JOHN NE'POMUK SALVA'TOR, ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA (1852-91?). He was horn in Flor ence, the youngest son of the Grand Duke Leopold II. of Tuscany. He entered the Austrian mili tary service, and rose through the various ranks to that of majo•-general commanding a division. In 1883 he was transferred to Linz as a punish ment for having published a pamphlet entitled Drill oder ErzieThmg! in which he expressed him self too sharply in opposition to the commander in-chief, Archduke Albert. The Government was still more irritated when he, as it was asserted. intrigued to have himself appointed successor to Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, on the latter's en forced abdication. Soon after this he was deprived of his military command and left the army. Ile then studied navigation, passed the examination for ship's captain, and in October, 1889. after having renounced all his titles, rights, and priv ileges as an archduke, took the name of Johann Orth. The next summer he left Hamburg for
Buenos Ayres, on board the sailing ship Sankt Margaretha. After touching at Buenos Ayres he continued his voyage in the direction of Val paraiso, and never was beard from again. Nu merous romantic stories have been told in con nection with his strange disappearance; but the probability is that the Sankt Margaretha was wrecked on the coast of South America, and that all hands were lost. Besides his pamphlet al toady mentioned. he left two others on military subjects: Betraehtunom fiber die Organisation der osterreichisihen Artilleric (1875). and Ge sehiehte des koiserlieh-k6nigliehen Linien-Infao terieregiments Erzherzog Wilhelm Xr. 12 (1877 SO), and a third on spiritualism, entitled Bin blicke in den PpiritiRimus (5th ed. 1855). In addition to these, he wrote the text of the ballet Die Assassinen. •