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AUTOGRAPH 



Other Items of Interest. The only useful 

 mineral which Austria did not have is plat- 

 inum. 



Saint Ulrich, in the Tyrol, has been for two 

 centuries known for its wood-carving. One of 

 its specialties has been the little Noah's Ark 

 animals, and the industry has become so finely 

 subdivided that frequently one family makes 

 only cows, another only lions, and so on. 



The dual monarchy ranked high among the 

 nations of Europe in respect to the number 

 of great musicians it has produced. On its 

 roll appear the names of Czerny, Dvorak, 

 Hadyn, Liszt, Kubelik and Joachim. 



The tobacco of Hungary constituted a strict 

 government monopoly. 



Of the 275,000 gypsies which lived in Hun- 

 gary, less than 10,000 are of the old roving type, 

 the remainder having adopted in some degree 

 settled occupations. 



The northern end of the beautiful Lake 

 Garda is in the Tyrol. The fertility of the 

 surrounding country gave it its old name of 

 Garden Lake. 



In many of the crownlands of Austria vot- 

 ing for member of the Rcichsrath was compul- 

 sory. Every voter was obliged to appear at the 

 polls or pay a fine. 



Marie Antoinette, the unfortunate queen 

 who played so large a part in French history, 

 was the daughter of Maria Theresa of Aus- 

 tria. E.Z. 



Consult Colquhoun's The Whirlpool of Europe, 

 Austria-Hungary and the Hapsburgs; Rumbold's 

 Franz Joseph and His Own Time. 



Related Subject*. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in the former dual monarchy will find much 

 detailed, systematic information in the following 

 articles. Among the references also will be found 

 the new states formed out of the old monarchy : 



Baden 



BrUnn 



Budapest 



Carlsbad 



Cracow 



Czernowitz 



Gratz 



Innsbrlick 



Alps 



Cattle 



Coal 



Copper 



Corn 



Glass 



Sugar Beets 



Tobacco 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Klausenburg 



I.' rnberg , 



Pilsen 



Prague 



Pressburg 



Szegedin 



Trieste 



Vienna 



MOUNTAINS 



Carpathian 



IMPORTANT PRODUCTS 



Gold 



Lumber 



Pottery 



Salt 



Silver 



Wheat 



Wine 



Danube 



Dniester 



Drave 



Austria 

 Bohemia 

 Bosnia 

 Bukowina 



KIVEKS 



Elbe 

 Save 

 Vistula 



STATES 



I >;ilmatia 

 Galicia 

 Hungary 

 Jugo-Slavia 



Czecho-Slovak Republic Moravia 

 Croatia and Slavonia Tyrol 



HISTORY 



Austerlitz 



Hapsburg 



Holy Roman Empire 



Sadowa, Battle of 



Seven Weeks' War 



Succession Wars 

 Thirty Years' War 

 Utrecht, Peace of 

 Vienna, Congress of 

 War of the Nations 



AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION, aws' trian suk 

 ses' shun, WAR OF THE. See SUCCESSION WARS, 

 subhead War of the Austrian Succession. 



AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE, 

 the title of a book held by some to be the 

 most popular and interesting work of Oliver 

 Wendell Holmes. In it his wit and humor, his 

 kindly philosophy and delightful style are com- 

 bined with the ease and charm of conversation 

 which always distinguished him; for the Auto- 

 crat is simply the conversation at the breakfast 

 table of a Boston boarding house. Holmes 

 himself, the Autocrat, does most of the talking, 

 but the Schoolmistress, the Young Man Called 

 John, the Old Gentleman Opposite and sev- 

 eral others are very clearly characterized. The 

 book comprises a collection of sketches which 

 first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1857 

 and 1858; up to that time Holmes had only a 

 local reputation save as the author of the 

 poem Old Ironsides, but with the publication 

 of these he at once became a man of literary 

 note. 



AUTOGRAPH, aw' tograj, an original manu- 

 script or signature, in the handwriting of the 

 one who composed it. The word means, lilrr- 

 ally, writing in one's own hand, from autos, the 

 Greek word for self, and graphcin, meaning to 

 write. In all ages the handwriting of famous 

 men and women has been of interest. In the 

 most ancient times of which we have record, 

 manuscripts were frequently preserved, some- 

 times because of their historical importance, 

 but also because they were in the handwriting 

 of noted people. One of the Ptolemies of 

 Egypt is said to have exchanged wheat for the 

 privilege of copying the manuscripts left by 

 Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the 

 elder Pliny speaks of seeing a collection of 



