Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-05-18


LUCIANO.
In Lugano We had a fine day-a little
windy, but very clear. All the surround
ing mountains were covered with snow,
and we could see great drifts OF it blow
ing along the highest ridges. 1t was
moonlight that night; the view we got
was just like fairyland as we went down
the hill (our errand wasn't real poetic;
we went to return milk bottle).
Lugano is a lovely place, the scenery a
kind Of combination Of the Italian and
the Swiss. The people are a combination,
too; in the postal card store they spoke
English, in the milk store nothing but
Italian, in another only French, and in
the sugar store German. l don't know
in which language the neig bors gossip,
but have no doubt but they manage it
some way. The price OF sugar there was
half what it was in Italy for exactly the
same thing-a sort OF cross between gran
ulated and loaf.
We didn't stop in Lucerne this time, as
the weather WAS 50 bad, and as we had
seen 1t all thoroughly the year before, we
only waited there until a train left for
Basic here we We're able to make good
connections with the train to Freiburg.
Thus we arrived in Freiburg the same
day we left Lugano, but there had been
plenty to interest US on the wayne were
kept busy going from one side of the car
to the other in order to see all there was
to be seen.
At one town, just before we entered the
big tunnel, there was wait of half an
hour which we improved by lunching.
We were waiting for the express which
plays the "hauptroie," as an old German
from Dresden, who happened to be in the
same car, said.
Since we left Italy the sig seeing has
been Of an entirely different nature-not
nearly SO many museums and galleries.
This Italian trip has been the most inter-
esting and instructive journey we have
made since we left America. 1t was for
tunate that we knew some French, as
English is of very little use, and German
still less. At the ticket offices we had to
use Italian as well as to the ca men.
knew the word ticket, only they always
put the accent on the last syllable.
FREIBURG.
Freiburg is nice, clean, thrifty looking
place with several handsome buildings,
the university, the castle, an old tower,
and the Cathedral fine Gothic building
from 1900. Near it is a quaint old "mer-
chants hall". Nice parks surround
the town, and excursions into the Black
Forest are easily made from there. 1t
must be cool place in summer, as the
deep cutters, which are about three feet
broad, are kept filed with streams of
fresh running water.
Freiburg is the chief market for the pro-
auctions OF the Black Forest. At the
hotel we had the most delicious strained
honey, which they told US also comes
from there.
sTRASsBURG.
In Strass burg there is little of interest
except the cathedral and the handsome
new palace. In the old part OF the city
there are several medieval Gothic build
ings which are still adorned with old
"ooa Sdi Wings anu uuC IdCdutS, which
seem to testify to Strass burg's Importance
in the past centuries.
There is a curious old clock in the
cathedral which regulates itself and
"adapts its motions to the revolutions of
the seasons for an almost unlimited num-
Der of years.. 1t is more elaborate than
those we saw in Prague and Bern; on
this one an angel strikes the quarters on
bell which he holds, and genius at his
side reverses sand-g glass every hour.
Then there is skeleton that strikes the
hours and around which, representing
the four quarters, are the figures of child
hood, youth, manhood and old age.
Every day the symbolic deity comes out
of niche-Apollo on Monday, Diana on
Tuesday, and SO on. AS on the Their two,
there is cock which FLAPS his wings and
crows, and procession of apostles that
marches around the figure of the Saviour