KIS'SINGEN (ante). Kissinger is a walled town. It contains five mineral springs. Pander, discovered in the 16th c., has a temperature of 50°, used for bathing. It is saline and chalybeate. The Rakoczy spring was discovered in 1787. It has a tempera ture of 52', and is used for drinking. Liebig's analysis of its waters is as follows: 16 oz. contain 0.242 gr. of carbonate of iron; 0.131 gr. of carbonate of magnesia; 8.148 grs. of carbonate of lime; 0.043 gr. of phosphate of lime; 0.099 gr. of silica; 2.090 ir of sulphate of lime, or gypsum; 44.713 grs. of chloride of sodium, or common salt; 4.509 grs. of sulphate of magnesia, or Epsom salts; 2.203 grs. of chloride of potassium; 2.333 grs. of chloride of magnesium; 0.004 gr. of bromide of sodium; 0.071 gr. of nitrate of soda; 0.153 gr. of chloride of lithium; 0.007 gr. of carbonate of ammonia; and 41.77 cubic in. of carbonic acid gas. Total solid mineral ingredients, 05.706 grs. The objectionable ingredient in this water is sulphate of lime, which constitutes nearly one fifteenth of all the mineral matter held in solution. Sulphate of lime possesses poison
ous properties when taken internally in any considerable quantity, and is injurious and irritating as an outward application, as those who work in plaster of Paris can testify. The ifaxrbrunaen has a temperature of 50'; Theresa, 50°. These are alkaline, carbonated waters. The Sooteie-Sprudal has a temperature of 68°. and is used for bathing. A little to the n. of the town there is an artesian well 2,000 ft. deep, from which, by the action of carbonic acid gas, a column of water 5 in. in diameter can be thrown 70 ft. high. This water 1S forced down into a bed of rock Salt, from which it issues into a reservoir which flows into the salt-pans in the boiling house, where a beautiful fine white salt is manu factured. Kissingen has from 10,000 to 12,000 visitors every year. '1'lle Prussians, in 1866, gained a victory over the Bavarians at this place, and it was here also that au attempt upon the life of Bismarck was made by a cooper named Kullmann, July 13, 1874.