February 5.-The last witnesses to be called before the Anthracite Strike Commission are heard....President Alexander C. Humphreys, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, at Hobo ken, N. J., is inaugurated.

Photo by Hargrave, N. Y.

PRESIDENT A. C. HUMPHREYS,

OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY.

(Inaugurated on February 5.)

February 7.-The bituminous coal miners accept the offer of the operators of an average increase of 14 per cent. in wages.... By the terms of settlement of the Montreal street railway strike the men receive 10 per cent. advance in wages and permission to form a union.

February 9.-A new compound engine on the Midland Railway of England attains a speed of 82 miles an hour.

February 10.-The steamship Madiana strikes on a reef near Hamilton, Bermuda, and is totally destroyed; passengers and crew are saved.

February 12.-In his closing argument before the Anthracite Strike Commission, President Baer, of the Philadelphia & Reading Company, proposes a sliding scale of wage-payment for the miners based on the price of coal.

February 16.-A monument to General Lawton, U.S.A., is unveiled on the spot where he was killed, in Luzon, P. I.

OBITUARY.

January 21.-Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, for thirty years stated clerk of the Southern Presbyterian Church, 81. January 22.-Rev. J. H. M. Knox, D.D., formerly president of Lafayette College, 80....Orlando Dwight Case, the Hartford publisher, 77....Judge H. W. Bruce, of Kentucky, a member of the Confederate Congress, 72.... Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, English author, 69....Mgr. Schaepman, leader of the Dutch Catholic party, 59.

January 23.-Frederick Chippendale, the actor, 82.

January 24.-Rev. David Paul, D.D., formerly president of Muskingum College, 76....Admiral Tyrtoff, 63. January 25.-Ex-Gov. Charles Robert Ingersoll, of Connecticut, 81.

January 28.-Wilhelm Jordan, the German poet, 84....Augusta Holmes, pianiste and composer, 56.... Robert Planquette, composer of "The Chimes of Normandy," 53....Ex-United States Senator John Beard Allen, of Washington State, 58.... Rev. Charles S. Hoyt, a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, 48.

January 29.-Cyrus Cobb, sculptor, painter, and musician, of Boston, 68.... Alvan E. Bovay, who formed the first organization of the present Republican party, 85. January 30.-Dr. Morrill Wyman, of Cambridge, Mass., 90.

January 31.-Representative John N. W. Rumple, of

the Second Iowa District, 62.... Ex-Congressman Justin R. Whiting, of Michigan, 56.

February 1.-Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, 84....Absalom Graves Gaines, a former president of St. Lawrence University, at Canton, N. Y., 75.... Warren L. Wheaton, an Illinois pioneer, 91.

February 3.-Ex-Justice Leslie W. Russell, of the New York Supreme Court, 63.

February 5.-Ex-United States Senator Henry L. Dawes, 86 (see page 299).... Representative James M. Moody, of the Ninth North Carolina District, 45.

February 6.-Rear-Admiral Frank Wildes, U.S.N., 60.... Ex-Premier Petko Karaveloff, of Bulgaria, 58.... Ralph Milbanke, the British minister to Austria, 51.

February 8.-The Duke of Tetuan, formerly Spanish minister of foreign affairs, 69.

February 9.-Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, former prime minister of Victoria, 87.... Edward Byles Cowell, English writer and authority on Sanskrit, 77....Edna Lyall (Ada Ellen Bayly), the English novelist, 40....Ex.-Gov. William Fishback, of Arkansas, 72.....Dr. Herman Mynter, one of the surgeons who operated on President McKinley, 53.

February 11.-Prof. Edward R. Shaw, formerly dean of the New York University School of Pedagogy, 48.

February 12.-Dr. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, the distinguished educator, 78.

February 14.-Col. J. Hampden Hoge, of Virginia.... Field Marshal Sir John Simmons, 82.

February 16.-Edward Perkins Clark, an editorial writer on the New York Evening Post, 55.... RearAdmiral W. Robinson, U.S.N., retired, 63.

IT

T is a somewhat curious fact that the American cartoonists last month were illustrating the almost universal sentiment expressed in the English newspapers. About nothing in many years has the influential press of all parties in England been so unanimous as in sweeping condemnation of the war alliance entered into by England and Germany to menace Venezuela incidentally, but primarily to "try it on" with the United States, in order to see how far Uncle Sam would tolerate European coercion of South American republics.

We are glad to reproduce Mr. Bush's cartoon, from the New York World, on this page in a bold and prominent way, for the benefit of those students of history who will in years to come refer to our bound volumes; for this picture is a faithful record of history. John Bull has actually regarded the Anglo-German alliance as a trap in which the British lion was fairly caught, and John has been most vociferous and uncomplimentary in connection with his determined efforts to disengage the stupid beast.

The English just now are not fortunate in having cartoonists of vigor as well as cleverness to voice their feelings, Mr. Gould, of the Westminster Gazette, being always humorous and apt, but seldom drastic, while Punch is mild and inoffensive. Mr. Gould (see page 286), however, represents the British lion as "going blind again," led to the brink of a precipice by the German eagle; while on page 287 we reproduce a Punch cartoon which timidly indicates the prevailing British sentiment.

The cartoonists of Continental Europe, apart from Germany, have been unsparing in their satirical treatment of the Anglo-German adventure in Venezuela; but these cartoonists are, most of them, far inferior to their best American contemporaries in the conception and effective design of a cartoon.

Mr. Donahey, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has an amusing car