Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-19
Our Foreign Correspondence,
LETTER FROM GERMANY.
BERLIN. NoY. 1870

Nov 4OtVs
Ny Journey around through Munich,
Vienna and Prague was quite interesting.
Munich is a splendid city and has some of
the finest buildings public and private)
that l have seen. One of the most pecu-
liar things l saw was the so-called ''Hof-
brawhaas"- Court Brewery. You know that
Bavaria is great headquarters of beer
drinking, and the liquid has gradually
spread itself out from there over all Ger
many. In Munich the people go direct to
the brewery and get their beer. Work
men, when their days work is done, take
their families, the wife hugging huge
loaf of bread in one hand, and the latest
arrived youngster in the other, and they
put for the beer house, eat their bread,
drink beer, get fat and are happy in their
way. The place above mentioned is one
of the most famous of these localities. The
building is dirty old affair; the entrance
is by a filthy court, where are huge wag-
ons supporting immense casks of beer
ready for transport. A small door opens
into a series OF low, dark smutty rooms,
furnished with long tables and wooden
! benches. There are no walters, but in
the frat room are lot of shelves contain
ing rough earthen ware mugs, holding
about three pints or two quarts, one OF
which the beer. drinker takes up to a fat,
lazy fellow who stands close oy a beer
cask, has it filled, pays7a krutgens-about
six cents-buys bit of bread, finds a
vacant place at one of the tables, and sits
down and drinks in the mids' of a crowd
of mon, women and children of all ranks,
oolors, sizes, ages and appearance. mostly,
however, working people.
But the great charm of Munich consists
in its art treasures, its museums, its gal
leries and it's artists, which / will describe
hereafter.
reached Vienna partly by rail. and
partly by steamer. on the Danube The
latter ride was a lovely one. The SC emery,
hardly equal to the Rhine or the Hudson,
is nevertheless very grand, and the old
castles, reaching baeE even to Roman
times the huge mouasteries, one Of them
covering, l should think, several acres of
ground the funny ways and dress of the
people were all very interesting. l asked
a young man who was acquainted in
the region of one of the immense Bone
diotine Abbeys il there were many monks
there Yes said he, the Abbey is
crowded The peasants here are many of
them well off, and the ambition Of every
family il TO have the favorite son n priest"
But what dc shey do there ?" I asked.
80 fressen and saufen" G4i9 he, terms
meaning to eat and to drink, but applied
properly to animals, and only to human
beings as an indication of beastly glut-
tony.
One of the interesting old ruins stood
upon the pax Of = high hill, perhaps a
thousand feet above the river aaa oyer
hanging huge precipice. Tradition
says this was formerly the castle of rob-
Der knight, who used to kindly give his
innocent oaptives the choice of starving
to death or being thrown over the walls
of the castle down thS Precipioe.
Vienna is a large, busy and growing
city. TIE empire of Austria includes
some fifteen or twenty different nationali-
ties, l believe, with as many tongues and
in addition to these the rest of the world
sends its representative there. l saw
more Russians, Poles, Turks, Armenians,
Greeks, etc, than have seen at any other
place. The palaces and gailevirs, haw-
ever, are not as nice as those in Berlin
and Munich, though the city itself is one
of the finest in Europe. did not see the
Emperor, | suppose, however, that he
looks very much like other mortals-is a
brother of Maximillian, OF Mexican re-
nown, you know.
Prague is historically one Of the most
interesting cities in Europe Formerly
it was the center of European civilization,
aud it's university, the best on the CONT
nent. The CRADLE Of Professionalism, the
tions, once the capital Of powerful en-
pire. Its power and celebrity have long
since faded, and now not political but in
dustri4l power, not courts, but factories
are making it an emporium OF commerce
and wealth.
Among other things is the Jewish quar-
ter, with an old ancient Synagogue and
cemetery, dating back more than dozen
centuries The cemetery has been packed
so full with graves, one put upon an
other, the older monuments being gra-
dually lifted to the top of the ground and
left standing beside the new ones, until
the level OF the cemetery is eight or ten
feet above the street, and half covers an
old Synagogue built on its earlier level,
and the stones and rubbish have become
so thick that one can hardly pass.
W