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DUELS OF GERMAN STUDENTS.

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DUELS OF GERMAN STUDENTS. Everybody has heard of the celebrated and senseless student fights of Germany, and more than one writer has described them, among whom may be mentioned Mr. Wil- liam Howitt, whose recital was very graphic; but no writer as yet has so minutely described these tights as Mr. Henry Mayhew, the author of "Labour and the London Poor," in whose recent work entitled "German Life and Manners as seen in Saxony at the Present Day" we have found the following. The full description of the scene is too lengthy for our purpose, but omitting the first fight, we begin to record that— In about ten minutes after the first fight, another couple of lads were ready, "got up" for the next en- counter while the Arminians about us said, Now you'll see some bloody work." These two youths could not have been more than eighteen years old each; and directly the order to "Let loose was given, blood was drawn in the very first bout. Immediately the wound was felt, the one receiving it cried Halt!" and the doctor came for- ward and examined the gash. It consisted of a long slash across the cheek of the Westphalian boy, which seemed at first like the wheal left by the stroke of a whipcord lash. In a few seconds the blood began to flow from it in long crimson lines, trickling down the side of the boy's face, and dripping into his stock and shirt until they were nearly saturated with it. The doctor, however, bathed the wound with the stable sponge, and pronounced it of no moment. I knew our boy would give it him finely," said the Arminian at our elbow. "He deserves all he'll get. for he thrashed a Fink the other day with a stick — the coward! —and he will have to leave the university for that directly the matter is brought before the senate." (To say the truth, this Westphalian lad did not seem to be the most pleasant-natured youth in tbe world.) Our boy," continued the gossiping Armi- niap, knows how to give the deep fourth cut beauti- fully, and you'll see he'll make a beef-steak of the other's face before the fifteen minutes are over." In another second, the blades of the two lads were whistling in the air once more but in less than a minute after, the cry of Halt!" was again raised, and the Ar mini ins round about us said exultingly to one another, "He's got it nicely this time, just over the •yebrow! It's as pretty a cut as ever I saw in my life!" and the words were hardly uttered before the blood came streaming forth, running down the wounded man's nose, and trickling on tohi-) shirt until the front of it was nearly as red as a sailor's flannel one. Despite this, after the wound had been once more inspected and washed as before, orders were given for the two to g" "Ictosc" again; and then, after another minute's slashing, the VVestphalian received a third wound from the Arminian, the tip of whose blade was now like a bit of crimson tinsel-foil with the gore of the other.. And so it went on every other minute-a fresh gash and a fresh stoppage; until the Wostplialian boy's face seemed positively as red as a skinned sheep's-head, and on the floor where he stood there was a pool of blood as if a pig had just been slaughtered on the spot, and which rendered it difficult for the wounded man, as he stood in it, to prevent slipping about while he fought. Still the boys fought on even though the lads about us said thr Westphalian would want 110 end of needles to sew up his hide—for it is the custom with the students to speak of the wounds inflicted as being so many needles long, acc irding to the number of bits of silk that are required to bo inserted in order to draw the flesh together. Despite this hacking of the Weatphalian's face by the Arminian boy (everyone of whose deep 'fourth" cuts told with fearful force on the cheeks of his adver- sary), the two continued fighting for the full quarter of an hour. Nor would the wounded man ask the other if he had had h's satisfaction at the end of the customary ten minutes. And whi!e the fight went on, the Arminims round about us were wondering how the other could lose so much blood without being led off—an event which they seemed to look forward to with the highest pride. Nor were tht-y the less de- lighted with the idea that their boy, although he had cut the Weatphalian's face almost to mincemeat, had not so much as a scratch upon hs own. After this came the third and last pair of boys to have their faces hacked about in a similar manner. It is idle now to continue the disgusting details of such silly and barbarous affrays. Suffice it that this Arminion boy fought hfthanded, which, of course, was a great disadvantage to his antagonist. Neverthe- less, both suffered alike in the contest, several heavy blows being giving on both sides, and the Arminian receiving, towards the end of the encounter, a cut on his nose that nearly divided the nostrils. Still, they both kept on to the end of the appointed quarter of an hour. At the end of the entertainment," the other Armi- nims took us into the room appropriated to the dress- ing of their boy's wounds, and there we found the lad who had taken part in the last encounter perched on a stool, and in front of him the doctor, with one of those ugly, crooked needles in one hand, and the tip of the poor lad's slit nose in the other, as he proceeded to drive the triangular instrument slowly through the flesh-while the wounded youth did not so much as wink his eyes with the pain of the not-particularly- dexterous operation. As this was going on, another student sat at the piano before-mentioned, and played on the old cracked instrument Weber's Invitation to the Dance." The nose of the boy having been duly sewn up, the doctor proceeded to dress the tip of it with strips of linen. and then to brush them over with the collodion of which we have before spoken—an operation which brought the tears into the lad's eyes, owing to the biting of the ether into the raw flesh of the wound.

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