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DOMESTIC MANNE-KS OF THE PltUSSIANS.

huge sturgeon is caught at St. Goar, and brought downto Coblenz for exhibition; or a "gigantic potato" with ahundred bulbs to one stem may be shown at one of theneighbouring villages.

At the time we are writing, too, Heek Finn, " aus London"holds a slhliing soirde for the Performance of experimentsin " Galvanismus," " Elektricitat," &c, " nerer before seeninCoblenz:''

Then, during the carnival time, there are trumpery maskedballs at small pothouses;* and, at Christmas and Easter,fairs, covering a space of ground about as large as one ofour bowling-greens, whilst at the latter season some two orthree booths are generally fitted up for the exhibition of a" Mekanische theater," or " Elephanten," or eise for a troop ofhackney-coach horses and mountebanks in a tent under thenickname of a Circus.

To do strict justice to the Rhenish people, however, weshould add that there is one amusement which the peopleindulge and delight in to a greater extent, perhaps, thanany other nation, viz. music; indeed, so general is the culti-vation of musical taste among all classes in Germany, that itis as unusual to find a Deutscher unskilled in the art as it is to

* BASSENHEIM HOUSE.

Sunday : Harmony. Open at Four o'clock.

Monday, 21st January, 1856.

First Grand

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Open from Eight tili Twelve, accompanied with Military Music by torchlight,and the " Cat's Dance." Admission, 2^ sgr. (3<Z. English) for each person. AGlass of superior Beer for 18 pfg. (lfd. English).

(Characters in Masks and Dominoes admitted Free.)

With this view a Wardrobe of Faney Dresses will be opened in the Costume-chamber at the principal entrance, where handsome Masquerade Attire of a goodquality may be had cheap. W. Krudewig.