The Washington times., 1901-08-06

those of other professions. This GUNNER
semester there We're matriculated in Ger
man universities 5.552 students. a gain of
1,lb' over the summer semester of last
year. OF these 7.055 are medical students
| loss of 5S from last summer This
semester $50 per cent of the total number
are law students. 1913 per cent are med
lcal, the department of philology and his
i tory stands third with 1i2 per cent math-
ematics and natural philosophy fourth
with ga per cent, while but As per cent
are preparing themselves as Protestant
preachers and 34 per cent for the Catholic
Church. There are 920 students of phar-
| macy, SEC Of finance and forestry. AIS
dental students, and l34 Ia gain of 90 over
last sumrer students OF veterinary med
| icine. The rnnafning 16 per cent of stu
dents are evidently not classified
| 1t is the Intention of the British War
| Office to institute on an extensive plan
throughout the army, and particularly
| when troops are in garrison or on ma
neuvres. the -regimental canteen system
| organized by Colonel Morgan. as director
of supplies to the Natal force. Hereto
fore the army, except when on active ser
vice. has relied upon a system not unlike
the old sutler system Of the United States
| Army to furnish the men with little lux
uries and delicacies not obtainable at the
quartermaster's. Recent investigation has
| proved that although IN some cases a
| sort of cooperation has been maintained
between the suffers and the men, the lat
/ ter have been Swindled right and left,
the only ones making a profit being the
| suffers and their agents among the men
/ who received commission on all the
| trade they brought in. The present pro-
| posal as already practically demonstrated
1 by Colonel Morgan with the forces of Sir
Redvers Butler, is to take the canteen
entirely out of the hands of private indi-
| vfduals and place 1t in charge ef commit
| tees of officers and men who shall carry
| 1t on for the sole benefit of the soldiers
! as a cooperative institution that shall
| be able to undersell any private enter
| prise and at the same time present month
~ prohts prp rata to the men who patron
| fZe II. aa.Gfs
| The report of Colonel Morgan's expert
ence shows that, out of the profits of the
canteen he established along these lines
in Natal, a substantial sum was handed
over to the widow of every man who died
on active service with the force there
Colonel Morgan also ADDS that his can
teen soon made 1t so Improbable for the
numerous contractors and camp follow
ers which batten on the pay of the SOL
diers by selling them inferior stuff at OK
orbitant prices,' that they were obliged
to go out of business. which produced
IN instant beneficial effect upon the moral
condition and discipline of the men,"
Sir William Garstin, Under Secretary OF
the Public Works Department of the
Egyptian Government has submitted to
the British imperial Government a gigan-
tic engineering project which, with the
existing dams and irrigation canals. would
enable the river Nile to be kept in con-
stant flow and make of the whole vast
Nile basin the richest agricultural area in
the world. regularly raising two crops
every year
The scheme is to raise the level of
Lake Tsana, which lies high on the Abys- |
sinian plateau, five metres. BY this means |
III triiion million cubic metres of water |
could be stored for the dry season. The |
assent of King Menelek is necessary to this |
work, which Lord Cromer does not deem |
impossible to obtain even in the face of |
strong Franco-Russian opposition.
The remarkable legislative revolution |
recently brought about in Holland |
through the extraordinary union of Prot |
estants and Catholics against the Lib
erals has been followed by complica- |
ton of circumstances which the allies had |
no suspicion would arise, at least not |
until DR.. kuyper. chief Of the anti |
revolutionary party. who has been en- |
trusted by Queen Wilhelmina with the |
formation of Cabinet, should show what |
could be done with coalescent Cabinet
But. now nearly two months after the de-
feat of the Liberals, the portfolios have
not yet been permanently awarded
No sooner were the Liberals turned out
than the Catholics and anti-revolutionists
became sharply divided on questions of |
vital Importance to a new Cabinet such |
as the Introduction of a protective policy
and the question of social reform. DIR. |
kuyper, who. 1t is said, has strong anti
French as well as pro-British views, |
would be more correctly described as |
Moderate; at the same time he is anti
Catholic on general principles, and the |
Catholic demand that three portfolios be |
given them does not please him. In the
meantime the situation is being taken ad-
vantage of by the Liberals 10 win over
to their side the anti-Catholics among
the anti-revolutionists. Well-informed
circles in The Hague do not expect the |
united parties to accomplish much, even
if DR. kuyper should succeed in forming |
a Cabinet satisfactory to them, as their
points of division are fundamental and |
would become visible in almost any policy
which a coalescent Cabinet might adopt.
This is a portion of the instructions
which the Ameer CT Afghanistan sent to
his son, Nasrulah Khan, on his visit to
England:
'On your going TO see her Majesty the
Queen of London, you must look upon her
with the same dignity and respect as you
look upon our royal Court: to respect her
Majesty more than myself is unnecessary |
show of fiattery, and to pay her less re-
spect than myself is rudeness and against |
] need not give you more de-
tails and full particulars in this respect |
as you daily practice how to pay your re-
spects and in what manner to appear be-
fore my royal Court
When you are in the company of other ;
gentlemen, and especially when any ladies 9
are present, you must take care not to spit | .
and not to put fingers into your nose etc.
fou can smoke in the presence of gentle
men, but when ladies are present you
must take their permission before smok- J.
ing.
you may shake hands with gentlemen
II the time of first introduction. but with /
The ladies you must only make a bow
when YOU are first introduced. but not | q,
shake hands till you meet them the second :
lime.
Ladies can shake hands with their I
gloves on, but a gentleman ought to take c
)r the glove. of his right hand to shake | a
lands, and for this reason generally the h
wear gloves on their left hand L
md keep the glove of the right hand off | v
o be able to shake hands without any I
lelay, but they can shake hands with |
gloves on after it is evening"
The British coronation chair which fl
isitors to Westminster Abbey have seen. r
; especially interesting as having under :
cath it and constituting a part of it the
Id Scotch coronation stone. called The I;
tone of Destiny which tradition says A
vas that on which the patriarch Jacob A
aid his head on the plains of Luz 1t il
Dund its way into Spain, then TO Ireland
nd Scotland, and it was removed from p
cotland by Edward l during the war of a;
The promise was made | q,
nat 1t should be returned to Scone from | q,
'hich it had been taken, but that was | II
ever carried out, and the Stone of Desi- | ?;
ny has formed part of the chair of oak | n
1 tyh al t=h ion hos |