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by taking the principal prizes, but by profi- 

 ciency in athletics. He was elected a fellow 

 of his college and went into orders. In 1836 

 he was appointed Master of Harrow, where he 

 remained until he was nominated Canon of 

 Westminster in 1844. In 1836 he published 

 "Athens and Attica," the fruit of travels in 

 Greece, and latev, u Greece : Pictorial, De- 

 scriptive, and Historical " ; an account of 

 " Ancient Writings, copied from the Walls of 

 the City of Pompeii " (1838) ; a new edition 

 of " Theocritus " ; " The Correspondence of 

 Richard Bentley " (1842) ; " Memoirs of Will- 

 iam Wordsworth " (1851) ; an edition of the 

 Greek Testament; "The Old Testament in 

 the Authorized Version, with Notes and In- 

 troductions " ; " Theophilus Anglicanus," a 

 manual of Anglican theology and history ; va- 

 rious tractates against Romanism, and a vast 

 number of other controversial writings. He 

 was appointed Archdeacon of Westminster in 

 1865, and Bishop of Lincoln in 1869. 



Worsaae, Jens Jaeob Asmassen, a Danish, ar- 

 chaeologist, born at Vejle, in Jutland, March 14, 

 1821; died at Copenhagen, Aug. 16, 1885. After 

 completing his course at the Copenhagen Acad- 

 emy in 1838, he devoted himself to the study 

 of Scandinavian antiquities at the Royal Mu- 

 seum, and traveled through Denmark, Sweden, 

 and Norway, in search of early remains. In 

 1845 he visited Germany, and published the 

 results of his researches under the title of 

 " The National Antiquities of Germany." He 

 subsequently studied the relics of the old Scan- 

 dinavian civilization in Great Britain, Ireland, 

 Brittany, and Normandy. He was Professor 

 of Archaeology in the University of Copen- 

 hagen, and Director of the Museum of Scan- 

 dinavian Antiquities. Many of his writings 

 have been translated into German and Eng- 

 lish. 



OHIO. State Officers. The State officers for 

 1885 were : Governor, George Hoadly, Demo- 

 crat ; Lieutenant-Governor, John G. Warwick ; 

 Secretary of State, James S. Robinson ; Au- 

 ditor, Emil Kiesewetter; Treasurer, Peter 

 Brady ; Attorney-General, James Lawrence ; 

 Commissioner of Common Schools, Leroy P. 

 Brown; Board of Public Works, Charles A. 

 Flickinger, Henry Weible, John P. Martin; 

 Judges of the Supreme Court, W. W. Johnson, 

 George W. Mcllvaine, Martin D. Follett, John 

 W. Okey, Selwyn N. Owen; Clerk of Supreme 

 Court, J. W. Cruikshank. Judge Okey died 

 during the year, and the Governor appointed 

 Gibson Atherton to fill the vacancy until his 

 successor could be elected. 



Finances The total taxable property of the 

 State is returned at $1,670,079,868, being an 

 increase of $3,694,213 over the valuation for 

 1884. The total levy for all purposes was $31 ,- 

 374,758.57. The State and local debt, as it 

 stood Nov. 15, 1885, was: Funded State debt, 

 $3,720,229.19 ; irreducible State debt, $4,490,- 

 087; total local debts, $53,290,398.53. The 

 decrease in the funded State debt was $382,- 



650, and the increase of local debts $4,013- 

 225 53 



Railroads. There are 7,124-604 miles of rail- 

 road in Ohio (an increase of 70'789 miles for 

 the year); 6,416'978 miles of standard-gauge 

 and 707*626 miles of narrow-gauge road. There 

 were 32,895,641 passengers carried, and the 

 total mileage or number of passengers carried 

 one mile was 1,160,503,943, at an average rate 

 of fare per mile of 2-174 cents. There were 

 68,51 1,017 tons of freight carried at an average 

 rate per ton for each mile of -689 of a cent. 

 The gross earnings were $98,950,539.63, and 

 net earnings were $27,611,629.30. 



Penitentiary. There were in the Penitentiary 

 on Nov. 1, 1885, 1,470 prisoners, or 105 more 

 than on Nov. 1, 1884. Of these, 1,446 were 

 males and 24 females. Of those between 

 twenty-one and twenty-five, first term, 354; 

 second term, 49 ; third term, 10 ; and fourth 

 term, 1. Of those between twenty -five and 

 thirty, first term, 229; second term, 34; third 

 term, 10 ; fourth term, 1. Of those over thir- 

 ty years of age, first term, 366 ; second term, 

 64; third term, 17; fourth term, 10; and fifth 

 term, 5. 



Benevolent Institutions. The number of pa- 

 tients under treatment in the Insane Asylums 

 during the year ending Nov. 15, 1885, was 

 4,767, an increase of 104. Of these, 474 recov- 

 ered, 194 were discharged improved, 281 un- 

 improved, and 222 died. 



In the Institution for Feeble-minded Youths 

 there were 463 boys and 287 girls ; in the Deaf 

 and Dumb Asylum, 243 boys and 215 girls; in 

 the Blind Asylum, 147 boys and 101 girls; and 

 in the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, 496 

 boys and 266 girls. 



At the Boys' Industrial School there were 

 during the year 683 boys ; number remaining 

 Nov. 15, 1885, 471 ; daily average, 447. 



At the Girls' Industrial School there were 

 during the year 360 girls ; number remaining 

 Nov. 15, 1885, 279; daily average, 278. 



Mines and Miners. The Chief Inspector of 

 Mines reports the erection of 45 ventilating 

 furnaces and 19 fans, 43 air-shafts sunk, and 

 13 safety-catches placed upon cages; 112 mine- 

 scales have been inspected during the year, 2f 

 mines have been worked out and abandoned, 

 and 28 new mines opened. There are now in 

 the State 344 mines employing ten men or 

 more, and 209 that are worked only for pri- 

 vate consumption. The total number of min- 

 ers in Ohio is 17,734. 



Military. The Ohio National Guard consisted 

 on Nov. 15 last of 5,870 rank and file, an in- 

 crease during the year of 42 men. The force 

 is divided into 90 companies of infantry, cor 

 prising 11 regiments, 1 battalion, and 2 ^ unat- 

 tached companies. The artillery was divided 

 into 6 batteries of 4 and 2 of 2 guns each. 

 Since Nov. 15 one two-gun battery has been 

 dissolved. 



Hocking Valley Strike. The troubles in tl 

 Hocking valley mining region, which con- 



