Show DUEL WITH BEER BEEP AS WEAPONS fought by students of some of the german universities As Is well known the german student de nt s aj arc fond ot ol their beer and they have invested the consumption of that beverage with strict laws of etique ltee among the ine miers ot of the various corps says the kansas city world the name by which the largest grade of student society is known a distinct code prevails as to the that should be paid the responses that should be accorded to thee compliments and also 1150 when and how much beer should be consumed tile the infraction of these rules in the slightest particular lays the offender open to the command to drink off ob a a certain quantity of beer generally a krug or dolful shaped like a top boot holding about a pint the ordinary beer duel however Is in more ore often the result of an insult or quarrel the point at issue may be grave a ad adamic ernic theory a tit disputed point in theology anything in fact act bu will beer must decide it two large drugs are placed upon the tahle table one before each disputant an n umpire is chosen and the cups are carefully examined sine it if absolutely essential th attlia quantity in each krug should be tile the I 1 same A scene of the li liveliest vIlest liv liest excitement ensues u and tile the other students crowd crowal around the duelists awaiting tile the event take hold fold the rivals rival s clutch their glasses to the lips rings out and the bibulous warriors uplift the them M ones one two three drink and in a beconi or of two the beer has been gulped down the one who having emptied his glass to I 1 the he very dregs first brat exclaims Bier jung I 1 Is s acclaimed the winners winner so great is the proficiency of ill the ea average Germ tri student in the art ot of beer drinking that the combatants comba lants generally babp ga I 1 out 1 simultaneously when alii is the case cade the umpire ex examines a mines iiii I 1 ivald with great car caie e and should there be the blight lightest drop on oil tho the floor b by the 11 B ie of 0 one of their chairs or orillis dollies clothes hu he is at orce or ce tie after tie is often proclaimed much to the of the rivals andrini and pint after pint is iq swallowed until fillier either the judge cabs bin vote or nature gives way wa on one tide side or the other not long ago a doughty champion having challenged a brother artist to a ten hour duel drank no fewer than bev evi I 1 enty eight kru of beer or about sixty 4 tour four pints |