Stories of persons and places in Europe . oot lying in the conservatory of a wealthy Dutchman, and taking itto be an onion, began experimenting on it with his pen-knife. AVhen hehad peeled off about half the layers, cut it into equal sections and mademany learned remarks upon it, the owner suddenly darted upon him andasked if he knew what he was doing? Peeling a most extraordinary onion,1 replied the philosopher tausend dui/reir/ cried the Dutchman, thats an AdmiralVan der Eyck. Thank you, said the Englishman, taking out his note book to writedown the name; are these admirals c
Stories of persons and places in Europe . oot lying in the conservatory of a wealthy Dutchman, and taking itto be an onion, began experimenting on it with his pen-knife. AVhen hehad peeled off about half the layers, cut it into equal sections and mademany learned remarks upon it, the owner suddenly darted upon him andasked if he knew what he was doing? Peeling a most extraordinary onion,1 replied the philosopher tausend dui/reir/ cried the Dutchman, thats an AdmiralVan der Eyck. Thank you, said the Englishman, taking out his note book to writedown the name; are these admirals common in your country ? For answer the Dutchman seized him by the collar and said, Comebefore the syndic and you shall see. In spite of all his protests he was dragged through the streets, followedby a mob of people and taken before the magistrate. There he learned thathe had been experimenting upon a tulip that cost four thousand florins, andthat he must go to prison until he could find securities for paying the fullamount to the lililll I Miiiillli 204 Persons and Places in Europe. The Smoking Mania.—Everybody who visits Holland is surprised andsomewhat amused at the clouds of tobacco smoke constantly rising fromthe nose and mouth of every Dutchman. One traveler says that they measure distances by pipe-fulls. From thisplace to that one is not so many miles, but so many pipes. He says thatthey go to sleep with pipes in their mouths, relight them when they wake inthe night, and again in the morning before they get out of bed. A queer story is often told in Holland of a man who had as great a maniafor tobacco as ever his countrymen had for tulips. He had made a verylarge fortune in India, and on his return built a beautiful palace near Rotter-dam. In this he collected and arranged and labeled as in a museum, all themodels of pipes that were ever used in all countries and in all times, fromthe rude ones of the most ancient barbarians to the splendid pipes of meer-schaum
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