APPENDIX. 259 



A SALUTARY GIFT. 



In 1868 Mr. James Sugden of New York city, 

 gave to the Trustees of Kutgers College, New 

 Brunswick, the sum of two thousand dollars, the 

 interest to be used for the purchase of books, 

 which were to be divided among the senior class 

 in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed 

 Church, who would sign a pledge to abstain for- 

 ever from the use of tobacco in any form. The 

 professor to whom this charge was entrusted, 

 writes : — "I have secured from six to ten pledges 

 annually, and in many cases from students who had 

 been in the habit of smoking or chewing, or both. 

 This fund has the influence to call attention to the 

 subject, and it has done much to create a public 

 sentiment against the habit. It may not be entirely 

 owing to this fund, but it is a fact that. the use of 

 tobacco grows less year by year among our theo- 

 logical students, so that whereas formerly nearly 

 all used it, now nearly all abstain from it." 



A NEW VOTARY. 



A correspondent of the London Telegraph writes 

 from Egypt : — 



"I have just discovered that my camel is an 

 inveterate lover of the weed. Let any one smoke 

 a pipe, cigar, or cigarette in the compound called 

 stables, and the camel will follow the smoker 

 about, place his nose close to the burning tobacco, 

 inhale the fumes with a prolonged sniff, swallow- 



