The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-17

The oldest map of Rome which is preserved is in the Forum Urbis, cut in 140 pieces of marble. ~- pr. Chapel Provost, the Brazilian surgeon, has announced, after making extensive experiments. that he has no doubt of the success of the new serum cure for opium poisoning.
 John W. Bates of Weymouth. Mass, has in his possession the original flint lock rifle used by John L. Burns at Get tysburg, to whom a monument has just been dedicated on the battlefield.
 The preliminary report of the Illinois Central Railroad Company for the fis- cal year ended June 30 showed incomes available for dividends of $1o.29O,SO0 equal to 1o.ss per cent. on the capital stock.
 In one hundred analyses of the air on Mont Blanc's summit not single microbe was found, although they were plentiful in the observatory. The num- Der showed steady increase in de scending the mountain.
 The mineral resources of Manchuria, as shown even by the surface scratch ing that has been done, are simply stupendous. As a wealth giver it may send more to St. Petersburg for the next half century than India will to London.
 Julius Duboc. who died in Dresden last month, aged seventy-four, was one of the first Germans who made a thor ough study of woman suffrage and the woman question in general. He wrote an historic book on this subject Other works of his are the psychology of Love" Life Without a God" and iop- tirnism as Cosmic Attitude
 It is a we'll known fact that the labor question is one of the gravest problems of the Rand The British government has already considered the advisabiiity Of importing Chinese cooiies in large numbers, and an English contemporary now suggests the importation of Tar tars from the Kazan government in Russia.
 The Belgian authorities in Africa are said to have threatened the American Presbyterians with forcible eviction unless they vacate their station on the Kasai River. and other missionaries have been expelled from Juapa, because of the activity of Protestant mission aries in exposing the horrors of the aw- ful barbarities for which Belgian au- thorities are responsible.
 Recent reports show that during the past twelve months 653 immigrants have been excluded from Australia un- der the new laws. Of these, by far the greater number. 459, were Chinese Others were classified thus: Japanese, 1T; South Africans, 29; Hindus, II; Ital- ians. 6; Germans. 4; Arabs. 3: Alger- ians, 2; white Americans, 2. The new laws were largely designed with view d i. of excluding colored immigrants.
 A committee of the Royal Medical SO. ciety of Germany having been appoint ed to experiment with the ten best known methods of reviving those ap- parently dead from drowning found that rolling, combined with pressure on the back, was strikingly efficacious. The committee considered that this, and the even simpler methods of rhythmic pres sure on the back with the subiec; placed prone, should hold prominent place in all the recommendation fol the resuscitation of such persons.
 In a review of the properties and prospects of the Consolidated Lake su- perior company, just issued, President Cornelius Shields endeavors to show what has become of the millions in. vested. While the report does not open, ly criticise the former management, il makes it clear that there have been ex. travagances, and that some of the sub sidiary companies have been run at g loss. Expenses are being cut down The net earnings of the present veal will be s942.977. Of the ore properties he says that the Helen mine, on tn, Michipieoten range, is the only one upoi which the company can at present safe ly figure.