The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-11-03
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| f "Oliver Optic" now travelling III
EarOpe, is writing very interesting
letters to his Magazine. The follow
ing is an extract from one Of his 1ast.l
| While at Lucerne, we listened to
the music ofthe great organ in the
Collegiate Church, which is played
every day for the benefit of visitors;
but more especially for the benefit Of
the OTganists, for there is an admissfOn-
fee Of one franc. About forty persons
were ptesentj and the specuIatipa on
the present OCCASION was not particu-
larly brilliant. The music was eertaiH@1
" wonderful. Though we Have h68fd
the OoG hunlanG of the great Boston
organ, we hardly knew what the thing
meant till we heard It 5berwted by
Tie skillfil Organist at Lucerne. Il
Sodnded ike the singing of a whole,
choir in the distance, and was wonder
fully like the human voice, and os
beautiful and moving as it was Won
detfhl. The player gave ti5 an fInita-
ton of thunder STORM, in which the
thundeTj wind and rain would pass
f1f tie genuine srticlts. II was mir
gled with the mtlOdious strains Of the
Uo1 hlL1aGHG so that we faHeied We
were in a chapel during a thunder
storm, listening TO the sublimPst inu=
sic Of an eHraPttrfed choir, which WIS
occasionally interrupted by the peaIfng
thunder, by tempest-gusts, and driv-
iing sleet, We should like to hear the
same person perfotn upon tie gfeal
"institutiOn" of Boston. -
Sailing through Lake Constance,
which everybody here calls the Boz
densee, we arrived at Lindad, HHtFe;
at the entrance Of the dock in which
the steamers land, there is an immense
lion, with his right paw elevated, o.
If to tell the stranger that he must be-
have himself. He ie the eg66ine B.E
vafia1 lion, and one sees hin almost
.everywhere in Bavaria. We followed
our trunk into the custom house. For
about half the distance from Linddu
to Munich, the railroad passed through
a beautiful country; the other half
is over dead level highly cultivated;
but Exceedingly m6ROtOno6s 10 f00s
upon. The railway ctnssps the com
mon road at grade; but there Is a gate,
consisting Of a single stick, which is
closed at the approach of the train.
The Bavarian colOrs are blue and
white; and all these sticks are painted
with these colOrs in diagonal stripes,
$50 that they look like barber'5
poles. The men in charge of these
gates wear red jacket, and stand
with their hands to their caps when
the train passps. Through Fraheei
Italy, and Germany, there are houses
for the use of the men in charge of the
road, from half milo to a mile apart.
They are all nearly alike on the same
road, and are numbered with large
figures on the sides. The men-some-
times wOmen-alWays salute the train
as it passes, to prove, we suppose;
that they still live, and are Wide-
awake. Along the common roads,
and often on houses and barns, are
placed crosses and crucifApa, more or
less elaborate in their construction.
In Italy, many pictures of the Virgin
and saints appear by the road sides
and on the buildings. It is haying-
time here, and yFe notice 8hat is, to
US, new method o. making hay. A
stake three feet long has three cross
pieces, one at right angles with the
other two, which is set up on the
ground after the grass is moved
They are planted one or two rUds
apart, according to the crop and tho
grass is placed on these Cross pieces
and on the top of the stick. When
loaded, they look like upright cylin1
ders on the ground. The air circulate5
freely through, and drys the hay With<
out burning it uD.