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Show PRANKS OF ROMAN STUDENTS. Youths Make for Themselves All' Kinds of Diversions. Thoy still toll tho story at Villa Medici, Me-dici, Homo, of a "nouveau" student, who, when presented to M. Schnotz, himself boldly tapped him on tho chest nnd to the- Joy of the "ancient" stu-donts stu-donts exclaimed, "I know thnt Joko, olu chap. No use trying it on mo!" The Joke Is tho richer slnco it marks, tho passing of ono of tho best Jokes nt this famous Institution. For years it rid been the custom for tho oldor students to havo ono of their number in a dress .coat presented with all due-solemnity due-solemnity to tho now students. Still another Joko is lor tho oldor students to capturo n. couplo of newcomers new-comers and, after conducting them to their rooms, thrust them !n and Jock tl.o door, loavlng them face to 'faco with a donkey tied betwoon tho beds. Each year tho salon of tho villa Is transformed Into a gala placo, and the spectator finds himself in the midst of a country fnir, an old timo Roman, carnival or the holdup of a. family ot English tourists, In which a young woman, who, by tho way, wears a luxuriant mustache, Is uorno off In triumph tri-umph by a band of tho blackest bandits ban-dits over painted. |