Snowballing On July 4th That Was The Pleasant Pastime Of Mr. J. V. Sheehan Last July

:Ur. .T. V. Sheehan gave a very e8tingdescription of bis trip to Enrope last summer in the Unitarian church last evening. Owing undoubtedly to the intense coldness of the weather, the church was not crowded, but the audience was by no means sparse. Mr. Sheehan began at the beginning of the journey and took his audience to the end. "When one plans a trip to Europe," he said, "the first things to decide are how long you are to stay and how much money you are to spend. One must count on $125 to set him down in any port of Europe, and $125 to bring him back. Then he must count on at least $5 a day while he remains or as niuch more as he wants to spend. In a party of two or three the expense per capita is materially decreased. The first thing of real importance to be done is to exhort the ladies to take as little baggage as possible. As to money, our greenbacka will pass at any place in Europe, thanks to our stable monetary system." In picturque language the speaker described the passage through the straits of Gibraltar and the trip through the Mediterranean sea to the port of Genoa. It is one of the most picturesque harbors in the world. Here it was that Mr. Sheehan had the dissagreeable experience of having the customs collector go through his baggage and charge him thirty-eight cents duty on a three cent package of cigarettes. Genoa has all ihe modern improveinents with the luxuries of electric lights and electric cars. One might easily imagine himself in New York, if he was notcontinually tarbed by the musical voice of the ItalLan. Geuoa is a city of 400,000 people. The boarding iiouse keepers are mostly rill Germana who will take good care of ui American, but it is always well, Mr. Sheehan learned from experience, to fix upon the price of rations before taking possession. Otherwise the traveler may Bad himself obliged to páy f") or tt a day for whát he can get for $2 by a little ! oargaining. From Genoa Mr. Sheehan's party made a brief trip to Monte Cario, the famous European gambling place. The hotels of Monte Cario are luxurious and as a wiuter resort the place is unsurpassed. The patrons of the resort are the nobility and the gamblers of Europe. It is governed by Prince Monica. The gambling tables bring hiin $20,000,000 a year. Mr. Sheehan said he saw gold enough to relieve the present treasury if Carlisle could have had it. While the party stood watching the gamblers, one English lady won $5,000 and walked off as coolly as if she had found a tencent piece. From Monte Cario the party went back to Genoa. Tliey visited the house in which Columbus used to live. It is in a poor quartcr of the city. In Genoa there is a lack of saloons and drunkards. What saloons there are the foreigners are proprietors of. In the six weeks of liis sojourn, he did not see an intoxicated Italian. They are disgusted at the American druukard. Pisa was the objeetive point after Geuoa. Here the party visited the famous leaning tower. Mr. Sheehan explained that he did not look down the leaning side of it, but was satisfled to take Galileo's word for t. If he had attempted it he was of the opinión that the wind would have done the rest. Rome was the next city and the point of supreme importance. A mere outline would do no justice to the speaker's description of St. Peter's, the Vatican the Eorum, theOoliseuinandtheCatacombs. It would take six months he said to see Rome with the right degree of thoroughness. From Kome the party went to see the Bay of Naples. And not by any means the least interesting part of the journey wis the visit to Vesuvius, over the crater of which some of the party were bouud to look down, "so great is human curiosity," Mr. Sheehan said, "to get at least one whiff of Hades." Then there was Florence, the home of Amerigo Vespucci. It was here that they saw the old cathedral, the building of which required one hundred and sixty years. ïhen there were Venice and Milan and all their grand sighta and the ltalian excursión was over. The fourth of .lul y was'spent in Geneva, wherethey indulged in the pleasant pastime j balling 8,000 feet above tho level of the sea. Thence the journey led to Paris, to London, and to New York. The saddest part of the whole trip to him, Mr. Sheehan remarked, was the tact tliat the return trip was made in the steamer Elbe, which sank the other day with all her human freight, and the old captain who had made their journey so pleasant was among the list of the dead.