The Russellville Democrat., 1886-09-01
TWELFTH YEAR.---NO. 80
FROM THE OLD WORLD.


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No 5, ii Stock, Door 9 Thiire.
| arrived here night before last at
10 o'clock and it took me some time
to find room. TO go to the bank and
return to Hotel Metropole and to be-
come settled generally. / have Wis
tied the Hospitals, have met and
seen the famous Billroth operate.
He is ! presume THE surgeon Of the
civilized world. / have attended
two clinics and. II ! could only un
derstand more fully the German Ian
guage, it would be much more inter
estlng and profitable to me, yet with
The facilities presented through an
interpreter, will be enabled to take
good deal Of it In. / think this is
one Of the grandest of places to get
information, TO acquire thorough
knowledge in surgery and the pro
fesslon generally. The Clinics are
going on all the time and are rich in
material and subjects Of every des
cription. ] procured yesterday an
other ticket and paid fifteen forrins
for it to 60 through all the wards
with the teacher, in uther words to
hear all the clinical lectures and ask
any and all questions / might desire
IN English with likeanswers in going
through the wards. I shall continue
to purchase daily tickets for these
privileges and visits in the hospitals
and wards for the next TIVE weeks or
more contemplate remaining in the
city. And intend to make Jpy stay
not only interesting, but as profita-
bic in every respect that ! possibly
can.
am very sorry indeed that can
not have my nephew, Andrew 4.
Howell, Of your town here with me,
who is now studving medicine and
surgery at Jefferson Medical College
philadelphia, that he might receive
some of the benefits and instruction
to be found and derived here more
abundantly than Is presented in the
United States. The only draw back
which he would experience would be
in more perfect knowledge Of the
German language and without which
be would frequently be like
"a ship at sea without a ruddcr."
From here shall as stated here
tofore, 60 70 Berlin. to Frank ford on
the Main and down the river Rhine
to Cologne, to Brussells, Antwerp
and to Paris, where unquestionabIy
/ ought to find letters awaiting me
from home.
The city OF Vienna is very fine
and handsome place indeed. 1t has
q population Of one million two
hundred thousand inhabitants, it is
said.
In coming TO Europe, travellers
commit very great mistake in GO
ing to Paris in France first. 1t
should be tile last place visited, for
it unquestlonably dwarfs all the
other places and cities / have yet
seen or expect to see in the old
world. Yes, even London with her
immense and lofty towers, fortifica-
tions, battlements and appendages
OF war, with her living, moving myr-
iads OF human beings, numbering
four or five million OF human souls,
is entirely eclipsed, II not in the
number OF inhabitants, she is at
least in point Of splendor, elegance,
fashion and pleasure, In the muniti-
cent display constantly exhibited in
the gay and lovely French capital.
The city OF Paris is facinating be-
yond the conception or imagination
of those who have never been in 1t,
to realize its beauties and Its pleas
ures. The modern business and
fashion OF Paris is chiefly confined
to the quarters on the right bank of
the Sein which contains the princi-
pal boulevards, the handsomest
streets and the most attractive
shops, cafes and restaurants in the
city, and where are situated the
most important theatres, the Boursc,
tue Bank, the Pulais Royal, the
Hotel de Pastes, the Hotel de Vile,
the headquarters OF the police and
municipal authorities and the Tuil-
leries, once the scat OF the court aud
National assembly, but now almost
demolished. Around these great
centres the whole OF modern French
history has been enacted. And In
the same region Of the city is the
Louvre containing the greatest Art
collection in France. The grand and
brilliant illuminations along the
bouIevards in this part Of the city,
are kept up nightly until midnight
As bright as the noon days sun and
thousand Of fashionable ladies and
gentlemen are to be seen promenad-
ing and urinking cafe wine and in,
dulging In every other folly and
pleasure OF life.
am glad to say that the troubles
Of indigestion with which l have
been more or less afflicted ever since
crossed the ocean, are gradually
disappearing, and ! almost immagine
that when / get back TO London, II
mr. prejudices do not ovcrbalance
my appetite, that my stomach will
be sufficiently strong and healthy to
inflict upon it the voracious dissec-
tion Of one Of john Bulls long, lank,
long legged frogs. which they and
many Of our American epicures re-.
gard as one Of the very greatest Of
luxuries. Excuse me, however, for
differing now With them on this