The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-06

or the mountain. Up the Interlaken
the traveller went by steamer to
rail- to Berne, queer town where the
markets are on the curbstone and most
OF the statues are bears-Berne Is dis
tinctively Bear town. The brave
Swiss are very fond Of these animals.
From Berne to Lausanne. on Lake &C.
neva, the party proceeded. From there
a rough rail- ride to Martin. a hamlet of
800, where the buses are lighted by cleo
tricity-a storage battery being used
Then up the Alps In carriages to Cham
ounix. journey OF about eight hours.
From the Hotel Royal at Chamounix
attempted for the weather was foggy.
From the Hotel Royal by diligence
eighteen miles to Cluse. and then by rail
to Geneva, where the Swiss Exposition
was In progress. and a famous showing
OF Swiss art and manufacture was made
and embroidery exhibits being particu-
larly fine.
From Geneva the sight-seers went by
rail- to Paris; to the Louvre; the Lux
embourg, where the Venus de Milo, the
exquisite marble Goddess with the miss
Ing arms Is seen; to the splendid Grand
Opera House, where Sampson and De-
liiah' was being sung; to the Church OF
the Madeline; the Place de la Concorde;
the Obelisk OF Luxon, where Marie An
toinette and two thousand NOTES.-The
RATS and Hannas of that period-more
or less guilty Of crimes against liberty
and law. but whose chief crime seems
TO have been that they did not know
II was loaded"-laid down their lives
that Democracy might not die.
To the Champs Elysees. where every
one must take something in and bring
nothing out: to the Arc de TrIomph; the
Trocadero, where the Exposition of 1878
was ito the Church of the Invalides,
where sleep Louis and Jerome Bona
parte. besides that brother. Napoleon.
who believed in a tariff and the fullest
protection Of the Bonaparte families
infant industries-whose fame fills the
world, the greatest military genius
since Ceasaf, and Of whom the Century
Company made recently a poster.
To the Grand Trianon, where Napo-
leon lived with Josephine. before he pu,
her away to make the alliance with the
rat Austrian Marie" as some cruel
writer calls her
from Paris, with Its allurements the
party reluctantly went to Dieppe, then
across the English Channel to New Ha-
ven, and by rail to London. From Lon
don to Coventry to Mr.. Ckay's birth
place. which he left when a boy of six.
coventry, where motor carriages are
made. and OF which horseless vehicles
there are many seen on the streets of
Paris. says Mr. Clay.
The party visited Stratford-on-Avon,
Shakespeare's birthplace; saw the
Church of the Trinity, where are the
tombs OF the Bard and of Anne Hatha-
way. his wife-Annie, OF whom the poet
said. She Hathaway" and of whom
al! men will say. "She had Will"
Next, Scotland was visited; Glasgow
nrst; then up the Clyde on steamers
SAID to make twenty-eight miles an
hour; then back to New York. and home
and glad to be home, too, Mr.. Clay saws,
more firmly, II possible, convinced that
there Is no land beneath the blue com
and Stripes.
MIR. Clay, who is a very close observer.
says mat Europe is prosperous: that
business conditions are very fayora BILE
ana the people everywhere he went
were content and hopeful. The past
year mas been with merchants, he saws
on the other side. profitable one.
one thing he noticed, especially in
GiaSsow. Many of the stores have signs
IN thelr windows. American Trade Not
wanted. The dealers say that the Gus
ION, ION, Oh Americans of shopping-looking
INTO many stores with little intention Of
buying makes American custom md
SRA Die; that the store-keeper loses more
time than the profit on the sale iusti-
fies. ie Justt-
rms seemed very queer to an Ameri-
gan merchant, and Mr.. Clay laughed
heartily in relating It.