Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-10
NOTES OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL
Interesting Extracts from Private
Letters of Miss Kate MilliIxan to
her Family.
RUE DE LA BIENFAISANCE, PARIS



This morning we took the train for Yer
sailles, sixteen miles distant, and, after
eircling around the outer line of Partisan
Notifications for some miles, struck across
the ruined and desolate country, passing
the ruins of st. Cloud, destroyed by the
Communists, whilst the two tall spires
of the Trocadero stood up on the left
hand, like sentinels, guarding the Expo
sition grounds.
| We left the cars at the deserted station
and walked down the long streets, shaded
with double rows of lime trees, whose
| branches overarched and shaded the side
walks. Down one lime-tree shaded street
and then up another, meeting scarcely a
single individual in the lonely, lovely
village which lost its glory with the
| downfall of the Napoleonic dynasty
Founded by Louis XIV, at an enormous
expense, it has been successfully occupi-
ed by various monarchs, and at the time
of the French downfall was in the hands
of the German Empire, who left every
thing as he found it, and it is now the
seat of the Tiers government, with grass
grown paVements, neglected fountains,
and throngs of tourists.
We rushed through the long corridors
and galleries filled with portraits of dead
monarchs- good, bad and Indifferent
rooms full of Napoleon's Generals, and
through the rooms of the unhappy Jese-
| phine, one of which contained a large
picture representing her coronation
Then half of us rushed off, through wind
and rain, to the station, returned to the
city and went to the Hotel des Invalids,
where rests the ashes of Napoleon, and
the gilded dome of which, looming up
above all other structures, serves as a
landmark throughout Paris.
You assend a flight of marble steps and
enter building similar to the Pantheon,
and in the midst, surrounded by a railing,
you look down upon the massive sarcO.
phagus of finish-granite with marble
statues standing sentinel about it, while
the golden light from the two painted
windows floods the superb high altar and
dark granite alike. The lofty dome spring.
ing upward from the stately columns
which support it, the unearthly light
from the blue painted windows, and the
artistic perfection of the whole, combine
to make an indelible impression upor
every tourist. Upon the sarcophagus lay
a single wreath of yellow immortelles
twined with black ribbon, and around it,
between the marble sentinels, were stan
dards containing sixty captured flags,
which had been concealed and fogotter
in the Luxembourg
Then we went to the Bourse, thu
Change of Paris, and leaning over tn,
gallery railing, watched the seething.
swaying gesticulating mass of humanity
below till weary, when we descended anC
went through the Louxemburg garden!
and Champs Elysees, and then home, il
a pelting storm.
The weather is chill and showery, ant
the autumn leaves are already falling
yet, [ find fresh strawberries daily in the
market, with grapes, peaches, plums ant
nectarines. We have trunks packed anC
ready to leave in the morning at six.
PARIS, Aug 18.-Put not your faith il
man-especially in strange country, ii
a maxim l would impress upon every
feminine head and heart. put my faitI
in DR.. Loomis and the railroad timetable
and the consequence is, he has taken tn,
forty-nine and left me to return to Eng
1ish soil as best L may. To pass the time
away, went to the Exposition and spen
the entire day in the Lyons silk depart
; ment, varied with side excursion to thu
American restaurant, where, after vainl!
trying to attract the attention of the mum
berless pretty waiter girls with which TIL
place abounded, and which was the chic
attraction, l was fain to beat a retreat t
the French restaurant, where I wa
waited upon civilly and obligingly, at
very moderate price, and no longer MAJ
veled at the French dislike for thos
"dreadful Americans" If the specime
[ had previously encountered is goo
example of American politeness wis
, to foreswear my nationality now and fol