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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (SENUSSI SMITH.) 



Minutes in 1875; Le Proc&s de Jesus-Christ in 

 1877; Les Scandales du Jour in 1878; Fleurs 

 d'Adult&re in 1880; L'Orgie Parisienne and Me- 

 moire du Trottoir in 1882; Les Nuits Sanglantes 

 and Fruits Defendus in 1885; Roman de Follette, 

 L'Esprit du Boulevard, and Les Fables de La Fon- 

 taine in 1886 ; Paris en Calegon in 1887 ; Paris aux 

 cent Coups in 1888; and L'Amour appris sans 

 Maitre in 1891. He also wrote Jaloux du Passe, 

 a one-act comedy produced in 1801; Singuliers 

 Effets de la Foudre, in collaboration with Th6o- 

 dore de Langeac, in 1863; La Question d'Amoxir, 

 with Paul Bocage, in 1864; Les Chaines de Fleurs 

 in 1866; L'Hotel des Illusions, a vaudeville, in 

 1869; On Demande une Femme Honnete, with M. 

 V. Koning, in 1877; Le Repentir and Le Nid des 

 Autres, with M. A. Artois, in 1878. 



Senussi, Sidi el Mahdi, sheik, Arab relig- 

 ious leader of Islam, born in Bengazi in 1837; died 

 in Kanein in July, 1902. His father, Sidi Mo- 

 hammed, was a dervish of Algerian birth, a sher- 

 if, or descendant of the Prophet, who, after adven- 

 tures and trials under Abdul Kader, went to 

 Mecca, and then returned homeward through 

 Egypt and Tripoli, settling in Cyrenaica near 

 the border of his own district because he found 

 it unsafe to reenter Algeria. He revived the pure 

 doctrines of Islam among the Bedouins, and after 

 some years migrated eastward to the small oasis 

 of Jaghbub. Senussi, left an orphan in infancy, 

 was carefully educated by his father's disciples 

 and encouraged to believe in his high calling as 

 a guide of Islam. For fifty years he remained on 

 the oasis, living a life of ascetic piety and preach- 

 ing his doctrines among the desert tribes whose 

 camels transport goods between the coast and 

 the Soudan states of Wadai and Kanem. His 

 reputation for holiness spread wherever caravans 

 went, and in all the oases of the Sahara lived 

 members and missionaries of his sect. In the end 

 he left Bengazi to take up a wandering life in 

 the Sahara among the tribes who were suscepti- 

 ble to religious fervor and ready to adopt his 

 stringent rules of simple living. He had no polit- 

 ical ambition, was loyal to the Sultan of Turkey 

 as caliph, abstained from all intrigue, and kept no 

 armed force. For some years he lived in the oasis 

 of Borku. The Mahdi of the Egyptian Soudan en- 

 deavored in vain to gain his support. When he left 

 Borku he moved by slow degrees with his large and 

 increasing body of followers westward through the 

 desert, spreading an elevating and refining influ- 

 ence among the fierce Bedouins and half-pagan Sou- 

 danese by his example and missionary teachings. 



Siemeradski, Henryk, Russian painter, born 

 in Kharkoff, 1844; died Aug. 22, 1902. He stud- 

 ied natural science at the University of Kharkoff, 

 and afterward painting at the Art Academy at 

 St. Petersburg; in 1871 went to Munich, where he 

 imbibed the spirit of Piloty's historical school; 

 settled finally in Rome ; obtained the medal in the 

 Russian section of the Paris Exposition of 1878 

 with his large painting of the Torches of Nero; 

 exhibited later the Amulet Seller; Vase or Slave; 

 Out of the Catacombs ; The Sword-Dance ; Phryne ; 

 The Temptation of St. Anthony ; and designed fres- 

 coes for the Church of the Holy Saviour at Moscow. 



Simar, Hubertus, German Roman Catholic 

 prelate, born in Eupen in 1835; died in Cologne, 

 May 24, 1902. He was educated at Bonn Univer- 

 sity and in the theological seminary at Munich. 

 In 1864 he was appointed to the chair of Catholic 

 Theology at Bonn, and in 1880 to that of Dogmat- 

 ics and Apologetics. He took part in pastoral 

 work and Church affairs during his professorship. 

 He was intimate with the leaders of the Old Cath- 

 olic movement until their severance from the 



Church. In 1891 he was consecrated Bishop of 

 Paderborn. His patriotic attitude during the 

 conflict between the Government and the Curia 

 was remembered when Archbishop Klementz died, 

 in 1899, and a successor in the see of Cologne had 

 to be found who was acceptable alike to the Gov- 

 ernment and the Curia. The King of Prussia 

 laced him on the list of candidates, and the Co- 

 >gne chapter elected him, but he would not ac- 

 cept without the behest of the Pope, who accord- 

 ingly issued a formal command. When Dr. Si- 

 mar took the oath of allegiance to the Emperor 

 on Feb. 9, 1900, he added a declaration that he 

 would act as a loyal patriotic German bishop. 



Simpson, Maxwell, English chemist, born in 

 Beech Hill, County Armagh, Ireland, March 15. 

 1815; died Feb. 26, 1902. He was graduated at 

 Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently as a 

 bachelor of medicine in 1847. He became lec- 

 turer in chemistry, but tired of teaching, and 

 went abroad to study chemistry with the masters 

 of the science. In 1851 he worked under Kolb 

 at Marbourg, then with Bunsen at Heidelberg. 

 While in the latter's laboratory he published his 

 first scientific memoir, On Two New Methods for 

 the Determination of Nitrogen in Organic and 

 Inorganic Compounds. He next went to Paris 

 and entered the laboratory of Wurtz. While 

 here he made original investigations and pub- 

 lished many papers. In 1861 Prof. Frankland 

 communicated a paper of his to the Royal Soci- 

 ety, On the Synthesis of Succinic and Pyrotar- 

 taric Acids, w r hich led to his subsequent election 

 as a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1872 he was 

 appointed to the chair of Chemistry in Queen's 

 College, Cork. He resigned this professorship in 

 1891. He was examiner for several institutions 

 in London and elsewhere, w 7 as an honorary fellow 

 of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians, re- 

 ceived the degrees of M. D. and LL. D. from the 

 University of Dublin, the degree of D. Sc. from the 

 Royal University of Ireland, was president of the 

 chemical section of the British Association in 

 1878, and \vas vice-president of the Chemical So- 

 ciety from 1872 to 1874. The volumes of the Jour- 

 nal of the Chemical Society and the Proceedings of 

 the Royal Society contain many of his memoirs. 

 Smith, George Vance, English Biblical 

 scholar, born in Portarlington, Ireland, in 1816; 

 died in March, 1902. He was educated for the 

 Unitarian ministry at Manchester New College. 

 then situated at York, and was Professor of The- 

 ology there several years. He was minister of 

 St. Saviour Gate Unitarian Chapel, at York, in 

 1858-'75, and principal of the Caermarthen Pre>- 

 byterian (Unitarian) College, Wales, in 1876-'88. 

 He became a member of the New Testament Re- 

 vision Company in 1870, and served till the e<m- 

 elusion of the work. His invitation to this work 

 excited the fiercest opposition in certain quarters, 

 and in the opinion of some theologians the labors 

 of the company were almost neutralized by tin 1 

 fact that a Unitarian had shared in them. Hi- 

 presence at communion in Westminster Abbey 

 with the other revisers also gave rise to a <li 

 play of theological bitterness. His published 

 works include The Prophecies relating to Nineveh 

 and the Assyrians (1857); The Holy Scripture- 

 of the Old Co'venant in a New Translation (18.V.> : 

 Eternal Punishment (1865) ; The Bible and Popu- 

 lar Theology: A Restatement of Truths and Prin- 

 ciples (1871) ; The Spirit and the Word of Christ 

 and their Permanent Lessons (1874); the Holy 

 Scriptures of the Old Covenant in a Revi-eil 

 Translation (joint author) (1874); The Prophets 

 and their Interpreters (1878) ; Texts and Margins 

 of the Revised New Testament (1881); Chapters 



