Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-15

country is close by the Highland House.
1t is a plot of many acres of ground, or
iginally known as the Garden Of Eden.
Here, upon these now beautifully rounded
hills and macadamized valleys and road
ways, was where the well known Nicho-
las Longworth raised the grapes for the
wine that made his name famous. Years
ago these 206 acres were purchased by the
+ city and converted into Eden Park. They
have already cost the city $3.50, 900, and
part Of it has not yet been improved.
Through these beautiful grounds, shut
off from the city by Mt. Adams and its
sister hill, on which stands a massive
building just completed, and which has
been dedicated as an art museum, runs
line of street cars connecting Walnut
Hills and jacksonville, the latter six
miles away. From the car window one
can enjoy most enhancing view of hill
and dale; can see the graceful bend of
the river as it flows eastward between the
hills of Ohio and kentucky, and gaze with
delight upon tn. fertile and populous
plains of the latter state, and known as
the Kentucky Highlands.
If the glare and glitter of the hilltop
resorts or tho beI utiful lawn of Eden
Park pals on ones taste, short ride will
take him to the Geological Garden, one of
thelargest and finest in the United States.
Buildings substantial and costly, the
sixty-six acres comprising it rendered as
beautiful as the art of the landscape
gardner can make it, dotted over with
lakes and fringed with leafy and UNI
brageous shelter, there is no better pill
grimage than to this, the pride of the
Queen City. With nearly thousand
specimens of animal life, culled from all
parts of the world, within its en-
closure; with neat and tasteful place
in which to administer to the wants of
the 'inner man" he must be a cynic in
deed, who can find nothing to interest, in
struct or amuse Occasionally fetes,
parties, picnics, and perhaps operatic en-
tertainments are given within the
grounds, and at these times all Cincin-
natl turns out and has gala day.
But it is not necessary to even find
these places if one is in search of amuse-
ment. Go "behind the canal" as the
Anglo German has it-equivalent to
crossing the Rhine, and in five
minutes you enter portion of the city
as distinctively German as though you
had been suddenly transported by fairy
into the streets of Berlin or Munich.
You leave behind you the moment you
cross the dull, flowing, uninteresting
canal that divides the German quarter
from the native, every evidence of an
American city; you see signs printed in
German; you peep in at doors through
which are waited the songs and notes of
music of the "Faderland''; you meet
with fair-haired, stalwart men and
1aXen-haired women, whose costumes
bespeak their nativity; in fact, the
change is startling Every other house
is beer saloon with garden attached,
in which are seated q promiscuous as
semblage, seen nowhere else in the west.
Everybody is talking-all are drinking.
The music, from string and wind instru'
ments, strikes the ear on every side; the
lights from hundreds of windows dazzle
you; you are jostled by the ever surging
crowd of idlers that surge by in either di
rection, and it is with difficulty you re
alize that in such brief walk the change
can be so great. All is life, hustle ant
animation. Concert halls, theaters
saloons, shooting galleries, ''weinel
wurst" stands, and all the outdoor sights
and sounds incident to dense population
all commirgle. You stop and wonder
where all the people come from ant
where they are going. This is Vine stree
of summer night 'tover the Rhine.
No disturbance, all is decorous, but tn,
scene is animated and well calculated t
interest and amuse. Truly, life in grea
city affords sufficient excitement for tn
most restless, and no city in the countr.
holds more unique place in this regart
than the "Paris of America