The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-08

TIVE marriages in which very prominent peo-
r. pie figured occurred during the year. as fol.
4 lows: Etienne Louis Malus the discoverer
OF the laws OF the polarization Of light by
reflection, and a daughter OF Koch, the chance!-
lor Of the University of Glessen, Germany; Jo
seph johann Cores, distinguished controver-
salist and writer religious, political and scien
tfc subjects, and Catherine de Lassaucx, at Cob.
lentz, the capital Of Rhensh Prussia; Jean Paul
Richter, the greatest German humorist, and Car
oline Mayer bright and accomplished lady OF
Berlin; Marie Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's Ia
vorite sister, who was extremely beautiful, and
General Leclcrc, who left with his bride for st.
Domingo; Simon Bolivar, the hero Of South
American independence, and the daughter of Don
~ Toro, in Madrid
Scotch clergymen named Forsythe began the
study OF firearms with the view OF making i'm
provements. For over a century scarcely a
change had been made in this absolutely essen.
tia branch of warfare, though the roll Of the
drum in the marching armies had echoed and re-
echoed around the world during that time The
hintlock musket had remained the same since tho
middle of the seventeenth century. Forythe hit
upon the use of Eliminating powder for priming
an invention which, though it slumbcred until
1924, was destined to cause a complete revolution
in the mechancism OF firearms. lie obtained a
patent in 1907.
Seven extraordinary instances of longevity
were attracting the worlds notice by the fact
that the would.be Methuselahs were now entering
upon the third century in which they had lived.
| They were:
MIR. Creehe, OF Thurlow, 120 years old
Mr.. j. Tucker, Of Ilching Ferry l26 years old.
Catherine Lopez, Of Jamaica, 1919 years old.
Sarah Anderson, free black, 1856 years old.
| Mrs. Meghan, Donoughmore, lls years old.
Mary lnnes, Isle Of Syke l2i years old.
The determination of the earth's figure was the
| source of much investigation at this time. An
| arc OF the meridian in India was measured by
| Colonel Lambton. The dimensions once known,
astronomers began to figure on the earth's weight,
| and assuming that the mean density amounts to
| about So times the density OF water, the earth
was found to weight GO0O OOO, 900 0OO OOO oOO, 900
| tons.
scharnhorst, the Prussian general, celebrated
| as the author of the short service system by
which the Prussian nation was prepared for the
war of the liberation after twenty.three years in
| the Hanoverian army. passed into the Prissian
service, and became the leader in the reconstruc.
| tion OF its forces.
The British began to exercise all authority over
| the Carnotic. a district OF Southern Hindustan,
extending along the whole coast OF Coro. Mandel,
having conquered it few months prior to this.
| commercial treaty was signed by the British
| and the authorities OF Nspal now an independent
state of iindustan, and Captain W. d. Knox
was appointed resident at the Nepalese court.
Nittorio Alferi, chiefly celebrated as the author
who raised the Italian tragic drama from its
| previous stage OF degradation, was taken ill, not
recovering before death two years after.
Experiments on the polarization Of light by re.
Election led TO the invention of the Kaleidoscope
| by Sir David Brewster, Of Scotland
nineteenth century were born during this year.
Among them were the following:
Caroline Chine. English novelist.
Titus Coan, American missionary
Thomas Cole, English American painter.
| Reuben Atwater Chapman, American iurist
Robert Allen Coffin, American educator and
| writer.
Pharcellus Church. American clergyman and
author.
Antoine Augustin Gourmet. French mathema
tican.
Edwin c. d. Chadwick. English social re-
former.
Eleanore Louis Godeiroy Cavaignac. French
novelist.
Henry Watkins Collier, American jurist and
statesman.
John Averton Chaules, English Baptist clergy.
man in America.
John Alonzo Clark, American Protestant Epis
copal clergyman and author.