OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (TAUBKRT WEIM.) 



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tempted to efltabliah a protectorate "\d- tin- SUHKMUI 

 Islands in I >-'' the\ took advantage iH' "tic Hi' tin 

 fends bet ween tin- chiefs which have depopulated MM- 



islands since tin- introduction nf lire arms t" .l<-i-iM- 



Malictoa, who hail established h'm rule over the whole 



group ami set UP in liis place Tamascse. Prince 

 Biamarok decided not to carry out tin- annexation 



when hr found that tin- tinted States Government 

 \ViiilM treat it as all unfriendly lift. TamascM 1 was 

 supported liy uiily a small part of the people, and by 

 iciit of the I'niteil States, (id-many, aiul divat 

 Britain. Malieta was restored, although the people 

 Jiret'erred Mataat'a, who hail leil them against Tainasesc 

 alter Malictoa's ilepurtatiim. Tumuscsc anil his fol- 

 eased to struggle aiTUIIIst the derision of 

 the powers, while Mataat'a continued the w ar a:/ain>t 

 Maiietoa. 



Taubert, Wilhelm, a (ierman musician, born in 1M-J : 

 die.l in Itcrlin, Jan. 7. l-'.'l. 11" was din-dor of tin; 



Berlin eolirt eolieerts, with the title of ehief cliapcl- 



mastei- from ls:!l till 1**7, ami from iMto till 1*71 he 

 was leader of tin 1 orchestra of the opera house. He 

 was the author of a irreat numlid- of orchestral ]iieecs, 

 union;; them the operatic score for Shakespeare's 

 " Tempest." Hi- succeeded also in light [lieces, and 



leaves to the world several collections of musical 

 tritles, - Kindersccnen"and others, sprightly und full 

 i >t fancy and humor. 



Tetn, C16oph6e, known as Sister Th6rese, a Canadian 

 missionary, born in \^4( dic.l in Montreal about 

 Dee. i. is'.u. She was the daughter of u notary, nnd 

 entered the order of the Sisters of Providence in 1844. 

 Sent with another nun to the Indians of the far \Vi-st 

 in 1 S.YJ, she traveled on horseback almost to the 

 Pacitic coast, and in u region where no white woman 

 hud licen seen hefore she acquired a remarkable in- 

 llueiic-e over the savages. In 1857 she went to Chili 

 to establish a home for abandoned children. She 

 was made treasurer of the order in 18('.<i, and soon 

 after taking up her residence in Montreal she founded 

 the threat insane asylum, the buildings of which were 

 burned with 100 patients in 1890. Of this establish- 

 ment she was mother superior till the time of her 

 death. She had extraordinary influence over violent 

 lunatics, and possessed a degree of resolution and 

 eloquence that gained her point whenever she made 

 a demand on the Quebec Government for money. 



Vela, Vinoenao, an Italian sculptor, born in Ligno- 

 retto, Ticino. in ls-_'J: died there, Oct. 5, 1891. He 

 was the son of poor peasants, and was employed at 

 the age of twelve in a stone quarry. Manifesting 

 great aptitude for sculpture, he was sent by friends to 

 Milan in 1 >:(;, was employed in the restoration of 

 the cathedral, and studied under Caeeiatori. In 1848 

 he took a prize with his ,>as-ivlief < 'lirist restoring 

 the Daughter of Jairus." He first achieved a reputa- 

 tion with his statue of " Prayer." Called hack to 

 Swit/erland to take part in the war of the Sonderbund, 

 he fought, afterward in the Italian revolution of 1848. 

 After the campaign was over he went to Home, where 

 he modeled his- Spartacus," which attracted much at- 

 tention in the Paris Kxhibitionof Is.Vi. lie settled fora 

 time in Turin, produeiiiir" Hope "and" Resignation." 

 and at Berganios he made " Harmony in Tears" for 

 the tomb of Doni/.etti. At the Paris Exhibition of 

 I'M;:; he showed "France and Italy," which was pre- 

 sented to the Empress Eugdnie by the ladies of Milan. 

 and won for the sculptor the decoration of the I.e^i"ii 

 of Honor, lie subsequently sent other works to the 

 Paris Salon, receiving a first medal in l*''-7. 



Vitu, August*, a French dramatic critic. lw>rn in 

 Mcndon in lv_':'. ; died in Paris, Aug. ">, IM'l. He 

 learned the printer's trade, obtained a public office, 

 wrote some small comedies for minor theatres, and 

 before he was twenty years old entered the field of 

 journalism as a contributor to the " Mercnre des 

 Theatres'' and ''Charivari." his articles in which 

 have been published in l>ook form. In the revolu- 

 tionary period between 1848 and 1851 he was an 

 active political journalist, startitiir various short- 

 lived journals in Paris and the provinces. He pub- 



li-h.d a iHH.k culled "Kevir.ion .,, i 

 giving hi* vii-Wh on universal Millrutfc. 

 of the i-iiiij, ,r.fnl In- won u partisan ' 

 and he obtained a iiiuni<-i|>ul otticc which kept him 

 out of journalism lor M.IIH- yean*. KITUIHI: 

 ru-wspapir career, he beeam, d unthoritv 



on linaiiee. editing intlnential eomiuereml journufn 

 and pulilihhing u " (inide Financier," which In. 

 the model for many huceee.lin^ lHiks. sin- . 

 he has devoted hiniscll i ntin-l\ to dramatic criticism. 

 As critic for the "Figaro"' he wielded an intlneiie.- 

 necessarily great, which was enhanced by the !. 

 intelligence, and discrimination of In* iadgnMMt, 

 less Iftbona and polished than those ot the weekly 

 writers, but equally critical and more ellcctive in 

 guid'niir public taste. 



Waring, Edward John, an English medical author, 

 born iii fiverton, Devonshire, Dec. U. lsl'.; diel in 

 London, .Ian. -j-j, 1M1. He was the -on of u eujitain 

 in the British na\ \. lie sailed as a hiji's surt'eon to 

 Sierra Leone in 1M1, afterward passed his medical 

 examination in the College of Surgeons, and was 

 health ollicer in .lamaica in IM-j ':;. and atlerward 

 us agent of the Emigration Commission lie visited 

 t he I'nited States and the various British dependencies. 

 In 1849 he went to India as an army surgeon, and while 

 stationed at Mergui, in Tenasserim. he compiled his 

 "Manual of Practical Therapeutics" i London. 1 <,i . 

 Finding the simply of drugs running short in his 

 station, he sought, for substitutes among native re- 

 medial airents sold in the ha/ars and in plants of the 

 neighboring forests, and published a volume on the 

 results of his investiirations, which he followed up 

 utter his return from England in ]*.'>'',. in which year 

 he became physician at the Residency in Travaiieon-. 

 In 1850 the Maharajah of Travancore made him court 

 physician. In 18(50 he published "Bazar Medicines." 

 Materials collected for an " Encyclopjedia Thera]H-u- 

 tica" that he never completed w'ere utilized partly in 

 his "Bibliotheea Therapeutica" (lis'i'.t.i and partly in 

 " May ne's Lexicon." He returned to England in 1863, 

 and in 1865 was selected as chief editor of the 

 " Pharmacopeia for India," which was completed in 

 1868. He published also "Tropical Resident at 

 Home" (1866), " Cottage Hospitals'' ilM'.Ti. and re- 

 ligious books. Both in India and in London he or- 

 ganized benevolent and missionary enterprises. 



Weber, Wilhelm Eduard, a (ierman physicist, died in 

 Gottiiiiren, June :U, Its91. He gave his attention 

 chiefly to electro-dynamics, and in this field his re- 

 searches were extensive and thorough. He is said to 

 have produced the first electro-magnetic telegraph, 

 with which he experimented successfully in : - 



Weiss, Jean Jacques, a French author, oom in 1629; 

 died in Fontaiiiebleaii. May 1!'. Is'.il. He was the son 

 of a Swiss soldier in the' French service, was edu- 

 cated in the Ecole Nonnale, was a teacher for some 



skillfully guarded phrases. When Ollivier formed 

 his Liberal ministry in l>7i'. the two sharpest satir- 

 ists, of the Opposi'tion press Prevost-l'aradol and 

 Weiss aOMptoa otliec under the empire, the former 

 becoming minister at Washington and the latter Di- 

 rector of Fine Arts. After the fall of the empire he 

 edited a newspaper of vai:uo and uncertain political 

 character. Durnur the sieire of Paris he brined the 

 valet of Mr. Washhurne to bring him at niirht Un- 

 American min.stcr's copv of the London "Times." 

 and from it lie extracted" facts and political secrets 

 and published them in his paper, to the U-wilder- 

 inent of the Government authorities. When peace 

 \\ as established he joined in the attacks on M. Tiiicr.s 

 and when the Republican President \\ a^ i.^ted he 

 u as rewarded bv beilli: made a counsel.'! OJ 

 By nup]Hirtintr tlie anti-Republican conibin:/ 

 ls'77 In- sacrificed his inHuence and reputation asa 

 tvilitical writer. Nevertheless M. GamU-ttu appointed 

 him to a liL'h place, that .f director of the political 

 department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and 



