Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-08-22
NOTES OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL.
Interesting Extracts from Private
Letters of Miss Kate MilIikan
to her Family.

LONDON, July 4th, 1873.
We reached Liverpool last night, at
midnight; and this morning, after break
fast, we were examined by the Custom
House officials, after which all march ed
down the gangway and were bundled in
to hacks and ratified away over the cob
BILE stones to the London and Northwest
ern railroad station. As we here had an
hour to spare, we crossed the street to St.
Georges Hall, fine, large building, and
very elaborately finished off inside. We
went into the Courtroom, place of it.
self enough to make one quail, even if in
nocent. Crossing the street, we entered
a fine, light freestone building, "WalkeT
Art Gallery" and were much pleased
with it. There were some pictures here
of which | had often heard. Our hour
was soon up, and we went back to the
station and were seated in onRibuSses, at
least they looked like them to me, only
the doors were at each side, as in a ba-
rouche or carriage, and we sat facing each
other, four in a car, and in five minutes
were flying across the country at the rate
of forty miles an hour. After passing
over 212 miles of the lOveliest country
ever beheld, we arrived at London on
Thursday e;ening at four O'Clock, just
five hours ride. We passed the residence
of Baron Rothschild, and Harrow, where
Byron went to school; and so many places
in English history, but have not time
to speak of them. Everything is SO neat,
so carefully cultivated; and so solidly
built too, as if it meant to last forever. |
did not see any fences, but asteep en-
bankment, on the top of which is hedge,
or they have hedge alone, and gate
wherever there is a gap. The roads have
foot-path on either side, separated from
the road proper by strip of green gass
they have gates across the road, too.
How un-American everything is! No
railway-crossings as with us. The road
either leads over the track, on a solidly-
built brick archway, or else goes under it
in the same style. did not see many
hills-E mean what zoe would call hills, or
which would need tunnelling in Ameri-
ca--but we-passed threngh two tunnels,
-eachslI miles in length, and no end of
smaller ones, A lamp is let in at the top
of9sxery cab, and it burns peEpetually
They have no Iater-tank But instead,sa
walled trough filled with water .on either
sFde the track, T., fIom (which the engine
draYs its Ssupply~withOuts stopping.
N Waterford there is the only Deaf and
Dumb school in England ,and it's close to
the railroad, so had a good view of, it.
Passed Rugby, thought of Tom Browns
school-days, and wondered if these were
the fields where he had walked as a boy.
Southdown sheep, black cattle, hedges
and thatch-roofed cottages, cathedrals,
ruins, towns, cities, and colleges, all speed
by at the rate'ot forty miles anshour. At
ing and we<were whirled off to our hO-
tel.
Everything seemed so odd. +Such re-
diculous hats as the policemen wear; and
the children little girls with short sleeves
and white pinafOres, going sedately to
school, or knitting while they watched
still younger ones at play on the sidewalk.
The typical English horse Is broken
down trotter, all neck and legs, with just
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niles together; in fact, the horse of care
cature.~ Then, the heavy Clyde horses,
with limbs as large around as my waist,
and the strength of an elephant; but, all
the more ridiculous by contrast, are the
tinss donkeys, scarcely larger than New
foundland dog.
The streets are so very narrow that two
vehicles can just pass; and two persons
on the sidewalk must turn sidewise to
pass. But they have very many squares
parks, we would call them; so it is not Sc
bad as it might be.
Directly after we arrived at the Inns OF
Court Hotel we were called to dinner
We had Strawberries, the largest 1 ever
beheld; they are laid, stems and leaves
on dishes and waiter goes along with q
bowl of sugar; you put some of the su-
gar on your plate and dip your berries
into it and eat them. 1t takes foul
mouthfulls to dispose of one strawberry
fact.
July 5th.-This morning we went t.
the Tower of London. 1t was an awfu
place. We saw where the scaffold stood
and the headsman's block with its deel
dents, and all the dreadful Instrument
of torture. We were in the dungeon il
which Sir Walter Raleigh was confined
and in several others, till we were ex
hausted. We went over the old mOat
now a kitchen-garden, and around by tn
Thames to the entrance, and getting int
our hackneys went to st. Paul's Church
but it is too large for me to talk about
[ was utterly lost in it, and never felt S,
insignificant in my life. This afternoon
we went to Hyde Park and rode through
the more fashionable parts of it. The la
dies do not dress up as you see them il
America, but put it all on their Iiverie
servants.
! July 7th.-We went to Westminste
Abby this morning. All the pavement
about this quaint, wonderful old plac
are the graves of untold thousands. Eve
ry stone has an inscription of some one
and very many-indeed, all the Olde
ones, from 1900 back-are so effaced,
is almost impossible to read them. Th
plainest of which | could make out was
"Sarah Newcome, died 1862, aged 80.
and ''Emmelia Newcome, aged S."
thought of Thackery's novel, and wor
dered if he ever came here for names
The walls and lodges are also cevere
with tablets and inscriptions. [ got int
the poets corner quite unaware, and Iif
: ing my eyes, the first thing L saw W;
Dryden, and next, ooh Rare Ben Johl
- son." on the wall above. Then can
Southy, Campbell, Thompson, Row
Gray, Oliver, Goldsmith, Duke of Argyl
Drayton, Barton Booth, Garrik, GeOrl
GrOte and Hirlwall. The latter two hA'
Z, exquisite busts upon pedestals, set
niches and their ashes rect liractIu III