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his allowance. He began preaching in August, 

 1826, and when he reached the end of his stock of 

 money he wrote to a noble lady to solicit a loan. 

 She did not reply, but someone, writing anonymous- 

 ly in a religious strain, sent him a parcel of silver 

 money. In 1829 he went to London and worked as 

 a missionary of the society for propagating the Gos- 

 pel among the Jews until his health failed, after 

 which he settled as a minister at Teignmouth and 

 in 1830 at Bristol. He abolished pew rents, setting 

 up a box for voluntary contributions. He was often 

 reduced to the last few shillings of these contribu- 

 tions, but help always came in time, and he firmly 

 believed that if he prayed his wants would be sup- 

 plied. In 1834 he founded the Scriptural Knowl- 

 edge Institution to supply Bibles and other things 

 needed in Sunday schools and missions, resolving 

 not to ask for worldly patronage nor to contract 

 debt. In the following year he established in Bris- 

 tol an orphan home, praying for a site, 1,000 to 

 build with, and helpers to care for the children, all 

 which came to him. The number of children sup- 

 ported in the home rose to 297 in 1856, when he 

 said that 84,000 had been given him for the or- 

 phans as the result of prayer. The gifts still in- 

 creased until in 1875 there were 2,000 children being 

 cared for and he had received in donations 750,000 

 without ever having appealed personally to any one. 

 He published statements and balance sheets, how- 

 ever. He addressed students in colleges and theo- 

 logical seminaries and other audiences whenever he 

 had an opportunity, and between 1875 and 1883 he 

 traveled through Europe, America, and Asia on 

 evangelistic tours. In 1892 he made another mis- 

 sionary journey over the continent. Altogether he 

 delivered 3,000 sermons in foreign lands, traveling 

 150,000 miles, and when at Bristol he preached twice 

 every Sunday up to his ninetieth year, besides 

 speaking frequently during the week. 



Mnnk, William, an English physician, born in 

 1815 : died in London, Dec. 20, 1898. He was edu- 

 cated at University College, London, and at the 

 University of Leyden, graduating M. D. from the 

 latter in 1837. In 1844 he was admitted member of 

 the Royal College of Physicians, and fellow in 1854, 

 and during his long life held several professorships. 

 He was considered the leading authority on small- 

 pox. His published works are : " Memoir of J. A. 

 Paris, M. D." ( 1 857) ; " The Roll of the Royal College 

 of Physicians of London " (1861-'78) ; " Euthanasia " 

 (1887): " Life of Sir Henry Halford" (1895). 



Nicolas. Ernest (Signer NICOLINI), a French 

 operatic tenor, born in Tours, France, Feb. 23, 

 1834 : died in Paris, Jan. 17, 1898. He was the son 

 of an innkeeper of Dinard. The singer was a pupil 

 of the National Conservatory of Singing and Dec- 

 lamation, Paris, and was graduated by that insti- 

 tution in comic opera in 1855, with the honors of a 

 second acceastY. He was at once engaged at the 

 Theatre de 1'Opera Comique in Paris, but, after 

 essaying one or two roles without marked success, 

 he retired therefrom. In 1859 he went to Italy, 

 where he continued his studies and entered the 

 ranks of artists of grand opera. He was favorably 

 received and sang with much success in Florence, 

 Turin, and other cities. He visited Paris in 1862, 

 and repeated his Italian successes at the Salle 

 Ventadour. He appeared shortly afterward before 

 an English audience in concerts given by Lucca 

 and with others at St. James's Hall. An engage- 

 ment at Covent Garden was secured for him, but 

 resulted in failure. He then went again to the 

 Continent and followed the fortunes of different 

 operatic ventures until 1872, when, on his reap- 

 pearance in London as Faust, he achieved a posi- 

 tive and enduring triumph. Backed by this suc- 

 cess, he became a star, and as such visited the 



principal cities of Europe for several years with his 

 own company. He became associated with Adelina 

 Patti. and, besides singing with her in all her en- 

 gagements in Europe, visited the United States 

 several times as her principal support and received 

 much favor from American audiences. At length, 

 after an association of many years, he and Patti 

 were married at her home, Craig-y-nos Castle, 

 Wales, June 10, 1888. Though he was not en- 

 dowed with a voice of much power, his notes were 

 sweet and pure, added to which his pleasing stage 

 presence and marked ability as an actor endeared 

 him greatly to his audiences. During the later 

 years of his life he lost his voice through illness, 

 and he had ceased to sing long before his death. 



Orton, Arthur, an English impostor, born in 

 London in 1835 ; died there, April 1, 1898. He \v;i^ 

 the son of a shipping butcher of Wapping, emi- 

 grated to Australia, and carried on the business 

 of a slaughterman in Wagga Wagga, New South 

 Wales. He went to England in 1866 to lay claim 

 to the Tichborne baronetcy and estates, pretending 

 to be Sir Roger Tichborne, who had been educated 

 in France and had served in the army and had 

 been on a vessel that sailed from Valparaiso and 

 foundered at sea in 1854. Lady Tichborne believed 

 her son to be still living, heard that he was in Aus- 

 tralia, and when Orton appeared in answer to her] 

 advertisements and recalled to her mind many inci 

 dents of Roger Tichborne's childhood and youth, 

 she was thoroughly convinced that he was the son, ' 

 although he was very different in education and 

 breeding and even in stature and appearance. A 

 jury, after a trial in 1871, lasting one hundred and 

 one days, was satisfied that he was not Sir Roger 

 Tichborne. The Tichborne estate had spent 92,- 

 000 in defeating his claim. Orton was then ar- 

 rested for perjury and forgery, and a trial that 

 lasted one hundred and eighty-eight days resulted 

 in his being found guilty in February, 1874, and 

 sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. His 

 counsel, Dr. Kenealy, by means of a virulent news- 

 paper that he established, called the " Englishman," 

 succeeded in turning the alleged wrongs of the 

 "claimant" into a class question, almost into a 

 question of national politics. The lawyer, dis- 

 barred for his denunciation of Chief-Justice Cock- 

 burn on the bench, founded the Magna Chart a 

 Association, delivered 'violent speeches throughout 

 the country, and in 1875 was elected to Parliament 

 for Stoke. When he moved for a parliamentary 

 inquiry into the Tichborne case he got only two 

 members to support his motion. Public interest in 

 the claimant gradually died out until he was re-i 

 leased on ticket of leave, after serving eleven year-; 

 of his sentence. Orton lectured and showed him- 

 self at music halls, but was unable to reopen thj 

 question. In 1895 he published a " Full Confes- 

 sion," stating how he had picked tho details of 

 young Tichborne's life from persons who had 

 known him, and in time had actually deluded him- 

 self with the belief that he was the person whose 

 character he assumed. He had begun to impose on 

 people in the hope of raising a little money to get 

 away from Australia. Finding so many whom he 

 could gull, he abandoned himself to luxury and 

 ease, increasing in bulk from 150 to 350 pounds, 

 and then during his imprisonment declining 

 gradually to his former weight. 



Pavn, James, an English novelist, born at Iu - 

 ney Lodge, Cheltenham, England, Feb. 28, 1830; 

 died in London, March 25, 1898. His educntioa 

 was obtained at Eton, Woolwich Academy, and 

 Cambridge, from which latter institution he was 

 graduated in 1854. From 1858 he was editor cf 

 "Chambers's Journal," for which he wrote exclu- 

 sively for several years, and in 1882 he succeeded 



