The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-14


with earrings. The wine cellars OF the ancient
eriscopnl residence are as celebrated as those OF
Ieidelberg and contain no fewer than $40 hogs
heads OF wine. The Inhabitants OF Wurzburg
may be cl ssed pretty much as those OF Coffin
gen that Is to say they are divided OH into
students professors philistlnes, and cattle, and
between the four the line Of domarcation Is not
very apparent. At political meetings wives
accompany their husbands and while tho latter
illuminate on politics from lmproysed stands,
the women chat and knit, drink beer and store
away rtdishes.
Dettelsbach ia a village with municipal pre-
tensions. but It's principal claim to celebrity Is
based on Its convent Of monks, who are in great
vogue for their charity to the poor and the
cellent beer they turn out. There are still three
or four renowned converts OF monk brewers In
Bavaria. In the Middle Ages the brewing art
was carried TO the highest point OF perfection
In converts, nm abbot being the first TO use hops
in the manufacture of beer. At LGchl, near
Munich, the Franclscans own brewery that is
resorted to from all uarts by amateurs OF a good
article. The superior of the Dettelsbach con-
vent claims that its beer Is universally liked be-
cause his brewer monks, being entirely ignorant
~ chemistry, don't know how to adultorate it;
whereas In the rest Of Germany chemistry has
made such progress to render the drinking Of
genuine beer well nigh impossible.
Germany is rather unsatisned with the manner
IN which the French ducats have been spent.
Bavaria, wurtembcrg, Hesse, and Baden were
allowed tl0OOOO,0OO, while Prussia herself
took the lions share, or the remaining
t6OO,OO0,0OO On both sides, the military service
absorbed nearly the whole Of the conquered
funds, and the people got not even a dribet
from them. Nothing was done for trade and
agriculture, tue arts aud sciences. Taxes have
increased at the same time frightfully, living
has grown more diff rut, aud everything costs
about double what It did before the war In
Bavaria alone. beer drinkers have To pay double
price. Hence Bavaria bears no great love toward
Herr Bismarck. The kingdom has been al
lowed a nominal Independence. and although
powerless TO wage any serious opposition against
Prussia, which has set itself at the head Of the
new Empire, 1t is sincerely DESTROYS OF main
taning its skeleton sovereignty by hook or by
crook. The pea ants and the Catholic clergy
have formed q strong alliance to uphold the dy-
nasty OF King Louis, aud thereby the historical,
as well as religious, reputation OF the ancient
little kingdom. In the elections last wear the
Ultramontanes got the upper hand, and at the
polls ANNOYED the new men" intrudng from
the North considerably.
Nuremb berg with It's old towers bridges, sharp
gables, and toy shops. "a like a fairy scene; a 1T
residence for the great painter, Albrecht Dlrer
The city a. long been famous for Its toys, which
are exported to China, Australia, Africa, every
where, In short, where children are to be found
The Nuremberg toy-soldiers teach the German
youth at an early ace how to put hole through
zouaves, to spit guards-mobile, to hang bush
whackers, and bombnd cities. Each box con-
tains a German victory; and they might DC la
belle6 In chronological order from the trumphs
Of Hermann to those OF William the Pious
Formerly, good Germans gave books to their
young ones nowadays they present them with
boxes Of tin soldiers, guns. and sabres, and
rlt helmets, spiked. The smallest children
are to be seen playing at soldiers, and excr-
cislng themselves in the fine art Of Invasion.
Nine o'clock a. Nuremberg is midnight at
Paris. Before retiring to bed, the citizens
have general habit OF going to the brew
cries and emptying the traditional mug al
short intervi lis. Nothing is more picturesque
than the interior view OF these beer stores at
that hour Of the nisht .througn the windows,
out Of which cloul- 81 smoke rush, rows OF
drinkers Hsated on benches appear like school
| children At their classes. Some Of these drink
ers play at cards which have made several cam =
paigns and are ne ry In rags but the majority,
with their heads propped on their two elbows,
suck the mouthpiece OF long pipe, with
closed e es, and apparently IN perfect beattude.
! At these bhsslul moments the scene looks Ike a
gallery Of wax figures; save the occasional
swearing Of the players, not a soul speaks or
strs. Not far from Nuremberg situated In a
vast, dreary, and yellowish plain, is to be seen a
strange building, with high turreted walls II
looks like a fortress, but 10 simply prison. II
goes by the name Of Zc,on1cJdnOHi.s, or cell
prison, specially adapted and appropriated
for editors and priests who fail to be-
lieve In tho infllbility OF Prince Bismarck.
| Once In this mysterious bastile, prisoners might
| as well be dead for anything the world may
| hecr or see OF them, Editor Sigl OF the
| Opposition was enclosed at the time of Tissot'-
inspection. Herr SKI passes for profound
rascal at Berlin for having inquired in his paper
the VdterLInd, a short while after Kulmann's
attempt on the Councillors life, "Where was
the dog Of tine empiref" OfOWdr der Rcichs
hund y The comic papers usually represent
the "dog OF the empire as watching night
and dav over the precious life Of the great
man. Tissot had some difficulty In securing
the privilege OF inspecting these celebrated ed
itorlal prison rooms. Undetermined, however
to ask PERMISSION" he says. directly OF tn,
manager In charge, and to call on him straight
way. In everything, and especially in travelling
the straight line is the shortest. Accord ingly
next morning a two-horse carriage drew up al
my hotel door, and Ia 1t jumped dressed Al
considerable pains, knowing, by experience
that German EMPLOYEES have no earthly consd
GRAFTON for any one unless he happens 10 be bet
ter dressed than they themselves. Many times
had presented myself In negligent attire al
the houses Of DISTINGUISHED personages to whom
] nad letters Of Introduction, and invariably haC
It been replied to me, Mr. -- is out UpoI
drawing out my watch with ostentation, and in
qulrlng when l should return, the polite repl
was at once given, AIT second and will SCI
II Mr.. - has come back The peisonage ha,
not been out; but tue elttering OF tue gol'
watch had produced It's effect"
Munich Is not IA pretty city ; II Is divided OF
into an old and new quarter, the latter display
ing only too freely AN Italian and Greclan archi
lecture, wholly out OF keeping with all the RES
he Teignlng dynasty once furnished a king f.
Greece; out It Is difficult to imagine Venus issu
ing from beer barrel. The ladies' who ar
considered to dress best in Munich circles ar
those who wear their entire wardrobe on thei
persons, and who have the least knowledge {
Paris fashions. Quantity goes before qua
ity. When Bayaran Amphltryon serve
up only twelve dishes TO his guests (hre
, out OF which are potatoes, he excuses him
self on the sllmness of his larder This Low
OF the hig and the heavy appears at every steI