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QUEER PHASE or LIFE AT HElpE1.
 BERG UNIVERSITY.

Prison Register md the "CrImes~ For
 Which Their Owners Were Incarcerate<a.
 The Rules os the Plaea.
 h England the students body is com mitted to prison only by the civil au. shority. In Oxford. it Is true, the vice chancellor deals with undergraduate naughtiness, principally in the form oa debt and insuboCdination. for which hs may impose 6 momentary penalty, but he does not daprive the defaulter of lib erty. TheEo is, CT was, legend that certain apartment under the old Claren- don building was really the university 'Quod, but for its authenticity 1t ia impossible to vouch.
 Cambridge has its spinning house for female uffenders-nut lady students but ladies who might prove delusieu and snare to the mere male undergrad There, if we except the irzsome penalty of "gating" Confinement to college or lodgings after stated hour), our aca- demic efforts at incarceration may be said to end
 In Germany, however, the academic dungeon is very stern fact The Hei- delberg career" is famous. Every read CT of Mark Twain will recall hie enter taining description of the place aud how he contrived to visit if, even unwit- tingty enlisting as his guide "HexT Professor. His pretext was to sec young friend who had "got" 24 hours and had conveniently arranged the day to suit Mark-for the German student convict goes to prison on the first suit able day after conviction and sentence. If Thursday is not convenient, he tells the officer sent to hale him to jail that ae will como on Friday CT Saturday or Sunday, as the case may be- The officer never doubts his word, and it is never broken
 The prison is up three flights of stairs. and is approached by "zugang" as richly decorated with the art work of Convicts as the cell itself The apart ment is not roomy, but bigger than au ordinary prison cell. It has an iron grated window, a small stove. two wooden chairs, two old oak tables and a narrow wooden bedstead
 The furniture is profusely ornament ed with carving, the work of ianguish- ing captiVes, who have placed on record their names, armm-ial bearings, their crimes and the dates of their imprison- ment together with quaint warnings and dennGiations Walls and ceilings are covered with portraits and legeuds executed in colored chalk and in soot. the prison candle forming handy pen gil. Some of the inscriptions are ra- yhetic One runs, "B. Glinioke, four days for being too eager a spectator o2 row" If four days were meted out ta mere spectator, what one wonders. had been the sentence of the participa- tors? It must have been & moving spec tacle.
 Another record ta1so quoted by Mir. Clemens) has the savor of 8 great name bo it. Of course 1t is the son that 4s meant, not the father The legend is. "F. Graf Bismarck, 27-s9. IL '74, '' This Mark Twain interprets as q record of two days durance vile for Count Bis marck in 1874 Had 1874 been leap year one might have been inclined to interpret the nu1neraf ''II'' as February. But the "29H makes this difficult Sn perhaps the humorist is right,
 A third specimen is too tragic for comment It simply says, ''R. Diurgaudt flor love-four days " Ungenecoua successors to that sad chamber have dealt harshly with their forerunners' regulations by ingenious substitution of heinous crimes, so that certain prison CTS go down to posterity as having been punished for theft and udi3aa
 The prisoner must suppiy hla 0wa bedding and is subject to various charges On entering he pays about ten- pence and on leaving s similar suH- Every day in prison costs gizpenee; fire and light sixpenee extra. The jaileg supplies coffee for trifle. Meal 4y be ordered from outside Every prison CT leaves his carte de visite, which is fixed with a multitude of others ou the door of the cell. This queer albups. f glazed to protect the photograpRg
 Academic criminal procedure in HeS- delberg is curious If the city police an prehend student, the captive shows his matriculation card He is then ask cd for his address and set free. but will hear more of the matter, for the civil authority reports him to the university The Oxford regulation, by the way, is in certain cases almost identical h Heidelberg the university court try and pass sentence, the civil power taking no further concern with the offense Tine trial is very often conducted in the prfs. oner's absence, and he, poor wight. may l haNa forornttnrl Ill nhorlA Llc ...-.... .aA--