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POMESTIC MANNERS OF TUE PEUSSIANS.

again, the Dames de la Halle of Freiburg seem to have a vio-lent passion for petticoats, and, not content with a single Unter-rock, or even two, delight in a whole quire of thick, plaited,linsey-wolsey tliings—a style of costume whieh has verymuch the appearance of a coachman's box-cape worn aboutthe legs instead of the Shoulders. Some young girls raay beseen thus habited carrying large tin milk-cans strapped attheir back.

The old Kaufhaus at the side of this market-place is peculiar,and that is all, for it is far from being either handsome orpicturesque. It is merely a long, one-storied building, with ahigh roof castellated at the gables, and the front walls paintedred, with a small arcade below. At either end of the first floorit has octagonal projections—huge battlements, as it were, likethe quarter-galleries at the stern of the old-fashioned ships;and there is a row of statues set under pinnacled canopiesbetween the several Windows—the said statues being the sizeof life, and representative of Maximilian I., Philip L, Karl V.,and Ferdinand I.

The statue of Bertholdus Schwarz, the Franciscan friarwho is said to have discovered the Schiess-pulver (gunpowder)some fifty years after it was used in cannon by the Venetians,is in the Franciscanner Platz not far from the University.The figure is that of a monk, with shaven crown and frock,and with one hand resting on a book (the finger between theleaves), and the other supporting the chin, as if in thonghtThe "pose" is good and grand, and the expression that ofone pondering over the probable results of the immense newpower he is supposed to have discovered. The pedestal is setwith bas-reliefs — one representing the monk at work with hiscrucibles and mortars beside a chemical furnace, and the otherthe friar startled with the explosion of the new Compound.This statue is by Knittel, and in grey sand-stone, with a red