Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1876 — French Vengeance upon Germany. [ARTICLE]

French Vengeance upon Germany.

The French give a new translation of the Bible words, and say, “Vengeance is sweet, and I will have again my milliards.” The Germans never could have wrought out such a mode of revenge, so sure, so effective and so mortifying, as the French are wreaking on the German nation. The whole countiy is flooded with notices, pamphlets and addresses from the Bon Marche, and all other leading houses in Paris, containing samples and pric.ea of goods, fashions 7 models. etc., that are so much better, cheaper and more tasteful than German work and goods, that scarce a woman, even if she have but one dress a year, does not order it in Paris. The merchants here have protested, appealed to the national pride, and used every effort to break up this ruinous competition, but even with the submissive German women, the one womanly weakness is too strong to yield. A pretty dress and a cheap dress *are irresistible. A society is about to organize topetition the Crown Princess to be its ruling head, whose object is to banish French goods and French modes, and originate their own fashions. May the patron saints protect us! The poor German women, who have the knowledge of harmony of coloring suitably and fitness of dress, in a degree less than any other nation under the sun, excepting the English, to be guided by a member of a royal household that has always been celebrated for its lack in fitness of apparel. I have been told the Crown Princess always goes about with half-laced shoes, or the rubber gores stretched and worn. This Ido not know, but I do know she never looks elegant, and on the ice this winter she wore a costume in which any tasteful American girl would blush to be seen; and had it not been for her handsome husband —who was good-naturedly trying to teach her to skate—no one would have suspected her high standing. If any ambitious dressmakers wish to make themselves a name and a fortune, now is the time for them to come to Berlin.— Berlin Letter to Cneinnati Gatette. A cat race was instituted at Liege, recently, in which thirty-seven competitors were entered. They were carried far out; of town, and liberated at two o’clock in the afternoon, the agreement being that the cat arriving home first shouldhave the prize. The lucky grimalkin won in a canter at 6:48 p. m., the second best not appearing until 2:24 the next morning. .L'--. - - .. A CdRREapONDKNT of the New England Farmer says that be has seen the application of a liberal dressing of muck give that nart of a field to which it is applied a decided appearance of fertility over the rest of it thirty gears after the application I was made.