The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-08-25
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a New Windsor Lady in Germany.

a New Windsor Lady in Germany.
Miss Ida Z. Englar, of New Windsor, this
county, is travelling in Germany, and under
date of Hamburg, July %, 1888, writes to her
father, Mr.. S. p. Englar, giving an account
of her trip, from which we extract the follow
ing:
On Saturday morning last we left Paris for
Strasburg; travelled all night and | slept well,
waking early, and enjoyed the scenery, though
my lady companion, Miss Hollander, slept
on. When we arrived her brother met us at
the depot, and showed us over the city, after
which we took q carriage for several hours:
visited the celebrated cathedral, from the top
of which, 800 feet, we had a magnificent view
of the surrounding country; then descended
to the clock, which is the most interesting
thing we have yet seen, and will give a short
description of it, though not able to do it JUS
t;ce-At a quarter past u you see the figure
of young child passing before figure rep
resenting death; at II. 30 another figure passes,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; at II. As another, middle
aged man. and at l an old man; then the
Apostles pass before Christ and bow, when
the third comes around Il chicken cock comes
out, and crows so naturally that you cannot
realize it is only wooden figure; its head
turns red and the wings clap as true to nature
as possible; as the ninth Apostle passes the
cock crows again, thus illustrating the be-
trayal Of our Saviour before the cock crows
thrice. But | must pass on, as 1t would be
easier to write Il book than to attempt to con-
fine myself to q letter. From Strasburg we
went to Baden Baden, and enjoyed climbing
the mountains. Here we visited the fish
Matching establishment where we saw all the
processes, from the eggs to fish Of five years;
the most interesting, however, were the cells.
which were exhibited from the time they were
Matched up to the time they were ten years
old when they are considered fit for the table
From this place we went to Aherstan Castle,
ON the mountains, which is in charge of girl,
who gave us an interesting description of ii;
also a bunch of fuSchias, which were as tall
as the trees in our yard at home. Next day
we went to the AltschOlss, old castle, which
is in ruins; in the windows are 1olian harpS.
The next day we left for Heidelberg, where
we obtained magnificent rooms in the hotel
de / Europe at high prices. While here We
visited the great tun in the castle, all German
towns have Il castle, and went from room to
room. even into the kitchen and cellars; IN
the kitchen was a fire place filled with stones,
on which oxen were roasted whole; owing to
the decay there were no ceilings, and trees
were growing in some Of the rooms From
Heidelberg we went to Darmstadt, which is Il
nice little city, with wide streets and cmiously
built houses. Here we heard the Ginning
bells play a beautiful German hymn at mne
O. clock at night. We next went on to Frank
fort a very aristocratic and beautiful city.
Visited the geological gardens, flower gar
dens, and examined all the handsome resi-
dences; then went to the Jewish quarter,
which is miserable place. From Frankfort
we went to Hamburg, an expensive and fash
ionable watering place. We staid at a hotel
only two days and night, when we found
apartments for month, five rooms for Slipper
week Yesterday went out early to drink
the waters, but will not take any more-it is
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