Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-21

ns tne time regretted py tnose Wno W1sned 90
 see the structure preserved entire as . memo rial building, but the stipulation in the leases forbiddi-g the display of signs was generally ! thought to be quite snfa&ens to protect the ! building and prevent It's gradual return to it's distressing appearance before its restoration. The preliminary surveys for the great Simplon tunnel have now been definitely l accomplished by g commission of experts, the result being report adverse to any opsr- ations being undertaken on the route sug- gested, in view of the extreme heat likely to l be encountered in the interior of the vast mountain-the normal temperature of the same being estimated at nearly ninety-eight degrees during the process of construction. I In other respects, however, it is admitted that the geological conditions are quite as favorable as those of St. Gothard. They propose, under these circumstances, a line l slightly different from that originally contem- plated, and which. though somewhat lenger than the first, would reduce the temperature to about eighty-six degrees, and would afford ] better opportunities also for the required ven- tilation.
 
 enough to engage their attention in the way of bank failures within their own borders lately, and consequently the failure of the Oriental bank of London has not been much noticed. But the failure was 8 big one The capital of the bank was S1, 500, 900. or about $7, 300, ,O00, and it's surplus @ few years ago was $500, ,0O0, or $2. 500, 900. Its busi- ness wss done chiefly with India, Ceylon, and other Asiatic countries, and the commercial reverses there few years ago, together with the depreciation of silver, swept away nearly the whole of its surplus. Since then it has been struggling to retrieve it's position, but without success. Its dividends, which in 1874 were at the rate of 12 per cent per an mum, dropped gradually to 10 per cent. in 1877, then to per cent in 1878, per cent. in 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1882, and finally in 1883 ceased altogether. The shares, which sold at 180 in 1874, are now offered for nothing, with 8 bonus besides, the holders being liable for the banks debts to an amount equal to par. The banks liabilities just previous to it's suspension were reported at about es, 500, 900, or $42, ,5eo 900, and it's assets at a little more.
 M. Alfonso Milne-Edwards presented at 8 recent meeting of the French Academy of Science photograph of a young male gorilla recently imported from GRboon, and which is now pensionnairea ct the Jardin des Plantes This is said to be the first time that a repre- sentative of this great family of anthropo- morpheus apes has arrived alive in France It is about three or four years of age It has all it's milk teeth, its csnines being sharp and much longer than the other teeth. It's body is we'll developed, the trunk being much longer than the legs, having the sp- pearance of the body of giant plssed on the legs of dwarf. It's lips are less mobile than those of the chimpanzee, particularly the lower lip, which it cannot use for drinking It's eyes are extremely mobile. the superciliary ridges very prominent; it's nose is fat, and the nostrils extraordinarily large, giving it peculiar expression. Its intelligence appears little developed, and far inferior to that of the other aRthropomorphous monkeys, even to that of the gibbons. It is of an irascible temper, and is by no means so docils as the ehimpan1se or the oRanR.oEtsa0t and will mt frsternize with it's keeper, notwithstanding the advances made by the latter.