The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28
OUR YANKEE IN BERLIN AND
OTHER CITIES.
BRUSSELS, Belgium,
Sent. oath. 1871.

NC po' AOtAs
Frankfort-on-the-M Main, or Frankfurt
AM, as it is written there to distinguish
it from another Frankfurt some distance
east of Berlin on the Oder, contains 60
900 inhabitants, and is quite ancient for
that part of Germany-it is also quite
aristocratic and contains many fine resi-
dences. A coach and four, in the streets,
with out riders, is nothing unusual. This
was the native city of Rothschild, the
founder of the famous banking house of
that name, in various cities of Europe
The house in which he was born Is still
pointed out in JudengGsse, or Jeues street,
which contains some of the most singular
old jewish buildings in Europe-four or
five story narrow buildings with the
gables to the street, some of them not
more than ten feet wide, and the front
shingled with species of greenish slate,
each story projecting over the other
twelve or fourteen inches, and occupied
exclusively by Jews at this time. The
other sights of the city are not remarka
BILE.
Harvest and haying in the country was
still progressing. These Deutschers are
queer boys-they were making hay in
the middle of May, are doing the same
now, and the prospect is good for a con-
tinuatlon till Christmas. We have seen
neither reaper, mower or horse rake in
use in Europe. They pillow the ground
with span of cows, NIT saoe5 danaen for
plowman and driver. Sampson said if ye
had not plowed with my heater, We had
not found out my riddle.
Dresden is q city of 10000 Inhabitants
twelve hours ride from Frankfort CON
tains much to interest the traveller who
has time to spend there. It is the seat
of literature and science, and it's manu-
| factories are numerous, and it is the resi-
dence of quite a number of American
families who reside abroad for education
al purposes. But we were on flying
trip and flew along to Berlin after stay
Of one day. The tourist in Europe is al
most daily meeting those whom he has
met at other places perhaps weeks before
and five hundred or thousand miles
distant. On the train we met young man
from Pittsburgh who had been residing
in Munich two or three years, and whose
acquaintance we had made in that city,
and who clapped us on the shoulder in
the streets Of Vienna, now on his way
to Berlin. AS he spoke the German flu
emily we made the run of the city to-
gether.
Berlin, city of 100000 inhabitants,
does not meet our expectations in all re-
spects. Inter der Linden Strasse, or
street, which we had seen so highly ex-
tolled in the books, is indeed fine street,
but we have seen it's superior in other
cities. 1t is broad, with broad walk
through the center, lined with Linden
trees, but they are far from being uni
form, and the street is badly paved, and
the buildings do not compore favorably
with those of Paris or Vienna. The
museum, magnificent building, contains
a fine collection, and the principal palace
appears better inside than out. It is al
most the same style as a dozen others
which we have seen in various other cap
itals. The Opera House is fine struc-
ture, and in their theatricals the Prus-
slams enjoy good joke at the expense of
the French. In the play which we wit
messed (for we make practice of visit
ing the principal theatre once, and but
once, in each large capitaD scene was
introduced representing the late siege of
Paris, in which q balloon was seen sailing
through the air and was brought down.
by o musket shot, and bewildered
Frenchman captured with all his papers
and dispatches. The whole scene was
ludicrous and excited roars of laughter. |
Although the war is terminated, there is
still bitter feeling by the French, and
Prussian soldier in the streets of Paris
would not be safe. A Frenchman with
whom we riding one day, says "Sacre
sacre! - at the same time intimating an
amiable desire to cut the throat of every
one of them. Potsdam, eighteen miles
southwest, is the Versailles of Berlin, and