The Ukraine is described as "a constitutional monarchy on a republican basis," with General Skoropadski as hetman. A footnote, however, explains that "according to news received December 15, 1918, the hetman has abdicated and the power is in the hands of a directorate consisting of Winitshenko, Petliura, Schweiz and Andrelevakl."
Russia, or to give it its modern name, the "Federative Socialistic Republic of Russian Soviets," at whose head Lenin (Vladimir Ouiianoff) and Trotsky (Leon D. Bronstoin) figure, is in a chaotic state as far as its internal administration is concerned. The almanach enumerates the eleven "more or less independent" states into which the empire has fallen, as follows; Poland, Lithuania, Baltic states (Conrland, Livonia, Estonia), Finland, Ukraine, Bessarabia (occupied by Roumunia), Georgia, northern Caucasus, territory of the Don and territory of Astrakhan, Turkestan and Siberia.
Vanished is the pomp and panoply of the sonorous sounding names of the Russian aristocracy that once filled the higher administrative posts in the old empire. The seven members of the "council of commissaries of the people" are immediately followed by the dignitaries of the Greek Catholic church. If there are any excellencies or other functionaries or officials in present-day Russia, the almanach does not give them.
As for the diplomatic corps at Petrograd, all the ambassadors and ministers, except one from  Spain, are significantly designated as "abse-it." One curiosity is that Albania shares with San Marino the distinction of having a government indicated by blanks.
'Twas Dog's Life.
Valparaiso, Ind.—Marriage with Anna Katz was a dog's life, said Loon Katz in his complaint for divorce. There are no little kutz. 