St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-29

blocked off. giving almost precisely the
same appearance as the stone, aD~
almost as durable. The government
buildings and churches are usually
costly: some of them immense in size
and grand in design and architecture,
and upon which vast sums OF
money have been expended. We visited
a church few days since Just com
pleted was sixteen years in building;
cost So, 000,0 An immense atfaIr,Wlth
vast arches, and not piece of wood or
a particle OF iron has been used any
where in its construction, except the
windows and doors. Everything else.
including roof, walls and ceiling, is of
the finest cut-stone masonry. AS to
what we have seen, it would take
good-sized volume to describe. On the
whole, l think it
Deserves the Credit
of being considered the most beautiful
of any OF the important cities OF the
world. Her almost numberleSS parks
and drives, lined with choice and beau
tiful flowers and Towering shrubs of
every description lnterspersed with
lovely flower gardens. Her great system
of broad boulevards paved in the best
manner with the best paVementS known
and always kept ScrupulOusly clean,
lined with the most beautiful shade
trees. Her Champs Elysees, said to be
finest and gayest drive in the world,
with the gardens of the Tuileries at one
end, the Arcade 1riumphe. costing So
100000, at the other and connecting with
the lovely drive and park of the Bots de
BoulOgne, containing 1900 acres. her
bOuleVardS, spanned with frequent
arches, covered with costly seulpturing,
parks everywhere supplied with beau
tiful fountains, monuments and statu-
airy, costing untold sums of money,
add TO these her numerous
lovely suburban towns, such as
Versailles, st. Cloud, st. German, Vim
cennes, FOntainbleau, RanbOuillet, etc.
Commanding views of the valley of the
Seine and the finest scenery in France,
where the former kings and ROYALTY CT
France have for generations had homes
and spent untold millions in beautifylng
their palaces and immense parks and
grounds. AT Versailles alone Louis
XIV. spent from 1861 to 1854 the enor-
nous sum Of 5000, 900, 900. At Vincennes
the park contains $3.50 acres,
St. GERMAN 10000 acres. Ram
bouillet about $4,000 acres. AT
Foutainbleau it is fifty miles around the
park and woods. The park at st. Cloud
is also very large. Nature has been
lavish in her gifts in all of these parks,
and art has done all that money eX-
pended in vast sums can do to beautlty
| them. Add to all of these attractions
her many art galleries, museums, etc,
each one vast in themselves, stored
with the Accommodations of ages, with
| the finest paintings and Statuary OF
the greatest artists the world has
| ever produced, her museums stored
with the relics of past ages,
| dating back long before the time of
Christ. Can you wonder, then. why 1t
| is called the most beautiful and attract
i've city in the world, and that it is the
ideal home of the artist, poet, scholar
and pleasure-Seeker? For the latter
class it has special charms. as Parisians
| are
| A Gay People.
| living almost wholly for pleasure. AL
most every improvement and every
| thing done in or about the city, public
or private. is with a view largely to
! pleasure, business being of second
ary importance. l am great wOr-
shipper and admirer of things ancient
the more ancient, the more devotion
and admiration. In visiting Philadel-
phia and other Eastern cities l have
| fingered often and long, gazing with a
sort of devotion upon their revolution
airy and other relies. contemplating in
my mind something of their probable
history, aud of the many, many years
| since they were owned and used by the
noted perSOnageS Of that day; but now
they appear to me as relics, in point of
time as mere infants. After being here,
where hundreds of buildings to be seen
everywhere antedate the discovery
of America, after going through
| the catacOmbS of Paris, some
eighty feet below the surface
some of them. perhaps, 1,500 years old.
since eXcavated, into which have been
deposited the skeletons of people, esti-
| mated in numbers at from 5000, 900 to
10000 Viewing the Cathedral of st.
| Dennis, four miles out, the original
chapel mostly removed, built in the year
275, the present one partly ancient and
partly modern, commenced in 1121,
where many of the French kings have
been buried, among them Dagobert l.,
of the sixth century. Marie AntiOnette
Arc hung up her arms here in
1929. Henri ". abjured Protestantism
here in 1898. Napoleon |. and Marie
| Louise were married here. Viewing
the Roman baths in Hotel de Cluney,
which are yet in good preservation, to
feet long by SO high and 81 deep, part
of a Roman palace supposed to have
been founded by Constantius Chorus,
who resided in Gaul about the year 292
and later. Also war implements used
by the Romans about the time of the
Christian era. So pOnderous and totally
useless and ineffective in the light of
the present day as to
Excite Ones Mirth
were it not for their antiquity. Relics of
all kinds and of all ages dating back to
the conquest of this country by the
Romans; back to its occupation by the
Gauls: back to the time the people lived
in caves and dressed in the skins of
wild beasts, and back to the time of the
stone age, before metals were used.
In the Louvre alone we have spent a
couple of days, and ought to spend a
week more at least. And yet with all
their beauties of nature here, their
treasures of art, their museums filled
with relics of past ages. etc, am glad
that l am an American citizen, and that
my home is and | hope always will be
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