Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-12-28

and COW to attend an afternoon tea at the
house of . common friend. The company
are all vsccinated from the COW. In some
of the large houses of the Champs Elysees
the COW is taken up In the elevator and is
temporarily installed In the dining room.
The wine crop of France appears to have
been very good this year. The official or
gan of the ne-producers of France esti-
mates this years yisld of the French vine
yards at 1,225, ,000, 900 gallons, against
csc, ,000, 900 last year. The increase has
been general throughout the country ex-
cept in the departments Of the Var and
Maritime Alps. The product is especially
good from the Bordeaux, Burgundy and
champagne districts- The total value Of
the yield Is over $3.50, 600, 900, the biggest
figure since 1877.
Father Hyacinthe has BEEN lscturing In
Paris In support Of the new movement for
the establishment of Christian Apostolic
church In France. The new church, he
explains, is not In any way hostile to
existing churches. The latter, however,
he thinks are not going the right way to
retain their hold upon the people. Out of
38, ,000, 900 of Roman Catholics In France,
he declares $4,000, 900, sccofsiing to the
statistics of the church itself, do not re-
ceive the sacrament at Easter tide, and are
therefore, according to the canons, to be
considered as sex-communicsted.
The polyglat character of the Austrian
army was sbundsntly shown the other day
when the ancient custom of solemnly
swearing in the recruits In the presence of
the troops was revived, after having been
discontinued since 1858. In Vienna alone
the formula of oath to the colors had to
be administered and read out In nine Ian
Croatian, Bohemian, Polish, Ruthenisn,
Roumanian, Servian and Turkish, while
the religious part of the ceremony was
conducted by Roman Catholic, Creek
Catholic and Greek orthodox priests,
Protestant pastors, Jewish rabbis and
Mahometan ulsma.
In talking over old times in Boston and
Cambridge, Colonel Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, who has Just celebrated his
SEVENTEEN birthday, recently gave inter
esting testimony to the decline of drinking
among the students of Harvard university.
He used in his younger years to see stu
dents reeling down North avenue, in Cam
bridge, from Porter's tavern, where they
had indulgsd in the potent "aip," which
nowhere else WAS made 30 strong, and in
stances of intoxicated students careering
through the college yard were not uncom
mon, "while nowadays" says the Colonel,
"I am sure no student would willingly be
seen staggering across Harvard Square. 1t
would be considered poor form, and any
man who did such a thing would lose
caste" Just like Yale.
The Rev. b. B. Frissell, who has been
chosen to succeed General Armstrong as
principal of the Hampton Institute, has
been associated with General Armstrong
for the last thirteen years, and has conse-
qusntly enjoyed training that fits him In
peculiar way for the duties he has to per-
form. He was graduated from Yale In
1874, having worked his own way through
college. He spent two years in teaching In
New York State and then attended the
Union Theological Seminary. After year
of mission work in New York city, he was
invited to bscome chaplain at Hampton.
BE accepted the invitation and thus pre-
pared the way for what will doubtless be
his life work. Mr.. Frissell Ia thoroughly
in sympathy with the work carried on ct
the Hampton Institute. His father Ia the
Rev. Amass O. Frissell, of Plsin6eld, N.
j., one of the secretaries of the American
Tract Society.