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The Queen-Regent of Spain has conferred a sufficiently 

 large pension on Don Cristobal Colon, Duke of Veragua, to 

 keep him from want, and even to enable him to maintain 

 some of the position of his rank. It will be remembered 

 that this great Spanish nobleman, who is the principal lineal 

 descendant of the discoverer of America, was declared bank- 

 rupt, and his possessions sold bv auction, a few days after the 

 recent Columbus celebration in the United States. He was 

 Minister of Marine in Don Saorasta's Cabinet. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil Company 

 millionaire, has made an additional donation of 81,000,000 

 to the Universitv of Chicago. 



Mr. Phil Armour, a Chicago millionaire, left for Europe 

 somewhile ago, and after his departure it was learned that he 

 had made a gift to the city of a splendid five-storey building, 

 which is to be called the Armour Institute, for manual train- 

 ing in science and art. Mr. Armour gives an endowment of 

 §1,400,000 to maintain the establishment. 



ANVERS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 



In May, 1894, will be opened an International Exhibition 

 at Anvers, Belgium. 



All those willing to participate in it can communicate 

 directlv with the Belgian Consuls in EnHand and in other 

 countries, who will give all the required information to 

 intending exhibitors. 



ROYAL INSTITUTION. 



A series of scientific lectures is being given at the above 

 Institution by the well-known lecturer and ornithologist, Mr. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, of the Zoological Department of the British 

 Museum. In the two lectures already given, Mr. Sharpe has 

 treated principally of the extinct species, and the geographi- 

 cal distribution of Birds. Very good diagrams of fossil and 

 of rare birds w^ere shown. We wish all success to Mr. Sharpe 

 for these popular lectures. 



