AnpTnpliate Punishment
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Mrs. Jamison, in her .Visits and
Sketches at Home and Abroad" gives
the following account of punishment
described to her at Frankfort.-Sat.
EUe. Post.


''One of the most delightful pecu.


iarities at Frankfort, one that most
struck my fancy, is the public garden,
planted on the site ofthe ramparts;
glrdle of verdure and shade-of trees
and flowers circling the whole city;
accessible to all and on every side
the promenade of the rich, the solace
ofthe poor. Fifty men are employed
to keep 1t in order, and it is forbidden
to steal the flowers or to kill the sing.
ing birds which haunt the shrubbc.
res. A short time before we arrived.
some mischievous wretch had shot a
nightingale in this public garden, and
was caught in the act. His punish.
ment was characteristic; his hands
were tled behind him, and a label set
ting forth his crime was fixed on his
breast; in this guise, with a police
officer on each side, he was marched
all round the gardens, and made the
circuit of the city, pursued by the his
ses ofthe populace, and the abhorrent
looks OF the upper classes; he was not
otherwise punished, but he never a
gain made bis appearance within the
walls of the city. This was the only
instance which could learn of the
infraction of ii law which might seem
at least nugatory."


We wish that some such punishment
could be devised here, for the hard
hearted or thoughtless boys, who, in
the spring, shoot the cheerful feather.
ed songsters of our woods and fields,
for 0neltSen1entS.