The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-06-10
MISCELLANY.
ILExfs 0NAMERICA.

st. Petersburg correspondent has seen
advance sheets Of the first. volume of the
Grand Duke Alexis account of his voyage
round the world. This first volume is ex-
clnsively devoted to absorption of the Grand
Dukes adventures in Ito United States. Our
correspondent writes asfollows about it:
"This is certainly Ayefy CURIOUS work.
To judge from what have read Of it,
whether His imperial hig1ncss wrote II him.
self, or whether an ADLER pen did it for him.
the bookEis intenssly iatrsshng. The Grand
Duke says that Ms reception in New York
almost stapefied him. Up to the last mo-
ment he had not thought that so brilliant an
ovation would. be rendered in Republloan
America to the.soA Of \ monarch. He was
very weak when he landed in New York, md
during BIS progress up Broadway felt like
fainting. Butsssfybody was SO kind to him
that he tried hard 70 lsok pleased, as he was
in his heart of hearts. Broadway. he says, in
his opinion, is the finest tholopghfare in the
world, because every, thing thcre, houses,
shops and the people, look not monotonousl
but gay, lively ana bright. What amused
him PERHAPS more than anything else was
that the bands, upon catchihg sight Of him,
struck up, not the regular Ruszat anthem,
but the so-callcd 'Dirgc OF st Catherine, !"
which is played in Russia oplyyat the funerals
ola member Sof the imperial family! The
cheers Of the people were more defeaning tlIa
any he had heard in Europe; from which he
playfully concludes that lung disease cannot
be very prevalent in the New World As to
the soidiery, the variety of uniforms struck
him as extremely odd. He says he saw,
peacefully side by side, helmcted Prussians
and "kepied 7 Frcnchmen, relocated English
men and Irish troops bearing the banner of
the Green Isle.
"The Grand Duke cannot praise too
highly American hotels. american fare, he
thinks, however, is too rich. . There is at
their tables he exclaiIns, naively, almost too
much of good thing. / asked for the Pc
culiar dishes of America, and at their hotels
they could not give me any. Their cooks
were Italian and French. The landlord
shrugged his shoulders when | asked him
about it. Out West, however, my desire was
at once gratificd. dined one day on baked
pork and beans, very palatable dish, which
would certainly bear transplanting to Rus
sia'
(" american manners, the Grand Duke
thinks are a little awkwa ri and an 5ular, but
decidedly pleasant on account of everybody s
franlsess He tells number Of curious
anecdotes OH his experience with aborigincs.
In Washington he was told that the Irisl,
servant-girls at the residence of NJ. Catacazy
were dying to see him. He put on a cap and
an old traveling-coat, and went unheralded
down into the kitchen among them. He was
not recognized by the girls and chatted
with them for half an hour. lie found out
that not one of them had an idea of where
Russia was situated, and one of the girls even
asked him II the Gear always wore crown on
his head, adding that she knew the Queen of
England always did. Equally amusing is
his reception at Omaha, in Nebraska, where
q member of the Legislature congratulated
him OH the success of his father In the war
with. France. Another legislator, of that
State wanted to know If it was always cold in
Russia.
"These funny episodes in the west, how
ever, were amply made up for by the extreme
kindness and consideration with which the
army officers there treated the Grand Duke.
For General Custer and his subordinate
officers, the Grand, Duke has words of the
warmest gratitude. General Clusters photo
graph is published in the volume, which is
most sumptously printed and profusely Illus
trated. Only a few hundred copies OF the
book will b. issued"