, 1880-04-04
One Of the Finest of European
Winter Resorts.
It's Delicious Climate-Royal Visitors
in Old Times and Now,
1 fargrit ibode for llntrhans--Ftfts for E{erv
NpRth-4ante Carlo.

counts to the contrary notwithstanding. Th
brilliant transparency and genial warmth d
the Italian day are everywhere known, an
Nice, when in 1850 everything went over int
the hands of Napoleon, could not render he
cllmate subservient to the change. THO
Gould not be cajOled by reasons polite O
otherwise, and remains as Italian as ever
The value Of those excellences Of the al
and sun here is also enhanced BY the mum
ber Of
MORE OR LESS PERFECT DAYS
experienced during the winter-months,-t
is said to be about forty; but even this higt
| estimate must fall below the real average
twill aid toward practical knowledge q
| the eiearness and constancy Of this sunlight
! to recall the fact that Lord Broughaln, In
making experiments npon light, Its nature,
properties, ETC., found but three days out Of
] Ill too dark for successful operations; while
IN England, out Of the same number Of days,
he found only three sufficiently bright. 1t
was this Lord to whom Cannes, the English
aristocratic neighbor Of Nice, Is said to owe
its origin as resort,-his writings and resi-
dence there bringing 1t into notice and popu-
larity.
Those who have sojonrned here during the
last three months, for the first time, will not
IN lifetime lose the pleasant impression
left upon their minds by the almost perfec-
tlon Of weather with which they have been
favored. From the first days Of December
until the 9Th Of February it rained but once.
and that in the night,-the night OF the 10th
OF January. Each sunrise nsheted in a
beauty which seemed but the repetition or
improvement Of the perfection of the pre-
paHinu Erpnitonf1v FIR Tou fcnafhnr
sunrise to sunset, in all the sky, from llori-
zon to zenith. 1t was Impossible to see spot or
Shade, or leck Of white, even the size Of
a finger. We have had since three or four
days Of rain and unsettled weather, but
now all is bright and clear again.
1t is said that kind Providence
tempers the winds to the shorn
lamb. Whether this is an instance
of the application of the proyerb or not, 1t is
certain that the Arcadian shepherds thenl-
selves might have envied, on behalf of their
h0cks. the thousands of thousands Of in
valids and pleasllre-seekers who have segre-
gated in this little nook OF the Alps Mari
times. Intelligent shorn lambs seek the
sunny side OF Providence.
Tn cOMtI1g to Nice one is struck by the
GREAT DIFFERENCE or TEMPERATURE
found between AIarseflles and that city,
though 80 near to each other, and in almost
the same line Of latitude. At Alarseilles, US
to To- open a Til tie win Windows d 81 the i raiwaycar %
riage, on account OF the cold, and
impossible even to see through, them
at all for the thick frost that COW
cred them; but the next day I was
So m n s re eyy y civ s V f. f. snSy ys
Clinics, Nice, without overcoat or hat. It is
easy to see the reason for this difference.
The sea sweeping into the land with long,
graceful :urve, forms the Bale des ,Anges or
mountains Of the ) Alps Mari,imcs, whose
ends form the points of the bay, pass around
continuously from, one end of the bay to the
other, along the shore, but inland, at 4
much sharper curve than that OF the bay.
tween en- the hem mouaiains and % the sea-, stS IS Nice.
as as ' in ' cave cave. " tbs = = ranee se''se of
mountains is . triple one, and forms
nasterly curved fortideation, whose masses
can break through Or shaft Of frost can pierce.
Winds carrying cold over the SUBMITS strike
the level only well out at sea. On the south,
before the city, is spread out the open sea,
" which, stretching a. away from the very edge
under. the full sun, acts as Il mirror to add
city, the mountains, while they are Il fortress
to bar entrance from the direction
of the sources OF frost and wind, on the
south again serve as q vast
RESERVOIR OF HEAT AND ELECTRIC M
FLuEScE,-
gathering, conserving, and even themselves
III time rejecting upon the city the entire and
energies of the SUM- The aver
age hight Of winter-temperature is So dtgs.
Fahr., but this IS OF the entire day. The |
middle of the day-from 10 q. IN. to ! OF 5 p
n-frODl that Of the hours before and after