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COPYRIGHT 189i BY ARBUCKLE BROS. NY.
THE KING S PALACE
A COUNTRY GIRL
HOTEL DE VILLE
AN TRON FOUNDER
BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS,
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YOUR COFFEE
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.
GRIND
Brussels, the Capital of Belgium
and Province of S. Brabant, is on
the small River Senne, about 50
miles from the sea, in the midst of
a beautiful and fertile country.
AT HOME.
The city is built partly on the side
of a hill and partly on a plain, some
It will pay you well to keep a of the streets so steep as to be as-
small coffee-mill in your kitchen The city may be considered as con-
cended by carriages with difficulty.
and grind your coffee just assisting of two parts, each presenting
you use it, one mess at a time. characteristics peculiar to itself ;
Coffee should not be ground of a hill, is the newest and most
the upper town situated on the brow
until the coffee-pot is ready to fashionable part, containing the
receive it. Coffee will lose more residences chiefly of the wealthy;
the King's palace, public offices,
of its strength and aroma in one large hotels, and mansions of the
It is
hour after being ground than foreign ministers are here.
much healthier than the lower
in six months before being town. But the latter, with its hand-
some old buildings, once occupied
ground. So long as
by the nobility, now used for busi-
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ness purposes, is very picturesque.
French is spoken in the newer town,
Flemish in the older one, and in
remains in the whole berry, our
oue quarter the Walloon dialect is
glazing, composed of choice spoken. There are also many En-
glish residents, who live there for
eggs and pure confectioners' A the sake of economy,
sugar, closes the pores of the
The walls which formerly sur-
rounded Brussels have given place
coffee, and thereby are retained to boulevards shaded by lines of
trees extending several miles. The
all the original strength and Allée Verte, a double avenue along
aroma. .
the Scheldt canal, forms a splendid
promenade and leads towards the
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Palace of Lacken, the suburban
residence of the royal family. The
has during 25 years set the Place Royal has a colossal monu-
ment of Godfrey of Bouillon, the
standard for all other roasted
hero of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered.
coffees. So true is this that The Hotel de Ville is a splendid
Gothic structure erected in the be-
other manufacturers, in recom-ginning of the fifteenth century,
with a pyramidal tower, 364 feet
mending their
their goods, have high, surmounted by a statue of St.
known no higher praise than Michael, the patron saint of Brus-
sels. The spire of the Hotel de Ville
to say, “It's just as good as is the most beautiful in Belgium.
Arbuckles'.'
The Palais de Justice-opened in
1883-is a magnificent building, the
cost of its erection being two mil-
ARBUCKLE BROS. lion pounds.
Brussels is mentioned in the old
NEW YORK CITY.
chronicles as early as the eighth
century, and a church is known to
have existed here in 966.
JOSEPH P. KNAPP, LITH. N. Y.
Population, 477,398.
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