Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-04
NEW YORK.

in letter from Egypt gives an account
of the recent discovery of race of pig
mics in Central Africa: " Speaking Of
the two in the care of the Khediye he
saws: The little fellows looked at me
with bright, questioning, steady eyes,
while l examined and measured them.
| Tu5bul was forty-six inches in hight, his
legs being twenty-five inches in length
and the body, with the head, twenty-four
inches, which is somewhat better pro-
portioncd than is usual in savage tribes.
The head and arms were quite sym
metrical, but the spine is curved in
remarkably from the shoulders to
the hip joint, throwing out the abdomen,
which was already much distended,
probably from their diet of beans and
bananas; yet the head was erect,
shoulders on line of gravity, and there
was no stoop in the posture of the body
as in South Africa. Tubbul measured
twenty-six inches around the breast and
twenty-eight inches around the abdo-
men; his hands and feet were coarsely
formed, but not large, only the knee
joints being dispropertionately thick
and clumsy; the facial angle was fully
up to the average; there was good de-
velopment of the brain, fine, intelligent
eyes and nose so hattened that in look
ing down on the forehead from above
one could see only the lips projecting
beyond it; the nostrils were astonish-
ingly wide and square; complexion was
that of dark mulatto."
A letter from Berlin says: 1t was
evident the purpose of the Liberals in
voting to fix the military strength of Ger
many for seven years, TO enable the En-
peror to prepare for any hostile. demon
STATIONS during the seven years Presi-
dent MacMahon is to exercise his power
in France. The letter adds: The ad-
dition of some 10000 men to the regu-
lar army, is fact, which carries its own
explanation, but the effect Of this in
crease on the available military material
of the country involves another calcula-
ton. Besides the three years which he
serves under the flag, the recruit has
nine years in the reserve, and Ian dwehr.
The increase Of $4,000 to the permanent
army implies an yearly addition Of the
same number to the trained reserve.
This amounts in seven years to 100000
men. or rather since the effect Of the in
crease will be felt on the reserve only,
after the expiration of three years from
the beginning of the new levies 100000
will represent that addition, while l20,-
900 more will be still in active service
in other leyies. In 1881, Germany will
be able to meet France with nearly 300,-
900 more skilled soldiers than to day.
A Paris letter writer says. Evidently,
difficulties are fast closing in about us,
and every day we have some fresh cause
for rejecting upon the security Of the
moment. The spirit which animated the
Commune isvery far from being crushed.
The same men are once more organizing
for another attempt, and just as they
did before in ls48 and 1871. Scores of
workingmen are formed in each arron-
basement under the direction of district
commissioners, which take their orders
from central committee. The next
step is to bind the members by
making them solitary in all the dan
gers and benefits, and by the elements
OF secrecy, always attractive to the I'M
educated Members Of the society who
have work are privately taxed, and one
half Of the proceeds is added to the
sinking fund reserved for war budget
the rest goes to aid those who are out Of
work and in distress Just before the
war matters had reached the stage where
we find them to-day, Creuzot was
selected as the best point for the begin.
ming Of the strikes. Difficulties then
occurred to prevent them. This time
tAe strikes are to be encouraged to a
/ positive certainty.