Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-18
g HAVEN, CONN. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1884

land to advance s9O, ,OOO, ,OOO to the Mexican
 National railroad in return for the assurance
 to them of 5000, 900 tons of corn per year for
 thirty years, at minimum cost for transporta-
 ton. It is in fact three-fold agreement, ern-
 bracing the Dutch distillers, the Mexican
 National railroad, and the Mexican farmers,
 or more especially those of San Luis Potosi.
 The Mexican National road goes up the great
 tableland of the country from Laredo, Texas,
 about half way between the coast and the
 Mexican Central, which is already built.
 The corn lands of San Luis Potosi are from
 700 to 1000 miles distant from Corpus
 Christi; so far in fact that they have never
 been developed. The count gives the prices
 which the Dutch interest are ready to pay.
 He eontemplates agreements with thos who
 farm on a large scale several thousand
 acres each. The Dutch offer to furnish the
 most improved tools, the cost of which shall
 be paid in 30 annual installments They will
 also send competent men to give instruction
 in their use
 The British government has decided not to countenance the projected schemes for ex- ploring the interior of New Guinea It has I notified the Geographical society at Sydney, New South Wakes, -thab-such expeditions to New Guinea as General McIver proposes would at present do harm out of all pro- portion to the good likely to result The
 country that Great Britain has placed under l protectorate will probably not be explored ! except under the auspices of the government I The reason for this is that the three expedi- | tions sent out by Australian newspapers I within the past year and half failed miser- 1 ably on account of their troubles with the I natives, and it is asserted that the men who ! comprised them were not qualified for such services. They were, at all events, very un- | fortunate in their dealings with the Papuans. The latest party returned to Australia in June last. Thep explored the interior for 120 \ miles from the south coast west of the Fly ! river, discovering Splendid country" and I then got into trouble with the natives, and ! fled for their lives.
 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has discover ed that if the ballots cast at the recent cleo tion were placed end to end they would reach | in a continuous line from Washington, D. O., to Fl Paso in Texas, or they would 1 stretch from Eastport, Maine, to New Or leans, as the crow flies. If one end of the 1 long line of paper were made fast at Cape Flattery, the extreme northwestern promon- tory of Washington territory, the other end would pass Kansas City, with enough miles | to spare to reach Sedalia. This has to do
 only with the ballots actually voted The l number of ballots printed, of course, is tre- ! mendously larger than the amount voted. In 1 St. Louis, for instance, the Democrats have | had 600, 900, the other parties in all 700, 900, 1 making for this one town a total of 300, 900
 It is generally admitted, however, that the vote of St. Louis will not, at the outside,
 make more than 50,00O. Here, then, is a surplus of twenty-six ballots for each one cast. This makes the total of ballots offered to the people throughout America at this election 26O, ,O00,0 900 It would require eighty five freight cars to move this load of paper, whose weight is 1,716,000 pounds. The white paper and printing of the mass have cost $234, 600. Pasted end to end there would be paper enough to go entirely around ' the globe, leaving 19, 900 miles to spare for a gigantic double bow-knot, which would GOV CT the greater part of the two Americas.