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settled in Manitoba in 1870 and started Le Metis, 

 entering the same time upon the active practise 

 of law, having been admitted to the bar in 1864. 

 He defended Lepine and Naud, who were tried as 

 murderers for having when members of Louis 

 Kiel's provisional Government ordered the execu- 

 tion of Thomas Scott. He sat in the Manitoba 

 Legislature from its creation in 1870 until he was 

 elected in 1879 to the Dominion Parliament, and 

 while in the Legislature he was speaker and after- 

 ward provincial Secretary, Attorney-General, and 

 Minister of Public Works. He carried through 

 the school law of 1871, the act abolishing the 

 Legislative Council, and the act creating the Uni- 

 versity of Manitoba, and he secured more favor- 

 able financial arrangements with the Dominion. 

 He was returned to the House of Commons until, 

 in 1888, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of 

 the Northwest Territories. After the expiration of 

 his term in 1893 he became editor of La Minerve. 



Boyer, Cle'mence, French scientific writer, 

 born in Brittany in 1830; died in Paris, Feb. 3, 

 1902. She intended in her youth to become a 

 nun, afterward studied at the Sorbonne and the 

 College de France, went to Lausanne in 1860, in- 

 stituted a course of logic for women, shared with 

 Prudhomme a Government prize for an essay on 

 the theory of taxation, and was the translator 

 and defender in France of Darwin's theories. She 

 published a famous pamphlet on a national 

 church for the republic, a work on Le Bien et la 

 Loi Morale in 1881, and an original treatise on 

 the atomic theory entitled La Constitution du 

 Monde in 1890, besides memoirs on anthropolog- 

 ical and archeological subjects. 



Bute, Mme. Marie Letizia de Studolmine 

 Solms, Batazzi de (Wyse), commonly known as 

 Mme. Ratazzi, daughter of Sir Thomas Wyse, an 

 English ambassador to Athens, and Letitia Bona- 

 parte, a niece of the first Napoleon, born in Wa- 

 terford, Ireland, in 1833; died in Paris in Feb- 

 ruary, 1902. Her first marriage was in 1848 to 

 Frederic de Solms, a wealthy Alsatian, who died 

 in 1861, and in 1863 she married the Italian 

 statesman Urbain Ratazzi, who died in 1873. 

 Four years afterward she married De Rute, a 

 Spaniard. Exiled from Paris after the coup 

 d'etat, in 1852, she established a journal, Les 

 Matinees d'Aix, to which she contributed sketch- 

 es in prose and verse. She was allowed to return 

 in 1860, but was again sent to exile in 1864, 

 partly on account of the publication of her book 

 Les Manages d'une Creole. Besides publishing 

 many; works in prose and verse, she contributed 

 to many journals, and with her talents, and her 

 great beauty at one period of her career, she 

 played a conspicuous part in literary and polit- 

 ical circles during the second empire. The fol- 

 lowing is an incomplete list of her published 

 books: Nice, Ancienne et Moderne (1854); La 

 Dupinade (1859); Les Chants de 1'Exilee (1859); 

 Fleurs d'ltalie: Poesies et L6gendes (1859); 

 Bontandes (1860); La Reputation d'une Femme 

 (1862); Mademoiselle Million (1863); Les Ma- 

 riages d'une Creole (1864) ; Le Pi6ge aux Maris 

 (1865); Les Rives de 1'Arno, poems (1865); Les 

 Soirees d'Aix les Bains, prose and verse (1865); 

 La Forge (1865); La Mexicaine (1866); Biche- 

 nelle (1867); Si j'etais Reine (1868); Louise de 

 Kelner (1868) ; Le Reve d'une Ambitieuse (1868) ; 

 Nice la Belle (1870); Florence (1870); Cara Pa- 

 tria, verse (1873); L'Ombre de la Mort, verse 

 (1875); L'Espagne Moderne (1879); Le Portugal 

 a vol d'Oiseau (1880) ; Ratazzi et son Temps (ed- 

 ited) (1881); La Belle Juive (1882); L'Aventu- 

 riere des Colonies, a drama (1885); and Enigme 

 sans Clef, a collection of tales (1894). 



Sargeant, Lewis, English journalist, born in 

 1841; died in Bournemouth, England, Feb. 2, 

 1902. He was educated at Cambridge,' and for 

 six years preceding his death had been a member 

 of the editorial staff of the London Daily Chron- 

 icle. He was an authority on educational sub- 

 jects, and was a man of wide learning and excep- 

 tional breadth of view. Since 1878 he had been 

 honorary secretary of the Greek Committee in 

 London, and for his services to Greece he was 

 created knight of the Greek Order of the Re- 

 deemer. His published books include An Intro- 

 duction to English Composition (1872); Ele- 

 mentary Mathematics (1873); New Greece 

 (1878); England's Policy (1881); William Pitt 

 (1882) ; The Government Handbook (1890) ; John 

 Wiclif (1893); Greece in the Nineteenth Cen- 

 tury (1897); The Franks from their Origin as 

 a Confederacy to the Establishment of the King- 

 dom of France and the German Empire (1898); 

 and The Caprice of Julia, a novel (1899). 



Schafarik, Adalbert Vojtech, Bohemian 

 chemist and astronomer, born in Neusatz in Sii- 

 dungarn, Oct. 26, 1829; died in Prague, July 2, 

 1902. From 1856 to 1858 he studied in Berlin 

 and Gottingen with Wohler. He became Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry in the Bohemian Polytech- 

 nicum in 1862, and in 1882 was appointed to the 

 chair of Chemistry in the Bohemian University. 

 His last chemical paper was published in 1872. 

 After this time he devoted himself chiefly to 

 astronomical investigations, which he carried 

 out in his private observatory. He held the 

 chair of Descriptive Astronomy in the Bohemian 

 University from 1892 to 1896. He was an adept 

 at grinding and polishing metallic and glass mir- 

 rors. He translated the works of Alexander 

 Humboldt into Bohemian, and left a long se- 

 ries of astronomical manuscripts, which he was 

 prevented by failing health from publishing. 



Schenk, Leopold, Hungarian embryologist, 

 born in 1841; died in Schwanberg, Styria, Aug. 

 17, 1902. He was a distinguished Professor of Em- 

 bryology when he published a work that created 

 much popular discussion and was received with 

 skepticism in the scientific world, in which he ad- 

 vanced a theory that the sex of children can be 

 artificially predetermined by a regimen of food. 



Scholl, Aurelien, French journalist and au- 

 thor, born in Bordeaux, July 13, 1833; died in 

 Paris, April 16, 1902. He was the son of a no- 

 tary, and after studying in the schools of Bordeaux 

 he went to Paris to embark on a literary career. 

 He became an incisive newspaper writer, writing 

 in 1850 for the Corsair, and after it was sup- 

 pressed in 1852 he was connected successively with 

 the Paris, the Mousquetaire, L'lllustration, and 

 the weekly Figaro, revived the Satan, and started 

 La Silhouette, Lc Nain Jaune, Le Club, Le Jockey, 

 and Le Lorgnon. From 1872 he was associate ed- 

 itor of L'fivenement, and was chief editor for a 

 season of both the Voltaire and L'Echo de Paris. 

 He fought many sensational duels and made him- 

 self a conspicuous figure in the public eye by his 

 marriage with the rich Alice Perkins, of London, 

 and its sequel, and by other adventures. He pub- 

 lished Lettres a mon Domestique in 1854; Les 

 Esprits Malades in 1855; Denise in 1857; La 

 Foire aux Artistes in 1858; Claude de Borgne in 

 1859; Les Mauvais Instincts in 1860; Aventures 

 Romanesques in 1862; Helene Herrmann, Les 

 Amours de Theatre, and Scenes et Mensonges 

 Parisiens in 1863; Gens Tares in 1864; Les Cris 

 de Paon and L'Outrage in 1866; Les Nouveaux 

 Myst&res de Paris and Les Petits Secrets de la 

 Comedie in 1867; Dictionnaire Ftfodal in 1869; La 

 Danse de Palmiers in 1873; Les Amours de Cinq 



