The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-05-03

Mrs. James says her husband had nothing to do
with the plundering of the treasurer's Office at
the Kansas City Exposition, or the robberies at
Baxter Springs, Kan, and Otterville, Mo.
"A pastor of New York says there are
enough Christians in that city with unused GER
tihcates IN their pockets to form two large con-
gregatIons.
1t is reported that Oscar Wilde has
made $4,000 out of his lectures. He points to
1T when inquired of as to the utility of beauty.
Little girls dresses grow longer,
thanks to the Princess of Wales, who attires her
young daughters in skirts reaching to their
ankles.
The Roman Catholic prelates who
recently sat in Council in Cincinnati, said one
good thing when they declared that music
which draws the attention of the people to the
CHOIR rather than to the altar we would say TO
God is not church music, and must be excluded
from the services of religion"
The Princess Maria of Schoa, who
was lately married to the Crown Prince of
Abyssinia, is claimed to be the direct des.
cendant of the Queen of Sheba, the Schoa
dynasty being the most ancient royal house in
existence. The Princess wore during the mar
rage ceremony golden dadem set with rubies
winch Is said to have once been the property of
Solomon.
The SUNDAY LAW IN OHIo.-The
number OF saloons reported open in this city by
the police last Sabbath was 433 out of $500.
The day was quiet and less number of arrest1
made than any Sabbath for years In Cleve-
land there were only FIVE saloons out of about
400, and two of the persons arrested claim
that they did not intend to violate the law. In
Toledo the saloons were all closed. The reports
from different parts of the State show that the
W sf11lt
city, and here all violators are registered and
Will be arrested this week.-HerGtd and Pres
byter.
The Independent says: 1.-THE con-
troversy about the succession to the Abbot pro.
fessorshiip of theology at Andover cannot be un-
derstood without taking note of the fact which
Is constantly kept in mind, but very blindlv
alluded to, by writers. 1t is that the late in
cumbent, Professor Park, is credited with being
the leader and manager of the opposition to Dr.
Newman Smyth, and the voluminous helper of
the Co"gregGt1o"GIlSt IN Its assault upon him"
The Gbwrchneo1e tells this story on
one of the students in its church Seminary at
Alexandria
One of the editors of the New York Observer
has published a series of letters over the sigma
ture of Iren@us. which is his Christian name
An Alexandra student of divinity seeing them
advertised as the letters of Iren@us, sent for
them, supposing them work of the post-apos
tolic father of that name. A professor in the
seminary, learning of the amusing mistake
thought 1t too good to keep, and so whispered it
to the press.
GROWTH OF VICE. Twenty wears
ago the young man who drank was the excep-
ton now the young man who does not drink is
the rarity. We are accustomed to blame every
thing on the war, and perhaps the war will
serve as reason in this case. Certainly it was
about that time or shortly after that lager beer
began to grow in popularity and young men
and boys began to cultivate a fondness for it
and thereby to acquire taste for alcoholic
liquors of all kinds. The cigarette vice followed
to reinforce and stimulate the drinking habit
until now boy is scarcely in his teens before he
begins to smoke his nasty cigarette and drink
his sophisticated beer and bad whiskey, and
gangs youths who ought to be at school or
serving and apprenticeship to some honest calling
go staggering about the streets and in and out
OF taverns and are not ashamed to greet their
mothers with their breath reeking of smoke and
alcohol. 1.-THE Philadelphia Times.