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cago; Admiral Farragut. New York; Peter Cooper, 

 New York; Colonel K. G. Shaw, Boston; monument 

 to General Sherman, New York, and numerous other 

 atatues, busts, etc. Died, 1907. 



Saionji, Marquis, Japanese premier, belongs to an 

 illustrious family which, in the past, has had marriage 

 connections with the imperial family. Born in Kioto 

 in 1849, as a youth of 18, he gathered volunteers and 

 fought for the emperor in the revolution. He then 

 went to Paris, was a student in the Latin Quarter, 

 anil returned to Japan in his 33d year. He at once 

 started a daily paper at Tokio, and proclaimed himself 

 a Liberal of the European type. Subsequently, the 

 marquis became minister to Austria-Hungary and then 

 to Germany. On his return to Japan he joined the 

 first Ito cabinet as minister of education, a post which 

 he again occupied in the second Ito cabinet, having 

 been minister of foreign affairs in the interval. A 

 great friend of Marquis Ito. Marquis Saionji assisted 

 him to form the Constitutional Association (1900), 

 ami became its leader in 1903. At three difficult crises 

 mikado has called Marquis Saionji to be prime 



T pro tern. 



viliOmry. Marquis of, an eminent British states- 

 man; was born at Hatfield in 1830. He was graduated 

 from Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1853, and sat in 

 parliament for .Stamford, 1853-68. He was secretary 

 for India, 1866-67, and again 1874-76. In the latter 

 he was special ambassador to the Porte, and was 

 leader of the Conference of Constanti- 

 In 1878 he was appointed foreign secretary, and, 

 with Lord Beacpnsfield, took a prominent part in the 

 ress of Berlin. After the latter's death he became 

 the principal leader of the Conservatives in the House of 

 Lords, and later rose to the rank of premier. His death 

 occurred in 1903. 



sal I ust, Roman historian; born at Amiternum, in 

 the territory of the Sabines, and attained the quaestor- 

 ship and the tribunate, though a plebeian; for a misde- 

 meanor was expelled the senate; joined Caesar's party 

 in the civil war, and became governor of Numidia; 

 enriched himself by extortions, and returned to Rome 

 a rich man. and gave himself to literature; wrote the 

 ;Iine Conspiracy," and the "War with Jugurtha," 

 among other works, in a terse and forcible style, and was 

 the precursor of Livy and Tacitus; as a writer he affects 

 the moralist, though he lived in vice, 86-35 B. C. 



sarniiel, a Jewish prophet, born of the tribe of Levi. 

 about 1 155 B. C. ; consecrated by his mother from earliest 

 years to the service 9f the Lord; who became a judge 

 when he was 40, anointed first Saul and then David to 

 be king over the till then disunited tribes of Israel, and 

 thus became the founder of the Jewish monarchy. 



*;i ml. George, nom de guerre of Madame Dudevant; 

 born in 1804; French novelist; separated from her hus- 

 band in 1831. in which year was published, under the 

 pseudonym "Jules Sand, a novel written in collabora- 

 tion with Sandeau. Next year she began to write under 

 ti.- well-known signature, her chief works being "Con- 

 uelo," " La Comtesse de Rudolstadt," " Lea Sept Conies 

 I .1 Petite Fadette " "Elle et Lui." " I.e 

 Marquis de Villemer," and other plays, and "Impres- 

 sions et Souvenirs." Died, 1876. 

 Santa Ana or Anna, Antonio Lopez de, born in 

 ican general; fought at first for the Span- 

 iards, but in 1829, defeated their expedition, and be- 

 came president in lx.'W. He recognized the independence 

 xaa, and defended Vera Cruz against the French 

 in 1839, but. after having been dictator from 1S41 to 

 IMJ. \\.-M banished. H.- return*] to eondnd tin- \\.-ir 

 against the United States, and in 1853-65 waa again 

 tie waa afterwards banished once mo 



Juarez. Died. 1876. 



^. ml. .--Mum. m. M.. ! M/I|I:UI of means nnd leisure. 



. -h that an airship for aerial 



t a IIH-II- plaything but a practical in- 



i' applied in a t hnrniijrhly U 

 on the Detitsch pn/e. offWW to the 

 icronaut who should go to and return froi 

 Tower, the A r 



voted him I'.'i.iKH) m reco0> | 

 of hit great nervier* to aerostat i< < 'hev- 



f th.- legion of Honor. !.<) H- 

 himaelf to (1% mi: machines. 



Ion. \ i. i<M i. n. Irnnmtnt. 



\, waa 

 .(her 



pieces, produced at the D I wan ad- 



I to the A.-adrmv in |* 



are "Lee Pattes du Mom-he." t! . ,f "A 



Scrap of Paper." "Noa Intimes," - Dora." of 



"Diplomacy." "Odette." "Femora," "La Tosca," and 

 " Rabagas." a satire on Gambetta. 



Sargent, John Singer, artist; born in Florence. 

 Italy. 1856; educated in Italy and Germany; studied 

 painting at Academy of Fine Arts. Florence, Italy, and 

 in Paris under Carolus Duran. Exhibited portrait of 

 Carolus Duran in Paris Salon of 1S77; traveled in Spain. 

 1879, and on return opened studio in Paris; removed 

 to London, 1884, and has since resided there. Has 

 painted many portraits, English and American, one of 

 recent note being that of President Roosevelt, painted 

 in 1903; also various other pictures, of which his Japan- 

 ese dancing girl was awarded a grand medal at Paris 

 Exposition, 1889. 



siul, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, the 

 f i r-t King of the Israelites, was anointed by Samuel. B. C., 



j 1091, and after a reign of forty years, filled with various 

 events, was slain with three of his sons on Mount Gilboa. 

 He was succeeded by David, who was his son-in-law, 

 and whom he had endeavored to put to death. His 

 history is contained in I Samuel, x to xxxi. 



Savaite. Minot Judson, Unitarian clergyman: born 

 in Norridgewock. Me.. June 10. 1841; graduated from 

 Bangor Theological Seminary. 1864 (D. D., Harvard, 

 1VM>); Congregational home missionary in California. 



. 1864-67; pastoral Framingham, Mass., 1867-69; Han- 

 iiibal. Mo., 1869-73; became Unitarian ; pastorof Third 

 Unitarian Church. Chicago, 1873-74; Church of the 

 Unity, Boston, 1874-96; since 1896, minister of Church 

 of the Messiah, New York. Author: "Christianity, the 

 Science of Manhood," "The Religion of Evolution." 

 "Light on the Cloud." "Bluffton. a Story of To-day," 

 "Life Questions." "The Morals of Evolution." "Ta'lks 



I About Jesus." " Poems," " Belief in God." " Beliefs About 

 Man," " Beliefs About the Bible." "The Modern Sphinx." 

 "Man. Woman, and Child." "The Religious Lif 



I cred Problems," "These Degenerate Days," " My Creed," 

 ' Religious Reconstruction," " Signs of the Times," 



j "Helps for Daily Living," "Life, "Four Great Quea- 



I tions Concerning God," "The Irrepressible Conflict Be- 

 tween Two World-Theories," "The Evolution of Chris- 

 tianity," "Is this a Good World?" "Jesus and Modern 



Life." "A Man." "Religion for To-day." "Our Unitarian 

 Gospel," "Hymns." "The Minister's Hand-book." 

 ' Physics, Facts, and Theories." " Life Beyond Death," 

 "Life's Dark Problems," Editor: "Sacred Songs for 

 Public Worship" (with Howard M. Dow), "Unitarian 

 Catechism." "Life Beyond Death," "The Passing and 

 the Permanent in Religion," " Living by the Day," 

 "Men and Women." '< an Telepathy Explain?" 



Savonarola, Fra Girolanio, Italian preacher; born 

 in Ferrara in 1452; acquired great political influei 

 Florence, where he denounced abuses of all kinds. He 



; was twice sent as envoy to Charles VIII. of France, and 

 after the expulsion of Piero de'Medi.-i was real ruler of 



j the state, but, having been prohibited preaching and 

 excommunicated bv Alexander VI.. he was attacked in 

 his priory of San Marco, with his friends, and burnt, 

 after being put to the torture. Died. 1498. 



Saxe, Maurice. Comic de. horn in 1696; marshal 

 of France; was a natural son of Augustus II. of Saxony 

 and Poland. His greatest achievements were the 

 tories of Fontenoy. Lawfeldt, and Uancoux. and the 

 capture of Maestncht. He left a work entitled 



i ies," which was published in 1757, and subsequently 

 translated. Died. 17-Mi. 



" ha. licrle. John .Martin, astronomer: Ixmi in 

 any, 1853: remove.! to Ann Arl>or. Mich.. 1854; 

 apprentice in Chicago machine shop. 1S68-71: became 

 interested in astronomy; studied at Ann Arbor 1 

 School; constructed a number of telescopes; grad 

 from University of Michigan. C. K . IsTii I I 

 verity ,,f California. Ix'ixi; private amiatant to i 



i-M-t.-mi m Ann Arbor Obser- 

 tistructor in astronomy and nctiiur professor of 

 astronomy in I t Michigan. 1878-88; n 



mcr l.i. 1 Mt. Hamilton, ixxs <7 



id charjse of c< lip-. rxpod:' 



I i, k U,s,. r \:itory. 1880, 1893. if Chile, nnd 



'o Japan; ha* discovered three comet... and him 

 done much oriumal work; extensive contributor to 



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