Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25

the circumstances, would be impossible
with any other nation. There are many
other places where the best people with
their wives and children 60 TO drink their
Book or Salvador, and where music and
songs of the most respectable order are
heard, but such places lack the spice Of
novelty which is in Nokerberg, and | men.
ton them only that you may not have a
one-sided picture.
Snuff, taking is a noticeable feature in
Bavaria and Austria, but is confined to
certain classes which are hardly the finest,
yet 1t is so common a habit that the line
Is difhcult TO draw, and nice old gentlemen
OF the last generation will offer you a
friendly pinch from a neat, artistic box,
IN which, amid the tobacco, lies a scented
bean. The more usual manner of carving
snuff is in a small, fat bottle having the
TIP OF a fox's tail for a stopper. From the
bottle the snuff is poured on the back or
side of the hand In a little, conicaI pile,
and with n toss taken into the abused
nose. The soldier, the workmen, and the
old woman at my table took snuff pro-
tusely, and the gentleman from Massachu-
sets, IN a moment of quickly regretted
brotherly feeling, tried a pinch, the effect
OF which was to send many an echo through
the vaulted room. The old woman in the
scarf had her Joke upon his weakness by
asking him if he were not sitting in the
draught, which made US all very merry.
When the time came for me to leave.
according to custom here, I exchanged a
Goods greeting" with all at my table and
went my way, pleased with myself and
everybody else. There are other places
than the cellars and beer gardens where
the citizen may spend his holiday, and first
among these many beautiful walks in the
English Garden, which lies along the Isar,
here divided into three streams.
THE ENGLISH GARDEN
Ought to be a point of pride to us from
over the sea, and it ought properly to be
called the American Garden, for its exist
ence is due to the genius of Benjamin
Thompson, who was a native of Wood
burn, Massachusetts,. | could find no one
in Munich who knew his story nor could I
find it IN any book, and so must trust to
my memory to recall what an old lady in
Concord, n. Y, once told me.
benjamin. Thompson was at first a school
master in his native town, later he moved
to Concord, New Hampshire, which then
bore the name OF Rumford. In Concord
he married a widow named Rolfe, and the
house where they lived is, or was in 1880,
still standing. He entered the army and
was rapidly advanced on account of his
merit and having superseded some British
officers he became the object Of their jeal-
u persecution, which finally caused his
resignation. He was a man of great scien-
tihc learning, and is famed for his expert
ments with heat. Going to Munich he
attracted the attention of the King, who
made him one of his Ministers, and in
trusted to him the revision and arrange
ment of the Bavarian army. He was
ennoblsd and given the title of Count of
Rumford. The fine streets in many parts
Of Munich are due to his energy. His
name is everywhere to be seen, and a
bronze statue to his honor stands in the
Naximillian street. The park was called
English Garden in his honor, also, and
thus is the old, and by US forgotten, name
which first was borne by the little village
on the Merr1mac p~erpetuated in PARKWAY
Bavaria by IN everlasting monument.
The Count of Rumford died, | believe,
in the early part of this century in Paris,
and left a daughter whose family still
lives in Anteuil.
1t is a good thing to be an American
and grows to be a better thing every day,
and the name will some time command
the respect of all people, if our ignorant
citizens, who come abroad, will cease
Dragging and allow facts to stand for them
selves, and if our politicians can be, or at
least appear to be, gentlemen.
IN THE GRAvEYARDs AT MUNICH
Are the dead houses, beautiful but mourn
full sights in the midst of the merry city.
In these houses, which are faced by ar
cades and have glass fronts, are arranged
among flowers and candles the bodies of
the dead. Each lies in his open coffin
with his face exposed to all who chose to
look; upon the finger of each is a ring
attached to a cord which communicates
with a bell in the room of the custodian.
and thus any movement which would an
nounce the return of life is made known
and the horrors of premature burial are
prevented. At first this public exposure
of all that is held dear and sacred by the
many mourning hearts, gives a shock, but
the quiet beauty. of the spot, the reverence
of the onlookers and the usually peaceful
faces of the dead soon lead one to view the
strange custom from a better side which
brings us nearer together as of one family.
Then among the flowers where the
children lie. dressed in white and with
candles by them; Just as | saw the first
communicates this morning beginning the
battle Of life, so these little ones enter
eternal rest with the same symbols of
purity. So many little faces, it is hard to
tell them from the flowers, they peep out
here and there like the holy cherubim in
Fra Angelico's pictures. These lovely
blossoms were gathered early; it was not
for them to learn the pleasures or the sins
of their merry birthplace.
But away outside a military band is
playing. children are selling primroses and
violets while happy women are displaying
their Easter b%onnets, which they cannot
keep a week longer. The sun is warm
and everybody is joyful, while from many
lips comes the words of Munich's f~avorite
song, as the band plays.
AS long as aged Peter on Peters Place shall
AS long as the green Isar rolls over the Munich
sand,
As long as in the Plated we H~ofbranhaus can
long will the good nature of Munich never
die.
CHAs. A. GUNNIsoN.
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