December 10.-Argument on the Neely extradition case is begun in the United States Supreme Court.

December 12.-The centennial anniversary of the establishment of the capital at Washington is celebrated with fitting ceremonies.

PRESIDENT KRÜGER'S GRANDDAUGHTERS AND

GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

(Mme. Eloff, the lady standing at the left, is the wife of President Krüger's secretary and the mother of the two children in the picture. She and her sister, Mlle. Guttmann, are said to have been the first to greet their grandfather in France.)

December 13.-President McKinley nominates John W. Yerkes, of Kentucky, to be commissioner of internal

revenue.

December 15.-The Porto Rico House of Delegates passes its first bill by unanimous vote-a measure declaring that it is incompatible for a member of the House to hold any other remunerative office whatever.

December 17.-In the United States Supreme Court, argument is begun on the Philippine and Porto Rican cases, involving the constitutional status of the territories acquired from Spain.

December 18.-The army court of inquiry takes the testimony of West Point cadets as to the alleged hazing of Cadet Booz.

December 19.-William H. Baldwin, Jr., is chosen president of the New York City committee of fifteen on police complicity with vice.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-FOREIGN. November 24.-In the Danish Parliament, a crisis is reached on the government's scheme of tax reform.

November 26.-The Italian Chamber of Deputies, notwithstanding the opposition of the minister of war,

adopts a Socialist motion in favor of the abolition of trials by court-martial.

November 28.-The Roumanian Parliament opens. November 29.-Lord Wolseley retires from the office of commander-in-chief of the British army....In the London School Board election, the Progressives lose 4 seats and gain 1.

November 30.-A revolt among Moldavian peasants is reported as serious.

December 1.-Gen. Porfirio Diaz is inaugurated President of Mexico for the sixth time.

December 2.-The budget statement in the Italian Chamber of Deputies shows a deficit of 19,000,000 lire ($3,800,000), of which 13,000,000 lire ($2,600,000) is charged to the expenses of the Chinese expedition.

December 3.-The British Parliament meets.

December 10.-The French Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopts a resolution intended to prohibit the manufacture and sale of absinthe in France....In the British House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, colonial secretary, replies to the accusation that he is interested in corporations benefited by government contracts.

December 11.-Delegates meet in Dublin to reorganize an Irish national party.

December 12.-Ex-Minister of the Interior Genchits, of Servia, is sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for publicly insulting the government.

December 15.-The British Parliament is prorogued till February.

December 19.-The French Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 156 to 2, passes the amnesty bill, covering offenses connected with strikes, etc., in addition to cases connected with the Dreyfus agitation.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

November 22.-The Bolivian Congress, in secret session, rejects the Chilean proposal for a permanent treaty of peace.... President Krüger is enthusiastically received by the French people at Marseilles.... By a vote of 299 to 193, the French Chamber of Deputies rejects a motion for the abolition of the embassy to the Vatican.

November 23.-The British garrison at Dewetsdorp, 400 men in all, surrenders to the Boers; the British losses are 15 killed and 42 wounded....The Turkish Government refuses to grant an exequatur for a United States consul at Harpoot.

November 24.-President Krüger arrives at Paris and receives a most enthusiastic reception; he has a brief interview at the Elysée with President Loubet, who later returns his visit.

November 27.-A new commercial arrangement is entered into between Turkey and Bulgaria.

November 29.-The French Chamber unanimously adopts a resolution of sincere and respectful sympathy with President Krüger.

December 1.-In the Franco-Brazilian boundary dispute, the Swiss Government awards to Brazil 147,000 square miles of the contested territory, and to France about 3,000 square miles northward of the Tumuc Humac range.... A diplomatic agreement is entered into between the United States and the government of Nicaragua, preliminary to a treaty for the building of the Nicaragua Canal.

December 3.-Emperor William, of Germany, declines to receive President Krüger.

December 4.-A sensation is caused in the French Senate by General Mercier's allusion to the possibility of invading England.

December 5.-President Krüger is welcomed at The Hague....George von L. Meyer, of Massachusetts, is named as United States ambassador to Italy.

December 7.-Queen Victoria has appointed as Great Britain's representatives in the international court of arbitration Lord Pauncefote, Sir Edward Malet, Sir Edward Fry, and Prof. John Westlake.

December 8.-Dr. Bingner, Herr von Frantzius, and Professor von Bar are announced as the German members of the international court of arbitration.... President Krüger is received by Queen Wilhelmina at The Hague; Holland will not offer arbitration.

December 12.-In the British House of Commons, Sir Robert Reid proposes that negotiations for amnesty be opened with the Boers.

December 13.-British troops under General Clements are attacked by the Boers at Magaliesberg, near Pretoria, and lose 5 officers and 9 men killed, 6 officers and 45 men wounded, and 18 officers and 555 men captured; a party of Brabant's Horse engages a force of Boers near Zastron, Orange River Colony, and loses 4 killed, 16 wounded, and 120 captured.

December 16.-It is announced that Dr. Matzon has been appointed to represent Denmark in the international court of arbitration.

December 18.-Charles S. Francis, of New York, is named as United States minister to Greece, while Minister Leishman is transferred from Switzerland to Turkey, and Minister Hardy from Greece to Switzerland ....Morocco settles the claim of the United States for $5,000 indemnity for the murder of Marcus Eszagui, a naturalized American citizen.

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

November 22.-The German flag is raised on the great wall of China by an expedition under Colonel Mühlenfels....The German Reichstag debates Chinese policy. November 23.-Secretary Hay sends a new note to the powers regarding the course to be taken with China. November 24.-The representatives of the powers reach an agreement as to the demands on China.

December 5.-Minister Conger is instructed to sign the modified agreement of the powers in China.

December 15.-Definite instructions having been received by the British minister at Peking, he demands a modification of the joint note of the powers to China.

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH. November 26.-The Conciliation Board of Scotch Iron Manufacturers announces a reduction in wages of 5 per cent., in consequence of reduced prices.

November 28.-News is received of a severe typhoon on the island of Guam, on November 13; much damage is sustained and many lives lost; the United States auxiliary cruiser Yosemite is wrecked, and five of her crew drowned.

November 30.-The convalescence of the Czar of Russia is announced....Twenty-two hundred Filipinos take the oath of allegiance at Vigan, Luzon.

December 11.-It is announced that the places of most of the striking telegraphers on the Santa Fé system have been filled.

December 14.-The State Normal and Training School at Fredonia, N. Y., is burned to the ground; six young women students and the janitor are killed.

December 16.-The German training-frigate Gneisenau sinks at the entrance to the port of Malaga; many lives are lost.

December 18.-The dock laborers' strike at Antwerp becomes general, 30,000 men having quit work.

OBITUARY.

November 22.-Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer, 58. November 24.-John Lawson Johnston, the British dietetic expert, 61.

November 27.-Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis, of Minnesota, 62 (see page 54)....Dr. Rufus Pratt Lincoln, a leading physician of New York City, 60.... Robert E. A. Dorr, publisher and editor of the New York Mail and Express, 46....Commissioner of Internal Revenue George W. Wilson, 57.

November 28.-Rear-Admiral Frederick V. McNair, U.S.N., 61.

November 29.-Prof. Burke A. Hinsdale, of the University of Michigan, 63.

November 30.-Prof. Tycho Mommsen, brother of the historian, 81....Oscar Wilde, 45.

December 2.-Ex.-Gov. Joseph W. McClurg, of Missouri, 88.

December 3.-Ludwig Jacobowski, German poet and novelist, 32.

December 4.-Rev. Dr. Edward Whiting Gilman, senior secretary of the American Bible Society, 77.

December 5.-William Wirt Henry, the grandson of Patrick Henry, and a member of the Virginia bar, 69.... Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson, dramatist, author, and actress, 63.

December 6.-Henry Russell, English composer, 87. December 7.-Prof. Simon Carson Wells, senior member of the faculty of Roanoke College, Salem, Va., 80. December 9.-Ex-United States Senator John L. M. Irby, of South Carolina, 46.

OST of the space usually given to our cartoon department we have assigned this month to reproductions of the work of Sir John Tenniel, the famous cartoonist who has served for fifty years upon the staff of Punch. Next to Sir John, the leading cartoonist of England at present is F. Caruthers Gould, of the Westminster Gazette, who takes the Liberal side in politics, while Sir John takes the Tory side. One of Mr. Gould's best cartoons last month is reproduced on this page. This clever draughtsman has made a great study of Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories, and Mr. Chamberlain here figures as Brer Fox, with Mr. Krüger as Brer Rabbit across the Channel. The voluminousness of Mr. McKinley's message to Congress seems to have impressed Mr. Carter, of the Minneapolis Times, while Mr. Bush, of the World, like many another cartoonist, has made note of Mr. Krüger's reception in France. The cartoonists of the New York Journal, Mr. Daven

FRANCE (with a kiss): "A bas, John Bool!" From the World (New York).

"Bimeby Brer Fox hear somebody making er monstus fuss, en way cross de yuther side er de creek he see Brer Rabbit skippin' des ez lively ez a cricket, en twistin' his mustarsh en wavin' his hankycher. Den Brer Fox feel like he bin swop off mighty bad."-From the Westminster Budget.

RESE

THE DON: "Yes, I'm enjoying McKinley prosperity. I call it McKinley prosperity because a gentleman of that name separated me from an expensive family."

From the Pioneer Press (St. Paul).

ABDUL: "Who's that ringing that front-door bell again?" MUSTAPHA: "It looks like Hay's man with that little bill, your Mightiness."

AB.: "He was here yesterday?"

MUST.: "Yes, your Mightiness, and the day before." AB.: "Well, well; it does begin to look as if he thought I was going to pay. That's a decided compliment, Mustapha. You step out and engage him in converse on the Chinese question till I get out the back door."

From the Journal (Minneapolis).