June 28.-Judge Henry K. Baker, of Hallowell, Maine, 95.

June 29.-Gen. John Hendrickson, of New York, Civil War veteran, 70....Major Ira Alexander Shaler, civil engineer, 40.

July 4.-Hervé A. E. A. Faye, the astronomer, oldest member of the Academy of Sciences, 88.

July 7.-Chief Justice Marshall J. Williams, of the Ohio Supreme Court, 65 ....William Clark, the thread manufacturer of Newark, N. J., 61.

July 8.-James P. Stephens, of Trenton, N. J., one of the oldest pottery manufacturers in the country, 62.... Mrs. Mary H. Cheeseborough, of Saratoga, N. Y., a miniature-portrait artist, 79.

July 9.-Judge William Marvin, of Skaneateles, N. Y., 94 .... Edmund J. Cleaveland, a widely-known genealogist, of Hartford, Conn., 59....Mrs. Charles G. Leland, an American woman well known in Europe, 71.

July 12.-Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, 73.

July 13.-Gen. Thomas J. Morgan, Civil War veteran, and corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, 63.

July 10.-Mrs. Annie Alexander Hector ("Mrs. Alexander"), the English novelist, 77.

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July 14.-Sir Joseph Ignatius Little, Chief Justice and Deputy Governor of Newfoundland, 67....William Still, of Philadelphia, one of the most prominent members of the negro race, 80.

July 16.-The Very Rev. William Choka, vicar - general of the Roman Catholic diocese of Nebraska, 62.

July 17.-Brevet Maj. Gen. Charles H. Smith, retired, of Maine, Civil War veteran, 75....Maj. Frederick W. Coleman, of Plainfield, N. J., Civil War veteran, 65.... William Johnston, Conservative member of Parliament for South Belfast, 73.... William H. Williams, general manager of the Union News Company, 62.

July 18.-The Sultan of Zanzibar.... Marquis Saigo, a distinguished Japanese statesman. July 20.-John W. Mackay, American financier, 71.

HE following conventions have been announced for this month: American Bar Association, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on August 27-29; American Fisheries Society, at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, on August 5-7; American Forestry Association, at Lansing, Mich., on August 27-28; League of American Municipalities, at Grand Rapids, Mich., on August 27-29; American Park and Outdoor Art Association, at Boston, on August 5-7; Univeralist Church of America, at Old Orchard, Maine, on August 1-10; Friends' International Christian Endeavor Convention, at Richmond, Va., on August 8-10; National Federation of Catholic Societies, at Chicago, on August 5-7; Catholic Total Abstinence

EVENTS.

Union, at Dubuque, Iowa, on August 6-9; Salvation Army Encampment, at Old Orchard, Maine, on August 16-September 3; General Conference of Christian Workers of the United States, at East Northfield, Mass., on August 1-September 7; Brotherhood of the Kingdom, at Morristown, N. J., on August 4-8; TransMississippi Congress, at St. Paul, on August 19-22; National Fraternal Congress, at Denver, on August 26-30; National Society of the Army of the Philippines, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 14-15; National Postmasters' Association, at Milwaukee, Wis., on August 26-29; and the National Negro Business League, at Richmond, Va., on August 25-27.

THE VIGIL.-June 26.

Silent it stands, the shrine within whose walls
He was to give his kingly gage to-day;
And silent on our hearts the sorrow falls
Which only faith may stay.

Not for ourselves we mourn the moment's loss,
Our pleasure darkened and our sun gone down;
All thoughts are turned to where he bears the cross
Who should have worn the crown.

So keep we vigil; so a Nation's prayer
Humbly before the Eternal Heart we bring,
That of His grace and pity God may spare
And give us back our King!

From Punch (London).

SHAKE!

"There's nobody gladder than I am, John!"

From the Journal (New York).