Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-07

fnd plenty of cabs ready to take you to any part
OF the city for one morte-twenty-hve cents. lou
have not to stop and wait for customs officials to take
out all your dirty linen in the conscientious dis
charge of their duty. This is free city and ev-
erything comes in and goes out free duty. The
hotels are very NICE and all the cooking fine, even
10 American tastes, excepting the way they pre-
pare vegetables. There are usually several dishes
of them upon the table, but all are very similar.
You have peas, beans and carrots, cut up in -four
aud milk paste and stirred up; or carrots,
potatoes and caullhower in the same paste
OF cabbage covered with nutmeg and alspice.
which smells as though it had departed this
life some months since, and had not
the honor of burial. And to crown the whole,
every dish Of vegetables is cover ed with from
TO three feet of ions, the amount varying with
the taste Of the cook. But all the rest Of ,he
cooking is nice. To be sure one never has
warm bread, and never butter at dinner cake
also is an article rarely seen and more rarely
tasted. But such things come by use, ami one
soon falls unawares into the custom.
The places of interest are mary and beautiful,
though perhaps not so renowned as those Of many
other cities. AT the head of the Little Aster,'
on Jung FeIns;ieg there are a dozen or more no.
tel-, all first class and the best in the city The
view from the front rooms of these hotels, il out
upon the Alster basin with its many boats ply ing
here and there. Rows Of trees surround the AL
ster on all sides, and one can walk in their shade,
or sit and enjoy the sights and glass of beer in
the Alster Pavilion, situated out in the basin. If
you would take stroll through the city, you
can walk from one end to the other through the
mos lovely gardens imaginable, with their fine
walks and beautiful shade trees and flowers. 1t is
in fact city of gardens. The houses very
fine and imposing, mostly built of brick, and then
covered with a preparation much resembling
stone as TO almost defy examination. Hamburg
is the business city of Germany. Here trade is
free and very extensive. One can see the flags OF
every nation floating from the ships in the han Dor.
From her port go nearly all the German articles
found in the United States and it is a standing
disgrace to the enterprise of America, that all the
mail and passenger lines between America and
Germany are owned by the little cities of Ham
burg and Bremen.
A visit to ST. Michel AM St. Ncolli must of
course be made. If one has plenty Of time and
muscle view from the top of st. Mchaers tower
will reward the visitor From thence our guide
told us we could see the whole of H., as it looks at
all seasons Of the year. We tried the experiment,
and found his "al seasons" was made by looking
through white, green, yellow and blue glass. We
mildly expressed disappointment to the guide in
good German as we could muster, and as he look
ed remarkably wise and grunted in very en-
phatic manner, of course he understood us. On
our way to the tower We passed the bell chamber
and asked if we could strike the largest bell. We
were informed that they could hear it below We
tho't this strange; but said we were willing. The
guide then told us that could, but if anyone
should happen to die just at the moment we struck
it we must pay the priest some money for the de-
parted soul.
Not knowing how many souls might mediate
a departure at that minute, we concluded we
wouldn't St. Ncola is now completed, except
the wall work and the new organ. 1t has, l was
told, the highest tower in Germany, being 5l2
feet from the ground to the top of the cross, and
is tie finest building in Hamburg.
One of the most remarkable sights, however
that your correspondent has seen, was peasants
dance. Nowhere else is dancing such success
as here. They begin at four O'Clock in the after
noon and get walked up about midnight. Then
the riot begins. There were about 800 at this
dance, and such lovely dresses as had the women !
They would have turned the eyes of Partisan
green with envy. The skirts of the dresses were
for the most part little above the knees some
considerably above. The stockings very
long and Of every color. One costume was
a fair specimen and consisted of black
slippers with green bows red stockings, green and
white checked underskirt, purple overskirt, brown
waist with white muslin sleeves, pink sash which
goes around the neck, and yellow, brown and
blue bows on the shoulders and neck, and the face
dsubed with pant-not pink, but brick red Now
Deutschmen are usually moderate moioned.
Rather stupid, too. In fact they can't understand
their own language, as have often proved. But
they do Ego in" in dancing. Why, if they should
take many steps in straight liue as they do in
walzing, they would beat that trip to San Francis
co all to nothing. They would make it in half that
time. The dance ended at five in the morning.
That is, the music stopped, but many kept on, to
the music of II IN too full" till much later hour
Next time in Leipzig and vicinity.
Yours, S. ii. w.