gunpowder, and heaps of combustibles steeped in petroleum, and on
May 25th they succeeded in destroying with it 600 human lives. A
new Hotel de Ville, one of the most magnificent buildings in Europe,
has replaced the old hall. This is open to visitors at all hours. To
study history at the spot where the event took place means work as
well as pleasure, so we took our luncheon and sleep in our car while
the train carried us to Brussels, and out to Braine-l'Alleud, where, on
the beautiful rolling plain of Belgium, June 18, 1805, Napoleon
Bonaparte met his Waterloo, and Wellington became England's idol.

A railway baggageman was on our train returning to his home in
Cleveland, Ohio. In conversation, he said: "I have been with this
company for twenty-two years; have drawn two dollars a day, 365
days in the year for that time, and I haven't a dollar in the world, but
one, and I gave it yesterday for a dog. But," said he, "I have a good
woman and the greatest little girl in the world, so I am happy." This
is one of a large class of persons who receive fair wages all their lives,
and yet die paupers, because they plan to spend all they make as they
go along. In conversation with a gruff, old Dutch conductor between
Albany and New York City, I ventured to ask him if he had ever
crossed the ocean. "No," he said, "nopody eber crosses de ocean, bud
emigrants, and beoble vat hab more muney dan prains."

Travel is a study of religious institutions. Among the most interesting
in Europe, that we visited, are Wesley's Chapel, Westminster Abbey,
St. Paul's Cathedral, and Notre Dame. The Church of Notre Dame,
situated in the heart of Paris on the bank of the Seine, was founded
1163 on the site of a church of the fourth century. The building has
been altered a number of times. In 1793 it was converted into a temple
of reason. The statue of the Virgin Mary was replaced by one of