The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-12-13

ne OC. LOUtS presbyterian says .
A new horror has been added to the cigarette
In California Leprosy, says San Francisco
physician, :" Is revealing itself about the lips
and tongues of boys who smoke cigar cites made
by the Chinese. The disease though fatal. is
slow In giving tokens of it's first approaches.
No less than one hundred and seven cases of in
lection by cigarette smoking had come under
the physicians notice."
ENGLAND AND MAHoMEDAN1sM.-
In view of what is passing in India at the
present time, 1T Is amusing to recall the de-
ciaratlons that our appearance in arms in
Egypt would be the signal for a Mussul-
man Jehad ard general rising of the mil
lions of Indian followers of the prophet
Not only was the war supported by the verna-
cular organs of the Press in India but annie
funds have been promptly subscribed by native
gentlemen to feast the returning contingent.
and i'll NEST of the centres of Mahomedan activI-
ty special meetings have been held to congrat-
Mate the Indian Government on the happy is
sue OF the experiment of uniting the armies of
the British and Indian empires Thus the
Mahomedan Association of Meerut have lust
sent an address to the Viceroy assuring his
Lordship that the qualification of their COM
munity Is universal. The association goes on
to express the deep and hearty gratitude"
they f.el for the peace and prosperity they en-
Joy, which they " know to be due to British
rule" That rule, they repeat, is universally
appreciated" and the feeling of the Mahome-
dams of India in allegiance and loyalty to the
ton in the world"
LADIES TO THE FRoNT.-The ladies
are coming to the front rapidly. Mr. Alfred P.
Hensman, who took an active part in the move
ment which ended in the admission of women to
the degrees of the University Of London, calls at
tentlon to remarkable result of the recent ex-
ANIMATION for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
There were 237 candidates altogether, of whom
10 were men. Of these 215 men 80, or about
~ per cent, obtained the degree. Of the %
women who presented themselves no fewer than
16, or about 73 per cent, were successful. But
further only So of the 2l5 men, or 81 per cent.
were placed in the first division, whereas Is of
the ~ women, or 68 per cent" succeeded in
obtaining places in that division To put it in
another way, more than one in every three of
the men who obtained their degrees were in the
second division only one of the sixteen women
who became graduates failed to be placed in the
hrst division. This is great triumph for the
ladies. whose average age we are told is not
higher, but probably lower, than that of the
male competitors for the degree.-Belfast Wit
ness.
"A romantic and melancholy story
relative to the death of the Prince Imperial. is
told by Lucy Hooper in a recent letter from
Paris. 1t was given to her by an English lady,
VINO related that the luckless youth had fallen
passlonately in love with young English girl
OF surprising beauty, the daughter of a London
tradesman. His love was returned, but the girl
was as virtuous as she was fair, and the Empress
greatly feared that her son would do what he
overwhelmingly bestow his hand on this
low-born maiden. When his mother remon-
sstrated with him, he turned upon her with some
hometruths respecting the Montiio family, and
the difference in rank between herself and his
father. And so the Empress planned for him
that iatI expedition with the English army
which ended in so tragic fashion. Among The
articles taken from the poor boys dead BODY,
and brought to his mother, was picture in
small morocco case which he had worn upon his
breast, and which was stained with his life
blood 1t was the portrait of the girl that he
had loved.