Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-03

and Stoss were all born here, and in this city they lived and wrought; these historic names (not to mention many others) have rendered their native city justly celebrated. The great msater-singer Hans Sachs was 6 Nurenberger, and his house Is shrine 10 many visitors; 1t is we'll preserved and must have been pleasant home. He was born in 1494 This city has at present one hundred and twenty thousand inhabi- tants; 1t is . great manufacturing center and is growing rapidly.
 Of course it has over-leaped it's old walls and moat, still the old city of the middle sges Is intact, and as the burgh with the city walls and towers remains, 1t presents pretty much the same sppesrance as 1t did barosss, nearly seven hundred years ago.
 The Peguitz, persistent little river, rushes through Nuremberg with quite an audible murmur, and runs merrily bound ing and lssping on its way as if anxious to get away from the city and to babble idly along the broad meadows outside the city walls. In the extra mural portion of the city are fine roads and elegant buildings of modern construction, and here are to be found the houses of the rich merchants. Many of these villas have their names painted on their fronts in, gilded letters, such as "Vills Anna" "Vflla Clara" ''Vn- la Reale," &c., Sc. I noticed one rather smaller than it's neighbors; 1t was never theless quite e pretty and convenient home; Its motto was "Psrva sed spta mini" This motto struck me with sur prise, and could not bat suppose the pro- prietor of that pretty home embosomed mid flowers and shrubs knew by actual ex- y,orfapao oopnofhinu nf nkY19a which the Latin poet Horace enjoyed in this little farm in the Sabine hills, that welcome present of his friend and patron, the rich Msesoenas.
 It Is wise dispensation of providence that @ mans happiness in this life Is not determined by the proportions of the four walls within which he lives, and I have no doubt that my friend in his "Parva sed apta mini" little villa lives happier than his nsighbors in their palatisl residences with their acres of broad parks.
 We are fortunately stopping within the intra-mursl portion of the city, and the next to us Is the old custom house, 8 very large edi6ce of great antiquity; the i'm mense roof Is so steep and large that 1t contains no less than seven tiers of win dows stretching quite away to the top.
 often find myself standing and gag ing upon this ancient landmark, and thinking oh? that I had the pen of a ready writer and could write It's history from the time it's trenches were first dug to receive It's massive foundation stonesl How I should love to look upon the faces of its builders, to see what sort of folk they were, and to know what kind of tools they used in that remote periodi What tanks of beer they must have quaffsd off when they erected that immense ridge pole, begirt no doubt with pine tree fresh out from the forest. (Au old custom here with roof builders is to erect tree upon the completed roof.) Iponder on the di- versiaed commodities coming to this ware house from the eastern countries. What ''an heterogeneous mass of conglomerate matter" ss Dr. Johnson remarked, would all these stuffs make If exposed to my view.
 This edifce Is still strong and in good repair, serving it's purposes at the present day. "Ichabod" should, however, be in- scribed above its massive portal. Its glo- ry has indeed vanished and forever. am deeply impressed in the contemplation of the antiquity of things here in Europe. For instance, the burgh in Nuremberg was first mentioned in document of the date of 1050; 1t is said the "Pentagon" tower within the burgh is more than one thou sand years oldl This indeed seems old to me, coming from Connecticut, for 8 recent writer, native of Connecticut, asserts that ''It is difficult for the in- habitants of Connecticut of to-day to be- come conscious of the fact that no man, no record, no library in existence can give the name of any person who lived in any portion of Connecticut three hundred years ago!" The land of my home seems like a new revelation in the order of existing things, while here everything smacks of the- distant past, and seems surrounded with halo of antiquity. The old castle referred to above is very interesting; 1t was built previous to the reign of Freder- ick Barbarossa, who enlarged 1t and for a long time lived in 1t, and many things about 1t point directly back to that great leader of men. was interested especial ly in the old chapel, a very unique struc. ture, in which Frederick Barbsrosss used to worship God. This castle was Bsrbs- rossa's home, in these rooms he used to live, and out of these same windows he used to look, and behold, the same land scapss which even now charm the behold CTS. A few years since, while spsnding a day at ancient Tyre in "far distant Syria, " I bsheld the ruins of the church in which were deposited the mortal remains of Fred erick Bsrbsrossa; they were deposited be- side the dust of a still greater man-Ofi- gen; and I am specially pleased to have visited to-day the old home of the great Barbarossa.
 The we'll in the court yard is three hun. dred and thirty feet deep, and near the bottom are two subterrsnean passages, used in ancient times by prisoners to car. " water to the dungeons beneath the coun. oil house-a very long dlstsncs; they worked in the dark and never were al lowed to see the light of the sun. One oi these passages significantly enough led tc the cemetery beyond the city. The Penta gon tower within the burgh is over one thousand years old, @ very massive, ouri ous structure. At the present day 1t il actually filled with numberless instru ments of torture, most distressing to be hold; their gruesome mechanism mus have taxed the brains of the heartless be ings who constructed them.
 Far aloft in the tower Is the "Virgiu," large iron simulscrum of the Virgin Mary which opens on hinges. The condemned person was placed inside, and as the arm of the blessed virgin were folded the un | fortunate victim was pierced by many irol | spikes, trap door was opened and tn
 bleeding, quivsring remains dropped iron
 6 great height into the river below. | The cruelty of man to man was intens
 at that remote period. Within the wall
 of the castle Is still to be seen the old linn
 tree planted in the year 1020 by the quesl of Henry II.
 | His huge tree and promises to live fo many years to come. When its first sli
 was planted William the Conqusror hs not crossed into England. When Salad
 din defeated the Christian armies on th
 Syrian plains, making thereby Jerussler and all Syria 6 Mshommedan possessio
 this tree was one hundred and seventy fiv
 years old.
 At the time this little shoot was putin
 forth it's first branches our great wester continent was an unknown factor in tn universe of worlds, and only the moccs: ined foot of the wild red men trod tn
 wooded plains and mountain sides of ou
 grand America.
 When the hordes of the false prophs
 were knocking loudly at the gates of VI
 enns, and about to cross the Pyrenes
 to overrun central Europe, this tree c Nuremberg was even then hoary with th
 snows of more than five hundred winters
 was greatly interested in the conteu
 plation of this tree while thinking of tt
 pages of world history which have bee
 written since the fair hand first plante
 the germ which developed this huge gisn
 I have beheld far older trees, but nor
 more interesting.
 The sycamores in Gethsemane and Cana at Galilee are far older and carrie
 me back we'll nigh two thousand years.
 The ancient Terehaith at Mstareeal
 near Cairo, in Egypt, is very ancien
 under its shade the holy family rests