The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-09-12
eUR PARIS LITTER,
PARIS, Aug. IA, 1872.

voyage. It was stormy d fogsy most
OF the time, chiefly the latter. I
managed to get of with one Days SEA-
sickness, and was not very sick a. thst.
If you ever come over. make up your
mind for the worst, then perhsps you
will be hsppily disappoiated, - I v,s.
A great many felt - Marx Twain de-
scribes il in his AIanoesnb Abroad"
afraid they vosld die the frst min.
ute, aud afraid they. wouldn't the next.
The FIRST Sunday out ve pitched and
tossed or rolled 1t . great rats. We
all survived, however; and landed in
good health. First visited Ireland, ssd
could see Why it Is called the "Eusr.
aid Isle." It is 50 moist there, that
.lnost everything looked green and
fresh, doubly 20 to us Who had seen
nothing but fog and water tor more
than week. Stopped At Cork : few
hours to see Blarney Castle, where tho
remarkable stone is situated that who.
ever kisses will be able to overcome Ill
adversarles in dobste. It 10 not every
one who kisses it, IS II is very hard aad
dangerous to reach. Lose your hold
and you would fall about . hundred
feet on the rocks below. Noos of us
cared to risk our neeks for the honor.
We went from Cork to Killarney, Nh ere
We had pleasant time. The lakes
are lovely (there are three) sndz have
a..varlety Of scenery-mountsins in one
direction, and lowlsud in the opposite.
Some Of the mountaios arc over three
thousand feet high, aud Wild and rug.
ged as # they were in l,ss Inhabited
region, with no trees on their, aides,
and nothing but bare rocks Of the brown
heather visible. Once in ,Whils hut
or shanty is seen in the valleys but they
are not many. I saw the house Of Kate
Kearney immortalissd BY Tom Moore.
Our guide said he did not believe that
part of the poem relating 70 her beauty.
I agree with him unless she vas hand
somer than any ve saw. The Irish
peasants are the most importunsts beg
gars We have yet met. They do not
seem to understand "No r. but keep st
you until generally you No forced to
give them something to get rid ofthsu.
There are several old ruins around Kill
larney, and the natives know how 10
make money out OF them. You usu-
ally have to pay to 60 in and then you
have to fee the guile.
From Killarney We went to Loohs
Katrine and Lomond by Dublin, Bel
fast, and Glasgow. Found them quite
pretty, though l liked Lomond the best.
1t is more wooded and is very much
like Lake George, N. Y. We made
short visits in Edinburgh and in Wales
before going to London. We were in
a wild region in Wales, At Beddgelert.
1t is entirely surrounded by mountains
and is very Wild and picturesque
There was rain every day We were there
and ic tact we called it eettled weather
when it rained all day. It made tho
streams beautiful for we could sss plea.
ty of pretty cascades on tho mountain
sides. In London We saw Is much a
possible in the time We had. I fnd
we can learn more about the places,
that is, what there is of interest ia
then, when We are outside of them
There are so many, it is hard to dis.
cover which are the best things to $50,
and only those will be generally known
outside. I could not begin to snumer-
ate what We saw in London or in Paris.
You see so many different things in
so many places, that Is is hard to put
them in the right place when mention
ing them.
Paris has changed . great deal in
two years. The siege, and moro e.
pecially the Communists, msde great
havoc among the public buildings. The
latter destroyed great many valuable
collections of paiutings, books, TO-,
which the Germans had spared. Near
ly al the principal buildings arc in
ruins. The Louvre, Notre Dame, Mad.
eleine, Pantheon, aud Hotel des Inva-
lides being the principal ones remain.
iug, though most Of these were injured.
What a people they are here d! No
Sunday to speak OF, unless il Is for
greater pleasure. They seem 70 work
about the same as on any other day, and
more than half the stores arc opsn oa
that day. 1 don't see when they have
any rest. Their government Il almost
as bad. There are four parties trying
to get the power into their hands, one
the Republicans, and three Monarch.
ical, no two or three being able to Gal.
esce agaiust the other. ia sufficient
force to gam the day. Thiers has il
bis own way at present, though there i
no telling how long it will lest.
VI. A. P.
When Colonel Henry Wilson w.s
IN Boston, raising regiment, little
fellow one day presented himself at
headquarters and asked for oonnis.