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the United States. His election to the presidency of 

 the n ; '.led him t<> Buenos Ayres. During 



his administration, which lasted until October, 1-74, 

 the war with Paraguay was l>r<>ught to a sue. 

 termination, several insurreetii us were Duelled, rail- 

 ; hs were constructed, immigration 

 wa- promoted, foreign trade was developed, a national 

 college was established in every province, t; 

 tional Observatory was founded, and many institu- 

 tions were introduced, mainly modeled alter those of 

 the United States. Among his literary works the 

 principal were .Manual of the lli>tory of Ancient 

 Peoples," " Civilization in Barbary," "Travels in 

 Europe, Africa, and America," and a "Life of Abra- 

 ham Lincoln." 



Schleyor, Johann Martin, the inventor of Volapuk, born 

 in Constance. Baden, in 1 -31 ; died there, Oct. 10, 1888. 

 He was a priest of the Catholic Church. His si; 

 as chief of the Volapuk Society is M. Kerckhoffs, 

 teacher of languages in the Commercial High-School 

 at Paris. > See VOLAPU K, in the " Annual Cyclopae- 

 dia" for 1887, page 



Storm, Theodor, a German novelist, born in Husum, 

 Holstein. Sept. 14, 1817: died in Hadainarseh, July 

 4, 1888. He left Schleswig-Holstein in -consequence 

 of the revolt of the Holsteiners against Denmark in 

 1853. in which he took part, entcrecTthe Prussian serv- 

 ice, became a district judge in Potsdam and Heilig- 

 enstadt. and returned in later years to practice law m 

 his native town. He was the author of many tales 

 characterized by dreamy melancholy and love of na- 

 ture. He also wrote lyric poetry that was equally 

 expressive of North German thought and sentiment. 



Tommasi, Salvatore, an Italian physician, born in 

 181-i ; died in Naples. July 14, 1888. He took part 

 in political movements while yet a schoolboy, and 

 w;is obliged to nee from the Romagna, began his 

 medical studies in Aquila, was appointed Professor of 

 Pathology in the University of Naples at the nge of 

 thirty-three, and in a few years he reached a pre-em- 

 inent position in his profession as physician, uni- 

 versity teacher, and medical author. TThe half-dozen 

 warriii. t tendencies in medicine then exist- 



ing in Italy were harmonized under his lead. His 

 works contain the germs of many discoveries and the- 

 ories that have been developed later by other men in 

 other countries. In 1846 lie published " Fisiologia 

 Umaua,'' a work that had a great influence on medical 

 thought in Italy. Taking part in the revolution of 

 ]-4-. he was elected co the Neapolitan House of Depu- 

 ties and twice condemned to prison in that year, and 

 finally exiled. He lived in poverty at Turin with 

 other political refugees, whom he served as physician, 

 until after the deliverance of Lombardy he was ap- 

 pointed a professor at Pavia. When the Bourbon 

 monarchy was overthrown and the clinical h 

 that he had suggested was established in Naples, he 

 returned thither in 18'53. and continued to work inde- 

 fatigably during the remaining years of his life, de- 

 voting his remarkable skill to the good of the poor, 

 and imparting his knowledge and enthusiasm to thou- 

 sands of students. 



Tuson, Richard Vine, English chemist, born in Eng- 

 land in 1832: died near London, Oct. Slj 1888. He 

 received his scientific training at University College. 

 London, where he made a specialty of chemistry. 

 Subsequently he served as assistant in chemistry at 

 Galway. and later at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 

 London. He was afterward elected lecturer on chem- 

 i-:ry at the Medical School of Charing Cross Hospital. 



he continued until I860, when he_ was 

 Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Veterinary College 

 in London, which place he held until his death. Be- 

 sides various r-cieiitific papers in technical journals, he 

 edited and partly rewrote the sixth edition of C 

 ' '-y.-lopsedia of Practical R. 

 York. I 



Walsh, John Henry, an English author, born in 1-1" : 

 died in London. Feb. li'. 1---. lie was originally a 

 physician practicing in Worcestershire, and settled in 



London in l-. r >5, when he wrote a book on "The 

 Greyhound." appearance, pub- 



lished under the pen-i::. - first 



edition of" British Rural Sports*," which has obtained 

 great popularity. From 1857 noti] his deatli 1 

 the editor of the Field." He published among other 

 works "The l)<>g in Health and : 

 "Dogs of the British Islands," whi. 

 several editions, and " The Modern Sportsman's Gun 

 and Rifle'' (2 vols., l->2-'84). 



Weber, Georg, a German historian, born in Ber'za- 

 bern, Feb. 10. 1-08: died A -. Ik- stud- 



ied theology at Erlangen. left that university to de- 

 vote himself to history and ancient literature at Heid- 

 elberg, and after residing in Switzerland. Italy, and 

 France, where he engaged in historical researches, he- 

 became a teacher in 1839 of the Burger-chute at Hei- 

 delberg, of which he was afterwaid principal till 

 1-7.;. "His principal works are: "Calvinism in its 

 Relations to the State " (1836) ; " History of the Eng- 

 lish Reformation" (1853); 'History of German Lit- 

 erature " (1855) ; " Germany in the First Stages of its 

 Historical Existence " (1862*); " Manual of Universal 

 History " (1865); u Survey of the World's History " 

 (1866)'; " History of the People of Israel and of the 

 Birth of Christianity," with Dr. Holtzmann (1*67); 

 and "Universal History of the Peoples of the World" 

 (15 vols.. 1857-'84). 



Wroblewski, Sigismund, a Russian chemist, born in 

 1848 ; died in Cracow, Austrian Poland, April 1C, 

 He was educated at the Universities of St. Pe- 

 tersburg and Strasburg, and in 1882 became Professor 

 of Experimental Physics at the University of Cracow. 

 This place he held until his death, which was the re- 

 suit of an explosion in his laboratory. He became 

 noted for his experiments on the so-called permanent 

 und with his colleague, Dr. Z. Olozewiski, he 

 determined the critical temperatures and pressures of 

 oxygen and nitrogen. From similar researches, he 

 proved that carbonic acid did not form the hydrate, 

 and he succeeded in solidifying both carbon bisulphide 

 and alcohol. The insulating properties of liquid oxy- 

 gen and nitrogen were determined by him :i. 

 and in 18S6 he determined the density and properties 

 of liquified air, and established the fact that atmos- 

 pheric air, when in a liquid state, behaves as a mixt- 

 ure. The atomic volumes of these gases were also 

 fir.-t accurately determined by him, and his re>ults 

 have been confirmed. In 1887 he proposed that the 

 relations of the physical properties of gases be repre- 

 sented by curves showing the rate of change of press- 

 ure with* temperature for different densities, instead of 

 by isothermal lines. These curves he calleu 

 pyknies." and from the inspection of them new and 

 important conclusions were deduced. 



Zuckertort, J. H., a German chess-player, born in 

 , 1-42; died in London. England, June 20, 

 1888. He studied in Berlin, settled in London in 

 '-voting himself to the game of chess, and in 

 1880 became editor of the ( 'he>- M nthly." In the 

 international tournament at Paris in 1878'he took the 

 first prize, and in 1 880 he defeated Steinitz in the in- 

 ternational tournament at London, and was accounted 

 the champion of the world until the same plaver won 

 a match of a series of games played in New York. St. 

 Louis, and New Orleans in 1--6*. Dr. Zuckertort was 

 unequaled as a blindfold player. 



OHIO. The State Government in 1888 was: 

 Governor, Joseph B. Foraker (Republican) : 

 Lieut. -Governor, William C. Lyon; Secretary of 

 State. -Tames S. Robinson; Auditor, Ebenezer 

 W. Foe ; Treasurer of State, John C. Bro\vn ; 

 Attorney-General. David K. Watson ; Board 

 of Public Works. William M. Halm. C. A. 

 Flickinger, W\-l!s S. Jones: Commissioner of 

 Common Schools, Eli T. Tappan : Judges of 

 the Supreme Court, Selwyn X. Owen. Mar- 



