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Alvey August us, Second A istant Secretary of State of the United States since 1886, born in Astoria, N. Y¥., Nov. 27, 1842; appointed Secreta: of Legation at Madrid, 1870; Chief of Diplomatic Bureau. 1878; Third A istant Secretary of State, 1882; Second A istant Secretary of State, 1886. Appointed Secretary of State ad interim to fill vacancy, Sept. 17 to Sept. 29, 1898; was acting Secretary of State during a critical period of the Chinese troubles in Aug. and Sept. 1900, Adelsberg, a town of <Austria- Hungary, remarkable for stalactical caves in its vicinity. The principal one, in the mouth of which the Poik disappears in a vast chasm, extends to the distance of two or three miles, and is found to terminate in a lake. After proceeding 200 yards into it a vast gloomy space, called the Dome, forming a hall 300 feet long by 100 feet high, is entered. ‘The river is heard rushing below, and on cro ing it by a ‘wooden bridge and ascending a flight ‘of steps cut in the rock, a series of lofty halls, supported by gigantic concretions resembling lofty Gothic columns, and apparently filled with statues of exquisite whitene and delicacy,: meets the view. ' Adelung, Johann Chris toph, a German philologist and lexicographer; born in Spantekow, Aug. 8, 1732. His life was devoted to an exhaustive investigation of his native language, which he traced to its remotest origins with a patience and a thoroughne that have remained unsurpa ed. He died in Dresden, Sept. 10, 1806.