Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

Win sign, ana go TO see tne VegebdDie MAR
ket of Venice, well stocked with garden
stuff, and the fish market displays an attrac-
tive array of fish that seem fresh and
familiar. You cross the Rialto-there are
two iron bridges over the Grand Canal, but
this is the only sprirging arch of marble
that spans the grand water at one bound 1t
is not now an aristocratic quarter, rather
the reverse. fear the shops on the bridge
are almost shabby. Across the market
space beyond is the place where Shylock is
said to have denounced the injustice OF the
Venetians, and his house is pointed out.
You may believe or not, as in the case OF
Desdemona's palace, but there is the
door at which we have seen Irving
stand, playing ShyocA, when the rascals had
stolen his daughter.
The cars of the train on which l left
Venice were unfortunately not manned
simply with hot water vessels, an admirable
style of preserving the health and comfort
of the passengers, but had steam heating,
and in each compartment is brake by
which steam may be turned on and the
coach given the true American tempera-
ture. Anybody can turn the steam OH or
off his car, and the result is the mercury,
stands high. 1 much prefer the old way OF
placing in the car copper vessels, long and
heavy and tight, filled with warm water.
They keep the feet warm, and overcoats and
rugs do the rest. AS soon as I saw the
preparations for high-hesting the cars from
Venice to Vienna I knew I was bound to
catch heavy cold, and did so. Weshall soon
have nowhere any peace or safety from steam
heating devilment, and must take our
chances in the general stew.
Living a European Train.
Referring to railroad accommodations,
may remark that there was dining car on
the line from from Vienna to Berlin, and
that they furnished tobacco and liquors in
every form, and very good bill of fare.
One feature was regular table d'hote, In
Guiding the almost invariable course of
chicken and salad. There was ample choice
of wines, and the coffee was good Indeed,
1 found the coffee nearly always very good.
There is a marked betterment in bread in
Europe, as in our own country. French
coffee and Vienna bread goes everywhere,
and Vienna bakeries are fashionable In
German as in American cities.
As l had not been able to get the north
in the right place, we of course drove the
wrong way to find the Danube, but ''got
there all the same" after about 40 minutes.
The Danube was low, but not disappoint-
ment. 1t is a ma estic river, and if / could
only have turned it about SO as to run
toward the Black Sea instead of the North
L
would not go my way. Shall be forgiven
for saying the Danube seemed to me as
large at Vienna as the Mississippi at st.
Louis? 1t does not run as much water as
the Mississippi, but it is giant, and bears
all the marks of one, including naked space
for rise; and it had steamboats, on it burn
ing soft coal, and boats loaded with coal
The water would not have warranted the
use of the word blue. 1t was of the gray,
melancholy tent of dull December sky.
Our Representative at Vienna.
The gentleman who occupies the position
of Minister of the United States to the
Court of Austria is ore in whom the Ameri-
can people are for several reasons interested.
1 mean Colonel Frederick Dent Grant.
Those who are very particular about many
things, and give their particularly per-
sonal slant, no doubt hold that it is an act
of favoritism thaethis gentleman should be
in the post that he fills. 1 do not use the
word fills unadvisedly. Colonel Grant fills
the place of Minister of the United States
to Austro-Hungary acceptablt-in the
sense that he is first a man of strict and
dutitul business habits; second, that he is
kindly, courteous, attentive and efficient and
beyond that he is held in high considera-
tion and esteem by those who are highest;
and again 1 will have to state that the word
is selected for Its precise significance There
is one thing more that L reserve for special
sentence: MI. and Mrs Grant, with their
tall daughter, almost entering her teens,
ann manly son, younger, make up a most
charming American home, so genuinely
representative that any well-disposed citi-
zen would take pride In it as bright and
happy part of his own country; and the
fact that German, French and English are
spoken with equal facility and freedom in
this home does not detract from its
American flavor. Upon the walls of
Colonel Grants official rooms. ane of the
home, one sees the American colors, and, in
addition to the family pictures in the do
mestic establishment, fine photographs of
President Harrison, Vice President Morton
and Secretary Blaine; and the remark should
not be omitted that the fervor of American
patriotism seems often to increase with the
distance from our shores. The meeting of
the sons of Presidents Lincoln and Grant in
the capital of Austria, each holding with clear
reputation and distinction position of honor
under Republican administration, is an in
cident which the people OF the United
States will regard as fit and agreeable, and
point of light in the story of the nation to
tell that, covered with glory and renown
safe and rich and grand, it has not failed in
grateful and graceful remembrance of those
who were the leaders and the saviors of the
Republic MURAr HALsTEAD.
W0MEN 0E TIE WkR