Agouti
a South American animal, famous pianist, Franz Liszt, by whom she had a son and two daughters. One of the latter, Cosima, married first Hans von Bülow and later Richard Wagner. the surface of the ground, not climbing She died at Paris, March 5, 1876. roots of the sugar-cane, they are often AGOUTI the cause of great injury to the planters.
The ears are short, and the tail rudimentary. The animal is nearly 2 feet long. It is found in Guiana, Brazil, Paraguay, and some of the Antilles. 6-Vol. I-Cyc Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India; area, 10,151 square miles; pop., AGRA. (1) A division of the United same name, consisting of a level plain sandstone hills. The soil about 5,000,000. (2) A district of the same name, consisting of a level plain India; area, 10,151 square miles; pop., about 5,000,000. (2) A district of the district, on the right bank of the Jumna, 110 miles S. E. of Delhi, and 841 miles N. W. of Calcutta. Agra is the diversified by san about
1,000,000. (3) The capital of Agra is barren and sandy, and, through the failure of rains, famines frequently district, on the right bank of the Jumna, 110 miles S. E. of Delhi, and 841 miles house of Timur, are on a scale of striking N. W. of Calcutta. Agra is the handsomest city in upper India. Some ress, built by Akbar, within the walls of the public buildings, monuments of the magnificence. Among these are the fortof which are the palace and audiencewithout the city, about a mile to the the fort. The city is considered hall of Shah Jehan, the Moti Masjid, or pearl mosque, and the Jama Masjid, or great mosque. Still more celebrated is the white marble Taj Mahal, situated carnation there as Parasu Rama. The climate, during the hot and rainy seasons (April to September), is very injurious to Europeans. The principal articles of trade are cotton, tobacco, salt, grain, and sugar. There are manufactures of shoes, east of the fort. The city is considered especially sacred through Vishnu's in- carnation there as Parasu Rama. The climate, during the hot and rainy seasons pipe stems stems, and gold lace, and of inlaid was a place of refuge for the Europeans. mosaic work, for which Agra is famous.
During the Indian mutiny, in 1857, it Pop. about 200,000.
It is a very important railway center, and has many claims to be regarded as the commercial capital of the northwest. sida town; Pop. about 200,000. of the former Hungarian crownland of Croatia-Slavonia, lies at the foot of a into three parts-the upper town, built richly wooded range of mountains, about upon two eminences; the lower tow 2 miles from the Save, and 142 miles and the episcopal town. The cathedral, richly wooded range of mountains, about 2 miles from the Save, and 142 miles dating partly from the 11th century, is one of the finest Gothic buildings in Austria. Ninety per cent. of the inhabione of the finest Gothic buildings in Austria. Ninety per cent. of the inhabiin wine, wood, and corn, and manufacture tobacco, leather, and linen. Repeated shocks of earthquake, in November, 1880, and again in December, 1901, did serious damage to the city's buildings. Agram possesses a university, founded in 1874, numerous secondary schools and libraries. Pop. about 85,000.
AGRAM NATIONAL COUNCIL. In was rapidly disintegrating, representa November, 1918, after the armistice had schools and libraries. Pop. about 85,000.
AGRARIAN LAWS tives of the Jugoslav provinces formerly under Austro-Hungarian control met in a National Council at Agram. They unanimously voted for the union of all these provinces with Serbia and Montenegro and chose Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia as Regent of the new state whose official name was fixed as the "Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes."