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DOMESTIC MANNEES OF THE rEUSSIANS.

pine-stems before it reachcd the lower Rhine. The raft layclose in front of the forest on the bank, where the groundwas littered with the long trunks of trees that had been recentlyfelled—the axes of the wood-cutters flashing in the lightbetween the stems as the coach rolled by—and where, asusual, we saw the customs officer, in bis deep-caped cloak,seated officially on a neighbouring log, and Smoking bischina-bowled pipe in fine governmental ease.

§ 3.

Customs at Birth —" Wickel-jiind"-hood — Feeling betweenFathee and Son — "Clanship."

The Prussian customs at the time of birth have but littlepeculiar about them.

The announcement of the event, however, is usually madein so different a manner from that in which we give publicityto an increase in a family, that we will once more take anextract from the German newspapers.

Here, for instance, is a curious (and not particularlydelicate) outburst of paternal pride:—

(Earli) tosttag nu> tttav üjtfe, Crlt^afcttft JM., boni ä> -----,

aftcr a happ« atrtl caäv Üttt'bcn), "ÖcIfgljU'Ö nu luitlj a libcl» aivüötroitg l)oi), toljtdj J fco m$&If tljc Ijonour to annouti« to mj>tltätant fttnx'Qä anb* acquatntanccS.

Cöln, ttjiö 12th dfrtnuan), 1855.

raitlljclm ffl ------,

aaafetant at tlje Moi>al Poät.