The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-06-22
YANKEE ON THE CONTINENT.
Innsbruck, Austria, May 25th, 1871.


siderable note and pleasantly situated at
the termination of the royal park, two
and half miles from Stuttgart, and is
frequented during the summer months by
a large concourse of people. 1t has a
fine park Of its own situated on the
heights and called the Kursaal grounds,
from which we have charming view OF
the city, Stuttgart and the surrounding
country. Mr.. French displayed his good
taste when he selected this place for a
residence. There are also several small
parks or Bier Cartons belonging to hotels,
of which one attached to the Hotel Herr
man is most delightful retreat during
the warm season. A band is stationed
there at stated hours, which discourses
such music as German bands arc noted
for. Here the citizens assemble during
the pleasant hours of the afternoon, and
it is not uncommon to see three or four
hundred sitting around the tables, and en-
Toying themselves in sociability over a
mug Of beer.
The town is situated on the site of an
old Roman town, which was noted cen
turies ago for the number and excellency
of it's public baths. A few DAYS since
in excavating for building purposes, the
workmen came upon the remains of an
old Roman BATH probably in use 1900
years age. Little curiosity, however, was
excited, such matters being too common.
We fingered around Stuttgart and
Connstatt four days awaiting our mail
which we had ordered forward from Lon
| don, and on its arrival, took an early
train for Munich, or Munchen in German,
where we arrived after a ride Of ten and
half hours, passing over, on til route, a
! spur Of the Dirauhe Alps. Winding our
way up the side of the mountain, in ser
pentine course so crooked in one place az
to completely reverse the points of the
compass in the distance of mile. The
view from some of the points is charm
ing. A narrow valley between two ridges
OF mountains with it's beautiful grass
plat and silvery stream continues growing
narrower until it terminates in a wild
rugged gorge, at which point the road
has reached its height and energies al
once on to an extended plain, not unlike
the large prairies of Illinois. A photo.
graphic view of the valley, we would
prize more highly than any picture Of
art we have yet seen. On the route we
pass the city of Ulm twenty-five thous
and) situated on the plain and strongly
fortified.
The Black Forest, SO noted in legend
romance and history stretches along this
branch Of the Alps, in Wurtemburg, and
is passed through between Stuttgart and
Ulm. It consists of a wild, rugged and
mountainous region, covered mostly with
a species of evergreen, similar to the bal
sam and spruce and its foliage is so deer
a green as to appear almost black in con
trast with the foliage of other trees. The
wild boar is said to still frequent its
dark recesses,and is fierce and dangerous
animal to hunt, frequently killing half a
dozen dogs before being overcome by
the hunters. We have seen several splen.
did paintings and casts representing the
scenes.
Munich population one hundred and
seventy thousand) is the capital of Bavar-
Ia and noted as a seat of the arts and
sciences. It is handsomely built, and con-
sidered one of the finest cities of Europe.
To attempt any adequate description OF
what may be seen here would require a
volume. It is situated on the River Tser
| SO famous in school-boy defamation of
Hohenlinden," nd"Iser rolling rapidly"
and it does roll rapidly. It is an Alpine
stream, the waters ola deep green like the
Rhine Of Basic, very cold, and when
swollen, rushes on with Incredible fury,
sweeping away everything in it's course.
The picture galleries, consisting of two
immense buildings, four hundred feet
long, contain upwards of thirteen hun
dred paintings, among them several fifteen
to eighteen feet square Among the like
nesses we noticed one which if we had
seen it in Kenosha, we should have pro-
nounced Mrs. Ben. Price. Taken as q
whole, it is the most chaste collection we