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laO-TO; AlfrUi 



v -. . ,- , -. incl ,: :: M** - 

 -Five Year 18M An Artwt's IVoof w 



ilWl. an.: <** " <1886)-0 1 



Polio and I 

 that 1' lore <1 804). 



ry of the Period 



: : / -:_ 



In po^nr he ha* published - The 8eason,^a,sat. 

 ir* (1881); -Th- Unman T. 1868); 



The Golden Age," a *< 1 "'""- 



iJtaT" 0n); - finc or 0Uh " (1873) : M 



:.|"(1~'': "'Hi. T..,r ..f l!:il-l. 



dram* <i <xko the I 



-Savonarola," a tmgedy (1881): S.lil.M, 



S" (1888); - At the Gate of the Cot 

 ; - Love's Widowhood - (1887) ; " 1' 

 *" (188K lyrics" (1W); 



t.nattt* the Pte^ -!); and - Eng- 



Ian.: 



KECE, a const it utionnl monarchy in south- 



bf Ic^Hslative body is s single 



ChinU-r i-alh d the Iloule.composeaof 207 mem- 



bers* elected l>y universal suffrage for the term 



..f four vears, or until the legislature is dissolved 



f hisres|xmsil.le min- 



itten. . Jiin^ King is Georgios I, born 



|, j}. |-j:.. ". - i.'i KM "f I'riti.-,- Cliri-iiaii 



f Sl< swi , n- lst< in-Sondb [bmg-OlttekibiiiR 



now Kibg of Denmark. Ho was elected by t)u> 

 Boole ; fa protocol signed at London 



M .June 5, 1868, bv th- tliree ijrotecting powers 

 England. France, and Russia an 

 reign on June 27, 1868. The heir apparent is 

 KonstantinoA, Duke of Sparta, eldest son of t he 

 King, born Aug. 2, 1868, and married to Sophia, 

 iv.-. ----- PnwiA, 



The ministry at the beginning of 1805 was 

 compoeed as follows : President of the Council 

 and wini>t-rof Finance. ('.TrikmipN : Minister 

 . Affairs, M. St-j,|jaiiou : Minister <.f 

 the Intorior, M. Bouphidis : Mii :cclesi- 



aetio Affairs and Klu<-nti..i.. M. Kalliphronas; 

 Minister of War, Col. Tsamados; Minister of 

 Marino, Capt Bouboulis; Minister of Justice, 



Area mud Population. The area of the 

 kingdom is 25,041 square miles. The population 

 is 2,187,208, of whom 1.133.625 are males and 

 1,05^583 females. Of th. male |K.pulation,444,- 

 086 are engaged in agriculture and stock r.< 

 64.211 in mechanical arts, and 1 17. '.'?: in<., m . 

 81J321 are in service, 15,735 are profes- 

 I men, 12.109 an- Icrgy- 



. and 34.624 compose the army and navy. 

 lite people belongto the Greek Orthodox Chun-ii. 

 with the exception of insignificant communities 

 of Koman Catholics and Jews and a few th.. u - 

 mnd Mohammedans. 



Defeat*. The strength of the army in 1894 

 vat 4J877 officers and im-n. with 3 

 and ISO Held funs. There were 16.0W infantry. 

 U46carmlry;i87 irtillery. i.-j l :, engineers, and 

 VB" gendarmes. The legal term of active serv- 

 ice fa two years, bat furloughs are commonly 

 granted fter slight instruction, 



h ' ^*! "* fS*** of 8 *^etad vessels 

 - Spetsai," and Psara "> of 485 tons 

 t, having 11*8 inches of armor at the 



' . i . . 1 

 " l "M 



H 



line, and rarryinp IM'am-t irun- 

 metres caliber, 4 <>r ir> cent itnet res. .;' 



t\\<> older uriiiitr dads (" Hasilissa (Mfl| 

 and " Ha-ili-us (Jeorgios") armed une \vith flfc* 

 ton and 2 3^-ton and the <>tl. 

 Kruj-i I unprotected , 



boats, and 80 tornedo boats, n<>t iiu hiding 2 

 Mil. marine Nordenfeldt ln)ats. 



( omiiien e MIH! I'roiliirtiiin. 'I'he principal 

 commercial product is / mts, -i-wn 



between Corinth and Patras, on the shore 

 (iiilf of Curintli. on the inlands of /ai 

 Cephnlonia. and in nthrr parts of i',\, 

 nuantities that the price has fallen. Th. 



.nieiit has endeavor. <1 to extend I he 

 k. t la indiicini: other governments to 

 or lower t heir tint ies. and has met OOW 

 success on the Continent, i.ut 

 which is the largest 

 pie. Merchants have succeeded in opt 

 -Mine new markets, imtalily in lin ia. 



The next most Important -xportal.| 

 is metallic ore lead, silver, and /in . The vahJ 

 in drachmai or francs, of the principal ezpofll 

 in 1W-. .'-:. 



625; wine, 4,194,250; fru 



2,675,000; tobao< . .' 153,1 >:K >4B 



silk and co<-(H)n>. I. :;:"'.. i ,"": ealonia, ! 1 :i,50|;l 



. :'-.VV 



all others, 8,384,000; total exports, 88,068, 

 drachmai. 'I'he principal imports were valojU 

 in drachmai. as follows: Cereals, 28,801,0B| 

 coal, 7,482,125; cotton goods, 5,363.175; cavM 

 and fish, 4,040,200; woolen goods, 4,086,OU 

 other imports are hides, timber, sugar, coft^U 

 animals, hardware, and metals. The total vaBM 

 of the imports in 1803 was 01,484,025 drachnmJ 



Navigation. There were 6,582 vrs 

 788,815 tons, entered at Greek ports during 18sM 

 ..lid 5.482, of 2,340,720 tons, cleared. 



The merchant navy cons .'5 stesjj^H 



;.(>87 tons, and 762 sailing vessels, of 348,41 

 tons. 



Railroads and Telrarrnphs. Tin- lei 

 railroads in operation in 18JW was 568 m 

 which the Government owned 02 miles. TbjKI 

 were 806 miles under construction. 



The telegraphs have a total hn^th of 4Lfl|l 

 miles, with 5.0:50 miles of wire. There wen vl7.- 

 (>:!! internal and 347,829 foreign messages sent 

 and received in 1 *-.>. 



Finances. The finatieial statements - 



ernment have been unreliable, oi^H 



to a loose and variable system of a> 



the mutable theories of different financiers. TVj 



total revenue was estimated for 1H04 at 88,7Bfl 



;;! drachmai. of which 1^ 



fn.m dire. I ta\e<. ls.(MK.(HHl from cnston 



477,067 from stamps, 1 1,027,000 from i 



;Ki from excis,., ,i.:{(Kl,r,7-J from du< 

 fines, 8.535,796 from pul.lic j.rop.-r 1 

 from posts and tele-raph-. 1 .'.;: 

 tional fees, 1,650,000 from poli< e. 1,320.1 

 sales, and arrears. The direct t 

 in arrear. t im-nt refraining fr- 



lecting them, from consideration for agricultural 

 distress mixed with political motives. 

 The expenditures for 1894 were e- 

 the total of 81,693,158 dnu-hmai, divided 

 lows: Public debt, 21,999,083 drachmai: 

 14,761,946 ; Interior Department, 10,209,689 ; ad- 



