(SCENE--_Restaurant in Switzerland_) _Tourist_ (_to manager, who knows English_). "There are two bottles of wine in our bill. We had only one bottle." _Manager._ "Ach, he is a new waiter, and zee confounded echo of zee mountain must have deceived zee garçon."] [Illustration: SUCCESSFUL SANITATION _Anxious Tourist._ "Since your town has been newly drained, I suppose there is less fever here?" _Hotel-Keeper_ (_reassuringly_). "Ach, yes, sir! Ze teefoose (typhus) is now quite _ze exception!_"] [Illustration: A CONTINENTAL TRIP _First Man_ (_tasting beer_). "Hullo! I ordered lager. This isn't lager!" _Second Man_ (_tasting_). "No; but it's jolly good, all the same!" _Third Man_ (_tasting_). "C'est magnifique! mais ce n'est pas lager-r-r!"] MRS. R. ON BOULOGNE-SUR-MER Mrs. Ramsbotham, who has been staying at Boulogne for a short time, writes as follows:-- [Illustration] "Bullown-some-Air is, I am informed, not what it used to be, though the smells must be pretty much as always, which is not the scent of rheumatic spices. It's called Bullown-some-Air because if the sea-breeze wasn't too powerful for the smells, living would be impossible. Many of the visitors to the hotels on the Key told me the bedrooms were full of musketeers, who came in when the candle went out, and bit them all over. Such a sight as one poor gentleman was! He reminded me of the Spotted Nobleman at the Agrarian in Westminster. Then, on the Sunday I was there, a day as I had always been given to understand the French were 'tray gay,' there was actually no music, no band, no concert, and in fact no amusement whatever at the _Establishmong day Bangs_ (so called because there's a shooting-gallery next it, where they bang away all day at so much a head), which might as well have been closed, as there was no race-game (of which I had heard so much), no Tom Bowling[A] (they wouldn't get up a Tom Bowling unless there were nine persons present, which Mr. Hackson says is much the same as when magistrates meet and there isn't a sufficient number to make a jorum), and only one gentleman trying to produce another to play billiards with him.