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# The Latest Murder

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September 12th 1889
THE LATEST MURDER
IT WAS PROBABLY NOT COMMITTED BY "JACK THE RIPPER."
London, Sept. 11.—Although the murder discovered early yesterday morning in the Whitechapel street is generally spoken of as the mysterious "Jack the Ripper", a close examination of all the facts leads that this murder is not of the ripper series. The police and the medical men familiar with the details of the recent London horrors of this class say that this murder must be classified with those known as the embankment murders, of which there have now been four in all, including the one in which the headless body of the victim was recently discovered in Chelsea, and of which the head has never been found. Although there is a general resemblance between the horrible work of the two murderers, both taking special pains to mutilate their victims and to carry off portions of the bodies, each carries off a different portion. Besides this there are other evidences of difference in expertness in the surgical work involved in all the mutilations, the embankment murderer being by far the more scientific of the two.
For some time it was doubtful whether all these horrors were the work of one or two persons, but this last murder convinces the medical men that there are two entirely distinct sets of murders and two different men responsible for them. It is believed that in the present instance the body was purposely brought to the Whitechapel district to throw the police off the scent by inducing the belief that the body was that of another victim of Jack the Ripper. In this the peretrator, however, went to trouble that is entirely superfluous, for the police are as much in the fog about the one class of murders as the other.
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# The Latest from Spirit Land

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# The New International Encyclopædia/Böhtlingk, Otto von

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BÖHTLINGK, bẽt′lĭṉk, Otto von (1815-1904). A Russian-German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. He was born in Saint Petersburg, studied there and in Berlin and Bonn, and in 1842 returned to Saint Petersburg. He became a member of the Academy of Science in 1855 and a privy councilor in 1875. In 1868 he left Russia and moved to Jena. In 1885 he moved again to Leipzig. In collaboration with Prof. Rudolph Roth of Tübingen, he published his most important work, the great Sanskrit Wörterbuch (Saint Petersburg, 1853-75). An abridgment and supplement of this appeared in 1879-89. His edition of the great Sanskrit grammarian Panini (2d ed., Leipzig, 1878), and of a series of Sanskrit apothegms and proverbial verses, Indische Sprüche (2d ed., 3 vols., Saint Petersburg, 1870-73), are standard works; and among his many other publications may be mentioned a Sanskrit-Chrestomathie (Saint Petersburg, 1845; 2d ed., ib. 1877-97), and an edition with translation of a treatise on Hindu poetics by Dandin, Kāvyādarsa (Leipzig, 1890).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Böttger, Adolf

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BÖTTGER, bẽt'Kẽr, Adolf (1815-70). A German translator and poet, born in Leipzig. He studied at the University of Leipzig and won high praise as a translator of the English poets, including the complete works of Byron (1840, and in frequent and variously arranged editions), and the poems of Goldsmith (1843) and of Milton (1846). He also made renderings of Ossian (1847) and (1856) of Longfellow's Hiawatha. His own works, displaying often the influence of English prototypes, include: Gedichte (1846); Die Pilgerfahrt der Blumengeister (1851); Das Buch der Sachsen (1858); and Neue Lieder und Dichtungen (1868).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Böttiger, Karl August

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BÖTTIGER, bẽt'tĭ-Kẽr, Karl August (1760-1835). A German archæologist. He was born June 8, 1760, at Reichenbach, in Saxony, and studied in Leipzig. In 1791, chiefly through the influence of Herder, he was appointed director of the gymnasium, and consistorial councilor at Weimar. Here he enjoyed the stimulating society of Herder, Wieland, Goethe, and others. His literary activity at this period was prodigious. He edited several journals, and wrote multitudes of reviews, biographical notices, etc., for the Allgemeine Zeitung. In 1804 he was called to Dresden, where he began to deliver lectures on special branches of classical antiquities and art. In 1832 Böttiger was elected a member of the French Institute. He died November 17, 1835. Among his important works are: Sabina oder Morgenscenen im Putzzimmer einer reichen Römerin (Leipzig, 1803; 3d ed., Munich, 1878), a study of the household life of the Roman women; Die Aldobrandinische Hochzeit (Leipzig, 1810); Kunstmythologie (Dresden, 1811); Vorlesungen und Aufsätze zur Altertumskunde (Leipzig, 1817); Amalthea oder Museum der Kunstmythologie (3 vols., Leipzig, 1821-25); Ideen zur Kunstmythologie (2 vols., Dresden and Leipzig, 1826-36). His minor writings in Latin and German were collected by Sillig and published in 1837-38. Consult: Karl Wilhelm Böttiger, Karl August Böttiger. Eine biographische Skizze (Leipzig, 1837); and his Litterarische Zustände und Zeitgenossen (Leipzig, 1838); which he published from his father's papers.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bötticher, Karl Heinrich von

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BÖTTICHER, Karl Heinrich von (1833—). A German statesman. He was born in Stettin, and was educated at the universities of Würzburg and Berlin. He was Governor of Schleswig in 1876, Lieutenant-General of Schleswig-Holstein in 1879, Secretary of the Interior in 1881. In 1888 he became vice-president of the Prussian Ministry of State, and in 1898 Lieutenant-General of the Province of Saxony. As the representative of the Chancellor he introduced numerous social reforms, and the enactment of the invalid and old-age insurance laws, in 1889, was due principally to his splendid energy and executive ability.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bötticher, Karl

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BÖTTICHER, bẽt'-tĭ-Kẽr, Karl (1806-89). A German archæologist, born in Nordhausen. He studied at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin, and was afterwards appointed an instructor in the School of Design of the Industrial Institute there. In 1844 he was appointed a professor in the Academy of Architecture. His chief work is the Tektonik der Hellenen (1844-52), a splendid contribution to the study of Greek architecture. Others of his works are: Bericht über die Untersuchungen auf der Akropolis in Athen (1863); Der Zophoros am Parthenon (1875); and Die Thymele der Athena Nike auf der Akropolis von Athen (1880).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bötticher, Paul

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BÖTTICHER, Paul. See Lagarde, Paul Anton de.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Böttiger, Carl Wilhelm

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BÖTTIGER, bẽt'tĭ-gẽr, Carl Wilhelm (1807-78). A Swedish writer. He was born in Westeräs, and studied at the University of Upsala, where, after extensive travels, he was appointed professor of modern literature in 1845, and in 1858 professor of æsthetics, from which post he retired in 1867. He was exceedingly active as translator, poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Most of his publications in the latter capacity appeared among the Transactions of the Swedish Academy. It is perhaps by his verse that he is known to best advantage. His publications include: Lyriska stycken (Lyrical Pieces, 1837-39); Religiösa sånger (Religious Songs, 1841); and translations of Tasso's Gerusalemme
Liberata (1842-51), and Dante's Divina Commedia (1846-51). His collected works appeared at Stockholm (6 vols., 1856-81).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Bêche-de-Mer

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BÊCHE-DE-MER, bắsh'de-mâr' (Fr., a holothurian). See Trepang.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Böttger, Johann Friedrich

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BÖTTGER, BÖTTCHER, or BÖTTIGER, Johann Friedrich (1628-1719). The inventor of Saxon porcelain. He was born at Schleiz, in the Principality of Reuss-Schleiz. He was apprenticed to an apothecary in Berlin, but became an enthusiast in the search for the philosopher's stone, and carried on extensive researches under the patronage of Prince Egon von Fürstenberg in Dresden. As he did not succeed in making gold, he was induced to use the chemical knowledge he had acquired in experiments upon clays, with a view to the manufacture of porcelain, and factories for this purpose were erected under royal patronage, and the celebrated Meissen porcelain was the result. As a security against the revelation of the art of making it, Böttger and his assistants were treated as prisoners, and when Saxony was invaded by Charles XII. of Sweden in 1706, they were secretly removed from Dresden to Königstein. His success was not without its reward. He was appointed to supervise the porcelain manufacture in 1708, and shortly afterwards the Meissen porcelain was brought out. In 1716 he entered into negotiations to reveal the secrets of the process, but was discovered and imprisoned.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 6/Chapter 33

CHAP. XXXIII.
I told the Christian reader—I say Christian—hoping he is one—and if he is not, I am sorry for it—and only beg he will consider the matter with himself, and not lay the blame entirely upon this book,———
I told him, Sir ——— for in good truth, when a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going backwards and forwards to keep all right together in the reader's fancy—which, for my own part, if I did not take heed to do more than at first, there is so much unfixed and equivocal matter starting up, with so many breaks and gaps in it,—and so little service do the stars afford, which, nevertheless, I hang up in some of the darkest passages, knowing that the ​world is apt to lose its way, with all the lights the sun itself at noon day can give it—and now, you see, I am lost myself!———
—But 'tis my father's fault; and whenever my brains come to be dissected, you will perceive, without spectacles, that he has left a large uneven thread, as you sometimes see in an unsaleable piece of cambrick, running along the whole length of the web, and so untowardly, you cannot so much as cut out a **, (here I hang up a couple of lights again)—or a fillet, or a thumb-stall, but it is seen or felt.———
Quanto id diligentias in liberis procreandis cavendum, sayeth Cardan. All which being considered, and that you see 'tis morally impracticable for me to wind this round to where I set out———
I begin the chapter over again.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 6/Chapter 35

CHAP. XXXV.
A delusive, delicious consultation or two of this kind, betwixt my uncle Toby and Trim, upon the demolition of Dunkirk,—for a moment rallied back the ideas of those pleasures, which were slipping from under him:—still—still all went on heavily—the magic left the mind the weaker—Stillness, with Silence at her back, entered the solitary parlour, and drew their gauzy mantle over my uncle Toby's head;—and Listlessness, with her lax fibre and undirected eye, sat quietly down beside him in his arm chair.—No longer Amberg, and Rhinberg, and Limbourg, and Huy, and Bonn, in one year,—and the prospect of Landen, and Trerebach, and Drusen, and Dendermond, the next,—hurried on the blood;—No longer did saps, and mines, and blinds, and gabions, and palisadoes, ​keep out this fair enemy of man's repose:—No more could my uncle Toby, after passing the French lines, as he eat his egg at supper, from thence break into the heart of France,—cross over the Oyes, and with all Picardie open behind him, march up to the gates of Paris, and fall asleep with nothing but ideas of glory:—No more ways he to dream, he had fixed the royal standard upon the tower of the Bastile, and awake with it streaming in his head.
—Softer visions,—gentler vibrations stole sweetly in upon his slumbers;—the trumpet of war fell out of his hands,—he took up the lute, sweet instrument! of all others the most delicate! the most difficult!—how wilt thou touch it, my dear uncle Toby?
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 6/Chapter 37

CHAP. XXXVII.
—' Twill come out of itself by the bye.—All I contend for it, that I am not obliged to set out with a definition of what love is; and so long as I can go on with my story intelligibly, with the help of the word itself, without any other idea to it, that what I have in common with the rest of the world, why should I differ from it a moment before the time?—When I ​can get on no further,—and find myself entangled on all sides of this mystick labyrinth,—my Opinion will then come in, in course,—and lead me out.
At present, I hope I shall be sufficiently understood, in telling the reader, my uncle Toby fell in love:
—Not that the phrase is at all to my liking: for the say a man is fallen in love,—or that he is deeply in love,—or up to the ears in love,—and sometimes even over head and ears in it,—carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:—this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,—I hold to be damnable and heretical;—and so much for that.
Let love therefore be what it will,—my uncle Toby fell into it.
​—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation—so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet any thing in this world, more concupiscible than widow Wadman.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 6/Chapter 39

CHAP. XXXIX.
As Susannah was informed by an express from Mrs. Bridget, of my uncle Toby's falling in love with her mistress, fifteen days before it happened,—the contents of which express, Susannah communicated to my mother the next day,—it has just given me an opportunity of entering upon my uncle Toby's amours a fortnight before their existence.
​I have an article of news to tell you, Mr. Shandy, quoth my mother, which will surprise you greatly.———
Now my father was then holding one of his second beds of justice, and was musing within himself about the hardships of matrimony, as my mother broke silence.———
"———My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman."
—Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.
It was a consuming vexation to my father, that my mother never asked the meaning of a thing she did not understand.
​—That she is not a woman of science, my father would say,—is her misfortune—but she might ask a question.—
My mother never did.—In short, she went out of the world at least without knowing whether it turned round, or stood still.—My father had officiously told her above a thousand times which way it was,—but she always forgot.
For these reasons a discourse seldom went on much further betwixt them, than a proposition,—a reply, and a rejoinder; at the end of which, it generally took breath for a few minutes, (as in the affair of the breeches) and then went on again.
If he marries, 'twill be the worse for us,—quoth my mother.
​Not a cherry-stone, said my father,—he may as well batter away his means upon that, as any thing else.
—To be sure, said my mother: so here ended the proposition,—the reply,—and the rejoinder, I told you of.
It will be some amusement to him, too,———said my father.
A very great one, answered my mother, if he should have children.———
—Lord have mercy upon me,—said my father to himself——— * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 6/Chapter 38

CHAP. XXXVIII.
To conceive this right,—call for pen and ink—here's paper ready to your hand.—Sit down, Sir, paint her to your own mind—as like your mistress as you can—as unlike your wife as your conscience will let you—'tis all one to me—please but your own fancy in it.
​—Was ever any thing in Nature so sweet!—so exquisite!
—Then, dear Sir, how could my uncle Toby resist it?
Thrice happy book! thou wilt have one page, at least, within thy covers, which Malice will not blacken, and which Ignorance cannot misrepresent.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 6/Chapter 4

CHAP. IV.
Doctor Slop and Susannah filed cross-bills against each other int he parlour; which done, as the cataplasm had failed, they retired into the kitchen to prepare a fomentation for me;—and whilst that was doing, my father determined the point as you will read.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 6/Chapter 40

CHAP. XL.
I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegitable diet, with a few of the cold seeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on with my uncle Toby's story, and my own, in a tolerable straight line. Now,
​These were the four lines I moved in through my first, second, third, and fourth volumes.—In the fifth volume I have been very good,—the precise line I have described in it being this:
By which it appears, that except at the curve, marked A. where I took a trip to Navarre,—and the indented curve B. which is the short airing when I was there with the Lady Baussiere and her page,—I have not taken the least frisk of a digression, till John de la Casse's devils led me the round you see marked D.—for as for c c c c c they are nothing but parentheses, and the common ins and outs incident to the lives of the greatest ministers of state; and when com​compared with what men have done,—or with my own transgressions at the letters A B D—they vanish into nothing.
In this last volume I have done better still—for from the end of Le Fever's episode, to the beginning of my uncle Toby's campaigns,—I have scarce stepped a yard out of my way.
If I mend at his rate, it is not impossible———by the good leave of his grace of Benevento's devils———but I may arrive hereafter at the excellency of going on even thus;
which is a line drawn as straight as I could draw it, by a writing-master's ruler, (borrowed for that purpose) turning neither to the right hand or to the left.
​This right line,—the path-way for Christians to walk in! say divines———
———The emblem of moral rectitude! says Cicero———
———The best line! say cabbage-planters—is the shortest line, says Archimedes, which can be drawn from one given point to another.———
I wish your ladyships would lay this matter to heart in your next birthday suits!
———What a journey!
Pray can you tell me,—that is, without anger, before I write my chapter upon straight lines—by what mistake—who told them so—or how it has come to pass, that your men of wit and genius have all along confounded this line, with the line of gravitation.
END OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Arthur, George

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​ARTHUR, Sir George (1784-1854). An English colonial governor, born at Plymouth. He entered the army in 1804, served with marked distinction in several campaigns, and in 1814 was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of British Honduras. From 182.3 to 1827 he was Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania, and in the latter year was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. During part of 1841 he acted as Deputy-Governor. From 1842 to 1846 he was Governor of the Presidency of Bombay, India, in which capacity he carried on the Deccan survey, quelled the Kolapur insurrection, and did much firmly to establish British sovereignty.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Arthur, Timothy Shay

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​ARTHUR, Timothy Shay (1809-85). An American story-writer, born near Newburgh, N. Y. He wrote a great number of moral and domestic tales and sketches which formerly had much popularity. One of the most popular of his stories was Ten Nights in a Bar-room. He founded Arthur's Home Magazine in 1852. He died in Philadelphia.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Arthur (duke)

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​ARTHUR (1187-1203). Duke of Brittany, grandson of Henry II. of England and nephew of Richard I., Cœur-de-Lion, who, in 1190, declared him heir to the English throne. He was proclaimed king by the nobles of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine, on Richard's death in 1199, although the English barons decided in favor of John, Richard's younger brother. He was knighted by Philip II. of France, and invested with Brittany and the French possessions appertaining to the English crown. In the same year, John landed in Normandy. In support of Arthur, Philip took the field against him. Soon, however, Philip's unscrupulous conduct gave offense to the Angevin friends of Arthur, and in 1200 a peace was concluded between John and Philip. In 1202 war again broke out. Poitou rose in insurrection against England, and Arthur, who had marched to besiege the castle of Mirabeau, was taken prisoner. He was removed in 1203 to Rouen, where he mysteriously disappeared — drowned in the Seine, some said, by John's own hands. The story of Arthur appears in Holinshed. Shakespeare, in King John, used Holinshed as a basis, but supplemented the old chronicle with imaginative details of his own. See John.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Arthur, Julia

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​ARTHUR, Julia (1869—). The stage name of Ida Lewis, an American actress. She was born at Hamilton, (3nt., May 3, 1869. At the age of fourteen she appeared on the professional stage, and then, after three seasons, went to England to study music and drama. Having returned to New York, she met with success in The Black Masque, and in A. M. Palmer's company as Mercedes, etc. In 1895 she appeared in London with Irving at the Lyceum, playing Rosamund in Becket, and other parts. Next year she accompanied Irving and Terry to America. In 1897 she brought out in New York A Lady of Quality on an elaborate scale; the following season she appeared as Rosalind in As You Like It, at Wallack's Theatre. October 24, 1899, she produced, at the Broadway Theatre, More Than Queen, from the French of Emile Bergerat, taking the part of Josephine Bonaparte, which obtained a great success. In March, 1900, an illness in Philadelphia led her unexpectedly to leave the stage. She is the wife of B. P. Cheney.
Consult: J. B. Clapp and E. F. Edgett, Players of the Present (New York. 1899) ; and L. C. Strang, Famous Actresses of the Day in America (Boston, 1899).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Arthur, Duke of Connaught

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​ARTHUR, Prince, Duke of Connaught. See Connaught, Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Arthur, Joseph Charles

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​ARTHUR, Joseph Charles (1850—). An American botanist. He was born at Lowville, N. Y., studied at the Iowa Agricultural College and Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Bonn universities, and from 1884 to 1887 was botanist to the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. He was appointed professor of vegetable physiology and pathology at Purdue University and botanist of the Indiana Experiment Station in 1887. With Dr. Coulter and Dr. Barnes he edited a Handbook of Plant Dissection (1886). He is an editor of the Botanical Gazette, and has published numerous papers, including History and Biology of Pear-blight.