Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-01-01
NEW HAVEN, CONN, MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY l. 1894

Is provided with banks, schools, churches
aud public institutions, and its society has
already become well settled.
In honor of the ssth birthday of the
queen regent Of China !, ,900, 900 pieces of
red Sill, each forty feet long and three
wide, were ordered to BE- made In the i'm
perial mills Of Nanking. 500 Chow Foo and
Hang Chow-Foo. With these the streets
of Pekin are to be decorated for . distance
of forty miles. The queen regent has also
decreed that the customary birthday gifts
annually presented BY the provincial man
dArins be omitted this year and the money
devoted to the relief Of the poor, who have
suffered much from the unusually severe
winter eeason.
For the frst time on record Q Hebrew
has been gaAstted officer to one of the
crack highland regimsnts Of Queen Vic
toria's army. These regiments, notwith-
standing their Scotch origin and dress, are
nowadays composed mainly of Englishmen,
Wslshmen and Irishmsn. But this is The
frst time that they have had on, their
rosters . highlander of the chosen race.
which, prior to the present reign, was
barred from holding commissions In the
army and navy, and even from msmher-
ship In parliament. - =
A remarkable art exhibition Is announced
ct Bristol, England. It consists of thirty
paintings by Mr.. Bartram Hilss. an artist
who. while quite . boy, lost both arms.
Having from childhood shown . strong
disposition and love for drawing, he was
taught to draw, holding the pencil In bis
mouth. After . time he became . student
ct the Merchant ventursrs' schools and
won Q national scholarship, which gave
him the privilege of studying at the Ma
tional Art Training school at South Ken
sinRton for two years, where he won one
national silver medal and two national
bronzs medals. The authorities at South
Remington ssnt him to Paris for some
months to study at the museums, paying
all his expenses.
The new Cape diamond for the posses
sion of which the emperor of Germany is
said to be negotiating is o daley. This
precious stone Is now In the Bank of Eng
lands safes, and was brought thither last
summer from the African diamond mines.
Experts say 1t is of the purest water, ard
worth about $4,000, 900 A squsdron of
lancers guarded the carriage that con-
veyed the stone to Cape Town, from
which point 1t was shipped to London in
the gunboat Antelope. It II fully three
inches high, nearly three inches broad,
and weighs OIL osrsts. little more than
seven ounces. The color is white, with Q
very slight bluish tint, and it's lustrs is
pronounced mstohless. The British gov
ernmsnt is reported to have offered $2,-
500, 900 for this diamond, but the offer was
refused.
The State bank bill recently paused by
the Georgia Legislature provides that one
half of tho capital stock shall be set apart
and kept on deposit in the vaults of said
banks as fund for the redemption of the |
bills issued by said banks, and shall be |
used for no other purpose, and that the re- |
naming half of the capital stock SO paid In |
shall be invested In valid county, munich
pal, state and United States bonds. Cap
tain James W. English of Atlanta, presi- |
dent of the American Trust snd Banking
Company, and considered one of the best |
6nanniAra in -Gsnreia. aays of the ahnve
provisions that they render .hs whole
Georgia bill inprasticsble. "whers Ia the |
money to come from with which the bust |
ness of the banks is to be donei What
sort Of dividends can be declared under |
such lawi Is this the elastic currency
We were promisedp'
The Rev. s. A. Barnett, an Anglican |
clergyman, who has for many years been
doing apostolic work among tae poor of |
East London, says that ths Anglican |
Church does not reach more than 8 per
cent of the dense population In that region.
The two reasons for this failure, he de- |
clares, are the wealth of the Church and
its liturgy. "The common people," he |
says, do not understand how the Church,
with 80 much money at Its command, is 30
ilEkept, and the psrson such persistent
beggsr. They judge the Church as they |
would department of State or their own
trade-union, by Its management of its |
money, and they condemn It. The suspic-
ion that the parson does not serve God for |
naught discounts the attractive power of |
many sincere acts" As to the liturgy, he |
says: 1.-THE people are repelled by the
form of service. They are used to direct |
address; they are not used to being called
dearly beloved to being told that refer
encss are to be found Sin sundry places,
or to be treated every week, for all their |
lives, as If their circumstances were un-
changed. The slavery. for instance, of the
clergyman to the words of the praysr-book
at moments of intense feeling. the careful
intenation by careless boys of the state
ment that they are miserable SINNERS the
Importance set on postures and gestures,
all jar upon . reason which has not been