The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

70 SCANDINAVIA.pendently of over fifty secondary rural establishments founded since the middleof the century. Besides the State institutions, seven private foundations have theprivilege of conferring certificates giving admittance to the University, whoseclasses, since 1875, have been attended by women on the same footing as others.Yet, notwithstanding the general material and intellectual advance, the Danes areFig. 32. Danish Railway System.Scale 1 : 300,000.;,3 Tlcnsborsf ^A^% 1 4v>— ~*>vmore susceptible to mental anguish, and hence more addicted to suicide thanany other people.Administration.— Colonies.According to the constitution, repeatedly modified since 1869, the electoralbody consists of all citizens thirty years of age resident for one year in thecommune, and not in the receipt of public charity. The Folkething, or National