Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-01
No. a
What a Merchant saw in Europe.


France, we find at the supper table nu-
merous snobs and snobesses, passing the
winter on the continent for need of
something better to do. Eye glasses sat
ENORMOUSLY aatride many an aristocratic
nose as our travel stained party became
the object Of inquiry, when we entered
the dining ball. l was heartily glad to
see the conclusion of that dinner, and
yet gl&dder as | lay stretched on 8 spring
mattress bed, between pair Of clean
white sheets, and YEARLY pressing my
bead on downy pillow, lulled to sleep
by surging pillows breaking Oh the sea
shore an half furlong from where lay.
Friday morning ct $50, over bottle
OF champagne, with our genial host-a
quart bottle Of the best brand cham
payne cost five francs Cos cents) here, Qs
compared With the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York, just $500 less. We wish
cur landlord, Bon jour-" with many
''terci," for his generosity, and taking
an open barouche with two lazy beasts
and a lazy driver, wc start FROM Men
tone Ou the world famous carriage road
known as the "Coraicbe" : quarter Of
on hours drive brings us to the Italian
frontier Soldiers of the two natious
/ examine our passports, and as we wheel
away from the custom station We OBJ
serve q slab Of granite by the roadside,
gold lettercd on one side France" and
tho Ot bo,- ISTto1s-.0 tl,,,o ~, +I,.,
Of Oh enchantress' wand, VIC have
crossed the mystic border which sepa-
rates two nations, each of whose peo-
pies are as distinct in their individuali-
ties as they are unlike in appearance.
We had not passed the slab fairly before
we were accosted by wrctched Italian
beggar, the first person we met in Italy
We expect one of his class at our heels,
pleading for a paltry pittance, until we
| climb so high among the Alps that we
can look down upon Italy to say, fare
we'll We had left the boundary line
but q short while when we began wind
ing among defles of the mountains, al
most canopied by overhanging lodges of
rocks thousand feet above us, and then
we climbed up the mountain side and
had the sea Ave hundred feet below ua,
while casting a backward glance we
overlook Mentene as it rests so peaceful
ly in the lap q a narrow valley, pent in
by the sea and mountains Of great gran
duer. Farewell, thou beauty, thy name
is beftting; adieu, Mentone, the beauti-
full. And we hardly had time to utter
the words ere the mountain curtained
from our gaze one Of the lOyeiest spots
of Southern France. AS the sun neared
meridian, We were passing a succession
Of italian villages; some lay nestled on
the mountain sides, and others capped
high hills, while others were on the sea
shore. My attention was particularly at
tracted to a noble mountain capped with
snow, and up its sides, here and there,
were chateaus and castles As we
passed near its base it looked 10 me like
diminutive world of itself The one
paramount feeling as I go over the Cor
niche road, this lovely spring day, wind
ing about the mountains and crossing
the bed of the sea Now up almost
among the clouds. and arain down mon
the sea side How like human life with
its ups and dOwns-and vet how unlike.
Transccndcntly beautiful: and so might
it be in our journey Of life We care
not how rngrad This mountain mr. how
dccp that valley. we are borne onward
with implicit trust in onr driver who
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