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CONTRIBUTORS.

Among the Contributors to this Volume of the Annual Cyclopædia are the following:

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JEWETT, SARA,

KEELEY, MARY ANNE,

LE CLERCQ, ROSE,

PONISI, MADAME,

RHEA, MADEMOISELLE,

RICHARDSON, LOCKE,
SAINT-GERMAIN, FRANÇOIS,
SAUNDERS, CHARLOTTE,
and other articles.

Frederic G. Mather,
Journalist.

ALEXANDER, ROBERT C.,
LAMPMAN, ARCHIBALD,
LOGAN, JOHN ALEXANDER,
MERGENTHALER, OTTMAR,
WEBB, WILLIAM HENRY,
and other articles.

Harry T. Newcomb,

Of the Census Office, Washington, D. C.

RAILWAYS (in article UNITED States).

Col. Charles L. Norton,

Author of Midshipman Jack.

Hugh J. O'Brien,

Of the Rochester Post-Express.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Rev. Solomon E. Ochsenford, D. D.,

Professor in Muhlenberg College.

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MAP SHOWING LAND ACQUIRED BY THE UNITED STATES FROM 1783 TO 1899 NORTH PAVILION OF NATIONAL EXPORT EXPOSITION

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METROPOLITAN RESIDENCES (of Mrs. William Astor and John Jacob Astor and of Collis P. Huntington) 556 METROPOLITAN RESIDENCES (of Isaac V. Brokaw and Cornelius Vanderbilt)

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THE

ANNUAL CYCLOPÆDIA.

ABYSSINIA, an empire in eastern Africa. The ruler, whose title is Negus Negusti, or King of Kings, is Menelek II, who when King of Shoa, contesting with rival claimants the succession to the throne, rendered vacant by the death of Johannes II in battle with the dervishes, signed at Ucciali a treaty with the Italians in return for arms and other aid. This treaty was signed on May 2, 1889, and confirmed in October of that year, after his position on the throne was secure. Under it Italy claimed a protectorate over Abyssinia, which

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Oct. 26, 1896, by which Italy renounced the protectorate over Abyssinia, and Menelek recognized as Italian territory all the country north of the Mareb, Balesa, and Muna rivers.

The Government of Abyssinia, or Ethiopia, is of a feudal character. The Kingdom of Tigre, in the northeast, the central Kingdom of Amhara, Gojam, next to it, and the powerful Kingdom of Shoa make up Abyssinia proper, the dependencies of which extend into Somaliland as far as Harrar, and embrace a large part of the country of the Gallas.

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