Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-23
FINE ART IN NORWICH.
Dedication of the Slater Memorial
 museum-A Few of the Famous

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 Sculptures.
 NORWICH, Nov. 22-The Slater Memorial Museum was dedicated to-day and thrown open to the public. It has been established under the supervision of Edward Robinson, curator of antiquities in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and is said to be the finest eol- lection of casts of Greek and Greco-Roman and Renaissance sculpture and photographs of the frescoes and paintings of the masters of art in the Italian German, Netherland, Dutch and other schools between the 18th and 18th centuries and of the architectural monuments of the Old world In this country.
 The statues and reliefs, numbering some three hundred, commence with the archaic, dating about 600 B, C., and cover eight cen- turies and show the gradual growth of sculp- ture from the rude examples of the school of Daedalus to those perfect models of Phidias and his pupils under the generous patron age of Pericles. The Nike of Paeonius of ton of it's pedestal ever made is 2S1l feet high and is the central piece of the retunda. 'The Boxer" unesrth- ed in Rome two years ago is among the new pieces. Among the old pieces are the Hermes of Praxitsles, the Pallas of Justinian and the 0nub OI A1llO, 4uc AOSS9, SuIISL huO JHS Madonna and Leonardo de Medioi with Twilight and Dawn, by Michel Angelo stand prominent in the departments where the works of the restoration are exhibited. There is a collection of 800 gold and silver antique coins. Braun's copy of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel" and his new plate of the "Night Watoh' are the finest of the art photographs. Among the best architectural presentations are the west front of the Rheims Cathedral and the photograph of the front of St. Marks.
 4 special train from Boston and Cambridge brought many representatives of Harvard university and other prominent persons. Professor Seymour of Yale was among those present. A large and cultured audience as- sembled in Slater Memorial Hall at 2:30 o'clock and listened to Q mastsrly address upon HThe influence of art and it's relation to morals by Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard university and an address by Presi- dent Gilman of the Johns Hopkins university of Baltimore, who dwelt upon the educational advantages of this collection, which he aver red was not equalled by the collection of any other educational institution within his knowledge in this country. At the close of the addresses the Slater Memorial Museum was thrown open to the public. The invited guests from abroad were served with ample refreshments by caterer in the hall and left by special train at 6 o'clock p. m. for home
 THE TREASURY REPORT.
 The Public Debt Reduced Seventy
 Four Million Dollars.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-United States Treasurer Hyatt in his annual report on the condition of the treasury at the close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888, reports the net revenue of the government for the year S379, ,266.0 and the net expenditures $267, ,924, ,S01, the surplus receipts available for the reduction of the public debt being $111, ,341 ,273, and increase of $7. 870, 175 over the year before. As compared with 1887, the revenues were $7, ,662, ,797 gre ater and the expenditures $7, S76, 900 less. There was a net decrease of STA, ,7ss, 92O during the fiscal year in the principal of the interest bearing debt The total puackase of bonds for the sinking fund and out of surplus revenues were $51, ,464 5000, the net premium paid ex- elusive of accrued interest being $S, ,270, ,S42.- 46. The increase in the volume of the paper circulation was $83, ,424, 400, resulting from an increase of $110, ,319, ,955 in the amount of certificates and a falling off of $26, ,S95, ,554.- 55 in the total of notes and fractional cur rency.
 people have all of the one and two dollar coins they want or are willing to take, and
 recommends that the purchases of silver be
 put into the form of heavy bars or ingots, ! arguing that the present supply of the dol lars will be sufficient for any demand there l is likely to be for them, and that any increase | of the certificate circulation could be based ! with perfect safety on the uncoined metal. The amount of fractional silver coin in the treasury has not changed much sinee the first
 accumulation after the resumption of specie payments.