The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28

1t contains one small cabinet, said to re
main precisely as heleft it. Many things
of interest connected with the noteG
sovereign are shown,-the furniture
which he used-chairs with leather cush
ions-a manuscript letter written by him
in French, which shows him to have been
a fair penman,-an exquisite little private
theatre, and various articles of furniture
scratched by his dogs OF which he was
Unfortunately fond. The parks, which are
extensive, are laid out with much taste
and care, are made to resemble fine natu
raj forests, as far as practicable, and con-
tain several residences of various branch
es Of the royal family, one of which is
that of the Queen Dowager-we believe
that is the title-the widow of Freder-
lex William w., the brother and prede
cessor ofthe present Emperor. While at
the station we observed by the movements
and the waiting of a special train, that
some of the royalty or nobility were ex'
pected A mounted courier soon dashed
up, followed by barouche and four gray
horses with a rider to each span and an
out rider perched on his seat behind the
barouche. The two ladies, whom so
many horses were required to draw, were
the Queen Dowager, an old lady about
seventy years of age and her waiting
maid, of no particular age. We could
name a dozen old ladies in Kenosha bet
ter looking, better dressed and more dig
nified than this ancient queen. The
horses were very fine, but Nick Ehle and
others of Kenoeha, often drive their equal.
The old lady was a cripple and was car
ried from her carriage into the cars and
the locomotive whistled and sped on its
way, and we returned to the city. While
there we received letter from our trav-
cling associates in London, stating that
some unknown friend took permanent
possession of the valise of one of them,
while waiting in the station at Paris.
We continued our flying trip to Han
over, thence to Minden, the native city
Of our worthy postmaster, Capt. Frantz,
where we made the acquaintance of his
father, tall, dignifed old gentlemen
and Professor in literary institution,
and his brother, we'll TODD hardware
merchant, who entertained us with great
hospitality. With little smattering of
the language of each other, aided by his
accomplished lady, who spoke English
very fairly, we managed to pass a few
hours in very sociable conversation. Min
den is very strongly fortified town of
$4,000 inhabitants, and in its fortress
were confined 1900 captured Frenchmen
last winter.
We continued our flight to Amsterdam,
in Holland-thence after alighting a
short time, to HARLEM, Hague, (den
Haag) Rotterdam, Antwerp and Brus-
sells (Bruxelles). AS we approached the
frontier of Holland we noticed a material
change in the language, both spoken and
printed; the spoken language being a
mixture of German and Holland Dutch,
and some French. A close observer could
perceive similarity to the English in
many words, quite as similar as the
broad Scotch, viz: Kofij, thee en- choc.
colad- bier en- wijn-Brood en- beschuits
-Boter en- Kaas-Huls en- scheeps swed-
erboten tolgang, &C., which we
could read as follows: coffee, tea and
hocolate-beer and wine-bread and
and cheese-house and
ships smlthery-forbid den to 60 (gang).
a cab, as we read on the card, was a
Trachtprijseaa. In money matters wei
were among cents, stivers and forins-at
Berlin it was pfennings, groschens and
Lhalers. Such frequent changes in few
hours ride, requires all ones wit to keep
bis accounts straight, and not suffer too
much loss in exchange.
The Dutch are scrupulously neat in all
their matters. The buildings in the cities
partake of the same characteristic, neat,
but usually plain in structure, and stand
ing so straight look like row of Qua
kers. The country, as everyone knows,
is .yery low and level, and devoted mostly
to meadows and grazing, and large num-