The sun., 1897-01-17

e.0eo ia All. and More Than 100 fro. This
Cou.try- How Much They ssesd.

German universities carry on their rolls the
names of 5000 foreign students. Perhaps hfty
or seventy.nve OF these students are preparing
TO take degrees. The majority OF them. how
ever. are hearing lectures In special branches OF
science. which they follow for twelve or eighteen
months. and then eivo up to return to thoir
homes and practise what they have learned.
Probably a third OF the total number went TO
Germany merely to have fun and enrolled their
names at the registers offices so rs to say that
they had been German students and to enjoy
the acade mic privileges: that is about the usual
proportion OF foreign drones in the busy hives
OF German learning.
or all countries tho United States send tho
largest number OF students to Germany. The
number last year is supposed to have been we'll
above 400. In 1895 1t was All. In 1898 II was
345 In 1892 1t was 39". and in 1885 It was
900. Russia cent 3o5 students to Germany in
1898; Austris-Hungnry. 3o7; switzerland. 262;
Great Britain and ireland. l26. France, with
all her prejudices against German science, let
ters. government and art, sent 30 students. II
l. significant Of the Intellectual torpor OF spain
that she seat only 4. the smallest mum her to the
credit OF any civiiized country. Even little
bulgaria sent a2: Roumania, 10: Seryia, 20.
and Denmark. whose prrjudices are hardly less
violent than Frances. 10. Moreover. Africa
sent IL and East Asia 80.
some persons OF Rrithmetical talents have
tried to guess how much money the 1000
foreign students spent In Germany annually.
| The estimates are difficult to make with much
chance OF correctness, owing to the enormous
differences In the habits OF the visitors. The
Russians Of tho titled class and many OF the
Americans live In what the Germans regard ~
| n dehauch OF eStraNaenu.e. smoking nrr.crnt
cigar. drinking wines daily, travelling second
| Nut sometimes first class on the railways, aud
playing poker. Napoleon, and skHt with fat
nous recEles,nes- of the cost, which not in
a isy. ON the other hand, there are
Americans who do their own cooking,
Ia, L.. shaan feAn nj - IL li.,
| hired. and travel tour,h-clnss or walk. The
| range Uf expenditure il between sll.hO
| between the two classes ~ Russian students.
While the Barons nnd Counts iuSuriate to the
| raw, "lccd. rawLoncd fellows among whom
Slhtlism gets is recruit, seem To live on dark
iooks and mIdngh, debates ,. p In their Ky bed ped;
As IL born to conspiracy. are said 10 live upon
about SO msrksl or sl..bo each a month and
.uch feat - possible In G.rmanv. although
not applauded by the aequisttive natives with
| whom the foreigner deals.
| The French students handl their money with
| care. as do also the English aud Swiss, and
| probably Keep down their cxpen-es to abluttS3O
var,nn-. however. throw money about reckless
| Is, Rnd III. few Spaniards do the same. A man
who i as lived among hem ALL not even except
inR the South Americans aud Japanese. has
| calculated that ahout SO a month Is moder.
ate average allowance 70 each ot the 1000.
many by. the foreign ,,udssnt. then would
| be about 81. 600, 600 year. When ono remem-
bers that Ills suin " spent IN elght, OF NJ most
| ten towns. he can understand the enthusiasm
| with which the foreign student Ia greeted when
| he appears In Heidelberg or Marburg or Go-t-
| tingcn.
| There's nothing university town tradesman
| Rdmircs 80 much ~ n foreigner who spends
| money: he IA Rs soft IA buttsr and as smooth ~
OIL to such delightful fellow; His tongue rolls
| off only Herr Enrons" and " Herr touhts,"
| and his lips HrticulRtu nothing OF smaller do
| nomination than gold nicces and bills. His eyes
| ginat over the careless mr. OF the young spend
| thrift nrd hi. palms tt kls with the sensation
| OF coming accounts aud receipts. His soul sS-
| pand- III hr pr",cuC" OF such u patron, and he
| Il ready with the best advice and Information
| h" Possesses To books, lodgings, lectures, bill
| lizard rooms. and wine HOUSES. Upper Broad " ny
| has no warmer heart for Its good spehder'
| than has the iierman university town for It's
| gay young foreigner with the open hand.