GERMAN CEREMONY.
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Russell, in his interesting account OF the
Germans, informs of the following peculiar
ceremony, which is practised by travellers,
who pass from Scligenstadt, towards Bava-
ria.


"IIerc (the merchants coming to the fair,)
were accustomed to drink deep congratu-
lations, on the journey they had accomplish
cd in safety, and good wishes to the ap-
preaching fair: and from hence they were
conducted in triumph into the city by the
town gulrts of Frankfort. They had
procured huge wooden ladle; the handle
depends from a weaaen chain, about three
teet long and both ladle and chain are cut
out of the same piece of wood This re-
lique is rcligiously preserved in an Inn at
oeligenstadt. Every traveller who passes
the frontier for the first time, must drain
the ladle, brmtul of wine, lit contains a
bottle, at one draught. This is the strict
rule; but in general, he can escape without
getting drunk, by promising the by-standers
the remainder of the bottle. His name is
then enrolled in an Album, which has now
reached the third folio volume, and Coli
tains the names of most of the crowned
heads in Europe, during the last two hund.
red years"