Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-07
IN EUROPE.
What II Sacramento Boy Sees on the
Continent to Write About,

a. sdCTdntntO boy sees on the
Continent to Write About.
young gentleman, who is engaged in
business in this city, left for Europe some
weeks ago. Colonel James McNasser re-
ceived letter from him few DAYS ago
dated at Darmstadt on the Rhine. in which
he says:
Having little spare time before the train
leaves, / thought ! would write you some
what of my trip through Belgium. We
left London Saturday, February Goth, for
Darms;adt in company with E. E. Rand
and George Black and daughter, of British
Columbia. From London we took the cars
to Dover, thence steamer to Ostend. thence
cars to Brussels, where we arrived at A. NJ.
on Sunday. At IL o'clock we drove to the
field OF Waterloo, distance of fifteen
miles. We secured as guide at the town
OF Waterloo Belgian who could speak a
little English and German. He showed us
over the entire battlefield, and ex-
planned the positions of the different
armies. We visited the farm of ia
Haye Sainte" and Hougoumont, where
the fighting took place. | counted
twenty-seven bullet holes in one door at
:. La Haye Sainte." On the spot where
the battle ended and the surrender was
made, is erected very large earth mound,
which was commenced seven years after
the battle, 1922, and was completed in 1926.
The monument is 200 feet high, and the
circumference at the base 1850 feet. On
the top of the monument is placed a very
large lion, made of cast-iron, weighing
twenty four tons. The lion is so placed
that it is looking over into France.
This very much displeased the French
people, and attempts have been made by
the Frenchmen to disfgure it. Two hun
dred men were employed four years in
constructing this monument. at a cost of
more than ST, 100000. There are two TO-
tells on the field, and museum containing
many interesting relics of the fight-such
as swords, pistols, guns, cannon balls,
skulls. etc. purchased several old pieces
of coin found on the battlefield, which will
no doubt prove interesting to my Sacra-
mento friends.
We returned to Brussels at p. NJ. After
supper we went to the theater. The build
ing is magnificent one-elegant in every
particular, splendidly arranged but the
play was not up to the standard of those in
England.
The Belgium people seem to be mix
ture of French and German. They have
no language of their own, and speak
French principally. On the following
morning we lett Brussels, via train, for Co
logue, where we arrived at IL o'clock. We
secured guide and visited the celebrated
Cathedral of Cologne-the grandest in the
world. The two towers from the front of
the building are $50 feet high. and other
measurements are correspondingly large
II is impossible to convey an idea of the
grand structure-it must be seen to be APP
preciated. In the treasury of the church
are many relics Of antiquity, among them
the shrine of the Magi (the three wise
men of the east, containing the bones of
these men. Saint Peters staff, used BY
him in his last years and which he gave to
Saint Vaerious After the Cathedral of
Cologne, we visited the Church of Saint
Ursula. This church is erected On the spot
where IL coo English girls were massacred
by the Huns, under Attila, in the year 452,
A. ID. During the Angio-Saxon war, which
ragged in England during the fourth ana
fifth centuries, many of the Christians
mostly women-left England and settled
in Cologne, on the Rhine. After Attila
made an attack on Rome and
had been defeated, in his retreat
he took revenge by pillage and murder.
The 1l,0O0 girls, uno er Ursula, bad gathered
and decided to die rather than be taken by
the Huns, hence they were all murdered on
the spot where the church now stands. In
the church are many glass cases, in which
are placed the skulls and bones of the un-
fortunate victims: have seen the roint of
the arrow by which st. Ursula was killed
particle of the cross; particle of the
crown of thornsIof Christ particle of the
whip with which Christ was scourged.
| Cologne, besides its cathedral, is noted
| for its perfumery. AL travellers passing
iato France and Belgium are allowed six
bottles Of cologne free of duty. After Is
good nights rest and having purchase
views of the city and six bottles Of cologne,
| took the 8 O'Clock train to Darmstadt, up
the celebrated Rhine. The run was a nice
one and elegant scenery.