Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-19

Chinese. Throughout China soap is used to e very limited extent. the public belief being that cleanliness is . luxury rather than a ne- cessity, and hence something that can be easily foregone, All the metallic vessels used for cooking are made very thin at the bottom so that the action of heat may be immedi- ately realized without waste of fuel. All ar tieles of apparel, particularly those which come from Europe or Americe, are used over and over again, 80 long as 8 shred of them is left. As all animal flesh is considered suit able for food, no discrimination is made in the species, the flesh of the mule answering it's purpose quite as. well as the flesh of the OK, while, experience having shown that it is only in rare cases that the eating of the flesh of an animal that has died from some disease is productive of bad results to the eater, meat of this kind commands quite as good prices as that which comes from regularly slaugh- tered animals.
 Several Paris papers publish articles on the population of France. The France shows that the increase of births over deaths is due entirely to diminished death rate. Men are living to be older, but this cause of increase is, from it's very nature, temporary. The tendency of it's population is to decline, while England and Germany grow at the rate of half 8 million year. The Anglo-Saxon race, which was much inferior in point of number to the French race, is now two or three times as numerous. Within century, for one man speaking French there will be ten speaking English. The France passes in re- view all the proposed remedies, and rejects them as visionary and impracticable, and concludes that the only true one is to revive the old spirit of the nation. This, however, cannot be done by decree. The Univers says: eve can fix the day, not distant day, when, by the perennial falling of of births, France will have lost one-third of it's population. The result is fatal. Within half century France will have fallen between Italy and Spain to the rank of seeond-rate power. There is no denying the figures. If it con- tinues, in addition to other causes of deca- dence, we are lost nation"
 Professor Lee of Bowdoin college, who &C., companied the Albatross expedition as naturalist, tells of curious experience in the South Pacific ocean. Years ago the Ecuador government planted convict colony on Charles Island, one of the Galapagos group. The convicts revolted, killed the governor, and escaped, leaving behind pigs, cattle, donkeys and horses. Since that time no one was thought to live there, and at Chatham island, another of the group, the Albatross party were told that Charles island was en- tirely deserted. They were, therefore, rather surprised when they visited Charles island to come upon man Eearly naked carrying pig on his back. He was quite as surprised as they, and was at first in great fear; but finally they got him to talk. His hair and bearn had grown to great length, and he had lost all notion of time. He said that some years before he had come from Chatham is- land with party in search of certain moss, that he had deserted his companions, who had gone of without him, and that since that time he had been alone on ths island. He had lived on fruits and herbs; had captured wild cattle by setting traps for them, killed them with spear made by tying his pocket knife to a stick, and from their hides made 8 hut. He was glad to see men again, and asked to be taken back to Chatham, which was granted, of course.