March 27.-Princeton wins the annual debate with Yale.

March 29.-At a meeting of the executive committee of the United Mine Workers of the anthracite districts at Wilkesbarre, Pa., it was decided that the miners shall continue at work, the recognition of the union by the operators being regarded as satisfactory.

March 30.-Oxford wins the university boat-race over Cambridge by half a length....George F. Baer succeeds Joseph F. Harris as president of the Reading Railway system.

April 1.-Thirty thousand iron-workers in Scotland go on strike for an eight-hour day.

April 6.-The superstructure of the United States collier Merrimac in the entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba is successfully blown up.

April 10.-The London Stock Exchange announces a 75-per-cent. dividend.

April 17.-A conference of the officials of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers considers the proposed extension of the strike in the McKeesport, Pa., steel works to other plants of the American Sheet Steel Company.

OBITUARY.

March 20.-Dr. William F. Channing, of Boston, 81. ....François Jules Edmond Got, the celebrated French actor, 78.... Rev. Dr. Arthur Edwards, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, 66....Albert Ives, the oldest banker in Detroit, Mich., 91.

March 21.-Charles P. Clark, formerly president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 64.... Rev. Dr. Frederick A. Muhlenberg, a well-known Lutheran clergyman, 82.... Gen. William H. Wallace, of South Carolina, 74.

March 24.-Charlotte Mary Yonge, the English storywriter, 77.... Lorin Blodgett, statistician and economist, 79.... Ex-Justice Joseph Bartholomew, of the North Dakota Supreme Court.... Col. Edward C. James, the New York criminal lawyer, 61.... Dr. Ralph J. Hess, of New York City, 27.

March 27.-M. Cazin, the French landscape painter, 59.... Virgilio Tojetti, the artist, 52.

March 28.-Gen. Stewart Van Vliet, U.S.A., retired, 86.

77.

March 29.-James Stephens, the Irish Fenian leader,

March 30.-Roland Reed, the actor, 48.... Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, Va., the famous colored preacher, 89.

April 1.-Sir John Stainer, the British organist and composer, 60.

April 3.-D'Oyly Carte (Richard Doyle McCarthy), theatrical manager, 57.

April 4.-Gen. George T. Anderson, Confederate brigade commander and veteran of the Mexican War, 77. April 6.-Ex-Premier Stoiloff, of Bulgaria, 50.... ExSenator Worth, of West Virginia, 90.

April 8.-George Murray Smith, the well-known English publisher, 76.

April 10.-Dr. William Jay Youmans, one of the founders of the Popular Science Monthly, 62.... Rev. Dr. John Thomas Duffield, of Princeton, N. J., 78.

April 12.-Aldace F. Walker, of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fé Railroad, 59....George Q. Cannon, of the Mormon Church, 74.

April 14.-Sir Edward William Watkin, the English railway director, 81.

April 15.-Gen. Alexander C. McClurg, the Chicago publisher, 65....Mgr. James McMahon, of the Catholic University, 84.

April 16.-Prof. Henry A. Rowland, the distinguished physicist, of the Johns Hopkins University, 52....Maj. Joseph Smith Bryce, the oldest graduate of West Point, 92.... Rev. Dr. Justin Dewey Fulton, anti-Catholic agitator, 73.

April 17.-Richard P. Rothwell, editor of the Engi neering and Mining Journal, 64.

HE cartoons of the month deal less with domestic

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matters than usual, owing to the lull in national political activity; it is a rather striking instance of the cosmopolitan view of the modern newspaper reader of! to-day that a selection of the most telling satirical pictures, made largely on the basis of their intrinsic interest, brings together subjects taken from the United States, Cuba, South America, the Philippines, England, Russia, China, and South Africa. American as well as European cartoonists are still finding their strongest inspiration from the complex and paradoxical phases of the international occupation of Peking, and of the South African war, and especially from Russia's inscrutable course in the matter of Manchuria.

The irony of the Oriental situation seems to strike the Teutonic mind with particular force, and it is difficult to find a German, Austrian, or Dutch cartoon paper that does not contain one or more flings at the troubles of the Allies, or the many ghastly incidents of their stay in China. The very clever cartoonist of the Amsterdammer in the picture below shows Russia hastily decamping from the concert of the Powers with Manchuria on his shoulders, while Uncle Sam unavailingly attempts to drive the wooden Chinese into activity, Japan running to the rescue, England, Germany, Austria, and Italy raise a cry of "Stop thief!" and Miss France looks on in amused neutrality. Der Floh, of Vienna, has Russia abducting Manchuria, China's daughter, and begging Germany to assure the old lady of his honorable intentions: on the following page the

THE RUSSIAN (to the German): "I say, brother, just tell the old mother (China) that she need not be anxious; I shall not harm her daughter (Manchuria)."

From Der Floh (Vienna).

cartoonist of Nebelspalter, of Zurich, pictures General Waldersee as inviting the Chinese court, in the shape of a defiant cur, to return to the kennel of Peking, which is equipped with a noticeably stout dog chain. Kladderadatsch gives Waldersee the uncanny rôle of juggling the gory heads of the Chinese officials executed to satisfy the Powers, while John Bull, Uncle Sam, and Russia hold hampers to catch any ghastly indemnity that may fall to their lot.

These cartoons from French and American papers refer specifically to the clash between the English and Russians at Tientsin over the railway siding which had been constructed for the use of the allies on territory claimed by Russia, marked out by Russia's boundary posts, and flying the Russian flag. The matter was settled by the withdrawal of Great Britain from the dispute; the international interpretation of the denouement is shown in the World's cartoon, where De Wet has such a firm grip on the British lion's tail as to obviously hamper aggressive action by the King of Beasts.

This situation and England's unwonted mildness in the face of provocation offered before the eyes of the

UNCLE SAM: "I'm a Christian and opposed to fightin'but, likewise, don't forget, gents, that I run a general store for all creation."-From the North American (Philadelphia).

ONE OF 'EM DASSEN'T; T'OTHER'S AFRAID. From the Journal (Minneapolis).