The Roads Of Europe

Says a gentleman now traveling in Europe: "Af ter nearly a week on the roada of Norway I wuut to pay u tribute to tho country roads of Europe, if I haven't done it before. Every where in the backwoods of this northern country, where its inhabitants wrench a scanty living f rom hostilO soil and climate, down to southern Italy, where the poverty stricken pe.ple have but one shirt to an entire family, or in Greece, where they aro so poor that they haven't any at all, the roada are almost perfect - as smooth and hard and fine as those of Grand boulevard or any park in America. "These roads make carriage riding a luxury any where inatead of a torture, as is often the case with us, and they are an institution that deserves unstinted praise. These foolish people, instead of in every county voting $500,000 bonds to be given to some adveuturers who buüd a rotten railway without putting in a dollar themselves and retire with a fortune, spend their money in building good wagon roads, and when they want to go to town they have a road to travel on that at any and every season is fit for a royal procession." - New York Tribune.