The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-24

juicy verdure the eddyfne- waters lox,inoIv
caressing It's rock-ribbed sides. / spent one
summer AFTERNOON on this hummock. the
trysting place of clammy syrens and dainty
water nymphs, lolling lazily on the yelyety
s su1 tsrs ana 10 drowsliy listening to what the
point, passing to either side of the ISL
ana. Iney were quite communicative and
tod how they had travelled a very great
distance, all the way from the SUBMITS OF
the Alps, where they had passed over lev
giaciers and performed perilous leaps over
guicnes and rocky defiles; and how, before
leaving Switzerland. they had rested and
ioitered in the beautiful lake of Constant.
10 tumble unawares over the falls at Schaff-
nausen; now, further on, they had loafed
ana sauntered along the shores Of the
Grand Duchy of Baden and laved the feet
of the pine-clad hills of Black Forest: how
they came almost in sight of the great
Cathedral with its wonderful clock at
couraged the billing and cooling of young
lovers in the meadows and groves Of the
Palatipate. where long years ago the soldiers
or Louis NV of France wantonly burned
and devastated the country and murdered
the defenseless people; when they came to
where they We're Joined by the Neckar on
its way from Heidelberg, they, in their
hurry, could hardly find time to tell all
the chit-chat communicated by that lively
with gossip from the great university with
its several thousand students, who continue
with sharp-edged swords to slash and scar
each others cheeks in the duello, and who
never cease to deplore that the big tun in
the cellar of the old castle will never again
be hlled with wine to Stake their perennial
and boundless thirst.
STORY OF THE WATERS.
He who does not "sit upon his ear" is
patient and listens close, may here from
the babblings of the flood derive much in
struction and entertainment. The myster-
ious whisperings from the depths tell how
these transparently green waters in their
early babyhood are Graded in far-off
Switzerland amongst ice crystals on snow
clad mountains. When all the world is yet
wrapped in sleep they are the first to offer
blushlng Aurora the early virgin bath and
crystal mirror in their silvery waves while
twilight, brother of the Queen of Day,
never never fails s to qnench the last glow of his
Proud as they are of all this, they are
urged to hurry on to reach the more con-
genial green mountain meadows, where,
among tinkling cowbells they may offer
cooling draughts to lowing herds. where the
echoes of the alpenhorn resound from scat
where the melodious ..jodeier'' of the noun
taineer in the cleaning gives notice to the
expectant sweetheart of his approach. All
this and much other pleasant babbeage they
oon1ded 10 my willing ear and had not a
friendly Brownie warned me i'm the dusk
of evening of approaching night / could
have been surprised by scantily dressed
naiads and fish-tailed maidens who swarm
amongst these cliffs and dsport themselves
casional correspondent might not have re-
turned to relate the story of his visit to
the crystal palace of the lovely Lorely at
the bottom of the Rhine.
On one end of this little island stands
the Mouse Tower" made famous by the
legend of Bishop Ugo. Once upon time.
the river in their pursuit of punishment
upon this cruel and relentless fugitive ruler
of starving, people and ate him up, hide
and hair. and he was never, never heard
of afterwards-at least that IL what the
story books of our childhood tell us.
know of no city, unless Ii be Boston
where lectures on various subjects are of
such frequent occurrence. and where they
are so numerously attended. IS they are
ture, or whether it be because most of
the lectures are free. / leave others to
| judge. The Aula of the University the
Atheneum and Sale de la Reformation, all
of them public property. are during the
winter season almost constantly in use for
this and similar purposes. Unless one is
| on hand early ii usually happens that stand
| ing room only is to be had. The main body
of the house is taken possession of by
| swarms of boarding school misses who
come at an early hour and pour themselves
out over the best part of the hall like bees
| in swarming time, while students with caps
| like red-headed woodpeckers and parti-col-
ored corps ribbons fill up the interstices
The average citizen of the place: too; Is an
assiduous lecture-goer but he often has to
| content himselfiwi a place in the gallery.
PROSPECTIVE PLEASURES.
A couple of months ago Monsieur Ca
| mile Flammarion, formerly president de la
Societe Astronomique de France, a volum-
| inous writer and well-known scientist, came
| all the way from Paris and filled the Sale
| de la Reformation, a room as large as
| Tomlinson Hall, for two evenings. the aud
| fence each time numbering not less than
| thirty-fve hundred people. The diagrams
| exhibited by the lecturer of the heavens
and the planetary inhabitants thereof were
| very fine. 1 became specially interested in
those of the planet Mars of which he had
| a great number of Photographic chart pro-
| jections, giving instructive details of what
| the planets canals, which scar it's surface
| in all and every direction, and which GER
| tainly would seem 70 authorize the belief
that Mars must be inhabited by creatures
| endowed with intellect like the inhabitants
| of our earth. When we were reminded of
| the fact that the years on this planet are
| graduated its inhabitants upon the time
| they enjoy between spring and fall mil
| linery bills and tax collections, and L con-
| sidered how note reading "one year after
date would have twenty-four months to
run, and 1 thought how the polygamous
| groundhog's duties. as a weathermaker
would be less exacting, and how the oyster
| season would be doubly as long, and how
many comfortable books like Dickens and
Scott one could read nights during such
| long winters and how Lew Wallace. Pap
| McGinnis and the other veterans. together
| with the balance of U.S. would be half as
| old only as we are. There is my friend
| Dan Ransdell for instance: he would to-
day be not over twenty-four and yet on
his first legs, to speak, and. as leading
| tenor of the Gumarabic Club. youth would
| add charm to the tones of his German sill
| very voice when singing "A Little Peach
| of Emerald Hue" / asked Prof lie Grand
Roy, of the University, who sat near me.
| how the idea of such frightening of the
| years struck him. and he seemed TO be de-
| lighted with the proposition, for, said be,
| sin that case / would have been father of
| five kids only, while now. by the operation
| of the Gregorian calendar. / have ten of
'em. But my wife. / think, would object.
| The strawberry shortcake season would
prove too costly account OF Its great
| length, for a poor professor with a long
! family and short purse!
| In parting with the Professor 1 tired 10
soothe the disturbed condition OF his bosom
| by telling him that when the Chicago u nj
| versity shall have placed the great Yerkes
1 telescope with its forty-inch lens. in po-
| sitiOn in the observatory on the banks OF
| Lake Geneva in Wisconsin, We Americans
| would be able then to give him many al
/ ditioDal points on these subjects; telephone
| connection with the planets would, upon
| the expiration OF the Bell patents, be es-
| tablished, and Edison phonograph stauons
| started so that the voice or the Congress
| United States, and as the day was not
| far distant when my autograph would be
| much sought after by learned bodies AND
| sell for big money, promised, on wishing
| him pleasant dreams, TO invest an the casn
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