Alfalfa

a prolific forage plant, belonging to the Legume family, largely grown in the United States, and in parts of Spanish America. Crops are gathered three or four times a sans Alfieri, Vittorio, Count, an Italian dramatist, born in 1749; died 1803. His style founded a. new — in Italian drama. Alfonso X., surnamed “the Astronomer,” “the Philosopher,” or “the Wise” (El Sabio), King of Leon and Castile, born in 1226; succeeded his father, Ferdinand IIL, in 1252. Alfonso was the founder of a Castilian national literature. He died ia 1284, Alfonso XII., King of Spain, the only son of Queen Isabella II. and her cousin, King Francis of A isi, was born Nov. 28, 1857. He left Spain with his mother when she was driven from the throne by the revolution of 1868. His mother had given up her claims to the throne in 1870 in his favor, and in 1874 Alfonso came forward himself as claimant, and in the end of the year was proclaimed by Gen. Martinez Campos as king. Alfonso was succe ful in bringing the Car list struggle to an end (1876), and henceforth he reigned with little disturbance until his death in 1885. He married first his cousin Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of the Duke de Montpensier; second, Maria Christina, Archduche of Austria. Alfonso XIII., King of Spain, son of the late Alphonso XII. and Maria Christina, daughter of the late Karl Ferdinand, Arch-Duke of Austria, born after his father’s death, May 17, 1886. as a male, becoming heir to the throne. During his minority his mother was made Queen Regent and directed his education with great care. He formally ascended the throne May 17, 1902. On May 31, 1906, he married the British Prince Victoria Ena of Batten berg. The wedding festivities were marred by an attempt to a a inate the royal pair, several persons being killed by a bomb. On May 11, 1907, their son Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo, the heir-apparent, was born, Alford, Henry, an English poet - and miscellaneous writer, philologist, critic, artist, and wie born in London, Oct. 7, 1810. He died at Canterbury, Jan. 12, 1871.