Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-12


 Commander Cameron, the African explor- CT, in speaking the other day of the African slave trade, expressed the opinion that the only way to suppress the evil was to form company or association, which, either by charter or by act of parliament, should be intrusted with governing powers over the af- fected part of central Africa, its revenue to be raised either from taxes-which the na- tives would gladly pay in view of the protec- ton afforded them-or by dues upon traders. He proposes that the members of the society or association be paid fixed and moderate rate of interest to come out of the revenue.
 There are changes in the South. The Co., Iumbia Register, the oldest Bourbon Demo- cratic newspaper in South Carolina, denoun- ces the 'feight box" election law, pleads for fair dealing with the negro in politics and emphasizes the necessity for change in the election methods of the State. The Register even goes 50 far as to oppose the bill intro duced in the legislature which proposes to confne the suffrage to persons who can both read and write, the object of which plainly is to disfrsnchise large numbers of colored citizens. The politicians of South Carolina are greatly stirred up by the Registers bold attitude.
 The number of animals killed in Siberia every year for their fur is enormous. At the last fair of Irbit, which is 6 market for only part of the furs exported from Siberia, no less than 8, 3,1S0, ,000 furs of squirrels were of fered for sale Of these 1 1,01s, ,00O were killed in the forests of Yeneseisk, 455, ,000 in the Altai mountains, 200,0o in Yakutsk and 300, 900 in Transbaikalia. A considerable number of the furs of squirrels killed in the last two provinces are exported directly both to China and to Russia without passing through Irbit. It is worthy of note that this year there was considerable decrease in the furs of the black squirrel. Only half 8 mill lion of these furs were brought to the fair, as against more than million ir 1887. Ofother furs there were Il, 900 blue fox, from Obdorsk and Berezoff; 40, GOO marmot, chiefly from the Altai; 3O,O0O polecat, 10000 badger, l.. 300, 900 hare, 2,O00 fox and number of beal and fox-skins.
 It costs something to make the magazines | of today. A careful estimate of the money spent in Illustrating the Christmas number Der of two of the leading ones puts the sum
 at $7 ,000 each, as both magazines contains about seventy pictures, the average being | $100 for engraving. Many of the full-pag'
 ''blocks" cost $500 each, and some of thu half-page illustrations, which readers ofteI
 pass by unnoticed, cost from $200 to $25l
 each. These prices are easily accounted fo when 1t is remembered that men like J
 Alden Weir, Elihu Veddsr, Will H. Low ant
 A. B. Frost receive from $100 to $150 |
 drawing. Ten years ago the highest pric paid for the same work was $50 drawinI
 for full page illustration. To come to tn
 literary matter: The expense for articles an'
 stories, large proportion of which are pre- pared to order, cost on an average $25
 printed page, and $100 page is often de
 manded. The liked charges" on the larg
 magazines for literary and artistic matte
 alone is, therefore, from $s,000 to $10,0o