Sharp County record., 1880-01-22

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These in time were replaced by domes,
minaretS, and something beSpeaking an
approach to Oriental architecture. we
were in Austria. Night still, and we
were approaching Vienna. PasSau and
Linn are passed. The last coupon has
been torn from my ticket. sit dreading
the immediate future. am to be soon
turned out of the car-turned out in the
babel of great railway station IN
foreign city; another new city, new
nation, a new language, another new
new uniforms, and new
money. l feel completely at their mercy.
The car slowly stops. We are in Vienna;
An hour passed on. How l passed
through it all | can barely recollect
| was found sitting on my trunk waiting
for events. | was weary with trying
to talk German and getting no one to
understand me. The other passengers
had all gone. Belted and sabered
officials approached me. Probably
they knew my trouble. | was placed,
trunk and all, in a cab and sent off,
The cab rolled a long way and finally
drew up at hotel. They could speak
all languages at this hotel. Had it been
Plato himself, or Moses, they would
have understood him. The landlord,
or director, spoke English | could un-
derstand. Much of the English spoken
by Interpreters on the Continent is not
homemade. 1t is a spurious article, an
unsuccessful counterfeit of the genuine.
Myself and trunk were taken off; l was
put to bed exhausted; | slept in Aus
tria. Morning. | awoke. | drew the
curtain and looked in the street. 1t
seemed a masquerade. Life and cos
tune, all were new. Soldiers clad ir
the white tunicS of the Austrian line
went past banging little kettle-drums;
Hungarian soldiers in braided jackets
and blue tights, displaying shapely legs;
rihemen in gray, with plumed wide
awake hats; wild, shaggy looking men
in long Sheepskin clOaks reaching to the
heels: women in short frOcks and rough,
wrinkled boots, wheeling sand, making
mortar, or ascending ladders, and lay
inc brick by the side of masculine broth
er masons; great dray-horses, all col
lars, plumes and brass-studded harness;
Polish Jews in
LONG BLACK GOWNS,
high hats, and little corkscrew curls;
Turks in baggy trousers and baggy
tunics; dogs and men alike harnessed
and tugging at little wagons Bohemian
nurse-maids in stage petticOats, with
stockings full of shapely calves, bare
arms, sleeves puffed at the elbow to
enormous dimensions, and q majestic
gait; officers we'll made, erect, wiry,
vigorous, with uniforms fitted to perfec-
ton, and more women bare-legged,
bare-kneed, and bare-fOOted. While
dressing l regard a china monument in
the room ten feet in height. 1t turns
out stove. Ifnd a ight-green feather
bed atop of my mattress. Under this l
had slept. 1t is the fashion here. am
dressed and descend 1he @hotel stairs,
and am shown to the dining-roOm. My
eggs are brought and broken for me by
a Young divine of the Church Of Eng
land, at least his garb and appearance
warranted such station. A magnificent
Turk sits at the next table. Going out
| encounter COMMISSIONERS in green
and gold. The elevator attendants are
in green and gold. One bows me into
the trap. and the other sends it up. 1t
is an important operation here. Now |
am in the street. | signal q passing
street-car. The driver is stony and re-
CARDS me not. l wave my hand to
the next. It does not stop. | am
three days Ading out that the Viennese
street cars stop only at certain stations.
Although but S o'clock, every body
seems out. The walks are full Of ladies
in fashionable costumes-and they dress
well here, too. More soldiers and kettle
drums, file and file. Vehicles dash past,
apparently intended for two horses, hav-
ing but one harnessed to the pole; and
what high horse e-collars, arched over the
animals back! Every body seemed to
be breakfasting at tables on the side
walk. There are barber poles; shaving
is indicated by two brass plates hung
without, and occasionally horrible eff
figy of a head with the tongue run out,
indicating cupping and bleeding for the
sick. | am shaved. A lady has her
hair coiffured in the next chair. The
barber pours cold water under my shirt
collar. / sit in a chair suggesting the
garrote, and think Of tonsorial marble
nails on Montgomery Street. On every
side I read, "Tabac X. X" indicating
the king and kaiser or government to-
bacco store. | buy a cigar-a long nine.
It will not smoke. | stop time after
time to relight it. 1t Will not draw.
Others are smoking similar cigars.
They draw. Why will not mine draw?
| grow irritable over Viennese cigars.
There is a straw running through its
entire length, which the Austrian pulls
out preparatory to smoking. 1t took
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