Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-18

can Solu mines nave lncreas9u greatly ln productivsness, so that the output for last August was at ths rate of $S2, 500, 900 e year, about the same as tie product of this country. The gold region Is now sup posed to be much larger than was formerly supposed, improved machinery is being put up and gold mining Is booming.
 There are two remarkable linguists hold ing unimportant places in Washington. One is Ivan Michel, Russian, who is clerk to the senate committee on foreign affairs. He is familiar with twenty-six languages, and has a stock of information almost en- cyclopedic upon European finances and diplomacy. The other Is George Josnnini, a clerk at the Normandie Hotel. He is but 23 years old, yet he is master of seventeen languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Hindustsni. He speaks nine of these idio- maticslly, and almost without accent, and the others well enough to carry on ordi- nary conversation. He Is born linguist and acquires languages without difficulty.
 The Worlds fair Is booming nowadsys. During the week that ended with Saturday night 2,033, "A people paid to see it. This number was s million mo-e than the total admissions for the whole month of May and only 500, 900 less than the total for June. 4 million week for the last two weeks of the exposition will bring the grand total up to 10000, 900, the figure upon which the directors had fixed their hopes. That total will be exceeded beyond any doubt. With New York day and the great crowds that may be expected on the closing day the attendance for the last two weeks should aggregate at least 5000, 900. This will be more than the most sanguine dsred hope for month ago, and will bring the fair to close in a blaze of auriferous aud srgentiferous glory, pleasing alike to the public, the directors and the stock holders.
 Love in cottage Is fine, but love in a palace is all right too. Princess Augusta Marie Louise is the daughter of Prince Leo pold of Bavaria She has attained the i'm questionable age Of nineteen, and some time ago her rowing fancy fell upon hand some young lieutenant of cavalry. The warrior returned her love, but when Leo pold discovered the state of affairs there was no end of row. The lieutenant was shipped off to distant garrison, and the princess was forbidden to think Of him. But she did just the game. She thought of him until she fell i'll, and pined away to such an extent flat her father became alarmed. He consulted the court physi- clan who could not minister to a mind diseased, and the upshot Is that there is to be g wedding at Munich with the young lieutenant and the loyelorn princess ss the principals.
 blue book just issued in London on the home charges of the Indian govern ment shows the gum which India has to pay to Great Britain yearly in discharge of the obligations incurred for money lent. for services rendered, and for establish ments kept up on Indian account. These charges have besn pretty steadily on the increase for some years past. In the five years ending in 1880 they reached an aver age of el3, ,746,97 In 1890 they had risen to fl4. .956, 100; in the next year to el5, ,177, 100, and they stand now at 8 somewhat larger sum than this. The fnll extent of the pressure on the revenues of India Is not shoSn by these hgures. The suns due mus. be paid in British currency, in gold, whereas the Indian revenue, from which they must be paid, Is raised in rupees, in silver, 90 that, as ths geld | number of rupees required to pay the amount due. Tnere fig thus twofold process tending to augment the burden oi the home charges. The chsrges have in creased, while at the same time the Is sources for meeting them have bsen dImin ishing.
 For some reason CT other explorer | seem to want to know more about tn, | Arctic than the Antarctic region. Tn, | British association for the advancement O science devoted considerable time on ont day of its recent meeting at Nottingham
 to the subject of Antarctic exploration
 Papers were read by explorers, and th, captain of a steam whaler gave his ex | perience. The conclusion of the discus
 sion was that ws know very little mor
 about the southern oircumpoler resiol
 than WAS discovered by Ross half centur
 ago. Very few explorers or whalers hay
 gone farther than Ross did, and all repor
 that the obstacles in the way of sxplors
 ton arc greater than in the northern pols
 regions. South of 80 degrees of latitud
 the whole ocean Is strewn with icebergs
 many of them Of enormous size. Tn
 whaler Balaena brought home photo
 graphs of several, and reports on
 30 miles long and another 250 fee
 high; 65 were counted in one day, a
 of great size. There is an Antsrtic cont
 nent or large island to which the name (
 Grahsm's land has been given, and the Bl
 laena sailed near enough to 1t to zee Il eastern coast, something which has nevs
 been accomplished before. Black whal.
 were not found, nor were fur seals, onl
 commoner kinds of whales and seals, (
 that the Balaena's voyage was not a gu
 cess as whaling trip. Penguins in pleni
 were found on the ice, and one bird, u emperor penguin, which is 4 feet 10 inch high, was captured, only after it hl , knocked down five sailors with its hI | pera.