Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-08-08

through deception and fraud. Other
claimants say they are prior owners.
There are many legal complications, and
among the large number of persons In
terested are many families In New York
and In Paris.
Ths material In which imitation dia-
monds are produced is called strass, from
the name of Its inventor, German jewel
or who fourished at the beginning of the
present century. 1t Is perfectly colorless
and transparent glass, or rather crystal, of
irreproachable purity, composed of rock
crystal, or of white sand, mixed with
oxide of lead, arsenical acid and other
ingredients. Its preparation demands In
finite care and multitude of precautions,
to avoid the possibility of the slightest
flaw or bubble being introduced into the
mass, from which are then cut the false
gems in the proportions desired. Small
or medium size diamonds produce a much
better effect than do large ones.
Further testimony concerning the phys
ical charms of the Japanese women, a mat
ent Scott. the dramatic critic, are violently
at odds, is furnished by Mrs. Louis Pagan,
travelled English woman. Mrs. Pagan
knows the Mikado's land well, and she
AYERS that, though the Japanese women
are not beautiful, had Providence given
them good looks in proportion to their
other attractions, western women would
in time become extinct, for men would go
en- masse to Japan for their wives and
sweethearts. Mrs. Pagan dwells particu-
larly on the fact that these slsnt-eyed
daughters of the Orient are quite devoid
of vanity. They never wear jewelry of
any kind and they never have their ears
pierced for earrings. AS for the men,
they never swear, for the sufficient reason
that the Japanese language contains no
oaths.
A religious paper can say things that
wouldn't look well in a secular paper.
marks: If there is hell where the heathen
are suffering the torments of the damned,
and the members of that board, after they
reach heaven, do not organize 8 mis-
sionsry society to work In that world
of woe, they will show themselves
unworthy to be In heaven, and unfit
to have stood In this world as the rep
resentative of the love of God in Christ. 1t
may be that they will find themselves put
on probation after death for their action
on this question here. 1t would be only
just retribution If they were detained at
the door of heaven until Mr.. Noyes had
seen all of his heather probationers safely
in. Jesus said to certain men of his time,
"Verily cay unto you, that the publicans
and the harlots 60 into the kingdom of
Ged before you"
It looks as If the mystery surrounding
the fate of the steamship Naronic will
never be solved. In the months which
have elapsed since she was given up for
lost not a particle of evidence has come to
hand throwing light upon the unknown
disaster which sent her and all on board
to the bottom of the Atlantic. The British
Board of Trade has carefully examined all
the theories suggested, and has finally
come to the conclusion that 1t is confronted
with an unsolved mystery. The Nsronic
Is known to have been Whist sailors call
"great roller It is the belief of some
seafaring folk that, owing perhaps to the
way in which her cargo was disposed, in a
heavy gale she rolled 30 far that It was i'm
possible for her to right herself-that, in
fact, she rolled completely over and went
down with all her company before single
man had a chance to save himself
"Shekel" has been adapted into modern
slang and is used to mean money, hire,
payment in any sort of currency or ooin,
but the old Jewish shekel is really re-
igious token. On one side 1t bears the
pot of mama, on the other Asron's rod,
budding. The inscriptions are "Shekel of
Israew and Jerusalem the Holy" 1t
was first coined about $50 years before the
birth of Christ and was worth In silver
about 62i cents. Before the Jewish
shekel the Babylonians had coin of that
name. Shekel was also weight and it is
recorded that when Absalom had his hair
cut, once year, 1t weighed 200 shekels,
about FIVE pounds. Some of these coins
are still preserved; those believed to be
genuine have the characters in Samaritan.
The coins bearing the square Hebrew char
acters, 1t has been decided, are forgeries.
The shekel of gold was worth $3.50 and in
copper only cents.
In its efforts at retrenchment and reform
the government of New South Wales has
already affected reduction in the expen-
ditures for this year of 81, 500, 900, as COM
pared with last year. Official salaries have
been cut all around. The premier an
nuunced two weeks ago that at the next
session of parliament a new local govern
ment bill would be introduced and the pay
ment of members would be abolished, "the
experiment having proved failure" The
government of South Australia Is anxious
to save the expense of the governors sala-
ry after the present governor leaves the
colony at the end of this year, and has
asked the colonial Office to allow the chief
justice of the colony to act in the capacity
of governor. The Queensland government
also announced two weeks ago, on the In
PRODUCTION of the Budget, that the salaries
of all civil servants receiving over fl50 q
year would be cut down 10 per cent. for
one year. But the salaries of ministers of
the crown, the big ones, are to remain as
at present. The deficit for the year
amounts to ELL, 900, making a total de-
fcienoy of 91, 100000.
FASHION NOTES.
Stylish Callers.
e. l. 81; okr 10 a