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into heaps of ruins within bare stone enclosures, while 

 the external walls of the forts seemed to have sustained 

 no injury which could not be quickly repaired by night 

 work. 



On driving over to the grounds about the Palace of 

 St. Cloud, it was surprising to find the ruins of the Palace 

 so little frequented by curious visitors. Amid the ruins 

 there were many things worth removal for curious keep- 

 sakes, and the ornaments about the Palace gardens broken 

 by shot and shell offered many a tempting fragment to 

 the visitor. It is not to be wondered at, that at a later 

 day, foreigners visiting this unprotected property, should 

 yield to the demoralizing influence of the surrounding 

 ruin, and almost with the feeling that they were saving 

 from oblivion some precious relics, bring away with them 

 portions of broken statues, and even break portions from 

 others already hopelessly disfigured, by the iron rain 

 which had fallen about them. 



With the mementoes above enumerated, Dr. Johnson 

 also presented some specimens of the "Erbs wurst" or 

 Pea-sausages, so largely used as rations by the Prussian 

 army, and commetjUDrated in the verses of Hans Breit- 

 mann. when describing "Breitmanu in Bivouac" 



"He sits in bivouacke, 



By fire, peneat' de drees; 

 A pottle of Champagner 



Held shently on his knees ; 

 His lange Uhlan lanze 



Stuck py him in de sand; 

 Vhile a goot peas-poodin' sausage adorns his oder hand." 



These sausages were invented by a German cook by 

 the name of Griinberg who sixteen years ago furnished 

 similar ones for a marine expedition to Japan. Since that 

 time having improved his invention, Counsellor Engelhard 

 at the beginning of the late war, recognized the impor- 

 tance of the production tested it with the third army 



