Show american educational methods here Is another tribute to the galui of american educational methods in a paper read by sir william henry formerly president of the in of civil engineers before the royal society of arts in london the speaker mentioned the lt not impossibility of making a comparison between english and american meth owing to the fact that the amerl can boy possesses the energy and smartness of a new race the european boy mentally Is two years behind him this explained the difference in curricula and examination papers put it la american adaptation to these ff erent conditions which accounts for success of educational methods further testimony to the of american ideas Is found in the proposition from germany that the conversational style of teaching lan grages be put into practice by an ex change of american and german professors fes sors the american professors instructing ting german students by this method and vice versa german edu cahors are alive to the practical demands of the times and appear to derive much inspiration from the united states the interest which germany has shown in the matter of canal construe alon and the enterprise which Is providing a great system of interior wa have been mentioned repeat edly now comes the announcement that bavaria is preparing to provide itself with deep canals that will enable it to have such communication with the larger bodies as will constitute a connecting link in traffic between the north sea and the diack sea in a word bavaria Is ambitious to become a maritime state there la strong be alef that such a canal system will bring enormous benefit to the tural and manufacturing industries of the kingdom and the plans in bontem platoon involve the expenditure of 90 fresh proof that this is a canal and deep waterways age enoch arden cases in real life ap pear to turn out differently the poet gave a pathetic to the story by having the hero perform an act of re by giving his wife up to the other man A husband who had been mourned as dead returned to his ten bessee home to find the lady who had supposed herself to be his widow mar aled to another and with a new parcel of children in the house he gallantly waived his legal rights and allowed the woman her choice between the old husband and the new and she prompt ly took the first and no 2 says he will accept the decision and move to have the marriage set aside athla Is not a bit romantic but it beema to be a sensible way out of the matrimonial tangle it Is stated that the heart of a vege beats 68 times a minute and that of a meat ear 76 times thus the meat eating young man with a vegetarian sweetheart can see how alt i it Is at times for two hearts to I 1 beat as one i tho twenty fifth anniversary of the of the russian surgeon ws been celebrated by conferring hla name on a street and hospital at st petersburg and endowing an annual arize tor works on surgery |