Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-03-12
MuNIcH, June Is, 1874.

mUNlChs Ouue 10, 1ot4.
While the population of Vienna
is composed of dozen distinct races,
each speaking a different tongue in
their domestic circles, and exhibiting
casts of countenance which their va
rious national origins indicate, yet
the
TEUTOEIc ELEMENT PREDoMINATEs
over all the others, even more deci-
dedly than the New-England ele-
ment does in Boston. With all its
heterogeneity of race and language,
it is essentially a German city.
Nine-tenths of the names of persons
and firms on the street signs, and on
posters and hand-bills on the bill
posting boards, are German names;
and while thousands, in their family
circles, speak the Magyar, Slavonic,
Bohemian, and other strange tongues,
in public, German seems to be the
universal language of business and
social intercourse, and 90 per cent.
of all the newspapers sold on7the
streets and read in the coffee houses
and beer gardens are printed in
Gothic type, in the German tongue;
but it is a rather singular fact that,
while the newspapers employ the
antique typography, all the street
signs, posters, and handbills, are in
Roman letters, the same as one sees
in French or English city. Even
the handbills containing the public
proclamations and official notices
are printed in Roman characters.
But take up a newspaper, and there
| is an instant transition to the un-
couth looking Gothic type. Yet the
Guide Books for Germany are all
printed in Roman letters. All the
descriptive books and pamphlets of
Vienna, offered for sale in the book
stores, and at the news stands, are
in Roman Typography, while the
language is German.
But, notwithstanding the signs,
posters, and books are constructed
in the familiar Romantic characters,
and the people are fair-skinDed, and
dressed in the Paris fashions, the
traveller is constantly reminded, by
the vernacular of the natives, and
the money of account, that he is nc
longer among the 'Latin races, y
where the EdngWe FFGncGiS and
French francs pass current. What
ever French words, terms, or expires
sions he may have picked up, which
carried him safely through France
Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland, viii
no longer serve him. He is remind
ed, at every step and every minute
that he is now in 1Il...f Itltl'
GREAT DEUTSCHLAND,
where the money, instead of being
francs and centimes, is guldens anC
kreutzers in one place, florins, marks
and stivers in another, and thaler
, and groschen in third; and that Il
one part of Deutschland, 100 kreut
zers make a gulden, but in anothe
it only takes go; while in the frs
case the gulden is worth in Ameri
can gold 4s cents, in the other it i
worth about 4l4 cents. And thel
the thaler varies from SO to 7s cents
and while its groschen fractions ar
computed as 80 to the thaler on thi
side of the mountain or river, on tn
other they are reckoned at so; and
in the parts OF the country where 8
groschens make athaler, IL pfennig
make groschen, but how many o
them it takes to make a mark IN on
place, q form in another, . guide
d in a third, or dollar anywhere,
something that. "no fellow can fin
out" unless he is Deutcher to tn
manner born, and has given his min
earnestly to the subject from hi
!. early youth.
3 But it is not the strange name
and eccentric values of the multitu