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 NEGRELLI NEGRO 215 done, but not often; and the words used for this purpose are, simply, " without grace." One distinction is important. These days retain so much of their original character of mere in- dulgence, that if the last day of grace falls on Sunday, or on any holiday on which payment cannot be demanded, it is now due, and de- mand must be made, on the Saturday or other day preceding. But if paper without grace, or any payment not entitled to grace, falls due on Sunday, or any other legal holiday, the payer now gains a day, because payment can- not be demanded until Monday, or the day after the holiday. When and in what manner negotiable paper should be protested for non- payment, and how payment may be made su- pra protest, or for honor, will be stated in the article PROTEST. It should be added, that of late years some other instruments besides bills of exchange and promissory notes have been treated by courts as negotiable paper. Ex- chequer bills in England were so held; and then the bonds of foreign states, payable to the holder, were so considered. In the United States the same doctrine has been extended to state and municipal bonds payable to bearer and transferable by delivery ; and also to simi- lar bonds of private corporations and their coupons. In some states all demands are so far negotiable that assignees are permitted to sue thereon in their own names. NEGRELLI, Aloys TOD, an Austrian engineer, born at Primiero, Tyrol, Jan. 23, 1799, died in Vienna, Oct. 1, 1858. From 1832 to 1840 he was employed in Switzerland, and constructed the first Swiss railway, from Zurich to the German frontier. Subsequently he was chief inspector of the Austrian northern railway till 1849, when he became general director of pub- lic works. He was at the head of all Austrian railways from 1855 to 1857, when about a year before his death the viceroy of Egypt placed him in charge of the works connected with the cutting of the isthmus of Suez. NEGRITOS, natives of the Philippine islands, usually classed with Papuans. They in a mea- sure represent the people called negrillos by Dr. Pickering in his "Races of Men " (1848), where he classes them as a subdivision of the Papuan race, and of the melanic or black family of man- kind. They were formerly in possession of the entire group of islands, but are now found only in the mountainous districts of some of them, and especially in the northern portion of Lu- zon, where they inhabit also the coast from Palanan to Cabo Engano. (Semper, Die Phi- lippinen und ihre Bewohner, Wlirzburg, 1869.) Fr. Muller in his Allgemeine EthnograpJiie (Vienna, 1873) classifies them among the Papu- ans of the pure type, while A. R. Wallace con- siders them a totally distinct race, and, con- necting them with the inhabitants of the An- daman islands in the bay of Bengal, is of opin- ion that they are probably of Asiatic rather than Polynesian origin; and Peschel in his VolkerTcunde (2d ed., Leipsic, 1875) prefers to call them Asiatic Papuans, in distinction from Australian Papuans. In common with the lat- ter, they have woolly hair and a flat nose, broad at the base. They are not black, but of Negrito. a dark copper color. The lips are somewhat puffed, and the jaws are slightly projecting. Virchow's measurements of some skulls have led to the supposition that their compressed form is of artificial origin. (See PAPUAN RACE AND LANGUAGES.) NEGRO (Span, and Ital., from Lat. niger, black), a name properly applied to the races in- habiting the African continent, principally be- tween lat. 10 K and 20 S., and to their de- scendants in the old and new world. It does not include the northern Africans (like the Egyptians, Berbers, Abyssinians, Nubians, &c.), nor the Hottentots in the south, although in popular language, especially in the older wri- tings, it comprises these and other dark-skinned Negro. nations, who are not characterized by the crisp hair of the true negro; in some of the bor- der countries there has been considerable in- termixture of negro blood and dialects. The