Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-27

| the day In the papers. All this similarity
| though, vanishes when you wish TO make
yourself understood, and the language
spoken seems but a succession of gutteral
sounds. The letters 'i' and ssi' play a
prominent part in the visible language OF
street signs, and seem to be thrown in any,
where at random for sort of picturesque
ness. There are two words, as omnipresent
as our saloon" and meaning the same.
"slijterij en- tapperij," which have a very
slovenly and un-Duteh appearance, and it
hardly seems possible that any of these
demure, quiet folk could bring
out the word, "Amsterdamschoenenm
zijn. These words are, however, not so
difficult if taken in pieces; they may be
broken as easily as the bundle of twigs
which -Esop tells us of, any anybody could,
if hungry say, ''Breng mil brood. gebraden
rundvleesch, aardappelen en- groente," and
know also what he was eating. The words
! used by street vendors, seem to be the same
all oversthe world, and / have understood
the meat-seller in Canton, the orangeman
in Sacramento and the fishwife of Amster-
dam with equal facility. The fshwives here
have peculiar song in use, which often is
quite musical, but not very fattering to
their herrings, for it is the exact tune
of "Auld Lang Syne" The large cities of
Holland possess many.
BEAUTIES IN ARCHITECTURE,
Both new and old, and in Amsterdam one
sees the style which our KnicSerbockers
introduced to the New World in their New
Amsterdam-our New York. All the
buildings have the foundations on piles, a
fact which gave the inhabitants the nick
name of Rocks, as they lived on the tree
tops. The older houses are often very
much out of plumb, and overhang the
street in threatening manner in some
places, while in others they tip back
IN way which must render it rather diff
cult for Mijnheer van Dunck to find the
keyhole, though it also affords good ex-
cuse when he meets the accusing frown of
Mevrouw van d. at het ontbijt A novel
arrangement is crane Of ornamental form
arranged from the roof and used to hoist
furniture, etc, to the different floors, where
1t may be taken in at the windows.
Amsterdam's famous Rijks Museum,
the great National Gallery near the Won
dels Park, contains, besides its collection
of middle age curiosities, one of the finest
picture galleries, especially in Dutch
work, in Europe. Here is the ''Night
Watch of Rembrandt, which is world
wide known, but it is not so
well known that the much admired
light in the picture was originally
sunlight which by some accident has be-
come the perfection of illuminated night
Paul Potter's Bull" in The Hague and
this picture are usually all that the tray
eler comes to see, but he finds
A woNDERoUs sroRE-HoUsE
OF interesting objects in every town and in
the country, and could easily pass happy
six months to advantage. Many famous
exiles have found refuge in Holland, and
among them some of the rigicides of
Charles l., and strangely also the son,
Charles H., spent many of his exile days
here. 1t is evident that Germany looks
with longing eyes on this rich neighbor,
and by popular talk in Germany one
would think it was very easy matter
to take it, yet l think Holland, saturated
as it is with water, would be the hardest
morsel to swallow that the arrogant, beer
loving German has ever tried. Schlesn ig.
Holsteip, Alsace and Lorraine have still a
tendency to give the Fatherland a cramp,
which the swallowing of the Netherlands
would render fatal
CHARLES 4. GUNNIsoN.