These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Stanislaus Augustus, Stanislaus Leszczynski, Stanlaws.
STANIS- LAUS II., the last King of Poland, son of Count Stanislaus Poniatowski; born in STANISLAUS II. Wolczyn, Lithuania, Jan. 17, 1732. Sent by Augustus III. of Poland on a mission to St. Petersburg, he became a favorite with the grand-princess (afterward the
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STAN- ISLAUS I., King of Poland, afterward Duke of Lorraine and Bar; born in Lemberg, Galicia, Oct. 20, 1677. His father was grand treasurer to the Polish crown, and he himself was voivode of Posen, when he was recommended to the Warsaw assembly by Charles XII. of Sweden as a candidate for the vacant throne of Poland. He was accordingly elected and crowned (1705), but after the disastrous battle of Poltava (1709), when his patron Charles XII. was defeated, he had to flee from Poland. He found refuge in France ultimately, where his daughter Maria became wife to Louis XV. Assisted by the French king he sought to establish his claim to the throne of Poland in 1733, but, opposed by by the united powers of Saxony and Russia, he had again to retire into France, where he held possession of the duchies of Lorraine and Bar until his death. His writings were published under the title of "Works of the Beneficent Philosopher" (1765). He died Feb. 23, 1766.
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PENRHYN (PENRYHN STANLEY ADAMSON), an American portrait painter, born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1877. He came to the United States in 1891 and studied art at Paris and London. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1904, and in 1908 opened a studio in New York. He built the Hotel des Artistes in New York City, the largest studio building in the United States, and was president of the Hotel des Artistes, Inc. He wrote two plays "Instinct" (1912), and "The End of the Hunting" (1915). Besides his portrait work, he was especially well known for his frequent cover designs for many of the most prominent magazines.
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SIR ALBERT (HENRY), a British public official, born at Derby, England, in 1875. He was educated at American college and technical an schools, and was general manager of the American electric railways for 12 years, chiefly the Detroit United Railways and the Public Service Railways of New Jersey. He became conservative Union-
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SIR ALBERT ist Member of Parliament for Ashtonunder-Lyme in 1916, and in that year was also made president of the Board of Trade.
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SIR ALBERT Empress Catherine), by whose influence he was crowned King of Poland at Warsaw in 1764. The nobility, however, were discontented with this interference on the part of Russia, and forcibly compelled the king to abdicate (1771). He protested against the various partitions of Poland, formally resigned his sovereignty in 1795, and finally died in St. Petersburg, Feb. 12, 1798, as a pensioner of the Emperor Paul I.
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AUGUSTUS OWSLEY, an American public official, born in Shelbyville, Ky., in 1867. He graduated from Centre College in 1889. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Henderson, Ky. He was elected to the 58th Congress, and was successively re-elected until 1915, in which year he was elected governor of Kentucky. He was elected United States Senator in 1918, for the term ending 1925.
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SIR HENRY MORTON, an English explorer; born near Denbigh, Wales, in 1840; name originally John Rowlands. When three years old he became an inmate of the poorhouse at St. Asaph, where he made such progress in the school that he was employed as a teacher of other children at Mold, Flintshire, when he went away at the age of 13. Two years later he sailed as cabin boy on board a vessel bound for New Orleans, and in that city he found a friend in a merchant, who adopted him and gave him his own name, but died HENRY M. STANLEY leaving no will. Young Stanley, left to his own resources, went to California, where he sought his fortune in the gold mines. When the Civil War broke out he became a soldier in the Confederate army. He was made prisoner, and subsequently took service in the United States navy, becoming acting ensign on the ironclad "Ticonderoga." After the close of the war he became a newspaper correspondent, writing a series of letters from Crete and Asia Minor. When the English expedition was sent against King Theodore of Abyssinia in 1867 he accompanied it as commissioner of the New York "Herald." He made his repu-
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a cataract, and also a trading station, on the Kongo, 1,413 miles from the mouth of the river. Stanley Falls Station is at the head of navigation for good-sized vessels, and is in the heart of equatorial Africa. Here is an important entrepot of the African International Association.
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a lake-like expansion of the Kongo, 250 square miles in
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or YABLONOI, a mountain chain in the N. E. of Asia, which forms the boundary between Siberia and Manchuria, skirts the Sea of Okhotsk, and is continued though with gradually diminishing height, to the shores of Bering Strait. The whole length of the chain has been estimated at 3,000 miles. The E. part is often distinctively called Yablonoi. This mountain range gives rise to the rivers Amur and Anadir on its. S. and E. side, and to the Yenisei, Lena, Indighirka, and Kolyma on the N. and W. side.
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ELIZABETH CADY extent, dotted with islands, 325 miles from the sea. Kallina Point marks its lower extremity, and Inga Peak dominates the entrance to the united river above the pool. Stanley Pool is an important station of the African International Association, and several bodies of missionaries are laboring there.
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ELIZABETH CADY, an American reformer: born in Johnstown,
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EDWIN MCMASTERS, an American statesman; born in Steuben-- ville, O., Dec. 19, 1814; was admitted to the bar in 1836; and began to practice in Cadiz, O. He soon rose to eminence and in December, 1860, was appointed Attorney-General of the United States. In. 1862 he succeeded Simon Cameron as: Secretary of War and held that office for six years. His opposition to President Johnson's plan of reconstruction led the latter to request his resignation in 1867. He refused to resign, but on Aug. 12: surrendered his office under protest to General Grant as secretary ad interim. On Jan. 13, 1868, the United States Senate reinstated him, but the President appointed Adjt.-Gen. Lorenzo Thomas to fill his place. Stanton refused to vacate the office, however, and the impeachment of the President followed. On the President's acquittal, Stanton resigned and resumed law practice. On Dec. 20, 1869, he was nominated by President Grant as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but died before taking his seat, in Washington, Dec. 24.
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