The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-06
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hopeless OF think Of having real coffee here.
several years ago scamstress made some
coffee in this house. genuine coffee. And
the family seem to date things from that
epoch. AZ that time when we drank the
conee; In the year we had the coffee ;
To show my vast wisdom once told them
that in large cities there were special coffee
houses where year in and year on, nothing
was made but coffee Whereupon my house
rather remarked although he was smil-
ing good lily all The time. 40 as not to
hurt my feelings that whether I could
90 anything else or not, at least knew how
To brag. Thus far. my friend, are we re-
moved from coffee here"
But there was milk Milk of a sort
Listen: The milk, from which every par
ticle OF cream has been taken, has been
standing for weeks in great tubs in the
cellar. few boards are laid across them
10 prevent any large vermin from falling
In. In the winter. with the poor feed, the
cows give but little milk. so we must make
Use OF that in the cellar. and often IL is sour
or smoked. and the cook is always thank
ful when nothing worse than this happens
10 the porridge Shame upon ne. Here
] am sneering AZ the food behind their
o'.' NJ uiii "il'll NiIH on INV spoon | al
ways say, God bless You for ~" Al II
dinner, with bread, soup made Of the
skinned milk, cabbage and bacon. and
rye duInplngs with smoked meat, whole
some enough, out wretchedly cooked: and
In due time supper. Of potatoes. turnips or
porridge, whereafter prayers. and welcome
bed ats
The mountain peasants here considered
hn L.. -.
discuss politics calmly, and will say. for
instance: The Russians are coming, and
since they object to large cities they will
burn them all down, as they once burned
their own capital, Moscow. The Jews are
to he exteiminated and their money divided
among the poor peasants The Chinese
are also going to toe exterminated, and the
German Emperor is to have long whips
made out of their pgtais for the Social
Democrats. The Holy Father has forbid
den the nations to go to war, and IL one
should begin all the others would be Obliged
to unite against it" They still have the
greatest horror of the arch fiend- Napoleon;
they build all their hopes on the Emperor
Joseph IL, who sleeps in a mountain
cavern and will awaken when cherry trees
bloom at Christmas" They show con-
siderable interest in inventions and dis
coveries Some Of them imagine that the
telegraph is a simple bell rope. and that
II YOU pull il in Salzburg the bell will ring
in Vienna. The lightning rod is a magnet
which draws the lightning and then impales
and secures il; in large cities the lightning
collected from these rods is stored in gigantic
watts, and from this store the electric lieht
Is made. In America there is a great deal
Of money, but the road thither il wet; one
cannot walk there even in water-tight boots.
one is obliged to board a ship. which ia
often "a large as a barn. and though built
Of iron, cannot sink being kept afioat by
steam
These are a few of the things that this
story tells us besides the romance of Herr
Trautcndorifer and Barbel. IL Herr Trau-
tendorfer had been less ma gnanmous
Barbcl might have wanted for a husband
much after the manner of Mr.. Hardv's
Tess. Happily, as We must think, it was
not in his nature To afford a sorrowful end
ing for this tale