Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29

| shopping, took two carriages and went
around TO see the town. | have rot said
, that the Rhone flows through the city !,
the two parts being connected by num-
Der of bridges. The river is clear and
blue like and very beautiful. Along the
quay are hotels and further, back he prin-
cipal stores. There is little island in
the rivera sort OF park, with statue of
Rousseau on it. This is favorite prom
enade, and it's pretty sight to watch
the swans gliding back and forth about
the island. There is national mOnu
ment opposite on the quay. Two female
figures in an affectionate attitude repre-
sent the union of Geneva with the Swiss
Confederation. We went through the
market in the course of our dive. Sat
out and walked through. We counted
eighteen kinds of fruit-peaches, buckle
berries, plums. cherries, grapes and wild
strawberries. all together. There were all
kinds of vegetables and some we didn't
know the names of. The meat market
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The combination OF fish and cheese odors
was not highly agree, bic, and | think
some of us will not be so willing to try
cheese after seeing how it looks in bulk.
I've found use for plantain, which
mamma may profit by. L saw the seed
stalks punched together and offered for
sale for bird seed, suppose. We visited
the Russian church. 1t is built in ByZan-
tine style of architecture and is small, but
rich on the inside. There is some beau
tiful marble and elegant carved doors,
made of cedar from Lebanon. There are
citation and St. Alexandria are particu-
larly fine in execution. The type of faces
is noticably different. 1t is interesting to
see how the Dutch artists paint Dutch
ladies, Spanish painters give us Spanish
ladies, and the same way with Italian and
Russian pictures. Mrs. Powers found q
photograph of Madonna and child. which
is just what I've been wanting to see.
'Tis taken from a picture by some modern
artist lin Dresden, | believe) and shows
what Madonna would be taken from the
type that belongs to our time, and, which,
therefore, is more real to us. 1t is more
like our conception of an ideal mother.
There were other pictures and decorations
-one in a frame represented the Holy
Trinity: twas in heavy gold, with orna-
ments of diamonds and emeralds. think
their service in the Russian church is
much like that of the Greek church. You
know Geneva is the city of Calvin, and
we visited the places which still bear his
name. The house where he lived has the
inscription over the door, ''Deus est
propugnaculum meum"-'sThe Lord is
my fortress" The cathedral is the church
where he used to preach. '1'was built tor
Catholic church, but the place for the
high altar is empty now, used only for
the choir. 1t seemed good to enter a
church and see no priests, nor burning
candles, images of the Virgin, or bowls
OF holy water. There were modern
benches. facing the pulpit, which is an
other point of difference. There Is some
beautiful wood carving on the pulpit, ano
in the adjoining room, cOnsecrated TO
marriages and Baptisms, there is finely
carved organ and wooden table. The or
gan is said to be one of the best in Eorope.
There is to be an organ concert to-Eight,
but | think none of US will go. After
seeing the church we went to the ceme-
terry. 1t is beautifully laid out with f1ow
ers and trees. with a long walk shaded
by sycamore trees. never before saw
them arclted and growing so closely to-
gether. Sir Humphry Davy is buried
there, but Calvin's grave is the one we
wanted to see particularly. 1t is marked
by small headstone with -. c. its |
only inscription. A large evergreen tree
grows right out of the grave. The |
branches have been cut as high as you
can reach, but the gardner cut branch |
for us to take as memorials. We each |
took a bit. 1t made ne shrink little |
when | saw one of the girls stick it in her
dress and remark upon the combination |
Of green and brown, how she once had
hat in those colors, etc. | have horror
Of this thoughtless. irreverent s'trophy'
gathering. Ialways hesitate about car
rying away momentOs for that very reas-
on. | wish | knew more about Calvin,
but admire the stern, austere character
that believe was his. I'd rather be a |
Puritan than a Frenchman or Italian. We
passed the house where Rousseau was
born, and then we visited the city water |
works. | wish papa could have Deen
there. He would have taken great in
terest in that machinery which ran with
such smoothness, almost silently, vet
with such power. | can't explain how it $ |
done, but the force all comes from the |
water, the Rhoue. There is dam across |
the river where the water runs down over
a turbine wheel. This wheel is connect
ed with machinery which forces fhe water
up into large cylinders. 1t is then car
ried IN pipes TO supply the city, and, be-
sides doing that, it runs several water
wheels used il manufactures. The force
is equal to three thousand horse power.
and you see (?) that the water does it all.
The man who showed us around said
they were going to build another farther
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