The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-29
gold, scatter it and their senses about
in the most ridiculous way, seeming,
indeed. too often.

The Russian traveller is said to be
the best natured, least obtrusive,
least exactipg, and polite one of them
all. The Englishman, on the contra
ry, is about the worst proud, dis
dainful, uncivil and rude. A friend
once travelled two hours in shell
boat with one of them, sitting not
only opposite, but with their lec in.
termingled for want of room, before
the Englishman spoke to him and
afterwards, when he saved the same
Englishman from tumbling off the
Pyramids, he waited to be introduced
before he could thank him. Heavens
what companions for travellers. Well
may they be known, for they elect
to sit
In the very best seats at the table,
With baggage and poodles and all,
They speak very loud to the walters,
And loll in a lordly Toll.
And claims that are indirect"
And feel, as to hopes of Heaven,
Themselves as people elect.
Another class of travellers here are
the royal ones, and the ex.royal ones
peaeeable, however, and generally
unpretenuing, for with all their royal.
istio and aristocratic tendencies, they
feel that the individual representa-
tive oftheir party is, as rule,
Aprince without people,
A king, but lily fed,
A duke, without duchy,
Or count withouta red.
Here, too, are our German travel
steady, good tempered, and full
of travelling cheer fat, most of them,
too fat to travel with real comfort !;
yet they smoke and drink beer, drink
beer and smoke, and are happy and
content so long as King William
rules and keeps the French beyond
the Rhine. But these fat, shiny fell
lows are not the thinking, hardwork-
ing, speculative and inventive Ger
man philosophers that we know in
the books. A different race almost
are they, with their smaller bodies,
thinner faces, light hair and blue
eyes. They smoke and think, and
talk OF Kant, and believe neither in
Divinity nor the devil.
Zurich is called the Swiss Athens,
and its University is filled with these
same German philosoph er-professors,
many of whom are famous men in
different paths of learning and litera-
ture, their lectures rejecting great
credit on themselves and the institu
ton of learning which they adorn.
Their method of teaching is that of
oral lectures. The students are from
all parts of the world, mostly, how
ever, are Swiss, Italians, Russians,
Germans and Poles. America has
a number of students here, who, as a
rule, do not stand as high as stu
dents from other countries. Among
the exceptions, is Miss Dunock of
Boston, who recently graduated in
the medical department, carrying of
the highest honors and the warm
encomidms of her professors.
Zurich is growing rapidly. No
city in Europe, Vienna and Stuttgart
excepted, is putting up more fine
private houses and public buildings
than she. The old towers, walls,
and canals are giving way to new
and handsome streets, and her pop
ulation, now about fifty thousand, is
rapidly increasing.
This letter is written at Bocken,
our home at present, one hour from
the city by steamer. Switzerland
has a thousand lovely spots, and
Bocken is one of the loveliest of them
all. 1t is a queer old house, with
oak wainscottings and stone floors,
once the summer house of the Zurich
burgomeisters, and sitting on bench
of the hills in the midst of rich or
chards, overlooking the lake and
city. Behind the place, rise, amphi.
theatre.like, thick forests OF dark
pine in front and below, spreads
out beautiful Lake Zurich, surround
ed all the way with pretty villages
and peaceful farms. At its foot,
where the broad river rushes through
stands the city at its upper end,
the snowy Alps. A hundred thous-
and industrious people who cultivate
the vine and weave the silk, live on
it's banks. Almost every farm and
village house on Lake Zurich has its
busy loom, where the housewife and
the daughters weave the fairy fabrics
that go largely to supply mankind
for Zurich is the second silk-manu.
featuring city ofthe world, and does
an annual business, mostly in silk,
with New York alone, of more than
forty million francs gold.
Stanley, the energetic American,
who found Livingstone, is just now
the hero in Europe. Let him wave
1t is refreshing to see the London
Times compelled by force of circum'
stances to acknowledge the perse
vering genius of an American citizen
who succeeded where the English
government failed. "On, Stanley,
on" S. III M. BYERs.
AT. STEWART.
The story about A. T. Stewart,
the New York merchant prince, be-
ing very anxious for Greeley's cleo.
ton and that he had given all the
way up. checks from $4,000 to $50,