The Lake County star., 1877-05-31

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| feature, and sensual, pouting, lips, are
to be beheld nowhere else. / am moi
ashamed to confess q perfect Ignorance
of tire locality whence Trsjan drew hil
| cQlopists. 40 1t may have been from
Rome itself, or from all parts Of Italy
but this Is certain, that the antique
Roman type, such as we are aecustOm'
|, ed to conceive 1t, is nowhere preserved
rs 1t is here. One need scarcely say
therefore, that the Rounanian people
have q classic beauty quite surprising
My wide travel In many lands Of either
hemisphere gives me confidence te
say that for regularity Of feature ar6
charm Of expression they are not un.
surpassed only, but unrivaled. An
ugly girl or boy is more difficult Il
| find than q beauty elsewhere In fact
I have not seen one, saving the case ol
some few Whose snub countenanc<
and fair complexion showed their for.
eign blood. And the intelligence, the
courtesy and the kindliness OF the
population are not less striking -i1
Save some broken cOlumns, there Il
nothing in Bucharest to remind one ol
Rome. Trajani may have been more
particular about the fohysigae than the
morale. of his, colOnists, for though
there is q survival OF the purest classic
race, the virtues Of Cato are wholly
wanting! 1fn pIeiit r rshiil q
One feels a kind OF pitifnl interest
in observing the soft and effeminate
manners of the lower empire preserved
to this nineteenth century. No class
of the population is rich; from the
magnificent Bayard to the peasant on
his vast estates everybody Is drowned
in debt. But the capital attempts to
vie with Paris itself In luxury, and In
some respects it succeeds. The narrow
streets, fll-built, i'll. paved, have shops
where every thought of wanton Idle
ness can he satisfied. Private houses
some immensely large and all pretty
of design-are beheld at every turn, In
every direction. Yet there are abund-
ant squares of waste, fenced by broken
palings, where pariah dogs sleep and
roam. The charming little palaces,
when not quite new, display most cruel
secrets of construction where the taste.
full stucco ornaments have tumbled
down. One is continually reminded
that Asia begins at the Austrian 'front.'
Ter. The ROumanian Is quite happy
when his love affairs go smooth, and
the usurer has advanced him 25 per
cent. upon his whole revenue for next
year. What should he care for q few
yards of broken stucc0. Rather build
a new, palace at once. What matters
the torn shirt beneath so he get credit
for thousand guinea pelisse? What
matters any necessary In the world II
costly superfiuities be obtainable at
any. price, and Chloe do not frown !?
These people are children the gentlest,
kindest, most sweet-tempefedT that
could be, but as ignorant Ofreal life and
unconscious of moral duties as the best
children must be.
Either by the war or otherwise, IL is
the opinion of the correspondent that
the city must shortly awake from its
Anacreontic dream. It's business men
are Jews, Its traders French and Ger
mans, its artizans gypsies. The mobiles
own the. soil, and their .wretched
peasants cultivate 1t as wretchedly.
The wealth of the country is corn, the
lands are the finest In Europe, but the
wheat yearly declines in value and the
lands show signs Of exhaustion. The
national treasury is empty, and salar-
les and pensions are unpaid. 1--WE may
remark the contrast of this province
in agriculture, in education, in the de-
cent comforts Of the lower classes and
In morality to the Turkish province Of
Bulgaria. only separated from IL by
why should war come to disturb
these stranded 6ybarites? Have they
not hundred Christian churches, and
twenty-five religious houses, and as
many as eighty schools, which Is very
well for hundred thousand people.
Perhaps war will give them o wide
berth, for the correspondent says 4.
The Gar was, well advised to forbid
his troops q sojourn In this Capua.
Their fighting qualities would not be
improved by contact with 2 popula-
tion which regards love and luxury as
the sole aim Of human existence. The
'fair have an 'irresistfble feAning to-
wards WAR ;tAs l h5aye, spa plying I aIl dark
soft lips copipg jdplcet Latin over his
hard fate, would do more mischief to
discipline thaO long marches or rough
fare, II is the cfueleSt stroke or des-
tiny that suoh q people sh0uld be set
In this corner Of Europe, hetwixt the
Russian hammer and the Turkish an-
Will They ask nothing 0f the gods -
for surely their creed is Olympian-.
OuJ uO % Ic4t III pcncC " euSA4 0voHuoi
love-making, until the deluge comes
and the Jews have eaten them up. 1t
II but q very small proportion who
al crown. They dislike, perhaps, the
than the Turk, hut what can they do?
Fate has decided--let IN shYue our
Shoulders and make the best OF if Life
roes,on lust the Same ct Bucharest.
The handsome carriages In Ynsd haste
to get 1nowhere fill the streets ~ usual.
Julia or Faustina, dressed In exquisltA
robes from Paris, reclinef therein, and
eyes the crowded pavement with clas-
sic langOur. The einnumerable restaur-
rants are crammed with idlen. And
gentle love -; stu the lord Of al in
Very little Is known OF remarks.
BILE natural. curiosity In Southern I'LL
nois In, the shape Of natairal bridge.
qt 10 near Pomona, on the Cairo and
st. Louis railroad, And u . wohderful
I freak OF nature. 1t 10 Of pure sand.
stone, 100 feet In l<ngtir on top, and
IS feet nom one abutmeht 70 the other.
It is 90 feet high aud s feet broad on
the top. The average thickness II 8
feet, and q team ls said to have crossed
In perfect safefyaps wda .ir,fr 'is'
There Are Two sorts of enemies IN.
separable from, almost all men, but al
together from men Of great fortunes
the fiatterer and the liar. One strikes
before, the other behind; both insepa-
fAbI9, both dangerous. ~ ,g'y''iia.c %. ..n .ohi
6s An iuiividuAl noted Tor bis unswerv-
fuv vkraclrv WA falling a rather tough