Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26

| The Little Steamer.
celain. You go to St. Cloud by rail or river
and then drive over to Sevres by diligence
or voiture. Some does one wav and some
does the other. 1 rode up on the Seine,
aboard of a little, noiseless, low-pressure
steamer about the size of sewing machine
1t was called the Silvoo Play, think The
| fare was 80 centimes, or, say, cents. At
ter paying my fare, and finding that I still
had money left, lunched at st. Cloud in
| the open air at trifing expense, 1 then
took a bottle of milk from my pocket and
| quenched my thirst. Travelling through
France one finds that the water is especial Y
| bad, tasting of the Dauphin at times and
| dangerous in the extreme. I advise those
| therefore who wish to be well whilst doing
| the Continent to carry, especially in France
as 1 did, large thickset bottle of milk or
kumiss with which to take the wire edge off
ones whistle whilst being yanked through
the Louvre.
Surroundings Of the Place.
st. Cloud is seven miles west of the center
Of Paris and most ten miles by rail on the
road to Versailles-pronounced Vairsi. St.
Cloud belongs to Canton of Sevres and the
reimbursement Of Versailles. An arondisse-
ment is not anything reprehensible. 1t is
all right. You could belong to an aron-
dissement If you lived in France. st. Cloud
is on a beautiful hill slope, looking down
the valley of the Seine, with Paris in the
distance. 1t is peaceful and quiet and
beautiful Everything is peaceful in Paris,
when there is no revolution on the carpet
The steam cars run safely and do not make
so much noise as ours do. The steam
whistle does not have such hold on people
as it does here. The adjutant general at the
depot blows little tin bugle, the admiral
of the train returns the salute, the adjutant
general says "Allonsr' and the train starts
off like somewhat leisurely young man
who is going to the depot to meet his wife's
mother.
One does not realize what a Fourth of
July racket we live in and employ in our
business, Lillian, till he has been the guest
of a monarchy of Europe between whose
toes the timothy and clover have sprung up
to great height. And yet it is pleasing
change, and 1 shall be glad when we as q
Republic have passed the blow-hard period,
laid aside the earsliting steam whistle, set
tied down to good, permanent institutions
and take on a restful, sootheful, Boston air
which comes with time and the quiet self
congratulation that one is born in a Bible
land and gospel privileges, and where the
right to worship in strictly high church
manner is open to all.
Inc EdtdCc 8t 81 OtOu0.
The Palace of st. Cloud was at one time
the residence of Napoleon L in summer
time. He used to 60 out there for the
stomach have thought after thought regard
ing the future of France. Yet he very
likely never had an idea that some day it
would be thrifty republic, engaged in
growing green peas or pulling soiled dove
out of the Seine now and then to add to the
attractions of her justly celebrated morgue
Louis XVIII. also put up at the palace
in st. Cloud several summers. He spelled
it "palais," which shows that he had very
poor early English advantages, or that he
was, as l have always suspected, native of
Quebec Charles X. also changed the bed
ding somewhat, and moved in during his
reign. He also added a new iron sink and
place in the barn for washing buggies.
Louis Philippe spent his summers here for
a number of years, and wrote weekly letters
to the Paris papers, signed ''Uno," in
which he urged the taxpayers to show more
veneration for his royal nibs Napoleon |
Ill. occupied the palais in summer during !
his lifetime, availing himself finally of the |
use of Mr.. Bright's justly celebrated dis |
ease and dying at the dawn of better insti- |
tutions for beautiful, but unhappy, France. |
1 visited the Palais, which was burned by
the Prussians in 1870. The grounds occupy
$50 acres, which 1 offered to buy and fit up, |
but probably did not deal with RESPONSE
BILE parties.
San Cloo has a normal school for the
training of male teachers only. I visited |
it, but did not make a hit in my address to
the pupils for some cause until 1 began to |
speak in their own national tongue. Then
the closest attention was paid to what 1
said, and the keenest delight was manifest
on every radiant face. The President, who
spoke some English, shook hands with me
as we parted, and asked him how the stu
dents took my remarks. He said:
How They Appreciated His Speech.
''They shall all the time keep the think
ness-what you shall call the recollect-of
monsieur's speech in preserves, so that thev
shall forget it not continualle Weshall all
the time say we have not witness something
like it since the time we come here, and |
have not so much enjoy oursef since the
grand assassination by the guillotine. Come
next winter and be with us for one week.
Some of us will remain in the hall each
time"
At San Cloo hired of quiet young fel.
low about 50 years of age, who kept yery
neat livery stable there, sort of victoria
and big Percheron horse, with fetlock
whiskers that reminded me of the Sutber-
land sisters. As l was in no hurry | sat
on an iron settee in the cool court of the
livery stable, and with my arm resting on
the shoulder of the proprietor 1 spoke of
the crops and asked if generally people
about there regarded the farmer movement
as in any way threatening to the other two
great parties. He did not seem to know.
[ watched the coachman who was to drive
me as he changed his clothes, SO as to give