Note 90 — FOREIGN MUSICAL REPORT.

‘Sapperment’ is a very common and rather homely German exclamation of sudden surprise, scarcely susceptible of translation, but somewhat similar to the English word ‘zounds.’ The Germans, moreover, as Mr. Russell correctly states in his Travels, observe a regular degree of decimal gradation in the use of their ‘Sapperment;’ viz.—Sapperment (simply) 1 Sap, Hundert Sapperment, 100 ditto. Tausend Sapperment, 1,000 ditto. Hundert Tausend Sapperment, 100,000 ditto: which latter term, as may be supposed, is only applicable to a state of amazement a hundred thousand times greater than what would be expressed by the simple exclamation of ‘Sapperment.’ The Germans are a calculating people, even in their oaths.