Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1878 — A Long Tramp. [ARTICLE]

A Long Tramp.

The longest overland tramp recently recorded is that of Emil Zack, who arrived at Castle Garden on yesterday, having walked all the way from Brownwood, Tex. He became disgusted with agricultural pursuits, abandoned his claim, and, with a few dollars, started on his long journey. ‘* I slept wherever I could,” he says. “Sometimes people would give me a bed, and sometimes they would not. I walked all the way from Brownwood to Austin, from Austin to New Orleans, and from New Orleans to New York. People were kindest to me where they were met with far apart, in the sparsely-settled parts of the country. In Texas and Louisiana I found a bed every night, and as much as I wanted to eat. The further north I came the worse I was treated. Sometimes I had nothing to eat for a whole day, and had to sleep in the open air. I started from my place in Texas in May. I left the farm in the hands of. an agent of the German Emigration Society, to be sold.” He said he sometimes worked for a few days in order to get a little money, and, having obtained it, he would again start on his journey. His walk was over 2,000 miles long.— New York Herald.

The library at Paris is one of the finest m the world. It has 86,774 volumes on Catholic theology, 44,692 volumes on the science of language, 289,402 volumes law, 68,488 volumes on medicine, 441,83 b volumes on French history and 156,672 volumes of poetry. TheVorks on natural science are not yet catalogued During 1876, 45,300 French works were #idsd, wad 4585 foreign works to the library