The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-31

one VI tu6 gay CdPA6dlS VI HuIoP0' VIC
| "did it up" according TO programme.
Having digested the innumerable pic,
ture galleries which we had seen two
months previous, we tried again and ex-
plored the art treasures Of the Imperial
Palace, the crown and crown jewels But
nothing in the line of royalty, better re-
paid our trouble than visit to the I'm
peral stable, containing $50 horses, and
the carriage and harness rooms They
contain about 900 carriages and harnesses,
to correspond. The state carriage gilt
tiers with gold plating, and the harness
for six horses, the leather covered Grim
son velvet, and the mountlngs heavily
plated with gold are equally elegant.
The Imperial saddles and brides are in
keeping with the other trappings. The
saddle of Macmillan, Emperor of Mexi-
co, is deposited with them.
Among the tombs in the royal vault in
the crypt Of the cathedrals, we noticed
that Of Maximilllam and also those of
Napoleon H., and Maria Louisa, his
mother. Their ccffins are inclosed in
plain zinc cases, with cross On the COW
ers, and merely deposited in the crypt
with other members of the royal family
for the past 200 years The noted palace
and gardens of Schonbrunn, the Imperial
summer resdenc , we'll repaid our party
for the excursion One of the most
noted opera houses in the world has re-
Gently been completed and opened and
eclipses anything we have yet seen ID
Europe American tourists are swarm
ing on the continent, and we often meet
those whom we have met several weeks
before Stopping at our own hotel we
met young man whom we had met be-
fore in Cork Ireland, and again in Flor
epce, and another man whom we had seen
III Rome, and while standing in the
street, were clapped on tie shoulder by a
young man whose acquaintance we had
made in Munich, two months pre-
vious, particular friend of Mr.. V
French !; and one of our party met an ac-
quaintance from Syracuse, and another
OF the party, Il day or two later, was sur
prisd to meet friend from Ithica. Our
stay Of four days in Vienna was peculiar
ly pleasant. Here we experienced the
: first drop of rain for forty five days, and
with the exception of few little sprink'
les, the first since we reached the CONT.
nent, the 9Th of May.
From Salzburg, frontier town of 30,
COO inhabita ats, we made an excursion tl
HELEN, twenty miles, to visit the sat-
mines which have been worked since the
DAYS Of the Romans. The village is sit
uated in a romantic glen among the
mountains, and ride Of an hour brings
us to the entrance, more than twenty live
Thousand feet above the valley below.
Before entering the mines we equip with
Overalls, jacket, cap, one leather mltten
or b0ndSchuh and large leather PGnc16e
on the posterior, for sliding down hill.
We enter the mines, accompanied by a
guide, and passing along a tunnel about
two thousand feet, come to descent OF
one hundred feet to tunnel below. The
descent is made by an inclined plane.
Two small timbers, with the upper
sides rounded and smo"tlIed and proper.
ly creased are placed at an angle of forty
five degrees, and about twelve inches
apart, with a rope extending the whole
length within easy reach. We bestride
these thinkers like a boy bestriding his
sled, and holding on to the rope with the
mtten, at a signal, we "go like the
d." as one of our comrades wickedly
said, till we reach the bottom. It re-
minded us of our Juvenile days. when we
enjoyed the icy sliding place, without
any posterior leather pancake for protec.
ton, and thought we were doing some
thing smart, and always found it SO after
wards, fol our little heroic exploits, were
usually rewarded by a gentle middle
aged lady, whom we delighted to call
| "Mother," (when hungry or in TROUBLED
| by smart application of the open palm
to parts already made cruelty tender and
smart by too close contact with ice and
snow, which never failed to cure our
sliding propensities for the time being.
At the bottom of the sliding place we
traversed another long tunnel, and an.
other sliding place, thus continuing
through tunnels and sliding places, till
we have made six similar descents, vary
ing in length from one hundred to three
hundred feet. During our progress we
find miniature lake about three hun.
dred feet across, over which we are fer.
ried by small boat, and then bestliding
a four wheeled velocipede, we ride with
railroad speed down slight descent,
about one mile and make our exit, nearly
at the bottom, after having been buried
in the bowels of the mountains one and
a half hours, traverslng the mines almost
the whole time without stopping. At
one point we cross the frontier into Ba-
varia and are 1900 feet under ground. |
The mines consist of tunnels leading
from one excavation to another on differ
ent levels, and several reservoirs similar
to the one above described Fresh water
from the mountains is conducted into
these reservoirs or miniature lakes, by
wooden conduit pipes, and after remain
ing twenty-five or thirty days and be-
coming Thoroughly impregnated with
salt, BY its contact with the salt stone, is |