. At the principal hotel, the
men sit at their breakfast with their hats
on. and smoke pipes and cigars, and dis
play samples Of tobacco for sale regard
less of the ladies'
Three men hauled more brick in q
cart over level street, than is carried
in four of the one-hOrse brick carts used
in New York, and the women would re-
move brick from canal boat much fast
er than men unload brick at the Wharves
of Gotham.
The city has very pretty little park,
and its wharves give evidence OF com
mercial thrift. Antwerp, the home Of
Rubens, the portrayer Of fat women and |
skillful user of bright colors on canvas,
is comfortable city and can show some
of the finest pictures in Europe.
In the fall of the year, the handsome
cows that feed on the fat, wet fields OF
Holland, are covered with blankets, and
are nearly all spotted black and white,
scarcely any other color being seen, and
the sheep are large, with coarse wool
that denotes cold weather. The farmers
huddle together in villages, but few
farm houses being seen on the farms
Instead of driving the cows home st
milking time. like American farmers,
the mixers put their clean, wooden cans,
with polished, brass hoops, into little
boats and paddle away up the small
canals to where the blanketed COWS are
fishing bits of grass out Of the water that
covers many of the pasture fields, and
after the milking is done, home they go
again. and the milk is, then converted
into excellent cheese and butter that
cannot be excelled out Of Holland,
France and hedges are not often seen IN
Holland, little canals and bitches super
sede them.
Brussels IS one of the prettiest cities
Of the Old World, with beautiful ladies
and military officers as handsome as need
be. On approaching the entrance TO the
field of Waterloo, we we're hailed oy a
lad of some fifteen summers selling
canes. buttons, aud other articles from
the battle-ground. He discoursed sio-
quentlv about Napoleon, Wellington,
| the great battle, all the while urging US
to buy of his wares.
After following the carriage for some
distance, and seeing that we would not
buv anything, he turned from US and
strode across the road, he waved his
hand toward US with a grace aud dignity
that would have made the fortunes Of
a dozen FORESTS, exelaiming, as ne
marched of, {" Go home and forget W a
terloo." Belgium Is a charming country
if one may judge by what is seen OF Il
between Holland and France, and th'
trim from Brussels to Paris is perfectly
charming.
Near the main entrance to the GENE
T terry of Pere La Chaise, in Paris, ar
numerous places for the sale Of immor
D telles. tonlbstones, and other article
suitable for such display of affection TO
/, the dead as the tastes and means of the
living will permit the purchase OF, no
forgetting what we Americans Woui'
cali side-shows,' places of amusement
= in one of which, so tEe huge slgn-boar'
over the door proclaimed, the sPectato
could see a pictorial representation 0
: the marriage of the Virgin and of tn
= birth of j. C-these letters standing TO
the name of him who died in the flesh
l. that others might live in the spirit-nex
=. this Punch and Judy, properly " French
u flied" were holding forth to the deiigh
of lookers-on. These peculiar sights
near a great cemetery, must not be take
u as evidence of lack of respect to tn
d dead on the part of the ParIsians, as tha
would be unjust When funeral take
nlaee in church the main door Is eovere
5 with heavy black cloth, on which ma
J be seen the initials of the deceased
/ large white letters. and when a funera
n procession passes slowly along the street
g no matter whether large or small, n
J. matter whether the dead traveller va
/ rich or poor, high CT low, every ma
s. raises his hat cut Of respect to the pass
Is ing corpse, and every woman crosses hel
e self, an affecting custom, the spirit
" which We might initiate, instead OF driy
d inc our dead friends to the grave on
r, /" GOOD. stiff trot, unnOtieed by the pass
II ers-by, as We generally do
Sc In one Of she eastern suburbs Of Il
French capital, n an ut-Of-the-way co
y ner of a small semi-private, semi-Publ
"a cemetery, attaehedltO an old Augustlr
81 convent, in & little enclosure eontalnlr
y a yery plain and somewhat dilapidate
IL monument or tombstone telling the Wis
&c tor that beneath it rests all that is mo
O. tai of him, who in the dark hour OF Il
y national birth-time, was our truest al
90 noblest friend, one whose servlc
we of to-day fail to appreciate as
n ought, one whose grave is seldom vlsIt'
I'd bv the children Of those whom he
lie faithfully served in their time Of need
Il for but few Americans visit the grave
u Lafayette,
ae Emperors in plain dress look mu'
er ike other people, at least so appear'
IN those of France and Austria when ridlr
y about Paris.
ly On the front Of house, seven stori
from the sidewalk (the house being MI
er stories high, the occupants had plac'
H. a tasty little ben-eoOp, in which sever
10 well-fed fowls were enjoying themsely
d as quietly as if in a farmers barn-yar
n Eggs aud poultry raisied at that el
~ walton might be said to have M
70 flavor"
al To get brick up towards the top of
Id high building in process Of erection, II
us ladders we're placed against the wall,
TO the rounds Of which several men We
Il seated.
1ns A man on the ground brought t
ne bricks and passed them to the man
Is the ladder round nearest the ground;
set raised them over his head and pass
le' them to the nan next above him on I
SO ladder, and be to the next one above hi
and so on to the top of the ladder, a
thus the bricks reached the mechal
who was to use them. 4 steam hoisti
:, apparatus moves brick faster.
SINcLAIR ToUsEY.
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