Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-05-25

Stone over the central door, and the brEEsr
eagle leetern Is one of great besuty, th.
handsome gift of q rich American. An
ebullient female from our native coil one.
ssiZed the rector's hand and quite pstrihsd
the good man With this remark: "Ohl Mr..
-, am 60 glad you sre such q good
American a. TO display the American eagle
90 prominently In your ehurch.r
a man II will not tell wnsre he cams
from) onee said TO me. al an good Amer.
lean, but when Was In America / though,
there was but one eagle In the world. and
that was the great American eagle. but !
guess there are double-he eagles over
here (this referring to the standards O,
Russia, Prussia and Austria)
was once NEAR the summit OF the We.
suyian cone, and met there an American
official Of very high standing. I had pre-.
viously me. him at Constsntinople, where
he held q most important Official DO
siuoD, the reward Of some political wire.
pulling In the United States, and with the
great grosning mountain beneath rs, and
Amalhi, Sorrento, Capri and Naples far
away over the blus water, and srStrcnbo.
II" smoking iis great pipe far of on ID.
horizon, with that gorgeous scene spread
out before us-A picture which seemed 70
pre- shadow Paradise itself-that Aneri.
can OF the male species Was devouring pea.
nuts ss eagerly as q Scotch donkey feeds
on Scotch thisiles. Not only wac that man
uevouring PrEnu,a, tu. he was actually
Milling himself with them, storing them
away In large Quantities, entirely oblivi.
ous of the delightful scene all about ne.
Enjoy III be could not do that he was
intent only On one thing, and that WAS 10
swallow all the peanuts be possibly could,
and he seemed as. busily occupied as be
used to be when he caught goldfish off the
coast OF Maine, or when be palIed politi-
cal wires in bis native state
man who eau eat PEANUTS on the sum
mlt OF Mount Vesuvius had better climb
up to the very top snd drop himself inside
the boiling cauldron. But let Us change
the subject
Ny Dear Editor, 1 sst down TO write to
you about a trip which have recently
taken through Saxon Switzerland" /
beg you to pardon me for taking up so
much OF your time while getting &c my
subject.
The north of Germany is one vast plain
as level as our western prsiriss, and a
travelsr coming from Bremen or Hamburg
passes through broad fat fields of wheat
lands, and not TIL he comes to Ssxony
does he lose sight of those level lands
At Dresden the Saxon hills rear their
heads, and Ssxouy is s nstwcrk os bsauti-
ful valleys and mountains wooded TO the
peak with great stone pines, tall, yellow
and as straight as arrows.
Saxon Switzerland" is smsll distric.
about twenty miles above Dresden; IL IL
intersectsd BY the Elbe river, snd 1t Is
about forty miles square; 1t is Switzerland
In miniature, although the lOftiest noun
tains are not mere than eighteen hundred
feet high. Ii IL q lovely district, replete
with history and legend, the views from
the mountain tops are grand almost be-
yond belief. A short time since startsd
with my son, q lad of twelve years, on a
pedestrian tour through this district, and
IL was, 1 assure you, great treat; We were
gone about one week AID covered nearly
one hundred and fifty miles of country;
we returned with pretty fair knowledge
of that land, which had been a ''terrs in
cognits" to US ever since We first came to
Dresden, eight months ago.
We were fortunate In point of weather,
having sunny skies, and the days were
like our early June at home.
We prccseded first to Poiz scha, sixteen
miles below Dresden, through a very in
teresting country, having on many Of ths
hill tops old castles centuries old.
The SEedes passed through hsre in
1880, making gres: havoc, and TO this dsy
the Saxon peasant mothers terrify their
children into obedience by telling them
the Swedes are coming.
This reminds me of Scott's lines:
"Panana's msids shall all look pale.
Willie Risiagham inspires the tale;
ChilI's dark riatron long shall tame
The froward child with Bartram's name"
About eight yesrs after the incursiops Of
the Swedea came tie Prussiaus, carrying
desolation and death 10 their wake.
How dreadful that the grim demon of
war, to be followed by another equally as
grim-hunger-should invade these sweet
retreats which nature has 60 benignsntly
bestowed upon the human race.
At PoiZscha We crossed the Elbs In 9
steam launch, licensed 20 carry seventy
passengers, and shortly arrived at the lit
tie town of Whelsn, and with our KNAPP
sscks on our backs and stout sticks IL
hand, we started through the hamlet ant
travelled up the road entering the WehleR
er grund or valley. In a short time w
came to the Uttenwslder grund, one of tb,
| finest rocky gorges In Saxon Switzerland
| the sides of which are SO lofty and clos,
| together that the eun never css's it's rsyi
/ into the ilnermost rscsssss.
Passing through this lovely, ehs5y
| grund, we came into the well ll-knowI
Zscherre grund, a wild narrow rsvine abou
two miles In length, It's rocky nides ST
/ covered with moss and ferns, Will,
strange to relate, gigantic pines grow righ
on the precipitous sides on bare rock
the trscsry of roots is very beautiful, snC
Il supreme siiencs can slmost be felt. Tn
sighing of the air through The tree top
is very soothing, and the ground is GOV
cred deep with pine needles, making
carpet like velvet.
Water tricklIng down the sides of tn
rocks, natural bridges over sbyssss, tun
nels through great rocks, baobliDI
brook at cur feet, make a lovely envl
roument, while gEsst patches of yelloI
sunlisht, shining here and there throug
the foliago (remindirg one of the hi2
| coloring of the paintings of the lmpres
s!onist schools) makes q lovely pictnr
and lovelisr experience.
Two hours after entering the grund "
found ourselves as the Bastsi. This Is
great rcck eleven hundred feet hIgi
with several yeaks rising straight U
from the Elbe, perfec. preclpice In ever
, sense of the werd This is considered Il
finest point in Saxon SSitz -rlsnd."
The view here is grand. 1 can By I
means do ii Justice in my fotils attsmp
to desaribe it.
A fne hotel is built closs by the sur
) | init, and the dining room has one sit
entirely open, go while you are dinir
the effect Is glorious 10 behold. 7!
) view is magnificent and very extensiV
showing admirably the wooded gorges al
3 eseep peaks, which like great castles so
, | round US on all sides. The great mou
tsins of solid rock stand right before {
Q while the Etbe far down below, like
: needless Alexendrine, draws it's sld
{ length along, cleaning far away like
band of silver; on lite placid bosom, hoI
ing with the current, are to be seen ma
huge barges On their wsy to Austria, al
q even as far as to Hsmburg Many steal
r ers navigate this river, and the rushi
of the mighty engines bearing trains fill
with passengers and freight to Vienna a
o Prague remind us that we are not far
moved from the activities OF the outsi
A world. The rock formation here is ssn
stone, and in the great ice, or glacial epcc
these deep grunds were doubtless grou
Q out by the moving ice, and SO persiste
l. hss been the disintegrstion of these sar
+ stone hills by "the never firing tooth
time" that the effects produced have be
l. most singular to behold.
II Rocks and perpendicular shafts of
o most singular appearance have been pl
"A ducsd.