FEMININE HONOURS.

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pedestal of the same material. It bears tho following in-scription: —

BERTHOLD SCHWARZ.

EEECTED IN THE YEÄK 1853,

IN

COMMEMORATION OF THE FIFTH CENTENARY

OF

THE DISCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER.

The precise date of the German discovery is stated at1340; but since it is proven that the Venetians employedcannon in the year 1300, and the composition of the mar-vellous powder is, moreover, expressly described by our ownRoger Bacon, in his treatise "De Nullitate Magiw," whichwas published at Oxford in 1216, we cannot exactly admitthe claims of the Franciscan monk to the invention.

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Feminine Honours — Low-bred looic of the Prussian " Ex-cellences" and " magnificences"--- forms of politeness

-- BOWING IN THE STREETS -- ImPORTANCE OF THE " BLICK."

Burlesque as the Teutonic titulary forms may sound toEnglishmen, still those applied to the wives and daughters ofthe so-called dignitaries are more " extravagansical;" for thetitles of married women are the same as those of their hus-bands, even though the titular prefix of the latter be expressive