Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-07-18

Hotel Chaiham. Paris.
June 18th, 1890

/. has joined Cock HObn and the great ma
jariry. mayb be greeting from the proud
e old world beyond the sea" would not be
, unwe'come | have too much high ap
probation Of your readers taste aud in
tclligence to trea: them to the stale.
= stereotype "studies" after Murry aud
! Bucdeker, which most tourists send
home to their friends and readers, and
50, il offend the critical TASTE of your
readers by my lack Of conventionaIity.
il will be because-forsoothl have
oyerrated them
What stupendous matter il was once
considered to cross the ocean, And vet
it is only matter Of eight days, as far
as chronometers can mark time, and yet,
it may be an eternity Of Prometheau
anguish if one is victim Of mol-dener.
Happily for me. put away all my child
ish ways, held up my head and was en-
abled by my superior sea worthiness, to
minister unto many.
Few steamers that cross the Atlantic
have a better record than the Etruria.
il We consider speed, safety. comfort,
cleanliness and what should never be
forgotten, tue character aud DVrute Of
its crew from its courteous cheerful
Captain down TO the humblest sailor be.
fore the mast Even the passen gers,
that generally seem to prefer the
Etruria aud its twin. the Umbria, appear
to be rather distinctive and representa-
tive, and once aboard the ga liant ship.
have an esprit decorps that makes them
comrades during the trip and often
friends afterwards when their wandering
ways cross again.
If there was one thing ! bad been
schooled by repeated admonitons to
dread even more than the worst ease Of
sea-sickness, 1t was the Custom House.
Our tariff makers, come with me to the
Custom House at Liverpool and let me
show you more excellent way.
Got anything dutilble, tobacco,
sprts?' asked John Bull wi as much
suavity as If ! had been a princess Of
the royal blood.
mot chaw of the one. nor thrap
Of the other" | would have said, if had
only been a qualified voter in JoDathan's
continent, but being only a gentleman,
| replied most veraciously.
Il have nothing dutiful at which an
fswer, he gave peep into one of our FIVE
Gladstone bags. labeled my luggage
with many marks, signs aud symbols
aud | was through the terrible Custom
House
My stay in Liverpool was too brief for
me to judge more than the excellence of
the cuisine and the absolute cleanliness
and comfort Of the most Western Hotel.
But London, We thoroughly enjoyed
Il seems to me London must be the only
spot on earth hat could never disappoint
anyone, whatever may have been his an
ticlpatious and expectations. In less
time that it takes me to write it.
L Sand were as familiar to me as
dollars and cents and wha. is better, |
soon corrected an odious American hab-
1t of parsimoniously converting. by
mental process, of course, every bill into
|. American money. Y
Tais way Of IN lltinlvinr Fi.lL an4
dividing shillings BY I with 5 inter
rogatiye, seems to me in very bad form
Just as bad, in f.ct as we could think it
in Virginia and Maryland, if one asked
"a guest how long he meant to stay.
+ and then. 10 London, the omnibus
service is so excellent; the penny omni-
bus fay, far excels our street car, while
our elevated roads with all their noisy
rush and clatter are put to open rebuke
by the equally efficient but quiet and I'M
obtrusive underground railways that I'M
derle the Great Metropolis.
With the exception of the Tower,
Westminster and one or two others,
very few Of the conventional, cut and
cirisd sights Of London interested very
much though | am free to admit, /
did them with all the zeal and vim Of
a Iloosier trying TO get the worth Of his
money 4 spe ,ial service at St. Paurs
for her majesty's Judiciary which | was
enabled to attend through courtesy OF
the resident Canon was very imposing
" sas,ssfssf
vestments and the judges in their robes
and ermine with the respectful consider
EatieR that time hopoFed custom 1nst
awaken, even if its psgeantry does seen
ia little strange to owr republican SIM
Rpliepy.
Our party had an exptrien which
was at once novel and delightful. In
stead of making our pilgrimage to Wind
scr Castle in the seaal way, by rail,
steamer or hired vehicle. we accepted
the hospitality of some English friends
al their summer home, the House
boat" which is anchored on the Thames,
aud had them row us from Staines. hard
by Ruunymede Of Magma Charta mem
DRY, to the Castle eight miles away
At the House boat" the most delight
full little collation. vas served and we ae-
aaainted ourselves with this quaint idea
Of spending the summer in an anchored
boat, and then entrusted ourselves to the
muscle of the aquatic young Englishmen
who were eeE hosts. Halfway, we stop
ped. landed. and beneath the beautiful
corresponding willows, had another pic
mic, such as only our English cousins
know how 10 provide
Unfortunately rain Sc. in toward the
afternoon so that after seeing Windsor,
! &c, we returned to LoudeA By rail in
stead Of returning to the House boa"
for dinner which is the meal of the day
here in England
! In the great Sturgeon, was greatly
Disappointed. I slr'ss. mith his falling
health there must be pro oortionate de-
cadence Of his great orltorical powers
Que terse period that recalled the Spur
geon of his best days struck me; he said
sympathy in sin is completely in crime
! and it is even SO.
Our stsy at Brighton. which is q