Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-23

rica have enriched the museums of Austria,
 is now carrying out a very large scheme of 1 exploration. He left Cape Colony recently, intending to cross the country from south to
 north. He expects to be gone three years. He hopes to cross the water parting between
 the Congo and Zambesi rivers, a region of 1 which little is known, to trace the sources of theSS eSSCongo river in the country that Living
 stone alone has visited, to solve the problem
 of the destination of the river Welle, in
 which, however, Dr. Junker may anticipate
 him, and to push north either through Oar
 fur or Wadai. In 1872 Dr. Ho1ub vainIy ap-
 piled to several scientific bodies to send him
 to Africa. He finally started on his own ac-
 count, reached Port Elizabeth with $15 in
 his pocket, practised medicine in the dia-
 mond fields, and spent his earnings and two
 years and half of time in explorations
 which were so remarkably fruitful that the
 Vienna Geographical society and other bodies
 raised, last winter, $25, ,000 to enable him to
 carry out his present enterprise.
 The suicide tables prepared by the insur-
 ance boards are quite complete for the cur
 rent year. During the six months ending with August sos suicides occurred in the United. States. The usual annual average is about 1,700, or about B per million of population. The youngest suicide was thirteen years of age and the eldest eighty-nine Distributed by principal causes, 72 were traced to insani- 4 ty, 54 to family troubles, A to sickness, 33 ] to business troubles, 20 to love troubles and 2S to dissipation. Distributed by conditions | 129 were husbands, B wives, 67 bachelors 33 maids, q widowers, widows and di- voreed persons: Distributed by means employed, no shot themselves, 76 swallowed poison, 61 hanged themselves, 38 cut their I throats, 34 chose drowning and the remain | der preferred other methods. Of the whole | number, 284 were males and 99 females f about the usual ratio of three males to ore female. Distributed by States, suicides were most numerous in Illinois, in New York next, l in Indiana next and Ohio and Pennsylvania f tie for fourth place with 28 each. Daylight
 was chosen by 269 and the night by IA
 The Independents do not think as highly I of MT. Theodore Roosevelt as they did when l they were expecting him to join them. At a | Republican meeting in Maiden, Massachu- l setts, the other evening, Mir. Roosevelt told | why he was not an Independent. Mr. Blaine, he said, was not his choice. He ! tried to prevent his nomination. But MT. Blaine was the choice of the bone and sinew
 of the Republican party, Abraham Lincoln's ''plain people," he was fairly and honorably \ nominated; "I, for one, D said Roosevelt, Jam quite content to abide by the decision of the plain people," Later in his speech the New York reformer told the Massachusetts folks what he knew about MT. Grover Cleveland ! His own public career had been short, he said, but MT. Grover Clevelands had been still shorter and circumstances had thrown ! them good deal together. MT, Grover 1 Cleveland was not demagogue, but he was
 a Democratic politician. He had signed l some of the reform bills laid before him ''those that did not bear too harshly on the Democratic organizations" He had not 1 signed the bill that would have busted MT. Hubert O. Thompson. ffThere has been nothing whatever in his past career,'' said l Mir. Roosevelt ito warrant Us in saying that ' he will be able to resist the pressure of his party-that he will have the power to resist l the almost incalculable pressure that will be ! brought to bear upon him if he is elected"