The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-12-24

uand and opntly aloping. Q IKE = bath
Ing ground than = harbors and In fact
pisppo , nDw : fAvorits watering place.
There = much 20 - end W had very lev
minutm 70 - ~ The French e6lctals In
spsce baegngs With : Enpidity amazing 70
a American. They did NOT even 81 Ne
% open my valias; the big deputy simply
said. mo tobocco-no liquors. chi" Then
lfsing the vAliss he answered his
question with. mo. too little" scrntched
the cabaIisttc green chalk marks on u nnd
wns through the custom house
The town y deliciously queer. The mar
row way BY which We cutter soon expands
into : larger basin. IN which considerable
ships arc moored. The houaes 40 very
odd and blocky looking; in the narrow
the streets. The nd and white o. dark
ranged In the walls - 70 present p~articol-
orod squares, diamonds. oblonQ or more
rarely semicircles. and many Of he win
dows give . fortress like look 70 tho dwell
ingA The general eject h often pleasing.
Sometimes ludicrous, but always novel.
Railroaden. police and peddlsn speak
both French and English, and both kinds
Of money 60 ~ par. The W. old towers
with tie arch between. the old Norman
chateau and some fragments elsewhere
ars the antiques and curos Of the place.
But We are soon OF for PARA Not
without : small disturbance, however.
A Frenchman who spoke English 70
markedly well, and told me be had just
returned from two years In the United
States. claimed some extra rights over the
vacant place on one seat because he had
come in fnt and laid his luggage on 1t. A
gentleman travelling with W. ladies denied
the claim. and 1t it they went, threatening
al sorts Of horrible things. WONDERED
that the ladies' could take IL 20 coolly, n :
fight In one Of these little cages would b
- bad Tor bystAnders a for contestants.
The Frenchman soon grew too excited for
English and swore violently in impure
Partisan. The other replied - viciously In
some tongue ! could not make out. "Ahal
6acre Rodin," screamed the Ernchman,
''you tink because you are English you
will do - you please"
English l am not" roared the other;
II am an Americana And now his broguo
showed clearly that he was an American,
indeed from Tipperary. bejasix"-an
American BY voluntary choice and not BY
the mere accident Of blth. The French
man went for the guard, and the Irishman
winked humorously y me and said,
'There's no danger from these f~ellies-not
amoight-they fghts with their tongues."
Sure enough, when the guard had con-
WINGED the Frenchman that he could not
have the extra space be dumped his bag
gage on the door and va noon = pleasant
= any Of u
We were soon among the hills- The
soenery was always picturesque, and some
times bordered on the sublime. All this
part Of Normandy u said TO consist Of mar
row valleys, separated BY very high and
rather sharp ridges. These ridges every
where that l = ~ are densely clad with
timber, while the slopes next below ars
in pasture and the lower terraces only In
grain and root crops. We pes from valley
to valley through manylong and dark tun-
nsls, for the valleys have . general courss
70 the wet. while We aro going nearly
south. Iohservea curious uniformity In
the valleys: the level strip along the
stream I'm Indiana w call Il tho bot
tom'') y al the way Just shout = mile
wide; The terraces are nearly tn same,
while the sheep pastures may u -
much. bus only bssauss they 40 - O
edge.
Il va II galloping up and down thess
sleeps that the Norman horses 1ut devel-
oped their extraordinary strength IN the
hind quarters. When warriors clad them
selves In armor 20 heavythat each WARRIORS
had TO carry some 400pounds they began 70
select and breed TO that end. Hence the
observation-disclosures" also the English
cart horse. Beyond Rouen the country
showed far more level and soon We were u
the broad and lovely basin Of the Seine.
Rouen, the ancient capital Of Normandy,
h ! most curious old town, and IN the slow
progress Of the train through it I saw
enough TO make me wish for = longer stay.
Tourists tell me the whole vicinity u rich
in historic remains and full Of modern In
teresf-
The dwellings Of the country people an
generally Of bright colored brick, and ID
parently quite comfortable. The gardens
are models Of clean culture; the shrubbery
ID n~oticeably pretty about most OF the
dwellings, and the little d~ooryards are all
ablaxe with brilliant flowers. Soon the rain
began 70 fall, and We saw many peasants un-
der the sheds 1t the stations. At the only
place we halted l asked these OF their pros.
poets, but they only lifted their hands sor.
rowfully and murmurcd. 'Malheureux;
malheureux!"
Al 7p. %. We rolled into Paris, having left
London ct Q .. N. I secured . good room
q once, In q quiet section (for three francs
sday), and entered on the task Of revivinR
my conversational French sufficiently 70
and my way about the great city.
j. n. BBADLR