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Show CAN'T FIND IT. It is very well known that Evolutionists have been dreadfully put out because they cannot find the "missing link" between man and the monkey. All the caves of Europe have been searched in vain, and a number in Asia and America; but nothing could be found. The Tertiary Beds in Europe, India, America, and elsewhere, also failed to produce the "missing link." It was then suggested by Lyell and others that tropical Africa and the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, which are the special habitat to the anthropomorphous apes, would probably yield something, and the expectation was held out that we should yet learn the great secret how man has developed. Carrying out this hint, some enthusiastic scientists, a year or so ago, secured a fund for the exploration of the caves in Borneo, and the work has since been carried on by experts. The results of their explorations is given in the following extract from a recent number of Nature: "The general result of the exploration may be summed up as follows. The existence of osstoreous caves in Borneo has been proved, and at the same time the existence of man in the island in the island with the find, whose remains are entombed in the caves. But, both from the recent nature of these tombs, and from the fact that the race of men whose remains are associated with it had already reached an advanced stage of civilization, the discovery has in no way aided the solution of those problems for the unraveling of which it was originally promoted. No light has been thrown on the origin of the human race - the history of the development of the fauces characterizing the Indo-Malayan subregion has been advanced - nor, virtually, has any evidence been obtained showing what race of man inhabited Borneo previously to the immigration of the various tribes of Malayan stock which now people the island. Furthermore, the presumption that the northwest portion of Borneo has too recently emerged above the waves of the sea to render it probable that future discoveries will be made of cave deposits of greatly higher antiquities than those already examined, has been strengthened. Under these circumstances it seems advisable that cavern research in northwest Borneo should now be left to private enterprise, and that no further expenses should be hazarded, at any rate until the higher parts of the island in the northeast may be conveniently examined." CHINESE NATION DEPARTURE The New York Commercial Bulletin says of the removal by China of trade restrictions: Unless we are mistaken as to the scope of the change, it will prove to be on of the most significant events to the commerce of the nineteenth century. The operation of the new condition may be slow, but it cannot ultimately fail to be a matter of no small moment to the commercial nations that 350,000,000 of people, whose internal commerce is now limited to $250,000,000 of imports and exports are now free to cultivate external trade as any other nation. One important result will be that foreign trade will no longer be confined to the five treaty ports. Natives at any of the numerous populous cities on the vast seaboard of the Empire will henceforth be at liberty to transact business with any country. There is value in this event to foreign merchants, who will ultimately find their way to doing business through nations at ports from they are now excluded through the absence of treaty arrangements. The chance of opening markets in the heart of China gives more promise than a hundred colonies after which European Governments are so eagerly straining. |