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perpetual leases under which foreigners possess property in Japan.

October 29.-The Turkish Government declines to withdraw troops near Aden until the frontier question is settled by Great Britain.

November 8.-A treaty for reciprocity between the United States and Newfoundland is signed at Washington by Secretary Hay and Ambassador Herbert....Minister Wu Ting Fang presents his letters of recall to President Roosevelt.

November 12.-It is announced that Germany assents to the proposal of the United States to submit to the Hague Tribunal the question of the payment of the Chinese indemnity in gold or silver.... President Roosevelt appoints Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, United States Minister to Guatemala, to succeed W. Godfrey Hunter.

November 19.-It is announced that a Persian ambassador to Greece has been appointed for the first time since 491 B.C.

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DR. ADOLF LORENZ.

(The eminent Austrian surgeon now operating on American children. See page 674.)

ratify the treaty ceding the Danish West Indies to the United States.

October 25.-It is announced that Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister to the United States, has been appointed to succeed Sheng, formerly Director of Telegraphs and Railroads, as commissioner to negotiate the new commercial treaties.

October 27.-Minister Wu Ting Fang is recalled from Washington by the Chinese Government.

October 28.-It is announced at Paris that Great Britain, Germany, France, and Japan have agreed to refer to the Hague Tribunal the clauses relative to

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mining is generally resumed in the anthracite region.... Volcanic eruptions in Guatemala lay waste an extensive tract of country and cause the loss of thousands of lives.

October 25.-The French coal operators and unionist miners agree to accept arbitration....The new power canal at Sault Ste. Marie is opened (see page 689)....Dr. Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as president of Princeton University.

October 27.-Seventy thousand Scotch miners demand an increase of 12 per cent. in wages.

October 30.-The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission begins an inspection of conditions in the mines.

November 1.-The University of Halle, Germany, celebrates its quadricentenary.

November 3.-Members of the Scottish National Antarctic Association, headed by William S. Bruce, of Edinburgh, leave the Clyde on the steamer Scotia for the Antarctic regions.

November 4.-By a fireworks explosion in Madison Square, New York City, 15 persons are killed and many others seriously injured.

November 5.-The arbitrators of the French coal miners' strike decide against an increase in the rate of wages.

November 8.-The Canadian Government sends out mounted police to stop an insane pilgrimage of Doukhobors.

November 11.-Roland B. Molineux is acquitted, in New York City, on his second trial, of the charge of causing the death of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams in December, 1898.

November 13.-The congress of French miners at Lens votes to order the resumption of work.... The American Federation of Labor meets at New Orleans, La.

November 14.-The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission begins the taking of testimony at Scranton, Pa.

November 17.-The ashes of Christopher Columbus are deposited in a mausoleum in the Cathedral of Seville, Spain.

November 19.-A great reception is tendered by the people of Memphis, Tenn., to President Roosevelt and Vice-Governor Luke E. Wright of the Philippines.

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October 28.-David Charles Bell, of Washington, D.C., author and educator, 85.... Gen. Christian Botha.

October 29.-Rev. Dr. C. S. Gerhard, of Reading, Pa., 58.... Ex-Judge James A. Logan, of Bala, Pa., general solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 62.

October 30.-Samuel Houston Benge, of Fort Gibson, I. T., a veteran of the Civil War and last surviving signer of the treaty of 1866 between the United States and the Cherokee nation, 70....Admiral Sir Edward Bridges Rice, R.N., 83.

November 1.-Francis Asbury Palmer, president of the Broadway Savings Bank, New York, 90.

November 2.-Charles H. Miller, for many years consulting landscape engineer of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 73.

November 3.-Oliver B. Stebbins, a writer on dramatic and historical subjects, of Boston, 69.

November 4.-Rev. Dr. Edward Taylor, of Binghamton, N. Y., 81.

November 6.-Prof. George Huesmann, pomologist, 76. November 7.-Dr. Robert C. Kedsie, professor emeritus of chemistry at the Michigan Agricultural College, 79.... William H. Bulkeley, a veteran of the Civil War, and formerly lieutenant-governor of Connecticut, 62.... Roswell Beardsley, of North Lansing, N. Y., oldest postmaster in point of service in the United States, 93.

November 8.-Ex-Congressman Felix Campbell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., 73.... Very Rev. H. C. Mignot, rector of the New Orleans Cathedral, 60.

November 9.-Dr. Robert Newton Tooker, a prominent Chicago physician and writer on medical subjects, 61. November 10.-George Gerhard, of New York, a portrait painter, 72.

November 12.-Prof. Ogden Nicholas Rood, head of the department of physics at Columbia University, New York, 71.... Richard Butler, a prominent New York citizen, 71....Countess Cecilia von Budinger Machivet, of Longwood, Ill., 99....Dr. A. G. Mason, a writer on bee culture, 74....Dr. Caskie Harrison, head of the Brooklyn Latin High School, 54.

November 13.-Col. Henry D. Beall, a veteran of the Civil War, and a member of the staff of the Baltimore Sun, 65.

November 15.-Ex-Congressman Clinton B. Beach, of Ohio, 57....Dr. William Henry Haynes, president of the Brooklyn Medical Society, 46.

November 16.-Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, 79. ....Judge Edward Stake, of Maryland, 56....George Alfred Henty, the author of books for boys, 70.

November 17.-Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the wellknown London preacher, 55....Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Stokes, senior vice-president of the Suez Canal Company, 77.....George Harding, a prominent patent lawyer of Philadelphia, and owner of the Hotel Kaaterskill, in the Catskill Mountains, 76.

November 18.-Rt. Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, Episcopal bishop of Mississippi, 72....John Bell Bouton, of Cambridge, Mass., author and journalist, 72.... The Marquise de Chambrun, granddaughter of Lafayette.

November 19.-Juan B. Wandesford, a San Francisco artist, 85.

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GENDARME: "Halt! Where are you going?"

THE GERMAN BURGHER: "To Hayti, in order to be nearer the protection of German Power."-From Ulk (Berlin).

EVACUATING MANCHURIA-BY THE CHINESE From Ulk (Berlin).

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THE PERSIAN CAT AND THE BRITISH LION.

LEO: "Ah, my nice little friend, so very glad to see you! You'll now look upon me, won't you, as your guide, philosopher, and friend, and turn a deaf ear to the soft whisperings of the greasy Polar Bear, yonder?" From Hindi Punch (Bombay).

LEO IS THE FRIEND, NOT BRUIN.

BRUIN (aside): "How I long to give a friendly hug to that little thing!" (Aloud) "Hullo! Hullo! Do you hear?"

LEO (to the Wolf): "Don't mind him! Only listen to me, and all will be right with you!"

"We have no intention of threatening the independence of Afghanistan-the British need not worry-but to be on normal neighborly terms with our neighbors; to have the right of access within its countries' precincts; to develop trade connections, and, of course, to be represented at Kabul-such a wish is indisputably equitable, and necessary besides from the point of view of Russian interests."-Novoe Vremya.

From Hindi Punch (Bombay).

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