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nelism, life assurance, registration statistics, 

 etc. ; others on topics of pure mathematics, 

 such as prisms, differential and integral cal- 

 culus; the advantage of a collection of con- 

 stants in nature and art, etc., etc. ; a few were 

 on -scientific topics, only indirectly or not at all 

 connected with mathematics. In 1864 he pub- 

 lished " Passages from the Life of a Philoso- 

 pher." 



BADE^ST, a grand-duchy in South Germany. 

 Grand-duke, Friedrich, born September 9, 

 1826 ; succeeded his father Leopold, as regent, 

 April 24, 1852 ; assumed the title of Grand- 

 duke September 5, 1856 ; heir-apparent, his 

 son, Friedricli "Wilhelm, born July 9, 1857. 

 Area, 5,912 square miles ; population, accord- 

 ing to the census of 1867, 1,434,970. The 

 public debt on January 1, 1871, amounted to 

 37,644,083 florins, exclusive of a railroad debt 

 of 118,015,028 florins. The receipts for the 

 year 1871 were estimated at 19,217,769 florins, 

 and the expenses at 19,036,953 florins. In 

 consequence of a military convention with 

 Prussia, which went into operation on July 1, 

 1871, the troops of Baden constitute hence- 

 forth a portion of the Fourteenth German 

 Army Corps. The President of the ministry 

 is Dr. J. Jolly, appointed February 12, 1868. 



In the beginning of July, the ministry of the 

 grand-ducal house and of Foreign Affairs was 

 abolished, and the affairs relating to the Ger- 

 man Empire will henceforth be directly attend- 

 ed to by the state ministry. 



At the new election of the members of the 

 Diet, which was held in October, the National 

 Liberal party obtained a complete triumph. 

 They number in the new Second Chamber 50 

 votes, while the Catholic party has 10, and 

 the Democratic only three. The First Cham- 

 ber will be somewhat more conservative than 

 its predecessor. 



The opening of the Diet took place on No- 

 vember 21st. In a speech from the throne, the 

 Grand-duke referred to the part which Baden 

 had taken in the reconstruction of the Ger- 

 man Empire. He announced several bills con- 

 cerning the introduction of the German crimi- 

 nal laws, the settlement of the expenses of the 

 war and the war indemnity, and the raising 

 of the salaries of the state officers. He de- 

 clared that the public exchequer was in good 

 order, and that, notwithstanding the increase 

 of the public expenditures, no new demands 

 upon the tax-payers had become necessary. 



BAKER, Right Rev. OSMON CLEANDKR, D.D., 

 bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 born in Marlow, N". H., July 30, 1812 ; died 

 in Concord, ET. H., December 20, 1871. His 

 early advantages of education were good, and 

 he entered the Wilbraham Academy, Mass., 

 then under the charge of Rev. Wilbur Fisk, 

 and in 1831 followed his instructor to Middle- 

 town, Conn., where he became a member of 

 the first class in Wesleyan University. Three 

 years later he left the university, without 

 taking a degree, in consequence of failing 



health. He soon after became a teacher in 

 New bury Seminary, Vermont, and at the end 

 of five years the principal, having during that 

 time become first a local and in 1838 a circuit 

 preacher in the Methodist Church. In 1844 

 he resigned his connection with the seminary, 

 and for the next three years was engaged in 

 the itinerant work at Rochester and Manches- 

 ter, N. H., being appointed presiding elder ir 

 1847, and the same year chosen a professor 

 in the General Biblical Institute at Concord, 

 N. H. He accepted the latter position with 

 great reluctance, but filled it with signal ability 

 till 1852, when he was elected by the Quad- 

 rennial General Conference a bishop. Though 

 a quiet, unassuming, scholarly man, Bishop 

 Baker filled the episcopal office with great 

 acceptance, proving an excellent presiding 

 officer, and managing the conferential and 

 other trusts confided to his care most satisfac- 

 torily. He was an able, though not an im- 

 passioned preacher, an earnest advocate of 

 theological education, and an admirable busi- 

 ness manager in the affairs of the Church. 



BAPTISTS. I. REGULAR BAPTISTS. The 

 American Baptist Year-Boole for 1871 gives 

 the fo] lowing statistics of the Regular Baptists 

 in the United States: 



