Show THE LEPROSY A TELEGRAM yesterday from st petersburg says that leprosy is spread ing at a dreadful rate in russia thirty cases es having been reported in durf ut alone russia is a new field for this horrible malady its prevalence being more noted in africa china the east and the west indies and the pacific islands island and somewhat in iceland and the faroe F aroe and shetland islands it is especially prevalent ja m the sandwich islands one of which molokai an island forty miles long and ten miles wide is given over to the habitation of lepers who have been banished forever and are strictly prohibited f kom from having any communication with the outside world perhaps there is no more horree disease than leprosy known to humility its cause is yet problematic though it is generally conceded that it is both hereditary and contagious and that poor living or the use ot of semi putrid in meats eats and rancid oil oll insufficient vegetable food want of cleanliness and exposure to cold and aad damp are constant attendants attendant atten dan to on this affliction tae first symptoms are shown on the face or the extremities of the limbs and consist of spots of insensible skin and ulcerated sores the loathsome disease rapidly spreads through the system breaking out in resh fresh f places all over it until un tar at a t last the body hat has come to nave have the appearance ot of one large putrid ulcer cast out irom among the habitations of men as the leper always is so soon as the first symptoms appear the afflicted for and incurable lingers on through a prolonged ana and horrible death the very flesh in the later stages of the disease dropping from the body |