A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . is in this town a man, Schmidt byname, who makes such good imitations ofancient armor that it is hard to tell themfrom the genuine. Of course there are somedetails he neglects that give him away, butI am not going to tell what they are for thenhe might make such good copies that eventhe wise **guys might be fooled. Wednesday, October left Munich just after lunch and ar-rived at Strassburg a little before nineoclock this evening. Secured rooms at theNational Hotel. The country throughwhich we passed was well cult
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . is in this town a man, Schmidt byname, who makes such good imitations ofancient armor that it is hard to tell themfrom the genuine. Of course there are somedetails he neglects that give him away, butI am not going to tell what they are for thenhe might make such good copies that eventhe wise **guys might be fooled. Wednesday, October left Munich just after lunch and ar-rived at Strassburg a little before nineoclock this evening. Secured rooms at theNational Hotel. The country throughwhich we passed was well cultivated. OfAugsburg we did not see much. At Ulm wegot a glimpse of the Cathedral, which has avery tall spire. When Stuttgart was reachedwe only touched the outskirts of the arriving at Karlsrhue, we had tochange cars, and, after passing that place,we were on and off several trains. As a con-sequence we were quite fatigued when wereached our destination and only wanted abath and a bed, but instead we had patesde foie gras at a late supper and I went to. In Munich A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 179 bed minus the bath, for there was only onebath-room available and, it was women andchildren first. Thursday, October 9. On our way to the Cathedral this morning,we passed through a square on one side ofwhich was a large building with an was astonished to see a company of Prus-sian soldiers seated on benches beneath thearcade and in front of them, resting in racksquite handily, were their rifles. It does notlook as though, even after forty years oftraining, the government entirely trusted thecitizens. The principal sight at the Cathe-dral is the wonderful clock. There was a celebrated clock in StrassburgCathedral as early as the middle of the four-teenth century, but by the beginning oF thesixteenth century it had ceased to run. Inthe year 1547 the Magistrate of the FreeImperial City ruled, therefore, that a newastronomical clock should be constructed andplaced opposite
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