Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-20
DR.. PORTER ABROAD.
He Writes an Interesting Letter
From Dresden Describing His
Experiences.
Father Perrault, the Well Known
Priest, Suspended From the
Priesthood.
He Displeases Bishop Stanley BY
Filing Charges Against Him
With Satoli.
DR.. Port r Heard From.

DIR. Port r Heard From.
In a long personal letter to the editor
Of the TRIBUNE DR.. H. f. Porter, who is
now in Dresden, Saxony, says:
Have been on the go nearly all the time
large cities in Holland, Belgium, France,
Germany, Northern Itlay, Switzerland, etc.
The Swiss Alps and lakes are fine and we'll
worth a trip to see.
Pm getting on tirst.rate although do not
understand the language. My French was
a little off in Paris where l went into a
sort of a general store to purchase a hot
creature behind the counter what l wanted
she said oui. oui, and l said yes, yes. She
led me into the neXt room and commenced
to show me a very mice line of ladies fur
lined clOaks. Well that did knock the
pins from under me. After a while, how
ever. and by showing her a piece Of rubber
and ge%sticuiating and placing my hands
over the spot where this hot water bag
was TO be applied, l succeeded in seeing
her pull out from under the counter q
dozen of them. Berlin is a much finer city
than | supposed. Fine streets and build
lngs. beautiful parks and fountains and
everything so clean and neat. Went
tains 700 rooms. Had to put slippers on in
order to not soil or scratch the finely
polished floors. The Zoo here is the finest
in the world and contains every known
animal, bird and reptile, fine specimens of
buffalo and our American mule even, and
probably the only one in Germany.
Of Dresden nsSs1 ,n Is taun[ pT;stty ,,xp place full full
plenty Of Americans here, in fact the
town is full of them. They come here to
study German and to educate their chit
dren. This place has n of the finest pic
ture galleries III Europe only that of the
Louvrefn Paris, and the one in Florence
being better. In this gallery is the cele-
brated Sisline Madonna which is consid-
and it is certainly a marvel of beauty and
an inspiring work, and R%aphael's master
piece.
The gallery is full of the works of
Raphael, C%orreggiO, Andedel SartO, Titan,
Tintoretto, Veechio, Veronese, Rembrandt.
etc. This country gets away with us on
art, but that is about all. In our hotels,
our railroads and our steamboats,, we a
distance them every time. The women
here do not have a very soft snap, surely,
l see them blowing in the fields, sweeping
the streets, taking care of the public parks.
backing boots, shoveling coal and even
hitched up with a dog and hauling a load
which would make a Dakota mule lie
down anl bray. These people over here
are, not much in the joking way,-too mat
ter of fact and practical Have tried to
get off some OF our American jokes on
them, but it's too hard work to explain the
thing after, and I've given up in dis.
pair.
Ileave here in a few days for Vienna,
thence to Venice: Nice, Monte Carlo,
pect to be in a month from this date or
about November 1st. 1 shall remain in
Rome apd vicinity until January, 1894
when l start for Egypt and Holy Land 10,
spend the balance Of the winter, returning
via Greece and Turkey, stopping at these
places some little time. l will not return
to Paris for the reason that Eve been there
twice already and have been obliged to
go over the ground here twice in order to
carry out my plans and see all l had
mapped out.