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PROMINENT oR4Tns.
The neurology Of the year 1890 Is
usaai embraces lsAny Preninent names
| In ali departments OF human Effort
| We can act Priat detailed list in their
| natural classinessios. bat the follow ing
are selected - the most representative
and best known: In politics and
/ diplomacy. Judge w. ID. Kelley.
| of Pennsylvania; Count Andrassy,
the Hungarian Prsiaisr; Marquis
Tseag the progressive Chinese
stAssman. samuel j. Randall, OF Penn
| sylvanis: Constantine de cataessy, the
Russian diplomat. aud Ciinton b. Fisk.
the frohib itlon leader; in music, Nisls
w. Gade, the Danish composer; Giorgio
kaneoni. the old-time favoritc buffo
sariions; Franz Lachner, the composer;
John Barnett. the English song writer;
Victor NesSlsr, the German opera
composer; IN royal circles. the Dowager
Impress Augusta of Germany; ANA
deus. ex-King of Spain. the Spanish
Duke OF Montpensier. lsmail Pasha,
ex-khedive Of Egypt William Ill,
King OF Holland; in the army, Lord
Napier, of Magdala, General George
Crook, and General A. II. Terry of
the American army, General John
! {. Fremont: in theology, DIR.
Dollinger. the leader of the old Catholic
movement ia Germany. Cardinal John
Henry Newman. Rev. Henry z. Liddon.
canon of 81 Pauls, Prof. Austin Phelps.
cine. Sir William w. Gull, Oh
London; in art, Joseph Coomans,
of Belgium: in commerce and
finance. .Iohu Jacob Aston j. :. Nor
| gan. tie London banker, George II.
| Stuart the American merchant, and
August Belmont the American banker;
| in science, Heinrich Berghaus. the
geographcr; James Nasmyth, the in
ventor. DIR. c. II. Peters, the astrono-
mer, DIR. Heinrich Schlemann,
the archaeologist, Prof Sylvestri.
"thc policeman of Mount Etna, Sir
Richard Francis Burton and Rob
ert Mccormick, the explorers; in litera-
turc, Fletcher Harper and ID. l. Apple
ton, the publishers, Il. =. Shillaber
('Mrs. Partington'), John Boyle
O'Reilly, the poet and essayist, NJ. AL
exandre Chatrian, the novelist, and AL
phonse Rarr. the essayist; in the
drama, Dion Bouccicault, and in the
law, Justice S. r. Miller, of the United
States Supreme Court.
| Among the prominent women who
have passed away are: Mme. Olympic
Andonard, the leader Of the suffrage
movement in France: Prudence c.
Philles, the famous A bolitionist Quaker
teacher; Countess LIano. Of Spain. Sis
ter OF Keats. the poet; Abby NJ. Good
win, professor of Greek and Latin at
Vassar College: Susan c. Vogel. the
editor of the Boston Woman's Journal;
Miss Janet Drake de Kay. daughter of
Drake, the poet, Mrs. Booth. of the
Salvation Army: and Fanny Raymond
Ritter, the musical writer
GREAT CASUALTIES.
The great casualties of the year 1890
were as follows: In January ~ were
killed by fire at Westhan, Eng: 800
by water-spout at Nant- Ching, China:
ESQ by the fall of theater at Shan
tung, China; 10 by caisson accident at
Louisville. KY; II by cyclone in Ken
lucky. In February 200 persisted in
q mine disaster at Newport, Wales;
SO by a food in Australia; 43 in mine
disaster at Decaze, France; 5000 by a
storm on the Japanese coast, IS by a
broken dam at Prescott. A. r.; inMarch
IS lost their lives in 4 mine at Gla-
morganshire, Wales. II by FIRE at In
dianapolis, 440 by the cyclone at Louis
vile. KY; in April II persisted by
floods in the South, IL by fall
ing building at Bergamo. Italy. and Is
by cyclone in Arkansas; in May 80
were killed by the insane asylum fire
at League Point, Can, 20 by cylone in
Texas, 80 by fire at the Chenango On.
W poor-house, 10 in a mine at Ashley,
Pa, 50 by a ferry-boat disaster in
Silesia, 500 by cyclone in Sibe-
ria, "a by powder explosion
in Havana, Cuba, and 16 by a
food in Germany; in June 20 were
killed by a hurricane at Sophia, Is by a
cyclone at Bradshaw, New, 40 by fire
at Ufalusk, Russia, l2 by cloud burst
at Bull Creek, KY, SO in a mine at Dun
bar. Pa, l2 by cyclone in La Sale
County, ILL.,: in July SO were killed at a
launch in Japan, 700 by cyclone in
Arabia, 1S by drowning at Halifax
N. S., 30 by a cyclone in Mime
sofa, so by a FIRE at Martinique
10 by an explosion at Kings Mill Sta
ton. o., 25 by hurricane in Poland
20 by drowning in the Ottawa river
Canada, l25 in a mine at st. Etienne
France, and is, 900 by food and conse
,uent famine in China; in August q
we're killed in a mine at Hermosillo
Mex, 30 by railroad accident in
Bohemia. % by a storm at Crefeld
Germany, so by cyclone at Wilkes
barre, Pa, $50 by storm in Switzer
land. 40 By fire in Hungary; in Sep
tember 80 persisted in mine at Bory
/ sIav. Galicia, Is by food in Russia, g.
by food in Prague. ID by powder
explosion at Spokane Falls, Wash.
so by a cyclone at Bellona. Italy,
20 in mine at Loederberg
Germany, IS by a food in
Texas, 80 in mine at st
Wendell. Germany. 20 by food il
Japan 200 or food in Turkey, 500 by
a food in China. 20 by foods in France
and 400 by broken bridge in POLAND
in October - were killed bv ex
/ ploSions at the Dupont mills il
Delaware, o By an explosion II
Paris. 1000 By an explosion in Canton
| China: in November IS were killed bJ
7 a ferry disaster IN Austria 20 il