The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-06-28

ing to see the palaces and parks of the
French kings at Versailles. Our guide,
an old Polish polyglot Of twenty.f re
years residence in Paris, seed,, thread
bare and nervous, was promptly on
hand, and we stopped to take & cup Of
coffee at little cafe opposite the Bosrss.
Our cafe was one Of the many that de-
pends on the brokers who frequent the
Bonrse for patronage. There was NO
exchange that day, and it was so ioAg
before we were served, that we missed
the train and had to wait thirty min
utes for the next. Soon, however, we
were on the roof of the unhandsome,
little, black Freneh cars, running ut the
rate Of mile in two minutes, and in
less than half hour were in sight of
the palaces of Louis XIV. l will not
,sttem pt to describe the edihces, parks,
statuary and fountains TO which the
treasure, and blood, and genius of Eu-
rope have 50 lavishly ycontributed- Wood
] cuts and photographs would be unsatis-
| factory enough, how much more pen
sketchl We spent the day in maze
Of avenues, grottos, fountains, lakes,
palaces and statuary-statuary, mythe-
logical, classical, MEDIEVAL and modern.
There were statues ii heroic size OF
| Ney, Murat, Dessaix and Gault, the
generals who led the legions of the first
Napoleon on hundred fields, and there,
also, were Conde and Louis XIV, the
so-called great monarch, who lmpover'
lshel France to build and beautify Yer
sailIes; scar by were statues Of Demos
themes, of S5phacies, of Apollo, Miner
va, the Venus of Mlo; in fact, II
seemed the entire Greek Pantheon re
: produced in these beautiful grounds
: What surprises an American most Ii
not SO much the excellence f thes'
: works in bronze and marble, as thel
profasion. We have in few galleries
specimens as good as these, since they
3 are in m ,st instances copies, IA t1e by
, measure, from the original, but her
= you come u, on works in bronze an
marble at every turn, and it IS littl
exaggeration TO say that works of ar
exist he in the profusien of toys i
= the United States We walked an
o looked until eur eyes and legs wer
II tired; no horses or carriages are PEI
y mitted on the grounds, pedestrian
a only are allowed to traverse these mss
L nifeent distances- Il was now nee1
and we sat down in e little cafe &c
e refreshments, and left after our veterE
, little Pole had pocketed the lunps I
a sugar that remained on the plate; thi
: is custom with the Parisians who ar
Il scientifically aud vieionsly econemica
y After luncheon We wezt through th
o picture galleries full Of the paintings {
n the so-cAlled masters, who prostitute
. their genius in pictorial apotheosis {
II royal briganda, pimps and conrtezan
'f In the different palaces We saw ii
d chairs in which the kings and emPe
ors Of France had sat, the desks 1
IL which they had written, the beds G
which they slept, the chambers tn;
II had witnessed the loves and humIli
le tions Of Madame Maintenen and j.
e sephine. In densely shaded park WI
e the plain country residence Of Mar
J. Antoinette, surrounded by the pictu
esoue cottages of the Swiss village 81
y had built, and near by, amid lake
1t grottos, trees and fountains Of paradis
cal beauty, was the pavilion where 81
delighted to meet the ladies and gentl
men of her court, all arrayed as Swi
'r peasants, play the life of simple pa
IS toral people, trying to ignore the bla'
= cloud surcharged with the vindictiv
= ness Of years of oppression, that was :
>. ready appearing in the horizon Of PAR
3 No matter how thoroughly inform'
:; the foreign reader may be in Pren'
& history and literature, visit to Fran
q Will be scarcely less valuable IS rev
4 latien than an Interpretation. There
much to admire, but more to pity, in :
that sye see in this ripe, if not rott'
d civilization, whose inspiration has be'
military glery, and whose pose is n
so rauch that of the dying gladiat
proae in defense, as that of the brigar
e Who chooses his lite and deserves b
DOOM
al It is not remarkable that the Frenc
or rather the Parisians, are nation
,s artists, that they have attained an i
d describle exquisiteness in every variei
Of ornamentation, that they excel d
4 other people Ola canvass and in marb
is in everything suggested by the COZ
r. prehensive ito Kalon" OF she Gree
They have had before them for gener
tious the treasures of the sesthet
world; their infant eyes have opens
r. upOn, end their youthful taste has bee