The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-10-05
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Queen Victoria is worth about $780,
100000, and she saves about a million and a
half yearly.
1t appears that three fifths of the
land of the Turkish Empire belongs to the
Mohammedan Church, or the Ulema, which
controls the mosques and has custody of the re-
hgious interest of the people. The head Of the
Ulema receives salary of $4,000 sterling a
year.
The Emperor William of Germany
was recently presented with a curious pen that
supplies itself with ink while writing. The
old Kaiser thanked the donor and said ="
should like to own pen that would write only
what is good and true. and then l wish all our
Journalists and reporters might each have one
Just like it and use no others"
The London University honor lists,
which have just been published show that the
young women who were examined took re-
markable place The class taking examination
one being girl, and the glrl beat both her
male competitors. The first in the English
honors list for the preliminary B. A. examina-
ton was young woman, and in the German
honors list two of the first class, consisting of
only four, were also girls. The first in the
honors list for anatomy in the preliminary
bachelor of medicine examination was girl.
Miss Prideaux, of the London School of Med
lcine for Women-who had beaten both her
Guys Hospital rivals. Another girl was one
of three students placed in the first class of the
honors list for mGterid medica and pharmaceuti-
cal chemistry
Queen Victoria's life at Balmoral
Castle is very simple and uniform. The piper
plays under her window every morning at eight;
she has breakfasted and is out of doors by ten,
from which hour she spends till noon in walk
" OF ~,
the nelghborhood of the castle; from noon until
i've, with half an hours interval for luncheon,
she devotes herself to work which may be
termed offieial-reading dispatches, state papers,
etc., and writing memoranda and letters in con-
nection Herewith at five she sets out for her
daily drive which lasts till seven and occasional
ly later.
The Sultan of Turkey is described as
growing morbid in his fears for his personal
safety. He drove out twice the other day to
mosque, and on each occasion the route was
changed at the last moment. He seems disposed
to become hermit. He no longer invites for
eign displomats to the palace and audiences are
obtained with great difficulty. The Spanish
ambassador had to wait forty days for an inter
view and General Wallace our own representa-
tive, more than month. tt#,t
There are more than 100 lawyers in
the new French Chamber, without counting
notarles ana solicitors 81 doctors, all OF them
but Republicans, and druggists; 81 journal
lists, 19 of whom sit for Paris; professors; ii
manufacturers; and 6 shipowners. There are
but priests and l Catholic lay preacher, l
Protestant ex minister, and 8 Jews.
THE LOST Intelligence
from the Rodgers, sent out by the Government
to search for the Jeanette in the Arctic re-
gions, has been received. The despatch is
dated st. Lawrence Bay, Aug Is, and is, in sub
stance, that the whaler R. B Handy reports
the Esquimaux at Point Barrow as saying that
they saw four white men going toward Mack
enzie River this spring, and found where they
had made snow huts to live in during the win
ter. They saw dead men in the huts, and also
saw tracks of sledge, with dogs, and footprints
of men, supposed to be survivors of the Jean
nette. The Rodgers and Strelock will investi-
gate the rumors, and expect to send more
authentic news before the close of the summer
Y Obesrrer