The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-09

every loot of available ground, terra.
the sometimes almost perpendic-
ular mountain side and planting the
coves with vines, even where only a
few square feet present themselves,
occasionally carrying up the soil to
the rocky ledge. The disintegratiDg
rocks, here frequently metamorphic, on
their sunny slopes seemed to nourish
the vine, if only a few inches Of soil
had been formed; and the roots, in
ramifying over the rock, are said
to receive a powerful stimulus from
the reflected heat.
wIEsBADEN AS A RESORT FOR HEALTH
SEEKERS AND GOLD SEEKERS.
In the former case, this watering
place is said by the internal and ex-
ternal use of its waters to have pro-
duced a good many cures, especially
Of diseases assuming a chronic charac-
ter; and, In the latter, namely az a gam
bling place, it rarely cures and some
times kills; but often increases the
moral diseases. 1t was certainly to
me most disgusting to see the feverish
anxiety with which men and women
seat themselves around the eight or
ten tables Of these elegant gambling
saloons, whose stock sells at g high
premium, and with fixed eyes staked
their silver. and frequently gold, on
the revolution Of a wheel and the
chances of a marble resting, as it stop
ped after the revolution ceased, on
one number or another; or upon the
chance of one card turning up rather
than another. The bank, while l
looked on, gained at least three times
out Of four, but that evening one
frequenter carried off 10000 francs;
aud that tempted others to their de-
struction. The bank must win large
sums to keep up the enormous ex-
penses of music and dramatic at
fractions which they furnish freely.
As / walked out to the free AIR and
fine music, from these gambling sa-
Icons CATER seeing ladies and gentle
men, apparently of the most refined
appearance, riskiDg the infatuating
contamination and stalking the money
perhaps of an interesting family, and
looked on the gay scene Of .promen-
aders and wine drinkers, and on the
/ gushing and sp~ray-casting fountain IN
front, / could not repress some re-
= Elections that the gamblers regarded
neither music, drinking, beautiful
women nor aught else but the cards
or the roulette numbers. While the
fine military band closed with a glo-
: rious pot pOurTl, their pot pourTi was
. a mixture Of gold and silver; their
sweet homo" the gambling saloon
their guiding star not the black
: eye or the curl CT o vermilion lip,
but the ct noiar Of an overwhelm-
: ing passion. The spray of the foun-
I tain in front, as it rose with tumult-
uous force only TO fall again In un-
needed drops to the fountain basin,
seemed to typify the aimless life of
! the gambling s~pendthrift who scatters
I his gold and silver with useless en-
ergy aloft, only to fall sooner or
later into the relentless reservoir of
the gambling banker.
: Like s~isyphuM, from whom,
"Hurtig nit bonner gepolfer entrollte
der tuckische marmor,
they roll the glitteriDg mass toward
the summit Of the golden pyramid. and,
I as they near the apex, the shining
heap slides from their grasp, and FREE
quently hurls the ardent toilers to
: the foot of tho tempting gilt pile,
|, Frustrated, physically. and sorely
l bruised in moral s~ensibility.
Like Tantalus, these gamblers
thirst after the golden stream, but as
they stoop to quench their burning
thirst, the occasional drop that should
/ slake, only tends to highten their
gloating arder, and bring on a mad
dening desperation, an unquenchable
thirst. a never ending misery.
If Baden Baden is any worse than
Wiesbaden, it must be, as suggested
by an acquaintance, about as near,
. morally, to q place of retribution as
any other spot on the earth.
THE VINE.
"A few observations, made at a later
! visit to this region, after seeing the
! difference in the culture of the grape
farther south, may be interesting to
/, our vine growers, of which Wander
. bury County has not a few.
; AS we were carried by railroad
I from Wiesbaden past Rudesheim, Jo-
! hannesberger and other noted wine
regions through Ooblentz, &C., to
Bonn, we were struck By the different
: modes adopted for training the vine,
r especially as compared with that en-
= ployed in more southern countries.
a Here they wish all the sun possible,
and either prune very close and
= train each vine on a separate vertical
4 stake, or on an upright fence, or
: again, they make a succession of
kitchen roofs about four feet high,
forming what, in geological language.
> might be termed successive anticlinal
? and synclinal structure. training the
vines over the frame work.
0 Farther south, where'sun is no OBJ.
ject, they use rows of trees, twenty to
: thirty feet apart, and train a vine on
I each tree, using the tree for fruit, or
its branches for frewood; or, yet
2 again, near Naples, they do not prune
much, il at all, and train the
vine from tree to tree, per-
hitting the grape clusters to
hang from these pendant festoons
: in unrestrained luxurianoe. In Sic
lily, the vines are pruned so close
{ that no support whatever Is used, and
, perhaps only two or three clusters are
thus produced on one vine; but Cd
these mountain sides, space is not
much of an object.
DIR. FREsENIUs AND HIS LABORATORY.
Turning with pleasure from the
gambling saloons Of Wiesbaden,
where all is uncertainty, to thu labora-
tory in the same city, where all is
founded on most accurately ascertain
! ed facts, / gladly announce to the
, scientific community that DR.. FIRE.
senius enjoys excellent health, and is
! still laboring with untiring zeal In
his beautifully arranged analytical
laboratory, and has several American
students In his classes. His institu-
! ton, a model of neatness, latest i'm
+ provements and active energy, is sup
7 ported by his unaided private funds.
Z and furnishes lectures and practical
instruction under admirable profess
) sors, trained under the Doctors own
f eve, the whole superintendent by his