The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-08
ACROSS THE SEA.
MORE EUROPEAN SKETCHES BY
Mr.. 7. N. PAGE.

I 'Fft'itfH'f ~ lINtl-f lftAt-
Unexpectedly Met with-wicsbad.n
Frankfurt Baden. Strasbourg and Lu-
cernc-ciorious swiss scenery.
LONDON. August 25.-When we ar.
rived at Wiesbaden we found Mr.. ALI.
son waiting for US at the station. his
nephew. Mr.. Carson, being with him.
Nothing is so delightful in travelling as
/ to meet old friends from ones own
land. II Is news from home in fare
cOunfres. | am sure that if | had a
worst enemy which. thank Heaven.
have not, | should. were to meet him
IN distant land, forthwith offer to be
/ friends We were delighted TO catch
Mr.. Allison again. We had left several
Richmond friends in Paris. our colony
then having been augmented Just before
our departure b. the arrival of Captain
Ainslie and his son. a handsome. fine
young fellow Just from the Virginia
/ Military Institute. with the future all
before him. The many friends of Cap
/ tain Ainslie. who have sympathized
with him in his great sorrow. and have
observed with regret his bad health.
will be glad to know that he had i'm
proved greatly. lie had fattencd a good
deal. and was steadily growing better.
| regretted very much that we were
leaving just as he arrived, but have no
doubt we shall meet again.
Nothing is more remarkable than
/ THE CONDOLENCES WHICH OCCURIN TRAY
El1NG.
One almost always meets his friends
Dickens. IN his story. NO Thorough
I fare. makes the man who had commit
/ ted the crime constantly complain Of the
smalness OF the globe. Every person
" ho travels can relate instances which
are altogether lnexplIcable. Three years
ago we had crossed with two newly
married couples-Goneral Arson Nc.
/ Cook and his wife and the Rev. John
Fox and his wife-whO had been mar
ried on the same 2sth of July. Natu-
reilly. we all became great friends. '
We met Them on the streets of Edin-
burgh and again in London, but
The strangCst meeting was when.
after weeks later. we were on
Our way from Berlin to Switzerland.
As our train going South draws up
ion the station at little place
called Upper Weir, near StIas-
b0urg. q train going TO Srasb0urg
from Switzerland ran in on the other
side of the platform. and ont OF a gar
riago Immediately opposite ours stepped
our friends. the Foxes. Had either
train been minute later OF earlier
we should not have met. We again
met them ON the streets Of Paris some
weeks later. and yet again. still later
on. as We were seated at lunch in the
Red Horse. Stratiord- On-Ayon. there
was tap ON the widow outside. aud look
ing up we met the smiling faces of our
friends the McCCOks and the Foxes.
This summer we have again and
again met friends in the strangest way.
We were crossing one morning "a
street In the west end of London when
Fergus Reid. of Norfolk, came driving
lbs al right angles To our course. We
had never been along that street be-
fore. We accidentally met him again
in lust the same way IN Paris On his
return from Russia. Ia both instances
minutes difference would have pre-
vented our meeting.
Perhaps an even more curious Co
incidence occurred after our friend.
Clergne. left Us TO 20 10 Bulgaria. the
day after he was to leave *. aud !
were going through Chauccry law
hunting for law book. We could not
find the publishers we wanted. so,
after having passed "a shop. we re-
turned and entered to inquire about
them. Inside stood Clergne. who had
been DELAYED and had dropped in
casuall,. IL would be interesting to
work out why we should have thus
met iu room which neither of us had
ever entered before in city of over a
+ hundred thousand shops. But
40 RETURN TO wIEsBADEN.
/ had been there three years before. and
/ thought it the loveiie7t place conceiva-
/ Bile. Such a beautiful avenue and such
q view as that from the heights above
tine town. one rarely secs. ] found on
NV second visit. that for me the glory
bad departed. The long line of Trees
along the street ID the Cursall still
-pread their shade over the walks, the
fountains in the garden still spout then
spray ma the moonlight. but 1t was not
T the same Wieshaden which lay bathed
ia sunshine of Heaven that Sunday
morning. We all went up IN the after
noon % thc heights above the town TO
look al the view. winch is one of the
most beautiful i'm the world. Nineteen
cities and town. lie in full sight in the
plain below YOU. and the sllvery Rhlnc
coming in on the left winds through It's
/ valley. now lost TO sight behind the
/ hills. and now again appearing
until 10 mells into the distant
haze SO far away that the eve
can Just discern the point where II
I breaks the horizon S view. / remember
+ n an Us / first saw it one summer
morning three years ago. We had driv-
en- up the Capelle Strause ID the heights
and alighted at Russian chapel. which
+ was erected there by Duke OF Nassau.
/ Inn COmmemOratiOn of his young wife.
7 "A Russian princess IL was the En-
press birthday, and we were SO iOrtu-
nate ~ 60 hear High Mass after the
splendid Greek ritual. The chapel Is
one Of the most beautiful 10 be found.
I The choir. composed after the Greek
order. exclusively of males. was con-
|cealel somewhere behind the marble
pillows or in the gallery above. and the
music seemed TO come from Heaven IT.
+ self In side chapel was the rccum-
F bent figure of the young princess, spot
f less marble Perfect peace rests on the
placid face. 1t is one of the most beau
/ tiful memorial sculptures IN the world.
We went TO the chapel again the
other Afternoon. but it was closed. and
no one was ia sight. only the cold doors
me. us. 10 was beginning to rain so
we came home.
The next day we set out for Swi.zer-
land. going BY way OF
FRANKFORT OMAN, BADEN AND slkAS
HCURG.
Frankfurt is one Of the most interest
I ing places III Germany. 1t is filled with
memories OF men whose memories now
belong not 70 Germany, but to Christen-
dom-Luther, Goethe. Schiller, aud
others Modern progress has as yet
spared a greater part of the old town
T than can usually be found in cities
now. and one can traverse street after
stree; Of brown buildings with their
Inuaipt cables. old gateWays. and mar