Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
COUNTRY LIFE, CASTLES, &o., &o.

Leaving Edinburgh, chance brought us at
 night at the town of Penrith, village of
 200o or 5000 inhabitants. As the train to
 Keswick, on our route to the English lakes
 will not leave till o'clock T. M., we are
 permitted to view English life in the coun-
 try. Strolling out into the suburbs the next
 morning, we found after brisk walk, 8
 gate entering hay field where man and
 woman were stirring hay, raking, &c. The woman handled the large, uncouth, awk-
 wardly shaped hand rake quite as dextrous- ly as her lord, and If we are to judge from
 the amount of muscle displayed, to deter
 mine which of them is lord of their house.
 hold, we should feel compelled to reserve
 our decision till our next visit ;-but here
 comes the team for carting in the hay,
 which we find to be nothing more than a
 stunted donkey hitched to cart, which is not quite as large as the hand cart that transports to the mailing office in Salisbury, it's numerous loads of CONN. WESTERN NEWS. We would not desire to convey the impression that donkeys and hand carts are
 ~A@'SAAAy o0ON III 2fuSIoAO 4OT uOluX LQlS kind of work for the farmers, as we saw af- terward large carts drawn by stout horses
 but among the poorer classes, the donkey carts, carrying no more hay than is usually hfted at one fork full are commonly used.
 We find here very substantial walls of stone, cemented firmly, surrounding the fields as fences, while in other parts we passed through, hedge is extensively used as division fences. a@s4 E as=se.
 In our country horses are shod with shoes of iron. Horses are not only shod with iron here, but the people also. As we write, the continual chatter of iron bound shoes on the sidewalks in the streets resem- ble the tramp of horses on the pavements of our cities. We asked boy few mo- ments ago what was the matter with his foot, and while ascertaining it was all right and no harm had come to it, we discovered the nsodus operGasdi in the construction of his shoes. The soles were about an inch in thickness, and screwed to the edges entire y around them, heels and all, were plates of thick iron; which come to point and turning up at the toes, ala Chinese, and for tified at the points with more iron, make understandings for juvenile England, as well as for those of mature years, which, for durability and eternity, no right minded American will question. Clack, clack. clack they rattle along, and if a living sole IS on the street, every other soul in large radius knows it. As we have passed the borders of Scotland and are in Hold Hing ! land, we find we have left behind the pecu- liar whir or rattle of the tongue given to all | words in which is the letter r. < When some of the Scotch people, as also those of many other nations abroad, come to word with | an in it, it really seems as if they would shake the poor letter into the minutest at oms before they would let it go. Their tongues set up protracted futter, which | ii it does not in general add to the distinct ness of enunciation to an American citizen, at least gives him time to think over delib- erately the word spoken, before the next will be forthcoming but the Scotch peo- rle are probably as popular with Americans as those of any other nation. They are genial, kind and attentive to strangers, and in religion and morality are always on the right side. If we were to be banished from America to some foreign cline, and could exercise our choice; we should quickly say; send us to Scotland. aAs
 Leaving Penrith, an hours ride by rail brings us to Keswick, located in the center of the s5"
 a2 LAKE REGION OF ENGLAND. -- |
 Surrounded by mountainous peaks, with no timber to hide their ragged and roman tic surfaces, is the beautiful sheet of water known as the DerwentWater. With it's several small islands and all else in it's i'm mediate neighborhood to add to it's loveli- ness, 1t is indeed charming place for Eng lands aristocracy to air itself during the summer season. We found great numbers of people here. who were amusing them selves by strolling in the groves about the lake and enjoying sail in some of the nu- merous boats always in readiness for hire. Here we were fortunate in finding MT. Payne Jennings, who has one of the largest | photographic establishments in the world | and which is located at Dublin. MT. Jen-i nings was making views of the scenery about the lakes, and was getting some of the best negatives we ever saw. He was never known to make mistake in the se- lection and arranging of objects for the best scenic effect but once, and that was on l the day we were there he invited us to ssSit f on wonder stone pier and become an object carelesslY thrown in to'add to the ensemble | ete." The picture is an admirable work of | art in all it's details except this seqasem6ze, | which although perhaps his misfortune, is regarded by us as our very good luck m ob- | taining for sou0erair of our visit to those lakes, fine large picture with the above ! enumerated ''obiect thrown in."
 If wicked and adulterous generation l seeketh after signs, it can find them in l Keswick. We were not there in search of | signs, but had we been, just one such as we saw would have satisfied us perfectly. It read as follows
 sTHR PENCIL WORKS KEsWICK NEAR GRETA l BRIDGE, A. BANKS, (wIDoW OF THE LATE l JOSEPH BANKs,9 WHO HAD THE HONOR OF RECEIVING Fl. R. H. THE PRINCE og WALES, QUEEN ADELAIDE, THE KING OF SAxoNY, THE KING OF THE BELeIANs. ALSO OTHER DIsTINauIsHED PERsoNAGEs, SHOWING THEM THE INTERESTING PRoCRss OF MANUFACTUR ma PxNons. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL EsTAB- 11sHAHET IN KEsw1oK. WHERE LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS MAY BE SEEN FROM THE RMl- NEWT PATRONS, WHe HAVE HoNoRED THE WORKS BY THEIR VISITS. ? gsras5ne ---l'
 "N. B.-THR ONLY BANKS IN THE TRADE AND NO CORRECTION WITH ANY OTHER FIRM. D