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heim, and a free public library given to Frank- 

 fort by ihe family of Baron Carl Rothschild, in 

 addition to many munificent gifts to Jewish 

 and general charities in France and Germany. 

 Baron de Hirsch gave 50,000,000 francs for 

 Jewish educational purposes in Kussia to 

 teach the Jewish youth self-help and aid in 

 raising the masses to a higher level of cult- 

 ure. New synagogues were dedicated in Alex- 

 andria (Egypt), Antwerp, Munich, Dantzic, and 

 Vienna. Among the deaths were those of 

 Baron Todesco, of Vienna ; Rabbi Marx, of 

 Bayonne ; Dr. Asher Samter, author and rabbi, 

 at Berlin ; Joseph Ritter v. Wertheimer, of 

 Vienna; Simon Spitzer, author, of Vienna ; 

 Baron Lucien de Hirsch, Alexander Sidi, of 

 Smyrna; Meier Goldschmidt, Danish novelist ; 

 Charles Wiener, Belgian sculptor and medal- 

 list ; Baron Elia Todros, of Venice ; Rabbi Dr. 

 Pincus F. Frank!, Leopold Freund, journalist, 

 of Breslau ; J. E. Kann, Secretary of the Al- 

 liance Israelite Universelle, Rabbi Dr. Jacob 

 Auerbach, of Frankfort. The seventieth birth- 

 day of Prof. Graetz was celebrated in Breslau 

 in November, and a jubilee work issued by a 

 number of scholars, with articles in Jewish 

 history and research. In literature it is diffi- 

 cult to specify the number of new books and 

 magazine articles, without assuming the di- 

 mensions of a bibliography. There was a 

 steady activity in all branches of Oriental lore, 

 by Jewish scholars, old and young, although 

 no great work was produced. It is gratifying 

 to note the continued interest shown in He- 

 brew studies by Christian students. Schiirer, 



in Germany, and Stapfer, in France, throw light 

 on the history of Palestine in the early Chris- 

 tian centuries. The year is notable, too, for the 

 movement to erect a monument to Heinrich 

 Heine, at Dusseldorf, his birthplace, the Em- 

 press of Austria being a generous contributor. 

 The latest statistics, as published by the an- 

 nual of a Paris Jewish weekly, place the Jew- 

 ish population of the globe, for the year ending 

 Sept. 18, 1887, at 6,800,000. France is said 

 to contain 63,000 ; Germany, 562,000, of whom 

 39.000 inhabit Alsace and Lorraine ; Austria- 

 Hungary, 1,644,000, of whom 688,000 are in 

 Galicia and 638,000 in Hungary proper ; Italy, 

 40,000; Netherlands, 82,000 ; Roumania, 165,- 

 000 ; Russia, 2,552,000 (Russian Poland, 768,- 

 000) ; Turkey, 105,000 ; Belgium, 3,000 ; Bul- 

 garia, 10,000; Switzerland, 7,000; Denmark, 

 4,000 ; Spain, 1,900; Gibraltar, 1,500; Greece, 

 3,000 ; Servia, 3,500 ; Sweden, 3,000. In Asia 

 there are 300,000 of the race ; Turkey in Asia 

 has 195,000, of whom 25,000 are in Palestine, 

 47,000 are in Russian Asia, 18,000 in Persia, 

 14,000 in Central Asia, 1,900 in India, and 

 1,000 in China. In Africa, 8,000 Jews live in 

 Egypt, 55,600 in Tunisia, 35,000 in Algeria, 

 60,000 in Morocco, 6,000 in Tripoli, and 200,- 

 000 in Abyssinia. America counts 230,000, 

 and 20,000 more are distributed in other sec- 

 tions of the transatlantic continents, while only 

 12,00frare scattered through Oceanica. No sta- 

 tistics for England are given. The Jews in 

 the United Kingdom number fully 80,000, and 

 the Jewish population in the United States is 

 about 600,000. 



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KANSAS. The following were the State offi- 

 cers during the year : Governor, John A. Mar- 

 tin, Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, A. P. 

 Riddle ; Secretary of State, E. B. Allen ; Treas- 

 urer, James W. Hamilton ; Auditor, Timothy 

 McCarthy ; Attorney-General, S. B. Bradford ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. H. 

 Lawhead ; Railroad Commissioners, James 

 Humphrey, L. L. Turner, and Almerin Gillett ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Albert 

 H. Horton ; Associate Justices, W. A. John- 

 ston and Daniel M. Valentine. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met on 

 January 11, and adjourned on March 5. The 

 liquor law adopted aims to suppress the so- 

 called "drug-store saloons," which, under the 

 guise of law, in some localities have practically 

 nullified the effect of the prohibitory statutes. 

 It holds the druggist to a rigid accountability 

 for all sales of liquor, each applicant being 

 required to make affidavit that it is wanted 

 for medicinal or mechanical purposes. The 

 blanks for that purpose are issued by the Coun- 

 ty Clerk in book form, and are numbered, and 

 the druggist's returns must correspond with a 

 record kept jointly by the clerk and probate 



judge. The making of a false affidavit be- 

 comes perjury, and the signing of a fictitious 

 name forgery. The druggists are also hedged 

 about with pains and penalties to such an ex- 

 tent that any evasion of the law will be difficult 

 and dangerous. 



The rate of taxation established for 1887 is 

 as follows : 3| mills for State purposes, T ^ of a 

 mill to pay interest on the public debt, and a 

 special tax of \ mill each year for completing 

 the construction of the main or central building 

 of the State capitol. 



The following are some of the specific ap- 

 propriations for current expenses for the bien- 

 nial" period, 1887-'88 : The Deaf and Dumb 

 Asylum at Olathe, $94,000 ; the Asylum for 

 the Feeble-minded, $40,000 ; the Soldiers' Or- 

 phans' Home, $46,800; the State Reform 

 School, $73,000; the Insane Asylum at To- 

 peka, $288,500; the Insane Asylum at Ossawat- 

 omie, $220,500; the Asylum for the Blind, 

 $38,370. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum receive 

 an extra appropriation of $51,000 for the 

 erection of a central building ; the Asylum for 

 the Blind, $18,000, to construct a north wing 

 to its main building ; and the Normal School 



