Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-17

engagements the proportion of wounded 1 will be greater than heretofore, but tha
 the wounds will be less severe, as bullets owing to their small size and bigl
 velocity, will often pass through bone
 without splintering them. It is estimated that about 20 per cent. of the troops vii be wounded in the next campaign. ant | that little more than 3 per cent. will b, killed. That is to say that in an army corps of 5000 men, 1900 will be killed and $500 wounded. About one-third ol the wounds, it is thought, are likely to bt serious.
 Archibald Forbes gives an impressive il lustration of how history is made. MT. Forbes was present at the surrender of Louis Napoleon at Sedan, and occupied the house, the room and the bed which were used by the emperor the night before he was removed, prisoner, to Wilhelms- hohe. In this house, the chateau Belle vue, the king of Prussia and the French emperor had their memorable meeting, and the surrender was finally arranged. In one of the rooms of the chst8u was a great oak table at which MT. Forbes sat to write one of his letters to the London Daily News. As he sat writing his com panion stood near him and "disconsolate- ly gnawed at a ham bone. the miserable remnant of our store of provisions" The bone was well-nigh bare, and with a grumble it was thrown upon the table, upsetting MT. Forbes inkstand and mak- ing great ink spot on the pol ished surface. A few months afterward when MT. Forbes revisited the chateau he was shown this room and table. ''It was at this table," it was said, "that the capit- alation of Sedan was signed. Hot words arose over some of its terms, and General Wimpffen overturned the ink bottle in the midst of his excitement, with nasty mo- tion of his hand"
 Professor Virchow's remarks at the Vienna Archaeological congress concern ing Darwinism were very significant. He said: Since the Darwinian theory of the origin of man made its first victorious mark twenty years ago we have sought for the intermediate stages which were SUD- posed to connect man with the apes; the proto man, the pro anthropos, is not yet discovered. For archaeological science the pro anthropos is even a subject of dis cussion. At that time in Innspruck the prospect was, apparently, that the course of descent from ape to man would be recon structed all at once; but now we cannot even prove the descent of the separate races from one another. At this moment we are able to say that among the peoples of an- tiquity no single one was any nearer to the apes than we are. At this moment I can affirm that there is not upon earth any absolutely unknown race of men. The least known of all are the peoples of the central mountainous district of the Malay peninsula, but otherswise we know the people of Terra del Fuego quite as well as the Esquimaux, Bashkirs, Polynesians and Lapps. Nay, we know more of many of these races thanwe do of certain European tribes; need only men tion the Albanians. Every living race is still human; no single one has yet been found that we can designate as simian or quasi -simian. Even when in certain ones phenomena appear which are characteristic of apes-e. g., the peculiar ape-like projec- cannot say that these men are ape-like.