Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-08

if N. Jacquet had represented the lineamentt
 of the distinguished dramatist with no hos.
 tile intention, it was held by the court thaI
 the plaintiff had sufficient ground for an ac.
 ton, inasmuch as his permission had moi been previously asked.
 Before many years have gone by the world
 may have to face serious diminution in the
 production of gold. It has been authorita- lively estimated that $15O, 900 ,OOO was added to the worlds stock of gold during the five years from 1851 to 1856. That rate of pro- duction has never since been equalled, and is not likely to be. During the last ten years the output of the gold-prod ucing States and territories west of the Missouri river has pretty steadily decreased from $33, 75O, 600 in 1870 to $27. .s16 $40 in 1883, though in sever al of the intervening years it was larger than in 1870, and in 1877 went to $44, ,88O, 223. Victoria, the chief gold-producing country of Australia, gives similar record of decline from l, 222, 7Ss ounces in 1870 to 74O,3 ,373 ounces in 1888.
 The United States bureau of ethn ology connected with the Smithsonian Institution is about to make thorough survey and ex- ploratien of all tbe works of the mound builders in the State of Ohio, and all per- soas who have knowledge not now accessible of any of these works which have been wholly or partially obliterated, or whose con- tents have been removed, are requested to send information to certain designated per- sons in the State, and all interested in the subject and able to aid the inquiry are asked to assist in procuring from the owners of lands on which prehistoric earthworks. for tidcalions, mounds or burial places exist, permission to explore them. Most of the mounds have already been measured and de- scribed. and their contents investigated, but in general the work has been done superficial ly and insecurately, and it is thought to be desirable that minute, exhaustive and rigid ly accurate exploration and description be made.
 Africa is being thoroughly explored, and it will not be long before the railroad will play an important part in developing it's resources and changing it's people. Dr. Chsvsnne, ab Austrian engineer, has been employed by the King of the Belgians to trace route for 8 narrow gauge railroad along the Kwilu-Niari valley from the coast to LeopoIdville. He left Madeira in February last for the mouth of the Congo, where he was to be joined by 100 Zanzibaris, with whom he expected to go north at once and begin his survey. Three years ago, when the French gave up their project of building 8 railroad across the Sahara desert to Timbuktu, they turned their attention to the development of their Senegambian provinces. They have built 8 line of forts connecting St. Louis, at the mouth of the Senegal river, with the Niger, and are now pushing forward a railroad over 300 miles long between the head of naviga- tioa on the Senegal and the Niger. France expects by means of its forts and railroad line not only to protect it's dependency, Sene- gal from the encroachments of the interior tribes, but also to make the upper Niger sasi- ly accessible, and to open trading relations with the millions that iphabit it's banks with- out passing through the malarious regions of the Niger delta. The railroad leading north from Cape Town is getting extended across the Gran ge river to Kimberly, the bustling city of the diamond miners. The completion of this road will give the traveller rapid tran- sit for $50 miles on his way to the Zambesi. The carrying out of such enterprises as these will make great and permanent change in Africa.