Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1876 — "Refreshments” on a German Railroad. [ARTICLE]

"Refreshments” on a German Railroad.

Ih Austria we get into unheated cars. The Germans are prepared for this. Every man has two overcoats, the outer one of fur usually, and covering him from head to feet; with these two overcoats and a blanket he wraps himself up like a bear, lights his cigar and defies the elements. But still he needs occasional refreshing. When we reach a station where the stop isover four minujps the German says: “ There is time to drink a glass of beer.” The beer seems to improve as we travel, andat Pilson it is best of all, a light-col-ored liquid, not strong, but full of vivacity. The German speaks of this beer with enthusiasm; it is auegeeeichnet gut bier. Wear® also in a land of sausages, it must not be forgotten. Here the sausage is hohored, and loye for it is a thing not to be concealed. I meant to have said of the ancient town of Ratisbon that, when I walked through the streets, the entire city was pervaded with a smell of sausage and cheese to an extent that I should think one might live on the atmosphere there. At these stations people buy long, slender links of sausage, which they swing about like riding-whips, while they eat off one end. Then they thrust thOm into their pockets; and, occasionally, in the cars, pull them out and eat a foot or two. -Charlee Dudley Warner, in Hartford Courant. ———»i»'«i Virginia legislators are afraid to vote .. 'T v ’ qy C&|J Of &Ou