Show I 1 europe by a lady tourist of the rural districts of bavaria she remarks our readers will wonder what can be more wretched than the life we have portrayed in saxony and prussia yet in bavaria it is more wretched still it is here that taxation is most oppressive and the fees of the lazy lizy officials mos most exorbitant here the peasants cot is literally a pigsty and as a species of serfdom still exists the ilie land is not so variegated with the little patches that betoken ownership among the poor and more than three millions of acres yet remain not cultivated at all here the laws concerning marriage and property are so severe that thousands cannot acquire sufficient to enable them to pay the priest and sheriff and therefore live together without any form of marria marriage ti at all of the peasantry of the odenwald their homes look always filthy to an englishman lishman or american the women have the coarse ways and habits of the men and no conception of the tidy comfortable cottage of the american farmer or english peasant it cannot be otherwise when the mothers and daughters are in the field where you see them without bonnet cap shoes or stockings 9 s and old at thirty though at this age they get so dry and arid tou tough za b that they look afterward always the same the shelves for are in the kitchen and always open coall to all ail the dust abed in every room add and pig sty and stable under the same roof root sei set seldom om any fany are so well off aa as to have an extra set of cups cupa and plates for company and that which they uee use like that of the mid dip die classes in aties is tb the e common white ware which is seldom in these days upon the table at all in america but kept for baking purposes never see ee a pie in germany and not nol often a pudding if there is any cake it is 1 ilke like ce the bread broad purchased at the bakers bakera and never ever good new ew england housewife would not think it fit to eat I 1 I 1 the following is a scene in iya rya Ila nassau sau A jonn joun 0 un girl was a 1 g standing barefoot up to her knees kneas e es in a deture heap digging with a I 1 pronged and arid filling another cart which i she drova to the field and we ve suppose un loaded when she arrived she was hired out I 1 for the year to do any work about abou the house or farm and received fourte fourt eard eert eit ell dollars for a full yearns service of jot this kind and whenever we have been in the country any where I 1 in n germany we ue have sen seen ben women employed in the same way which is said to be made necessary by the law which requires so great a tro gro proportion proportion portion of the mert men to be lounging loung ingin in soldiers barracks ar racks woman ia is thus degraded from her true position and we ive need not describe the cond condition I 1 tion of the homes where women spend half their time ap in I 1 the field when they work as hard ani and do flo the same things they are not treated as the equals of their lords often they walk and drive the oxen with a genuine thrust and arid flourish of the goldstick goad stick while the men are sitting at their ease case in the cart smoking and perhaps swearing at their teamsters and in liesse Hesse Cassel she finds occasion to 1 say again agrain WP ask ourselves what are we to say about these woe stricken women dig ging the earth plowing hoeing and driving c carts arts reminding rem reminding indin g u us s of those of oni ohl only ohly y a hatle darker hue hub th than a we have seen on southern Soothe fh plantations alas in some other respects they resemble them in their deep degradation de one who has lived here long and mingled with them in a way vay to know says say they are bought and sold every day not at bubile auction but private auction and the trilling sum BUBI for which they may be had proves how bow wretched must be their po poverty verty veTty THE operations AT ar SEBAST it tt Is stated that a work of much interest to military men has kas man edited by gen niel the french engineer in chief chiet at the siege of seba sebastopol sevastopol it is compiled from froin government authorities and the ube of the operations will be made mado intelligible oll oil or perhaps uni unintelligible from kuch inch hotes aa as the following the siege taateo fasted three hundred and thir thirty four tour days there were thrown by the alliet allied army int into c the works no less than 1504 shot shell rockets rockett ac which consumed kilogram kilo klio grammes mesa about ut pounds of powder the french frene expended duding during the war more mote than 0 W of musket cartrie cart cartridges rid ge S the works of ahe lle assailants before sevastopol at the of the assault presented an extent of fifty miles of trench besides 1251 yards of mining by the french alone atone the russian mining operations wire were nearly five times timea as extensive alabama Alaba mh planter |