Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-04-12

and exa mine thrOats myself and am
free to say there waA no llumbug
about it, for saw q number Of leases
doing nicely which am satisfied
would have been dying under any
other form OF treatment. They are
very enthusiastic over It and say all
the nations of Europe are using II.
O ne thi ng more I wish to notice in
this short study OF the Chicago of
Europe, and that Is it's architecture
AS one travels eastward the styles
change, the buildings being more
embellished by gold leafand mosaics.
Not infrequently, the upper two or
top storysof u building will present
u most pleasing and artistic study
in gold leaf and valiously cOlured
metals, ceramics and frescoes, all
harmonizipg to degree one can try
to appreciate with the eye, but can
not do any justice to with the pen.
Now lump another days journey
and see us in our sanctum sanctOrum
in Vienna. l Gun say of Vienna
much l have already said Of Berlin
and little more as I have had more
leisure to study it. Again am i'm
pressed with the change, the farther
east 60, and here is increased the
rich oriental color effects. This is
the third of three great European
capitOls have visited and I begin
to find myself somewhat il the posi-
ton of Paris when he was called
upon to name the most beautiful of
the three Godesses-kinder lost-as
have not the gift to coin adjectives
and want to do Justice to all tire e. es
pecially as l must stick to my
mother-tongue for expressions, To
my English cling. although have
had some interesting two handed
contests with the German language
(my teacher and y "reminding me, "
as Abe. Lincoln would have said, of
Mark Twain's experience with
studying German grammar from an
English standpoint. Mark said he
drew the line at gender, that he
found it difficult to master u Ian
guage where a female cat was of the
masculine gender and your grand
mother was neuter gender. |" con
Ecur with him, and now appreciate
what a task my German friends have
before them. when they study Eng
lish. for difficult as their grammer
may BE-, it ia by means as difficult
and full ofcOntrary rules and excep-
lions as ours. Well ON to Wien!
Grasp the fact that Vienna is ON the
Danube & Wien rivers, in medieval
times, a walled city besieged at
times by Christian and Moslem; sur
rounded by hill, mountains almost,
an old CITY and a new city, readily
distinguished, the one from the
other. The city, the etropolisI hot
an empire, was improved in a
strange way. Twas decided to
throw down the enormous walls
that en9irt the city, fill up the moat
and turn out the space thus re-
claimed into a street. This was done,
hence today, there is the widest
street in the world encircling the old
city engirt by the new city, known
az Ring Strasse or Ring street. The
phenomenal enterprise and what
in anyone else would be called public
spirit, Of the Emperor Francis Joseph
L. has caused to be erected, some Of
the greatest structures in the world.
externally a symphony in marble, IN
ternally, an artists dream. know
so far in my travels, nothing exceeds
in clearness of design, in faithful
working out OF artistic detail in
purest marble, finest sculpture,
rarest paintings than the museum
ON the Ring street, unless it be the
art gallery directly across beauti-
full part from the Musee. 1t is possi-
BILE there may be larger buildings
but for finish and we'll selected con-
tents, I doubt If it has any superior.
have not attempted to describe
any of the palaces forI am interested
in the diet of the people and not
what kings feed upon. Speaking OF
diet makes me think what really
excellent cooks they all seem to
be, everything being well cooked and
nicely served. AS for drink can
truly say have not seen an intoxi-
Gated man since I have been in
Europe, and don't retire at p. M,
either. lay it to the universal use
of beer as beverage, which l find,
as made here, not the least intoxi-
eating and very wholesome. Water
is never used except with chocolate.
Mind you, 1 said chocolate not cocoa,
and as they make it here, it is simply
delicious. Why it is we can't have
such chocolate, I don't know, when
it is so largely used here. Today,
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