The Newtown bee., 1878-09-19
c0rresp dences
From Europe.
LONDON. Aug. 9, 1878.

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 To Hte Elti0r of Me BEE:
 Now we arc across the Channel safe and sound without any sickness, and once more in the land of English speaking people, and one good step nearer home it seems, although when we landed we felt, Oh so far away. But we have been so much farther and returned safely, and have been so long among strange tongues that what before seemed foreign and strange seems more like home now, and although England is not America it seems of nearer kin than Franco, Ger many or Italy. Of course I'm only iudg- ing from.a superficial standpoint, for to give any opinion whatever of the cOun- tries from what we've seen would be su- prcmely ridiculous. We left Paris Friday morning as VIC had intended, and reached here about G;30 p. m. We had dreaded the Channel, but we were not at all sick although the boat tossed some and quite a number were obliged to watch the waves over the side. W4 had the large new boat in which Lord BeaconSfeld came over when he returned from Berlin, and I dare say it made a difference about | it's tossing, not because Lord 5. came over in it, but because it's twice the size of the ordinary boats. l was rathcrsorry to leave Paris; we received our mails regularly there. The Exhibition doesn't strike you with it's immcnsityas ours did, but it grows upon you and at last you begin to realize it's great size. We came to our rooms last night with dazed head and lame feet, and felt as If we didn't know anything. We realized there was Q great deal of everything if only one could grasp it all. It's harder to systemizt than ours was, and then we haven't the time to devote to it which we gave tC ours, for at the same time here is great wonderful Paris to be done. It is really Philadelphia over again once you are in side. It's not as ro0my. Everything seems more crowded together to me, and excepting France and the art exhibit ] don't think it is as fine as ours. The taste displayed outside however in the flower beds is charming. Have 1 tolC you of the immense balloon that goes ut several times day from behind the Palace of the TmIeries? It takes uI about fifty persons each time. The, chargea Napoleon (S4.00) person. The hotels here are very fine. The Hote Louvre is the finest we have seen think and we visited the Grand, Splondide ant lAthenee beside. We went out to Yer sailles one day. The whole is on seal, too magnificent for me to attempt. W, went to the little and great Trianon anC to the great palace. Twas beautiful, al of it, and Louis XIV. succeeded, think in making it the most magnificent cour in the world l touched the piano Mari Antoinette used to have, poor old thin, now but cherished for sake of the past Queer that the past is always treate, more tenderly than the present. Why,
 wonder, unless Hopes anticipations ar deceptive, and the realization never wha is expected and so never appreciated, LII til looking back from another unsatisfat , tory resentmemory throws a halo whic f looks golden in it's departing rays con } pared with tO-days monday sun.
 [ Yesterday we spent several hours lool 9 ing at Mime. Tussand's wonderful va, : works. We were told we must surel see them so went and were surprised
 should think people would give bette
 descriptions of them than they do. The
 are the finest things you can imagine i
 waX-as near human beings as possibl, t A5 you go in there lies Pope Plus K. a l he lay in state at the Vatican. guarde - by soldiers, and you will also see til e new Pope Leo XIII. You see the Berli r Congress just as it sat Bismarck, Lore l Beaconslield and Salisbury, Gotschako | and Schouyaloff, and all the rest. The
 even have Nobiling, who shot at Emperc
 William.
 Besides these new ones there are hun dreds of others; tie Emperors and King s and illustriou5 persons of every contr, :. the Prince of Wales children and all tn
 members of the Royal family, the King r. of England and their wives from Williar : the Conqueror to the present; Dicken. s Byron. Yoltaire, Shakespeare, etc., etc
 and they are all arranged so graceful
 and such care is taken in dressing then 2 that although they are verv life-like. an !, it's really gosd place to brush up one
 history music is playing all u
 time. and it's very pleasant place 1 n spend few hours in. There is the N
 poleoa Gallery and Chamber of Hono
 which haven't even mentioned, and 2 saw the ideatical gaillosine- that drsa io fsal female used h the Frnneh resol |tson Of I7Sg which Dickens makes Dl. ,s an iInEsssssnt pazt fs Ass sI1ie of Iv : Cities Ne took luneh thers. tase 7 tete. and 'tszas most r;dizuiss.s to ses
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