Arizona citizen., 1873-09-27

also gathered there. MUSIC and
 dancing also assisted in making this
 Sunday evening rather enjoyable to a
 stranger. I recruited up day or SC
 and then came up the Rhine and up
 the Main to Frankfort-resting over
 so as to reach early that quaintest
 old town in all Germany-Nurem-
 berg. But the river Rhine is all its
 enthusiastic friends have painted it,
 in my opinion. The castles are sufi-
 cient in number and variety; the
 river and hill-sides are large and rug
 ged enough and cultivated to match,
 and the legends of its by-gone days
 come in good play for reading. You
 may ask what cultivated river is
 like? We'll, it is not like the muddy,
 crumbling shores of American streams
 in general and particular, but nav
 igable river walled in all the way,
 and every way improved and put upon its good behavior. And it's steepest mountain sides are also wall ed to the very summits with terraces trained with grape vines, until they look at little distance like the sides of 8 great scaly fish. Not 8 shovel ful of soil is allowed to escape into the river. But l can't do justice to anything along this best of routes from London to Vienna-in this little letter. Only if I were Dutchman, I would fight for the Rhine only as thorough Dutchman could; if were Frenchman, would want slice of 1t on the same terms, if no other way and if 1 were both, I would fight with myself about 1t. The case would be like trying to have the prettiest and lovliest of women all to oneself, without being as jealous as the devil all the time.
 Nuremberg is in Bavaria. but like Frankfort, &c.-after Bismark $ Co. cleaned out Austria few years ago in two rounds-this old town must bow to Prussian rule, though her soldiery still wear their old uniform "a black squirrels tail crawling up over the back of the head. Nuren- berg IS doubly walled and castellated city of ninety thousand, and as old and odd as history and Dutch archi- lecture. I never could get done look ing at it and wandering about in 1t but had to give 1t up after two days and one night. It has a museum of antiquities equal to any, and several old churches full of interesting things, not to mention Virgin Mary & Co. In short, after passing the tunnel on the dividing ridge between the waters of the Rhine and Danube-the mur- dering of Christ continued with more than arithmetical progression. He is made use of as a scare-crow all through the vineyards and other ag- ricultural scenery. l never knew what a success He was at frightening birds out of potato-patch before. But enough of this at present.
 And now a word about the rural population ell route. If the French were rusty featured set, the Danu- bers of Dutchland at least, must be seen to be appreciated. In fact, have seen them, and still can't do it. am as rough specimen of the hea- then as there Is now at large in any country, and 1 cannot rise to the i beauty of seeing woman swinging the oldest style of scythe like a swarthy son of Hoosier, or pick on rail- 1 road like @ hair-toothed Irishman | from the bogs. The German women of the farming class carry baskets on their backs as large as hay cock, and they are altogether the veriest Papago squaws of Europe-only to be equalled perhaps by the women of Switzerland, where I have yet to go so that neither the best of republics or monarchies of Europe have anything to brag of on the score of elevating the lower orders. The squaws of Germany do not, as do those of Arizo- na, carry their babies on their hips, so far as I have seen. But have been on the other hand astonished at the number of good looking women, girls, &c. on this last route - ever since 1 left Belgium. We don't see many ladies in America of German extraction, to go crazy over. All along this line, however, in the towns, they are as numerous as in New York, in proportion.
 It is the rule of the "tourist" to take steamer at Passau, and come down the Danube to Vienna. And 1t is even more interesting - at least grander-than the Rhine. Who did