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FEDERICO ALFONSO, a Peruvian diplomat. He was born in London, England, in 1859, and there partly educated, later going to Peru, 1886 he became consul at Panama, and and serving in the war with Chile. In later in England and New York. He was Minister Plenipotentiary to Panama in 1909, and from that year to 1912 special envoy to Central America and Panama. In 1912 he became minister to the United States. His books include: "Peru: Its Commerce and Resources"; "The Question of the Pacific"; "What the Panama Canal Means to Peru."
PFÄFERS, hot springs in the canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, in the deep and gloomy gorge of the Tamina torrent, which joins the Rhine at Ragatz, 2½ miles to the N. They were discovered toward the middle of the 11th century, and have been used ever since. The wathough there are bath houses (1704) in ter is conducted in pipes to Ragatz, the ravine. Near the village of Pfäfers, which stands above and outside the ravine, is a Benedictine abbey, founded in the 8th century, but converted into a lunatic asylum after its dissolution in 1838.