Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-22

| the natives to civilize and Christianize them.
 This is known as William Taylor's expedi- 1 tion, for it is originated by Bishop Taylor of
 the Methodist Episcopal church, tFthe Paul ] inc missionary" who was elected at the last general conference for this express work of enlightening Africa, because he had la bored so efficiently in India and in South America, establishing missionaries in those countries among the people thereof. The ex- petition includes ministers, doctors teach CTS, mechanics; there married and single women among them, and a number of mere children. They come from Vermont, Massa- chusetts, Con0ecticut, Maryland, Ohio, h. diana, Illinois, Minnesota and California, and they take with them considerable stores of cotton cloth, Bibles and rifles, shotguns and ammunition. This does not look like very promising scheme.
 Adolph Sutro has been quietly at work for number of years maturing a plan which will place him among the public benefactors of California. He intends to establish free public library and to erect handsome build ing, and when all is complete to present it to San Francisco. It is to be a library after the fashion of those in the German universi- ty towns, such as Goettingen, Heidelberg, and Leipsic. which are intended chiefly for students and scholars. In 1882 MT. Sutro started for Europe by way of Japan and China, with the intention of making begin ming The sixty thousand volumes now ar ranged in building in San Francisco is the result of his work abroad While in Japan and China and later, while in India, he bought Oriental works of great value Wherever he found manuscript or old work or coin that threw light upon the history religion or philosophy of the East he bought it and had it shipped home. He ransaeked Egypt. Jerusalem and Greece for old and rare works and when he arrived in western Europe he l employed agents to buy books in Madrid, ] London, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Leipsic l and Goettingen.
 The British government is trying to find 1 out what can be done to enable Great Britain 1 to rely upon India instead of the United | States and other countries for it's wheat sup | ply. A select committee of Parliament has made report concerning the necessity for | more rapid extension of railway communica-
  object can best be accomplished The con clusion to which the committee comes is that l the evidence in favor of @ more rapid exten 1 sion of railway communication is conclusive. | The reasons and statistics occupy in the re- 1 port nearly 8 thousand pages. It sufices to say that the development of the export of | wheat since 1876 has been remarkable under | he circumstances. The average export for he five years following 1876 was 4,5H, 900 l ,wt., valued at, say, ten millions of dollars, md in 18S3-4 the export was 20, 961 ,000 cwt., valued at nearly forty five millions of dol ars. Now, it is hardly to be doubted that increased and cheaper transportation would ldd immensely to the wheat production, and money is plentiful and cheap in India and in England. Labor in India is obtainable at merely nominal price as compared with that ,f this country Therefore this move of the En- ,lishmen is of great importance to our west rn wheat growers.