THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



    Marnufaturig is likewise behind the age.
  Iron, hardware, cotton yarn, cloth, and salt
  are its chief products.

         THS VILLAGS 0P BADN-DBADEN

    Is delightfully situated in the valley of the
  river Oos, and has appeared to my eye one of
  the most charming little towns I have yet seen
  on the continent Many of the dwellings and
  public houses are surrounded with shrubbery
  ahd flowers, even to the summit of the hills on
  either side, and the streets are remarkably
  neat and clean. Population about 6,000.

    The springs which make Baden-Baden so
 famous the world over, are 26 in number, va-
 rying in temperature from 115° to 1560 Fahr.
 Ursprung, the most remarkable of them, yields
 over 7,000,000 cubic inches of water per day;
 the saline constituents being common salt,
 salts of lime and magnesia, with traces of iron
 and free carbonic acid. When quite fresh it
 suggests weak broth of beef. Said to be good
 for dyspepsia, scrofulous and rheumatic dis-
 eases. Some of the springs are made all the
 more attractive to visitors by fine public build-
 ings, embracing spacious halls for dancing,
 beautiful saloons for all kinds of gaming, re-t
 staurants, reading rooms and handsome porti- I
 coes for promenading. Probably no place in a
 the world is so distinguished for the extent to e
 which gambling is carried on by the many e
 strangers of wealth and fast habits who gather
 here, in July and August, from every part of
 Europe. What would be considered large for-
 tunes in America are lost and won many times
 every day; so that such occurrences soon cease c1
 to be novel.  Such despezate gaming does not i
 cease to mark the parties who practice it, for b,
 I am sure I have never on earth seen so dread-
 ful a play of the most hellish passions of the u
 depraved human soul as I have witnessed there tl
 -faces the fiendish expression of which, I me
 fear, will long haunt my memory. To the cit- P'
izena these 'ruinous "sports" are wisely pro- lu
hibited.



  The most interesting objects next in order
are the castles, the old and the new. The for-
mer is located quite on the summit of a high



hill on the north side of the valley, and ii
quite in ruins. For 600 years it was occupied
by the old Margraves of the middle ages. The
new castle is remarkable for the subterranean
dungeons, supposed to be of Roman origin,
and thought to have been the seats of the
Vehmic Courts of early times.
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  Comes next on my programme-a fine old
German town on the Neckar. The distance
from Baden-Badc n is a little more than fifty
miles, and the railway lies in the smiling val-
ley of the Rhine. An hour's ride brings us to
Carlsruhe, the capital of Baden, and a town of
considerable importance. Several gay young
gentlemen in student's dress drop off here;
from which we may conclude that, like many
other German towns, it is the seat of some in-
stitution of high order.  And it is, for the
polytechnic school of Carlruhe is one of the
most noted in Europe.
Another hour and I am in Heidelberg, and
have already caught a view of the old univer-
sity, centre of many hopes and plans when I
was a college boy, years ago, in my native
and It consists of a series of plain old struo-
tures quite unimposing, and requiring positive
kistory to convince one that here have taught
and been taught some of the most distinguish-
id literateure, divines and scientists of mod-
rn or medieval times. The institution was
Dunded over 50 years ago by Elector Rupert
I Its library numbers nearly a quarter of a
,illion of books and 2,000valuableMSS. The
University embraces, not only theolegical,
iedical and law departments, but likewise in-
ludes a school of Agriculture and Forestry-
i which, however, the instruction is rather
ehind the times.
One of the characteristie features of this
niversity is the number of literary clubs and
he degree of the rivalry between them. The
embers of each are distinguished by some
culiarity of the cap which they wear, and
uarrels-even duels-are not at all uncommon
btween the champions of rival societies. There
,e nearly a hundred professors and many
indreds of students.
[We are compelled to defer the description
the town &c. until the next No.]



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id literateurs, divines and scientists of mod-
rn or medieval times.  The institution was
DUnded over NO years ago by Elector Rupert
. Its library numbers nearly a quarter of a
iffflon of book$ and 2,000 valuable MSS. The
University embraces, not only theological,
iedical and law departments, but likewise in-
ludes a school of Agriculture and Forestry-
i which, however, the instruction is rather
ehind the times.
One of the characteristic features of this
niversity is the number of literary clubs and
e degree of the rivalry between them. The
embers of each are distinguished by some
!culiarity of the cap which they wear, and
iarrels-even duels-are not at all uncommon
!tweenthechampionsofrivalsociaties. There