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stantinople, with an account of his writings and of the 

 Greek schism. When Dollinger launched his famous 

 tract against the (Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, 

 Dr. Hergenrother was selected to answer it, which lie 

 did in '* Anti-Janus" (1870), translated into English 

 by James B. Robertson, and in a more sober treatise on 

 the Catholic Church and the Christian state in their 

 historical development and their relations to the 

 questions ofthe present time (1872), which was trans- 

 lated into English and Italian. He was one of the 

 ecclesiastics who were intrusted in Germany with the 

 preliminary arrangements for the summoning of the 

 Vatican Council for affirming the doctrine of Papal 

 infallibility. Among his other publications are a 

 biography of Cardinal Maury (Wiirzburg, 1878) and a 

 manual of Church history (Freiburg, 1876-'80). On 

 May 12, 1879, Dr. Hergenrother was created a cardi- 

 nal deacon, and at the time of his death he held the 

 office of prefect of the apostolic archives. 



Huddleston, John Walter, an English jurist, born in 

 Dublin in 1817 ; died in London, Dec. 5, 1890. He 

 was the son of a sea captain, studied at Trinity Col- 

 lege, Dublin, became a teacher in England and after- 

 ward a criminal lawyer, being called to the bar in 

 1839. After several unsuccessful attempts he obtained 

 a seat in Parliament for Canterbury in 1865, which he 

 lost at the next election. He was again successful in 

 1873, having meanwhile married the sister of the 

 Duke of St. Albans. Being one of the most adroit 

 and successful lawyers of his time, he was employed 

 in many celebrated cases. In 1875 he was made a 

 judge of common pleas, and a few months later a 

 baron of the exchequer. As a judge he betrayed 

 strong opinions of his own, and by his charges influ- 

 enced and almost directed the findings of juries, no- 

 tably in the famous art trial of Belt vs. Lawes. 



Johann, Archduke, an Austrian prince, born in 

 Florence, Nov. 25, 1852; died at sea in August, 1890. 

 He was a son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 

 who abdicated in 1859, and the youngest brother of 

 Ferdinand IV, who was deposed by Vittorio Ernanuele 

 in the following year. Desiring to follow a useful 

 occupation and to marry a woman of ordinary station, 

 he asked permission of the Emperor to enter the Eng- 

 lish merchant service, renounced all his titles and pre- 

 rogatives on Oct. 16, 1889, took the name of John 

 Orth, chartered a ship, and sailed from Hamburg 

 with a cargo for La Plata, He was there joined by 

 his wife. Leaving the captain ashore because he was 

 ill, and discharging the second mate, he undertook to 

 navigate the vessel alone around Cape Horn to Val- 

 paraiso. The weather was exceptionally stormy, and, 

 although his vessel, the " St. Margaret," was one ofthe 

 best sailing vessels in the Austro-Hungarian mer- 

 chant service and was manned by a picked crew, she 

 probably foundered in a hurricane off Cape Horn. 



Kane, Sir Robert, an Irish educator, born in Dub- 

 lin in 1810 ; died in London, Feb. 16, 1890. He was 

 the son of a manufacturer of chemicals, and was edu- 

 cated as a physician. In 1831 .he was made Professor 



and of the Board of National Education. Dr. Kane's 

 principal published work was ' Elements of Chem- 

 istry " (1842). He received the medal of the Rovul 

 Society of London, in 1840 for researches on th- 

 ormg matter of lichens, and in 1845 was commissioned 

 with Liudley and Playfair, to investigate the causes 

 ofthe potato blight. 



Karr, Alphonse, a French author, born in Paris 

 France. Nov. 24, 1808 ; died in Nice, Sept. 28, 1890 

 His father, German by birth, but a citizen of France 

 was his first instructor. He studied at the College 

 Bourbon, in which he became a teacher, but lost his 

 place because he read Rousseau and Voltaire to his 

 classes. He became then a writer on the "Figa- 

 ro," to which he had contributed verses. His novel 

 u Sous lestilleuls," published in 1832, made him pop- 

 ular at once. It was followed by u Une heure trop 

 tard" (1833), " Vendredisoir " (1835), " Lechemin le 

 plus court " (1836), " Einerley "(1838 1, " Genevieve " 

 (1838), and many other books. He became editor-in- 

 chief of the " Figaro " in 1839, and founded in the 

 same year a satirical monthly called " Les Guepes," 

 which had a great success. The " Voyage autour de 

 mon jardin," appeared in 1845. In that year he was 

 made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The revo- 

 lution of 1848 filled him with disgust for politics and 

 gave him a desire to retire into seclusion, which he 

 followed soon afterward, taking up his residence at 

 Nice. _ The wit and gayety that made him a man of 

 mark in Parisian society enlivened the town that he 

 chose for his retreat and helped to make it attractive 

 to strangers. As business and pastime combined he 

 followed the pursuit of floriculture, in which he had 

 been interested as an amateur. He introduced sev- 

 eral new varieties that bear his name, improved and 

 spread the cultivation of the Riviera roses, and gave 

 the impetus to the gardener's art that has done more 

 than anything else to make the district attractive. 

 When the stir and gayety that he had done much to 

 stimulate became distasteful, he retired to a quiet 

 home in a bower of roses and semi-tropical plants at 

 St. Raphael, where he entertained his literary friends 

 in the winter time. The people of Nice regarded him 

 as the founder of their prosperity, and at his funeral 

 all the public bodies of the district and large num- 

 bers of the citizens were present. He contributed 

 occasionally to the "Revue des deux mondes " and 

 other periodicals till within a few years of his death. 

 His daughter Therese is the author of numerous books. 

 Khalifah-ben-Said, Seyyid of Zanzibar, born in 1847 ; 

 died in Zanzibar, Feb. 12, 1890. He was a descend- 

 ant of the dynasty that for more than a century- 

 exercised a cruel dominion over Muscat, Zanzibar, 

 and the region between the coast and Lake Tangan- 

 yika. The influence and pressure of Sir John Kirk 

 induced his brother and predecessor to assist Liv- 

 ingstone and Stanley and to abolish the export trade 

 in slaves from Zanzibar. Khalifah, who succeeded 

 Bargash-bcn-Said on March 27, 1888, recognized the 

 hopelessness of resisting European demands. He con- 



of Chemistry to Apothecaries' Hall, and in 1832 he m.*>^ u..~ * ... , , T *~,.~ 



founded the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science," trade and even decreed the abolition of domestic slav- 



firmed the treaties for the suppression of the slave 

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which he conducted for two years. From 1834 till 

 1847 he was Professor of Natural Philosophy to 

 the Royal Society of Dublin, and in 1841 he was 

 chosen a member of the council of the Royal 

 Irish Academy, of which he was made secretary, 

 serving until he was appointed President of Queen's 

 College, Cork. In 1843 Dr. Kane delivered a 

 series of lectures, afterward published in a volume, 

 on " The Industrial Resources of Ireland," and his 

 suggestions for the establishment of a Museum of In- 

 dustry in Dublin were carried out in 1846, and he was 

 made director. He was knighted in the same year, 

 and served as a member of the Irish Relief Commis- 

 sion. He resigned the presidency of Queen's College 

 and the directorship of the museum in 1873, was 

 elected a member of the council of the University of 

 Dublin in 1875 and President of the Royal Irish 

 Academy in 1876, and in 1880 was appointed a mem- 

 ber of the senate of the Royal University of Ireland 



ery and gave his approval to the objects of the Brus- 

 sels International Anti-Slavery Conference, where he 

 was represented by Sir John Kirk. The lease ofthe 

 coast stations to the Germans, English, and Italians, 

 and their occupation of the great territories once held 

 by the soldiers of the Sultan of Zanzibar he had no 

 means of opposing, and although his customs rev- 

 enues were greatly diminished by the contract, as it 

 was interpreted by the German East Africa Company, 

 he was constrained to assent to the cession of the 

 coast .territories and to an English protectorate over 

 Zanzibar and Pemba. His death was so sudden that 

 foreigners suspected murder, but the Arabs would al- 

 low no post-mortem examination. 



Knebel von Trauenschwert, Baron, an Austrian sol- 

 dier, born about 1815; died Nov. 25, 1890. He en- 

 tered the military service in 1833. He commanded a 

 brigade in the campaign of 1%6, and in the engage- 

 ment at Trauteuau he captured the heights of St. 



