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Prague, in the chapel in the Burg, the Imperial 

 Palace, in the presence of the King and Queen 

 of the Belgians, the Prince of Wales, the Prince 

 and Princess of Prussia, and many others of 

 high rank. The day was given up to public 

 festivities, and the wedding called forth the 

 greatest demonstrations of joy, not only on the 

 part of the Viennese, but throughout the em- 

 pire. After the ceremony, the bridal pair set 

 out on a tour of the provinces, and were every- 

 where received with demonstrations of affec- 

 tion. 



The Archduke Rudolph Francis Charles Jo- 

 seph, Crown Prince Imperial of Austria, Crown 

 Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, was 

 born August 21, 1858. He is the son and sec- 

 ond child of the Emperor Francis Joseph and 

 of the Empress Elizabeth, who was a daughter 

 of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. 



Princess Stephanie Clotilde Louise Marie 

 Charlotte, second daughter of King Leopold II 

 of the Belgians, and Queen Marie, a daughter 

 of the Archduke John of Austria, Palatine of 



Hungary, was born at Laeken, Brussels, on 

 May 21, 1864. 



Vienna was visited on December 8th by one 

 of the most disastrous conflagrations on record. 

 The Ring Theatre was completely destroyed 

 by fire, during which nearly one thousand per- 

 sons were supposed to have lost their lives. 

 The fire broke out at ten minutes before seven, 

 when the theatre was already comfortably 

 filled, and spread rapidly. In the rush for! 

 escape which ensued, the passages and doors 

 became blocked, making exit an impossibil- 

 ity, especially from the galleries, and when the 

 firemen entered the building they found heaps 

 of dead bodies everywhere. 



The Austrian census is taken at irregular 

 intervals. The last census was taken on De- 

 cember 31, 1880, the one previous to that in 

 1869. It contains, as in almost all other Eu- 

 rooean countries, only statistics of population. 

 The population of Vienna, according to the 

 last census, was 707,532, an increase of about 

 100,000 upon the population of 1869. 



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BACON", LEONARD, D. D., a distinguished 

 American Congregationalist clergyman, born 

 in Detroit, Michigan, February 19, 1802; died 

 in New Haven, Connecticut, December 24, 

 1881, having nearly completed his eightieth 

 year. His father was a missionary to the In- 

 dians in the then "great West," and died in 

 1817, leaving three sons and four daughters. 

 Leonard's preparatory education was at the 

 Hartford school, and in 1817 he entered the 

 Sophomore class in Yale College. Among his 

 classmates was Theodore D. Woolsey, after- 

 ward President of Yale, and a life-long friend 

 and fellow-worker. Having been designated 

 for a minister from the first, he entered An- 

 dover Seminary in 1820, where he prosecuted 

 his theological studies for four years. In 

 March, 1825, he was ordained after the Con- 

 gregational pattern, and invited to the pasto- 

 rate of the First Congregational Church of 

 New Haven, the oldest society of this denomi- 

 nation in that city. Among his predecessors 

 had been Moses Stuart, professor at Andover, 

 and Dr. Taylor, professor in the theological 

 seminary at Ne\v Haven. The position thus 

 entered upon by the young and ardent minis- 

 ter was retained by him for forty-one years, 

 when (in 1866) he was made Professor of The- 

 ology in Yale College. He was also appointed 

 lecturer on ecclesiastical history and American 

 Church history. In March, 1874, he was mod- 

 erator of the council which met in Brooklyn, 

 New York, and took part in pronouncing a 

 rebuke to Henry Ward Beecher's society for 

 expelling Theodore Tilton without a formal 

 trial. In February, 1876, he was moderator 

 of the advisory council called by the Plymouth 

 society in regard to the not altogether savory 



scandal, well known throughout all the coun- 

 try. Dr. Bacon was an active worker in peri- 

 odical literature as well as in the special duties 

 of his profession. From 1826 to 1838 he was 

 one of the editors of " The Christian Specta- 

 tor," a religious magazine published in New 

 Haven. In 1843 he aided in establishing "The 

 New-Englander," a bi-monthly, and kept up 

 his connection with it to the end of his life. 

 He was also one of the founders of " The In- 

 dependent," in 1847, in company with Drs. 

 Storrs and Thompson. For sixteen years he 

 was one of the regular working editors, but in 

 1863 he retired from the active management of 

 this journal, though frequently contributing to 

 its columns. Besides his industrious labors in 

 connection with journalism, Dr. Bacon pub- 

 lished a number of books : " Life of Richard 

 Baxter " (1830) ; " Manual for Young Church 

 Members" (1833); ."Thirteen Historical Dis- 

 courses, on the Completion of Two Hundred 

 Years from the Beginning of the First Church 

 in New Haven " (1839) ; " Slavery discussed in 

 Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1838 " (1846) ; 

 "Christian Self-Culture" (1863); "Introduc- 

 tory Essay " to Conybeare and Howson's St. 

 Paul (1868) ; and a large number of addresses, 

 etc., before colleges, which have been sepa- 

 rately published. Dr. Bacon was an admirable 

 type of the American Congregationalist in both 

 theory and practice. He was a man thorough- 

 ly in earnest, and entirely settled and certain 

 in his convictions. Consequently, he was at 

 times rather dogmatic, and very severe upon 

 his opponents, especially " prelatical " folks, 

 whether Episcopal or Presbyterian. There 

 was an inherent love of polemics in him, and 

 he enjoyed hugely the giving some people a 



