Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-23

table are ornamented with pictures OF
Thun, I.iesthal, Heidelberg, and other
Swiss and German towns. The dining room
on the ground floOr-through the open
window of which comes fragrance of hay
and wild flowers worth all the perfumes in
the world-haS the Virgin Mary on one
wall, and the Grand Duke of Baden,
probably rs great parsonage in the eyes
OF the Baden Schwarzwalders) on the other,
while the corners are filled by four clocks
of different sizes, of which one goes too
fast, another too slow, while the third
goes fast and slow by turns. and the fourth,
by way of being on the safe side, never goes
at all. But with all the outward quaint
ness of this arcadian dwelling, there can
be no question about its comfort.
ITS sPoTLEss CLEANLINESS.
Is an indescribalc treat after the giided
dirt of certain pretentious hotels IL Russia
and Egypt, or the open and unredcemed
flthiness of Siam and South Africa. As
for the food, it might well satisfy even that
valiant trencherman of whom frugal
hotel keeper said, with tears in his eyes ::
That fcller eats as if there We're no here
after" Here is the daily order of meals {:
Coffee and homemade bread, with excel
lent fresh butter and honey, at s \. NJ,
dinner ut noon, usually consisting OF soup,
stcwed beet, roast veal or mutton, pudding,
cherries. and wild Strawberries more COT
fee and bread and butter at $50 ?. NJ, and
a supper OF tea and cold meat AT !. With
such list, my worthy landlord, Herr
Schuer, might fifty sumount his door
with the announcement which used TO see
50 often in the great towns of British India ::
animals of ali kinds stuffed on the short
.,t,.l ,1,fa r., E.
charge of rather less than 81 day can
hardly be called eXorbitaut Indeed, at
first sight the whole arrangement seems
like a duplicate of Paddy's celebrated trade
in whisky: How can / afford to sell
whisky below cost price, is it? sure, thin,
sell a great dale, and it's the lot | sell
that makes the money" But our good
host has other and more permanent GUS
toners than those who come to visit him
for 4 few weeks every summer. Close To
the house stands IL small wooden building,
painted bright yellow, and displaying over
It's door, IN long-lc5ged, SpraWling letters,
that look like Il band of spiders running
after gang of reaches, the words, =" Som
mer WirthSchait' (summer TAVERN.
Hitler come every holiday a swarm of sun
burned. Sturly-luokiug fellows in wide
dWakcs and short coats to hold a parlia-
ment of beer and tobacco which usually
LASTS all morning and half way through the
afternoon. At times the flat cap and smart
Olivc-grcen Jacket of a Iitfcman appear
amid the throng, while even the broad,
i0W-crowned hat and long black cassock OF
the village priest may be seen every now
and then gliding under our balcony in
the same direction. In the prehistoric
ages before this suburb was built how
ever,
THE BEER PARLIAMENT
Was held in what is ROW orr dining-room,
which Is even now invaded occasionally by
a stray customer in search OF retreehment.
This is Just the place to read Schiller
&c wilhelm Tell the scenery of which Is Il
perfect Photograph ri that which now lies
around us. 1t must be owned, however,
that this pleasure is somewhat married by
the recollection that scores of learned anti
qUdTicS, both Swiss and German, now de-
clare unanimously that Tell never existed
at all, and that the feat aScribcd to him was
performed ages before by Danish cham
pion named Toxic, and by the famous Eng
iish outlaw, William OF Clovdcsicy. In
one of Mrs. Rddell's novels, young man
who is seeking work meets with an adyer-
ti,cmcnt of clerk being wanted by Mcssrs.
Hume, Howe, Draycott IL Co. lie applies
at the specified address, and discovers TO
use his own words that there is no
Hume, no Howe, no prayCott, and no Co
In like manner, those who have thrilled
over the stirring tale of Tell shooting an
apple OF the head of his son Walter as a
punishment for no; rcycrencing Gesslcr's
hat must be deeply Erieved to learn that
there was no Tell, no Walter, no GeSSler,
and no hat But the spirit of the strange
old legends of Grimm and T!cck and
Hoffman lives again in every feature of the
panorama around Us. We see the OK
drawn wagon iolting up the stony road, the
kerchicfed girl raking hay, the green
coated huntSman emerging from the shad-
owy wood, and the old priest blessing the
round-taced lad who Is plodding to school.
In truth the greatest charm of the old Ger
man legends, unmatched though they are
in quaint and picturesque simplicity, lies
in the vivid little touches of local coloring
and everyday life which make Them 50
graphic and so real. Noonc can read them
without feeling al once that they We're
meant not to be written, but to be told.
One can picture to ones self some jovial
old hroad-skirted farmer from the Oden-
wald telling just The same stories today to
a group of Jolly village folks in the vine
wrga,hed porch of some queer little log
built " WirtbShaus on the bank Of thc
Ncc!.ar or the Rhine. One can
FANCY THE THICK cHreKLE
With which he tells how de clever
mlrkSman put an egg at each corner OF the
table all one in the middle, ana then en-,
them all five in halves with one shot, and
surely he must have - good char-c Of
powder who shoots round a corner ii
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