St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-28

must. The figure of Disraeli, familiar
but always awful, appears before We
enter. A hasty glance is all that we
could give to the hundreds of grave
stones, busts, and monuments that
constitute, one might almost say,
Westminster abbey.
AT 7:45 p. m. we were on the train
| for Harwich, our trunks registered
through to Leipsic. The ship gave us
a fearful tossing in crossing the German
ocean, and we were glad enough to
steam up the little dirty river Mas
and board a tug-boat at Rotterdam
| for the "Rhenish station Our course
from that place was directly across the
ditchy, Windmilly lowland, to the
| frontier town of Germany, Emmerich
thence to Oeberhausen and to llansNer,
where we arrived in the night without
German money enough to pay hotel
bills and scarcely enough to get any
thing to eat.
] NNAl tll lllAib pAhpNh w
stormed a bank with our letter of
credit, and then breakfast of sand
wiches and Il cup of coffee which we
could not drink, and then started for
Leipsic, through a region of country
which does not vary much in appear
ance from that we had seen the last
few hours of the previous day. Thurs
day morning we saw, for the first time,
flocks of sheep following their shepherd
with his dog. Mountain-ash trees
looked bright, covered with their red
! berries, and the white birch seemed
! familiar. A noticeable feature of the
scenery was the long roads visible far
over the flat country, having a row of
| tall slim trees on each side. Flowers
seem to be more common here than in
America garden flowers, button-hole
bouquets, and plants inside and outside
on the windOw-sills On the little hills
which rise just above the sky we see
| the old-fashioned four-sailed wind
mills which can be moved at pleasure
from one field to another. Here, more
than before, women were ut work in
the fields, and it was amusing to see
them turning the hay i'll the rain just
us though it was the very best weather
possible for making hay.
One great difference between tho
customs of this country and our own Is
Many of the railroads are III charge %
the government, every man employed
wears uniform, and the number o
them seems larger than in America
There is such variety of costumes
red, blue, black coats and caps, caps
with red or blue cords, and even the
walters in some hotels wear red aprons
on one side.
We reached Leipsic at 6 p. III. anC
made an official understand that W,
wished n carriage to take us and on
'Huggage" to hotel IIanffe. Our paper
corresponding to trunk check, wa
taken from us, our fee paid, Il halfmil
ride, and we were landed ut the fin
hotel. Quite early that evening W
decided to try the Leipsic beds, AM
eight o'clock, Friday morning, fOun
us striving to realize that we had slep
only one night since we retired.
BY the kindness of DIR. Gregory, a
American gentleman, to whom we ha
letters of introduction, and Othe
! American gentlemen residing here, W
secured rooms and boarding to on
=, minds, and within two weeks from tn
time we left New York we felt that W
: had home and were in full possessio
and ready for work.
! The University opens Oct. 10, an
! the Conservatory of music about I'll
LIST of the same month.