Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-08-29

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caps of fogs Dellelw the sun was
shining brightly i tie Fellow fields. /
went to sleep n, and when next 1
looked out ct ore seasohable hour, the
clouds had lifted ahd the. sun was Shin.
ing bEfghslysor Z greed slopes aud. the.
Neeker glIttered below sttia percipito1s
slope nortso the hotel We are. high
up, hut tile tains are higher stfli,
while far b us tile town clings along.
the side of ecker. Chesnut trees
are all along the mountain sides, ard
smoke trees give q pinkish tinge tost1e
hillside, frightened with the scarlet her
ries of the mountain-ash.
On my way downto the reading
where are files of English and a n5 szie..1
papers. passed two beautiful little chill.
dren, playing bah in the hall. They were.
the children of S. L. Clemmens az an
Twain. He and his wife are stopl
here.
LUCERNE, July live left Heidelberg
at five O'Clock Monday morning and were
the whole day getting here, distance of
159 miles. Am afraid to say how many
times we changed cars. At Borle we
crossed the Rhine, but did not have any
custom house examination; at Laufelffn-
gen we began to tunnel through the Jura
mountains, and saw quantities of Eidle-
weis growing on the rocks. At Sursee
we had good view of Jungfrau, Monch
and Eiger looming up, cold and white, in
the Western horizon. The mountains
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caught sight of Pilatus, dark and awful,
on the right, and for few minutes were
in view OF Regi. Our hotel is across
the lake from the railway station. My
room is in the sixth storKs. but we are
amply repaid for the toll O sclimbing by
the noble view. The sun had set when
we reached our room, and lights were
beginning to CLEAN in the houses and
over the bridge, and were reflected in the
ripping waters of Lake Lucerne, and
broken into myriads of lights, as the in
Vulnerable boats of the pleasure seekers
passed up and down. Later, the full
pOOn rose from behind the mountains
and cast long, quivering line of yellow
light across the waters. The glacfes Oh
the East cast back pale, pink reflection
from the last CLEANS of the sun. The
cold, white CLEAN of snow OH all the
nearer mountains cOntrasted strangely
and abruptly with Pilatus' blaekness.-
The musicians commenced playing at
their stand in front of the hotel. Peeple
wandered idly up and down the long
gravelly reach in front of the quay,
which stretches for mile along the lake
shore, or sat listening to the music
Others gathered in groups to watch the
arrival of the pleasure boats. 1t grew
later. The air was chill and heavier
The musicians departed and the crowd
thinned. Oneby one the lights went out
from the windows of dwellings, Finally
only the yellow moonlight shone on the
green waters of Lake Lucerne, and after
midnight concluded to go to bed. After
breakfast next morning we, with COM
mon impulse, set our faces eastward to
see the F'Lion of Lucerne." 1t was not
far, and the entrance was by rustic
fence with the ideal Swiss chalets around
it-bark covered with fanciful designs in
wicker work. These chalets are filled
with the most exquisite wood COW
erings, paintings, photographs and jew
elry of every description. Right in front
OF, as you enter the enclosure, is a mas
sfve wall of living rock; and cut into this,
in niche followed out for it, is the
Lion-in honor of the Swiss Guard who
fell, or rather were slaughtered, at Paris
in 1892. 1t is % feet long. and the grand
est object in its sublime repose have ey-
er seen. [ sat for an hour looking at it.
went again after dinner, and yet once
more before sunset.
FLUELLEN, -
We took the steamer this morning and
went up the lovely lake of the four can
tons and took the railway to Regi Kuhn.
How can tell you of this stupendous
mountain. The incline was far sleeper
than the roof of house. Once we went
through tunnel. Some times we look
ed up on one side and could hardly see
the top of the cliffs, and on the other side,
down, down, thousand feet and more.
One place we looked down 5000 feet to
lake Alpnach, and the excursion steam
ers on it looked no larger than my little
finger. Men and women were invisible.
Lake Lucerne looked like a respectable
sized goose pond. Far to the east the
clouds were wreathing and whirling
around the mountain tops, completely
obscuring them. Everywhere were tour
lists with white wells, umbrellas and stout
Alpine stafs, climbing the hills. Chill
dren selling eidleweis, booths for the sale
of souveniers, photographs, etc. We stood
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miles of country and thirteen lakes, yisi-
BILE at once. 5905 feet below US lay lake
Zug, bordered by pretty red and white
pebbles, as large as peas. Through my
field glass these proved to be towns and
villages. The three large hotels were SO
crowded the night before with tourists
who had ascended the Regi to see the sun
rise, that there was not room for all. and
they had to send them to the car stables
to sleep. We ate lunch in the hotel.
looking out of the windows all the while
at the snOw-clad mountains. Then we
got into the car again and descended that
awful road, and took the steamer for Fin
ellen, at the head of the lake. o, 1 can never
tell you of the wOndrous beauty of the
scene-One view merging into another
1t was more like a dream than a reality,
[ saw Schiller's monument, and Tells
chapel, where they say Tell leaped ashore
and escaped. don't believe it, though.
In the first place, nothing but cat OF
goat could climb that mountain: second.
, ly, the rock rises perpendicularly out OF
! the waters about fifteen feet, and
unless he had Darius Green's wings he
} could not have jumped ashore there. The
; rock here is conglomerate, stones, gray
ell and boulders, both, large and small, all
, consolidated together by some of Heav-
ems own handiwork. The mark of the
l drill is plainly to be seen along the exca.