Show olm ulm on the danube ulm Is 1 a most interesting town to explore full of quaint steep gables crooked little street streets houses that nod across the way to one another five centuries c crowded together in as many acres of stone and timber and often crowded to death for the town chronicle tells us that in 1033 IC 15 of the people died that in 1800 every eleventh man was carried away by disease yet years ago the town numbered less than and today only about double that number cam her now with a prussian commander the sanitary condition of the place is properly attended to although nit alt kough from a commercial point of view the town buffers co considerably s ider from front having all the space bafo before re I 1 its vs walls subject to the rules of war no one can build within cannon range unless he lie promise promises to tear his building down when war baglas this im 1 naturally discouraging to manufacturers Poultney bigelow in Ilar harpers pers |