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tap of beer rather than so much prestigiated " aqua pumpi."" Oh, yes!" was the lad's reply, as slie dipped her bottle intothe little stone basin ; " I have only just got it from the handsof the pastor." On hearing this, the Mädchen tried to prevailupon our child, also, to take a little of the water, telling herthat she need not be afraid of thunder and lightning so long asshe had got that by her; for in the most violent storm she hadonly to sprinkle the room with a few drops of the blessedliquid, and it would be impossible for her to be struck deadafter that.

Hence, on such poor wretches as these, the great discoveryof Franklin has been iitterly wasted, the German populacebeing still^ taught to regard the Almighty as a kind of RomishJupiter—a Papal Thor, who delights in dealing out death bythunderbolts.

A few weeks after our family had been enlightened as tothe electric power of holy water, we saw two priests amongthe audience at one of the lectures given by Herr Finn upon" Galvanismus und Electricität; " and as the lecturer explainedand illustrated the properties of the marvellous fluid, we couldnot help wondering whether these same priests would have thehonesty to teil their flock that a metal rod was the only safe-guard against lightning, and that the virtue of holy water, insuch cases, had been proved to be a mere flam.

Intttpriftttfa I|wsfe &um.

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FRIEDRICHSHAFEN.

The royal villa of Friedrichshafen is one of the moststriking objects on the shores of the Lake of Constanz. Itstol. u. e E