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Marquis Pepoli, and after his death she married 

 Charles Zieger, a French officer. 



Andlau, Q-aston J. H. <T, a French general, died in 

 Buenos Ayres, in May, 1894. He served with dis- 

 tinction in the French army, and rose to high rank. 

 He was intrusted also with important diplomatic 

 missions, which he discharged with credit, and was 

 elected a member of the French Senate. In 1887 his 

 honorable career was blackened by disclosures im- 

 plicating him in the Wilson scandal, relating to the 

 sale of decorations. He fled the country, was ex- 

 pelled from the Senate, and was condemned -in coit- 

 t'mxtciam to five years of imprisonment. 



Astley, Sir John, an English sportsman, bom in 

 Rome, Italy, in 1828 ; died in London, Oct. 10, 1894. 

 He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, 

 became an officer in the Scots fusilier regiment in 

 1848, and was wounded in the Crimea. After ten 

 yours of military service he entered the House of 

 Commons. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1873. 

 A cricketer and football player at school, a strong oar 

 in the university, a crack shot, a capital boxer, an 

 owner of race horses, a patron of the ring, he made 

 sport the chief business of his life, and was an au- 

 thority in sporting matters and a great favorite in 

 sporting circles. In the last year of his life he pub- 

 lished "Fifty Years of my Life in the World of 

 Sport at Home and Abroad.'" 



'Atlay, James, an English clergyman, born in Waker- 

 ley, Northamptonshire, England, July 3, 1817; died 

 in Hereford, Dec. 24, 1894. He was educated at 

 Grantham and Oakham schools, and afterward at 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was after- 

 ward fellow and tutor. He took orders in 1842, was 

 curate of Warsop until 1846, and from 1847 to 1852 

 was vicar of Madingley, near Cambridge. He was 

 Queen's preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, 

 from 1856 to 1858, and in 1859 succeeded Dean Hook 

 as vicar of Leeds. In 1868 he was appointed one of 

 the canons of Ripon, and in 1868, on the death of Dr. 

 Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, he was nominated for 

 the vacant diocese by Mr. Disraeli (then Prime Min- 

 ister). He was neither a great scholar nor an emi- 

 nent theologian, like some of his associates among 

 the lords spiritual, but both as vicar of Leeds and 

 Bishop of Hereford his work was characterized by 

 the exercise of fair abilities if not of shining talents. 

 His nature was kindly and gentle, and among the 

 clergy of his diocese he, was greatly beloved. 



Baert, Lieut., a Belgian officer, died in Leopold- 

 ville, Congo State, in September, 1894. He suc- 

 ceeded to the command of the Kerckhoven expedi- 

 tion into the Nile region, and sent reeonnoitcring 

 parties to Wadelai and Ladp. He was on the point 

 of leading an expedition into the Bahr el Gazel 

 province when the convention with Great Britain 

 regarding its cession to the Congo State was abro- 

 gated. 



Ballantyne, Robert Michael, an English author, born in 

 Edinburgh, in 1825; died in Rome, Italy, Feb. 8, 1864. 

 lie went to Canada at the age of sixteen, and spent 

 *ix years in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. 

 After he returned to Scotland he published "Hudson 

 Bay, or Everyday Life in the Wilds of North Amer- 

 ica" (1848). 'He went into the printing office of the 

 Constables to learn the business with which his fam- 

 ily were identified, but he had a stronger bent for 

 literature, and in 1856 adopted that as his profession, 

 and began to write tales of adventure for young peo- 

 ple, many of them drawn from his Canad'ian experi- 

 ence. For some he gathered new observations by 

 placing himself amid scenes that afforded a suitable 

 setting. Thus he lived some time with the keepers 

 of the Bell Rock light before writing " The Light- 

 house " ; " Deep Down " was the fruit of a visit to 

 the mines of Cornwall; and "The Pirate City " of a 

 winter in Algiers. He was a skillful artist in water 

 volors. He produced 62 stories in 74 volumes. Some 

 <>f the best known are "The Coral Island," "The 

 World of Ice," " Ungava," " The Dog Crusoe," and 

 " The Young Fur Traders." 



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Belleau, Sir Narcisse Fortunat, a Canadian statesman, 

 born in Quebec, Oct. 2.0, Ls<J8; died there, Sept. 14, 

 1892. He was educated at the Quebec Seminary, be- 

 came a successful lawyer, and was chosen, in 1852, a 

 member of the Legislative Council, of which he was 

 Speaker from 1857 till 1862. He was Mayor of Que- 

 bec in 1860. He was Minister of Agriculture in the 

 brief Cartier-Macdonald ministry in 1862. In 1865 

 he succeeded Sir fitienne Tache as Premier, and 

 after the confederation was formed, in 1867, he be- 

 came the first Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, being 

 afterward appointed for a second term. 



Bermudez, Bemigio Morales, President of Peru, born 

 in the province of Tarapaca, Sept. 30, 1836 ; died in 

 Lima, March 31, 1894. He obtained such slight edu- 

 cation as his country then afforded, and engaged in 

 the nitrate trade in his native province. Joining the 

 revolutionary army in 1854 as a lieutenant, he took a 

 prominent part in 'the defeat of Col. Chacano at Arica 

 and in routing the force of Gen. Guardo and win- 

 ning the final victory that resulted in the overthrow 

 of Gen. Echinique's government. When President 

 Castilla in his turn provoked an insurrection in 1864, 

 Bermudez was found again on the side of the revolu- 

 tion. President Pardo made him a lieutenant colonel 

 and prefect of the city of Trujillo. During the war 

 with Chili he commanded the force that marched to 

 Arica and displ ay ed signal bravery. In the uprising 

 against President Iglesias and the Clericals he joined 

 the revolutionary standard of Caceres. When the 

 latter was elected President, in 1886, Col. Bermudez 

 became Vice-President. He was elected President in 

 1890 in succession to Caceres for the term ending 

 Aug. 10, 1894. 



Billroth, Theodor, an Austrian surgeon, born at 

 Bergen, island of Rugen, in 1829; died in Vienna, 

 Feb. 6, 1894. His family was of Swedish origin. He 

 studied at Greifswald, Gottingen, and Berlin, and 

 took his degree as doctor of medicine in 1852. After 

 assisting Prof. Langenbeck in Berlin several years, 

 he was called to the chair of Surgery at Zurich in 

 1858, and in 1867 became Professor of Surgery in 

 Vienna University. He was one of the boldest and 

 most skillful operators of his time, and the pioneer in 

 the excision of cancer of the pylorus and other capi- 

 tal operations. Military surgery owes much to his 

 study and zeal, especially improved transport of the 

 wounded and a more thorough and careful ambulance 

 service in general. The great reform that he had at 

 heart after practicing throughout the Franco-Prus- 

 sian War in the hospitals at Mannheim and Weissen- 

 burg was the abolition of war altogether, which has 

 come to be more barbarous since the invention of the 

 lacerating small projectiles and high velocity of the 

 modern rifle and of other new destructive weapons. 

 He founded a school of hospital nurses, and planned 

 the model hospital in Vienna composed of isolated 

 small buildings. Besides many valuable papers and 

 reports, he wrote in conjunction with Prof. Pitha a 

 " Handbook of General and Special Surgery." 



Blackburne, E. Owens, the pen name of Elizabeth 

 Casey, an Irish novelist, born in Slane, County Meath, 

 in 1848; died in Dublin, April 6, 1894. She became 

 blind when eleven years old, and after her sight was 

 restored, when she was eighteen, she taught herself so 

 well that she took a prize in the examinations of 

 Trinity College. She wrote much for periodicals, 

 and published " A Modern Parrhasius " (1875) ; " A 

 AVoman scorned" (1876); "Illustrious Irishwomen" 

 (1877); "The Way Women love" (1877); "Molly 

 Carew" (1879); "A Bunch of Shamrocks" (1879); 

 " My Sweetheart when a Boy " (1880) ; " The Glen of 

 Silver Birches " (1880) ; " The Love that loves alway " 

 (1881) ; and " The Heart of Erin " (1882). 



Bray, Sir John Cox, an Australian statesman, born in 

 Adelaide, in 1842; died in Colombo, Ceylon, June 

 18, 1894. He studied and practiced law, entered the 

 Legislative Assembly of South Australia in 1871, and 

 four years later became a member of the Cabinet. He 

 repeatedly held office, and in 1881 formed a ministry, 

 which remained in power three years. For some 



