Plague Spread By Monkeys

A private letter from a high medical official in India gives an amazing explanation of the perpetuation of the bubonic plague in that country. Ho says it has been contracted by the monkeys which infest sacred ediflces in the principal clties of the Bengal presidency. These animáis are held sacred by the natives and it is Impossible for sanitary authorities to take any measures to deal with the plague among them. The only effectual plan would be to extermínate them, which could be easily done, as they are almost tame, but such a proceeding would probably provoke a massacro of Europeans in retaliation. At Agra recently a conference of the principal native priests was summoned to consider wlth the medical authorities what should be done to stamp out the plague among the monkeys, but the priests getting wind of the object of the meeting declined to attend it. The mere suggestion of the Britlsh laying thelr profane hands on the sacred monkeys even in the way of kindness, aroused all the fanaticism of the Oriental character, and has further intensifled the disaffectlon which is universal throughout the Indian empire.