Chapter C: H. F., Weldon, Ill.—The term creole as used in our Gulf States

applies to descendants of French and Spanish settlers, in distinction from French and Spanish immigrants, and mulattoes or half-breeds: also to natives of the West Indies of European descent. But in the West Indies the word is applied to natives, whether of white, black, or mixed races.

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George Fair, Fairmont, Neb.—1. The velocity of light, as determined by the latest experiments, is 186,300 miles per second. 2. The velocity of electricity traveling on metal wires was calculated by Wheatstone at 194,000 miles per second. But It travels at different rates on different wires, and as a consequence the reports of different observers do not agree. 3. We can only furnish the Curiosity Shop volumes of 1880, 1881, and 1882.

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J. M. Simpson, Cherokee City, Ark.—The present form of government in France is republican. The constitution bears date Feb. 25, 1875. It vests the legislative power in an assembly of two houses, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, and the executive power in a President, who is elected by a majority of votes of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies united in National Assembly. The President at this time is Francois J. P. Jules Grevy.

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S. A. Maxwell, Morrison, Ill.—The term “O grab me act” was applied to the embargo act of Dec. 27, 1807. This embargo, laid by our government on all its own ports and vessels in retaliation for certain decrees of France and England sorely restricting the rights of neutral vessels, bore particularly hard on New England, which had been increasing its shipping very rapidly. Inverting the word “embargo,” the malcontents called it the “O grab me act,” referring to the fact that it operated to the advantage of one part of the country at the expense of the shipping interest in another. These murmurings grew until the act was repealed in February, 1809. When Congressmen voted themselves an increase of back salary a few years ago there was an attempt to transfer the name of O grab me act to this law.

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

_The Executive._

Chester A. Arthur, of New York, President of the United States; salary, $50,000.

G.F. Edmunds, of Vermont, President pro tem. of Senate, and Acting Vice President: salary, $8,000.

_The Cabinet._

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State; salary, $8,000.

Charles J. Folger. Secretary of the Treasury; salary, $8,000.

Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War; salary, $8,000.

William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy; salary, $8,000.

Henry M. Teller, Secretary of the Interior; salary, $8,000.

Walter Q. Gresham, Postmaster General; salary, $8,000.

Benjamin Harris Brewster, Attorney General; salary, $8,000.

FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.

_March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1885._

THE SENATE.

Republicans (in Roman), 38; Democrats (in _italics_), 36; Readjuster (in SMALL CAPS), 2. Total, 76.

Term ex. Home Postoffice.

Alabama—
1889 _John T. Morgan_ Selma.
1885 _James L. Pugh_ Eufaula.

Arkansas—
1889 _Augustus H. Garland_ Little Rock.
1885 _James D. Walker_ Fayetteville.

California—
1885 _James T. Farley_ Jackson.
1887 John F. Miller San Francisco.

Colorado—
1889 Thomas M. Bowen Rio Grande.
1885 Nathaniel P. Hill Denver.

Connecticut—
1885 Orville H. Platt Meriden.
1887 Joseph R. Hawley Hartford.

Delaware—
1889 _Eli Saulsbury_ Dover.
1887 _Thomas Francis Bayard_ Wilmington.

Florida—
1885 _Wilkinson Call_ Jacksonville.
1887 _Charles W. Jones_ Pensacola.

Georgia—
1889 _A. H. Colquitt_ Atlanta.
1885 _Joseph E. Brown_ Atlanta.

Illinois—
1889 Shelby M. Cullom Springfield.
1885 John A. Logan Chicago.

Indiana—
1885 _Daniel W. Voorhees_ Terre Haute.
1887 Benjamin Harrison Indianapolis.

Iowa—
1889 J. F. Wilson Fairfield.
1885 William B. Allison Dubuque.

Kansas—
1889 Preston B. Plumb Emporia.
1885 John J. Ingalls Atchison.

Kentucky—
1889 _James B. Beck_ Lexington.
1885 _John S. Williams_ Mt. Sterling.

Louisiana—
1889 _Randall L. Gibson_ New Orleans.
1885 _Benjamin F. Jonas_ New Orleans.

Maine—
1889 William P. Frye Lewiston.
1887 Eugene Hale Ellsworth.

Maryland—
1885 _James B. Groome_ Elkton.
1887 _Arthur P. Gorman_ Laurel.

Massachusetts—
1889 George F. Hoar Worcester.
1887 Henry L. Dawes Pittsfield.

Michigan—
1889 T. W. Palmer Detroit.
1887 Omar D. Conger Port Huron.

Minnesota—
1889 D. M. Sabin Stillwater.
1887 Samuel J. R. McMillan St. Paul.

Mississippi—
1885 _Lucius Q. C. Lamar_ Oxford.
1887 _James Z. George_ Jackson.

Missouri—
1885 _George G. Vest_ Kansas City.
1887 _Francis M. Cockrell_ Warrensburg.

Nebraska—
1889 Charles F. Manderson Omaha.
1887 Charles H. Van Wyck Nebraska City.

Nevada—
1885 John P. Jones Gold Hill.
1887 _James G. Fair_ Virginia City.

New Hampshire—
1889 Austin F. Pike Franklin.
1887 Henry W. Blair Plymouth.

New Jersey—
1889 _John R. McPherson_ Jersey City.
1887 William J. Sewell Camden.

New York—
1885 Elbridge G. Lapham Canandaigua.
1887 Warner Miller Herkimer.

North Carolina—
1889 _Matt W. Ransom_ Weldon.
1885 _Zebulon B. Vance_ Charlotte.

Ohio—
1887 John Sherman Mansfield.
1885 _George H. Pendleton_ Cincinnati.

Oregon—
1889 Joseph N. Dolph Portland.
1885 _James H. Slater_ Le Grande.

Pennsylvania—
1885 J. Donald Cameron Harrisburg.
1887 John I. Mitchell Wellsboro.

Rhode Island—
1889 Henry B. Anthony Providence.
1887 Nelson W. Aldrich Providence.

South Carolina—
1889 _Matthew C. Butler_ Edgefield.
1885 _Wade Hampton_ Columbia.

Tennessee—
1889 _Isham G. Harris_ Memphis.
1887 _Howell E. Jackson_ Jackson.

Texas—
1889 _Richard Coke_ Waco.
1887 _Sam Bell Maxey_ Paris.

Vermont—
1885 Justin S. Morrill Strafford.
1887 George F. Edmunds Burlington.

Virginia—
1889 HARRISON H. RIDDLEBERGER Richmond.
1887 WILLIAM MAHONE Petersburg.

West Virginia—
1889 _John E. Kenna_ Kanawha.
1887 _Johnson N. Camden_ Parkersburg.

Wisconsin—
1885 Angus Cameron LaCrosse.
1887 Philetus Sawyer Oshkosh.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Republicans (in Roman), 117; regular Democrats, (in _italics_), 196; Readjusters (in SMALL CAPS), 5; Greenback-labor (in SMALL CAPS), 1; Independent (in SMALL CAPS), 3; vacancies, 3: Total, 325; majority, 163. Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress marked with a [18]; those in a preceding Congress with a [19].

Alabama—

1 _James T. Jones._[18]
2 _Hilary A. Herbert._[18]
3 _Wm. C. Oates._[18]
4 _Charles M. Shelley._[18]
5 _Thomas Williams._[18]
6 _Goldsmith W. Hewitt._[18]
7 _Wm. H. Forney._[18]
8 _Luke Pryor._[15]

Arkansas—

_1 Poindexter Dunn._[18]
_2 James K. Jones._[18]
_3 John H. Rogers._
_4 Samuel W. Peel._
_At Large_—_C. R. Breckinridge_.

California—

1 _Wm. S. Rosecrans._[18]
2 _James H. Budd._
3 _Barclay Henley._
4 _Patrick B. Tulley._
_At Large_—_Chas. A. Sumner_, _John. R. Glascock_.

Colorado—

James B. Bedford.[18]

Connecticut—

1 _Wm. W. Eaton._[15]
2 _Charles L. Mitchell._
3 John T. Wait[18]
4 _Edw. W. Seymour._

Delaware—

_Charles B. Lore._

Florida—

1 _Robert H. H. Davidson._[18]
2 Horatio Bisbee, Jr.

Georgia—

1 _John C. Nicholls._[19]
2 _Henry G. Turner._[18]
3 _Charles F. Crisp._
4 _Hugh Buchanan._[18]
5 _Nathaniel J. Hammond._[18]
6 _James H. Blount._[18]
7 _Judson C. Clements._[18]
8 _Seaborn Reese._[18]
9 _Allen C. Candler._
_At Large_—_Thomas Hardeman._[19]

Illinois—

1 Ransom W. Dunham.
2 JOHN F. FINERTY, Ind.
3 George R. Davis.[18]
4 George E. Adams.
5 Reuben Ellwood.
6 Robert R Hitt.[18]
7 Thomas J. Henderson.[18]
8 William Cullen.[18]
9 Lewis E. Payson.[18]
10 _Nicholas E. Worthington._
11 _William H. Neece._
12 _James M. Riggs._
13 _William M. Springer._[18]
14 Jonathan H. Rowell.
15 Joseph G. Cannon.[18]
16 _Aaron Shaw._
17 _Samuel W. Moulton._[18]
18 _William R. Morrison._[18]
19 _Richard W. Townshend._[18]
20 John R. Thomas.[18]

Indiana—

1 _John J. Kleiner._
2 _Thomas R. Cobb._[18]
3 _S. M. Stockslager._[18]
4 _William S. Holman._[18]
5 _Courtland C. Matson._[18]
6 Thomas M. Browne.[18]
7 Stanton J. Peelle.[18]
8 _John E. Lamb._
9 _Thomas B. Ward._
10 _Thomas J. Wood._
11 George W. Steele.[18]
12 _Robert Lowry._
13 William H. Calkins.[18]

Iowa—

1 Moses A. McCoid.[18]
2 _Jermiah H. Murphy._
3 David B. Henderson.
4 L. H. WELLER, _Gbk._
5 James Wilson.[19]
6 John C. Cook.[16]
7 John A. Kasson.[18]
8 William P. Hepburn.
9 _Wm. H. M. Pusey._
10 Adoniram J. Holmes.
11 Isaac S. Struble.

Kansas—

1 John A. Anderson.[18]
2 Vacancy.
3 Thomas Ryan.[18]
_At Large_—Edmund N. Morrill, Lewis Hanback,
Samuel R. Peters, Bishop W. Perkins.

Kentucky—

1 _Oscar Turner._[18]
2 _James F. Clay._
3 _John E. Halsell._
4 _Thomas A. Robertson._
5 _Albert S. Willis._[18]
6 _John G. Carlisle._
7 _Joseph C. S. Blackburn._[18]
8 _Philip B. Thompson, Jr._[18]
9 William W. Culbertson.
10 John D. White.[18]
11 _Frank L. Wolford._

Louisiana—

1 _Carleton Hunt._
2 _E. John Ellis._[18]
3 William P. Kellogg.[15]
4 _Newton C. Blanchard._[18]
5 _J. Floyd King._[18]
6 _Edward T. Lewis._

Maine—

_At Large_—Thos. B. Reed.[18]
Nelson Dingley, Jr.[18]
Chas. A. Boutelle.
Seth L. Milliken.

Maryland—

1 _George W. Covington._[18]
2 _J. Frederick C. Talbott._[18]
3 _Fetter S. Hoblitzell._[18]
4 _John V. L. Findlay._
5 Hart B. Holton.
6 Louis E. McComas.

Massachusetts—

1 Robert T. Davis
2 John D. Long.
3 Ambrose A. Ranney.[18]
4 _Patrick A. Collins._
5 _Leopold Morse._[18]
6 _Henry B. Lovering._[16]
7 Eben F. Stone.[18]
8 William A. Russell.
9 THEODORE LYMAN.[17]
10 William W. Rice.[18]
11 William Whiting.
12 Vacancy.

Michigan—

1 _William C. Maybury._
2 _Nathan B. Eldredge._
3 Edward S. Lacey.[18]
4 _George L. Yaple._
5 _Julius Houseman._
6 _Edwin B. Winans._
7 _Ezra C. Carleton._
8 Roswell G. Horr.[18]
9 Byron M. Cutcheon.
10 Herschel H. Hatch.
11 Edward Breitung.

Minnesota—

1 Milo White.
2 James B. Wakefield.
3 Horace B. Strait.[18]
4 William D. Washburn.[18]
5 Knute Nelson.

Mississippi—

1 _Henry L. Muldrow._[18]
2 J. R. CHALMERS,[18] _Ind._
3 E. S. Jeffords.
4 _Hernando D. Money._[18]
5 _Otho R. Singleton._[18]
6 _Henry S. Van Eaton._
7 _Ethelbert Barksdale._

Missouri—

1 _William H. Hatch._[18]
2 _A. M. Alexander._
3 _Alexander M. Dockery._
4 _James N. Burnes._
5 _Alexander Graves._
6 _John Cosgrove._
7 _Aylett H. Buckner._[18]
8 _John J. O’Neill._
9 _James O. Broadhead._
10 _Martin L. Clardy._[18]
11 _Richard P. Bland._[18]
12 _Charles H. Morgan._[19]
13 _Robert W. Ryan._
14 _Lowndes H. Davis._[18]

Nebraska—

1 Archibald J. Weaver.
2 James Laird.
3 Edward K. Valentine.[18]

Nevada—

_George W. Cassidy._[18]

New Hampshire—

1 Martin A. Haynes.
2 Ossian Ray.[18]

New Jersey—

1 _Thomas W. Ferrell._
2 J. Hart Brewer.[18]
3 John Kean. Jr.
4 Benjamin F. Howey.
5 William Walter Phelps.[19]
6 _William H. F. Fiedler._
7 _William McAdoo._

New York—

1 _Perry Belmont._[18]
2 _William E. Robinson._[18]
3 Darwin R. James.
4 _Felix Campbell._
5 _Nicholas Muller._[19]
6 _Samuel S. Cox._
7 _William Dorsheimer._
8 _John J. Adams._
9 _John Hardy._[18]
10 _Abram S. Hewitt._[18]
11 _Orlando B. Potter._
12 _Waldo Hutchins._[18]
13 John H. Ketcham.[18]
14 _Lewis Beach._[18]
15 _John J. Bagley, Jr._[19]
16 _Thomas J. Van Alstyne._
17 Henry G. Burleigh.
18 Frederick A. Johnson.
19 Abraham X. Parker.[18]
20 _Edward Wemple._
21 George W. Ray.
22 Charles R. Skinner.[18]
23 _J. Thomas Spriggs._
24 Newton W. Nutting.
25 Frank Hiscock.[18]
26 Sereno E. Payne.
27 James W. Wadsworth.[18]
28 Stephen C. Millard.
29 _John Arnot._
30 _Halbert S. Greenleaf._
31 _Robert S. Stevens._
32 _William F. Rogers._
33 Francis B. Brewer.
_At Large_—_Henry W. Slocum._[19]

North Carolina—

1 _Thomas G. Skinner._
2 James E. O’Hara.
3 _Wharton J. Green._
4 _William R. Cox._[18]
5 _Alfred M. Scales._[18]
6 _Clement Dowd._[18]
7 TYRE YORK, _Ind._
8 _Robert B. Vance._[18]
_At Large_—_R. I. Bennett._

Ohio—

1 _John F. Follett._
2 _Isaac M. Jordan._
3 _Robert M. Murray._
4 _Benjamin Le Fevre._[18]
5 _George E. Seney._
6 _William D. Hill._[19]
7 Henry L. Morey.[18]
8 J. Warren Keifer.[18]
9 James S. Robinson.[18]
10 _Frank H. Hurd._[19]
11 John W. McCormick.
12 Alphonso Hart.
13 _George L. Converse._[18]
14 _George W. Geddes._[18]
15 _Adoniram J. Warner._[19]
16 _Beriah Wilkins._
17 Joseph D. Taylor.
18 William McKinley, Jr.[18]
19 Ezra B. Taylor.[18]
20 _David R. Paige._
21 _Martin A. Foran._

Oregon—

Melvin C. George.[18]

Pennsylvania—

1 Henry H. Bingham.
2 Charles O’Neill.[18]
3 _Samuel J. Randall._[18]
4 William D. Kelley.[18]
5 Alfred C. Harmer.[18]
6 James B. Everhart.
7 I. Newton Evans.[19]
8 _Daniel Ermentrout._[18]
9 A. Herr Smith.[18]
10 _William Mutchler._[18]
11 _John B. Storm._[19]
12 _Daniel W. Connolly._
13 CHAS. N. BRUMM,[18] _Gbk._
14 Samuel F. Barr.[18]
15 _George A. Post._
16 William W. Brown.
17 Jacob M. Campbell.[18]
18 Louis E. Atkinson.
19 _William A. Duncan._
20 _Andrew G. Curtin._[18]
21 _Charles E. Boyle._
22 _James H. Hopkins._[19]
23 Thomas M. Bayne.[18]
24 George V. Lawrence.[19]
25 _John D. Patton._
26 Samuel H. Miller[18]
27 Samuel M. Brainard.
_At Large_—_Mortimer F. Elliott._

Rhode Island—

1 Henry J. Spooner.[18]
2 Jonathan Chace.[18]

South Carolina—

1 _Samuel Dibble._[18]
2 _George D. Tillman._[18]
3 _D. Wyatt Aiken._[18]
4 _John H. Evins._[18]
5 _John J. Hemphill._
6 _Geo. W. Dargan._
7 Edmund W. M. Mackey.[18]

Tennessee—

1 Augustus H. Pettibone.
2 Leonidas C. Houk.[18]
3 _Geo. G. Dibrell._[18]
4 _Benton McMillin._[18]
5 _Richard Warner._[18]
6 _Andrew J. Caldwell._
7 _John G. Ballentyne._
8 _John M. Taylor._
9 _Rice A. Pearce._
10 _Casey Young._[19]

Texas—

1 _Charles Stewart._
2 _John H. Reagan._[18]
3 _James H. Jones._
4 _David B. Culberson._[18]
5 _Jas. W. Throckmorton._[19]
6 _Olin Wellborn._[18]
7 T. P. OCHILTREE, _Ind._
8 _James F. Miller._
9 _Roger Q. Mills._[18]
10 _John Hancock._[19]
11 _Samuel W. T. Lanham._

Vermont—

1 John W. Stewart.
2 Luke P. Poland.[19]

Virginia—

1 ROBERT M. MAYO, _Re._
2 HARRY LIBBEY, _Re._
3 _George D. Wise._[18]
4 BENJ. S. HOOPER, _Re._
5 _George C. Cabell._[18]
6 _John Randolph Tucker._[18]
7 Vacancy.
8 _John S. Barbour._[18]
9 HENRY S. BOWEN, _Re._
_At Large_—JOHN S. WISE, _Re._

West Virginia—

1 Nathan Goff, Jr.
2 _William L. Wilson._
3 _Charles P. Snyder._
4 _Eustace Gibson._

Wisconsin—

1 _John Winans._
2 _Daniel H. Sumner._
3 _Burr W. Jones._
4 _Peter F. Deuster._[18]
5 _Joseph Rankin._
6 Richard Guenther.[18]
7 _Guibert M. Woodward._
8 William T. Price.
9 Isaac Stephenson.

FOOTNOTES:

[15] Formerly United States Senator.

[16] And Greenback.

[17] Civil Service Reform and Democrat.

INDEX.

A.
Page.

A and ap in names, meaning of, 113

Abaco Great, island of, 179

Aboukir, battle of, 54

Acre, battle of, 54

Acre, rule for measuring, 21

Adams, John, birthday of, 46

ADAMS, J. Q.—
And the Whigs, 19
Descent of, 20

Adams, Samuel, 53

Addington’s fatal flint, 137

Africa, Sunday schools in, 117

AFRICANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Agassiz, Louis, sketch of, 143

Agnosticism, 60

ALABAMA—
Gold mines, 57
Governors and Senators of, 102

ALASKA—
Area of, 33-34
Early history of, 174
Fur fisheries of, 174
Natural features of, 33-34
Alaska, steamer, time of trip, 177

ALBANY, N. Y.—
Burning of, 50
Settlement of, 62

Albemarle County Colony, 67

ALCOHOL—
Amount in grain, 163
Production of, 171

Alderney cattle, 51

Alexandria, Library of, 60

Alhambra, the, 87

ALIENS—
Heirs of, 96
Property of, 96

Alloys, fusibility of, 72

Almanacs, perpetual, 73

ALTITUDES—
How ascertained, 177
Of Western cities, 21

Amazon River, sources of the, 184

Amazon Valley, extent of, 67

Amendments, Constitutional, 129

America, Central, 94

America, Sunday schools in, 117

AMERICAN—
Coins, 122-123
Heroes, 61
Statesmen, 61
“Knights”, 130

Americans, foreign born, 182

Aminta, 10

Anchor ice, 83

Anderson, John, 143

Andersonville, Providence Spring, 121

Andorra, 58

Angelo, Michael, paintings by, 18

Angora fleeces, 44

Animals, cruelty to, 52

Antietam, Lee at, 16

Antiquity of man, 111-112

Apocrypha, the, 102

APPLES—
Largest market for, 178
Weight of when green, 179

Arch Rock, Mackinac, 14

Architectural ruins, 170-171

Arctic Explorations, 16-17, 139-140

Arctic huts, warming and furniture of, 69

AREA OF—
England, 31
Ireland, 31
Palestine, 104
Scotland, 31

Argand burner, 183

Argentine Confederation, 155

ARKANSAS—
Descriptions of, 87-88, 131
Military road in, 6
Rivers and towns of, 176
Trees in, 176

ARMY. U. S.—
Chaplains in the, 138
Cost of the U. S., 164
Highest rank in the, 20

Armies, British commanders of, 111

Arnold, Benedict, age of, 34

Art societies, 171-172

ARTHUR, CHESTER A.—
Descent of, 20
In the Custom House, 118

Artision well, the deepest, 175

Artichokes for hogs, 162

Artificial Brooders, 76

Aryan race, ancient home of, 7

ASBESTOS—
Charlemagne, table-cloth of, 84
Where found, 84

Ashler River colony, 67

Ashtabula disaster, 61

Asia, Sunday-schools in, 117

ASIATICS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Assay offices of U. S., 67

“Assembly of Notables”, 122

Assessments of deposits, 102

Astor, John Jacob, 13

Astrological superstition, 31

Atchison, Gen. Dave, sketch of, 91

ATLANTIC ISLANDERS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Atlantic Ocean higher than the Pacific, 176

Augustus, home of, 112

AURORA BOREALIS—
Known to ancients, 6
Superstition respecting, 6

AUSTRALIA—
Distance and fare to, 124
Sketch of, 50-51
Tin mines in, 58
Australia, South, 51
Australia, Western, 51

AUSTRALIANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Austria, wealth of, 142

AUSTRIANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

AUTHOR OF—
“A Bundle of Letters”, 8
“An International Episode”, 8
“A Little Bird Told Me”, 123
“A Skeleton in Every Closet”, 123
“A Summer Scamper”, 94
“A Woman’s Shortcomings”, 119
“Beautiful Snow”, 179
“Children of the Sun”, 94
“Christianity, the Logic of Creation”, 8
“Church not an Ecclesiasticism”, 8
“Cover Them Over”, 135
“Daisy Miller”, 8
“Famous Single and Fugitive poems”, 129
“Farm Festival”, 136
“Farm Ballads”, 136
“Fax”, 135
“French Poets and Novelists”, 8
“From Recesses of a Lowly Spirit”, 157
“Gulliver’s Travels”, 180
“Hawthorne, Nathaniel”, 8
“Hobson’s Choice”, 170
“I am Dying, Egypt, Dying”, 129
“Jerusalem Liberated”, 10
“Little Old Sod Shanty,” etc., 174
“Mariomne”, 18
“Millions for Defense,” etc., 81
“Moralism and Christianity”, 8
“Naval History of U. S.”, 13
“Not One Cent for Tribute, but,” etc., 81
“Opus Majus”, 118
“Paul Pry”, 22
“Phœnixiana”, 18
“Poor as I Am, The King,” etc., 63
“Queechey”, 97
“Reminiscences of Carlyle”, 8
“Rifts in the Clouds”, 135
“Sheridan’s Ride”, 176
“Squiboby Papers”, 18
“Substance and Shadow”, 8
“The American”, 8
“The Death of Mark Antony”, 129
“The Diary of a Man of Fifty”, 8
“The Dying Californian”, 96
“The Fourth Watch”, 97
“The Goose Hangs High”, 174
“The Harp of Zion”, 18
“The Lamplighter”, 97
“The Lonely Hearth”, 18
“The Market Book”, 29
“The Nature of Evil”, 8
“The Other Shore”, 97
“The Pilot”, 13
“The Pioneers”, 13
“The Prairie”, 13
“The Pathfinder”, 13
“The Secret of Swedenborg”, 8
“The Spy”, 13
“The Wide, Wide World”, 97
“Those Everlasting Gardens,” etc., 157
“Times That Try Men’s Souls”, 67
“Transatlantic Sketches”, 8
“Unless you can Love as the Angels May,” etc., 119
“Washington Square”, 8
“Watch and Ward”, 8
“Wonder of a Kingdom”, 38
“Young Folks”, 136

Authors, pseudonyms of, 131-132

Authors, rights in publications, 36-37

Averell, Gen. W. W., sketch of, 38

B.

Bacchus, sketch of, 102

“Bachelor Poet,” the, 178

Baconian theory, 45

Bacon, Roger, sketch of, 118

Balize, meaning of, 174

BALLOONS—
Different kinds of, 70
Inventors of, 90
Performances of, 70

Banc, court in, defined, 85

Bank of U. S., oldest, 12-13

Baptists in Canada, 35

Barclay’s brave bride, 156

BARLEY—
Amount of alcohol in, 163
Duty on, 11
Grades of, 67-68
Weight of bushel of, 68

“Barnburners”, 52-53

Barnum, P.T., 106

Barometer, signs of the, 142-143

Bashfulness and fear, 133

Basket-willow, curing of, 113

Baton Rouge, La, 44

BATTLE OF—
Aboukir, 54
Acre, 54
Hochkirchen, 117

Battles, principal of the civil war, 109-110

Batteries, differences of, 177

“Bears,” meaning of on ’Change, 141

“Beautiful Snow,” author of, 179

Beef, amount in an animal, 36

Bees, swarming of, 109-124

BELGIANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Belles-lettres, definition of, 156

Bellinger, E. C., 153

Benevolence, Christian, 148

Bergh, H., sketch of, 24

Bermudas, the, 65

Berosus, writings of, 42

Bethany, distance from Jerusalem, 85

Betting on races, 73

“Biglow Papers”, 146

“Bird, a little, told me”, 123

Binding, Library “Half-Morroco”, 183

Black Fridays, three of, 104

BLACK HAWK—
The tower of, 169
Wars, 64-65

Black laws of Illinois, 89-90

Black letter books, 85

Blacksmith, made king, 168-169

“Blake, Mary,” real name of, 180

Bliss, P. P., at Ashtabula, 61

Blum, Robt., 127

BOHEMIANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Bolivar, sketch of, 25-26

BONAPARTE—
Jerome, children of, 31
Napoleon, 31
Napoleon, sketch of, 106
Prince Jerome, 31

Bone dust, as a fertilizer, 64

Bonneval, Claude de, sketch of, 91-92

Booth, Gen., of the Salvation Army, 110

Booth, John Wilkes, death of, 177

Borde, Andrew, the notorious quack, 69

Boston, burning of, 49-50

Boy poets, 178

“Branded Hand,” the, 170

“Bread, the staff of life”, 175

Brethren, United, 114

Bridge, Brooklyn, 96

Bridge piers, sinking of, 96

Bridges, affected by music, 40

British Americans in Chicago, 23

British Americans in New York, 23

British army, commanders of, 111

British goods, tariff on, 86

Brokerage, how computed, 177

Brooklyn bridge, 96, 176

Brown, John, bashfulness of, 133

Bruce, Robt., 75

Bruno, the Pantheist, 76-77

Bryant, W. C., 178

BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT, JAMES—
Cabinets of, 20
Descent of, 20

Buckwheat, amount of alcohol in, 163

Buddhism, 168

“Bulls” and “Bears”, 141

Bunker Hill battle flag, 29

Burleigh, Lord, 9

Burlingame, Anson, 126-127

BURR, AARON—
Death of, 55
Vice President, 177

Butler, Colonel John, the tory, 89

Butler, Governor B. F., vote for, 180

Butler, Zebulon, the patriot, 89

BUTTER—
Amount in milk, 176
Creamery, 27
Duty on, 11

Butterine, ingredients of, 20

Butter, product of a good cow, 39-40

Byron, Lord, sketch of, 118-119

C.

Cable, telegraph, between Ireland and U. S., 184

Cabinet, of Buchanan, 20

Cabinet officers, 185

Cabinet officers, salaries of, 107-108, 185

Cabinet, Postmaster General in the, 143

Cable message, the first, 31

Cables, transatlantic, 21

Cables, submarine, 120-121

CÆSARS—
Palace of the, 112
The title, 178
The twelve, 96

Cairo, elevation of, 109

Calendar, changes in, 45-46

Calhoun, resigns Vice Presidency, 49

CALIFORNIA—
An early coin of, 44
Description of, 24, 170
Leprosy in, 6
Mail route, 155

Calvinism, five points in, 91

Cambridge, Duke of, 111

CANADA—
Largest cities in, 151
Religious statistics in, 35

Canadian tariff, 86

Canals, Erie and Michigan, 10

Canby, General, sketch of, 148

Canon, the sacred, 102

Canton, burning of, 50

Capitol at Washington, 163

Capron, suicide canard, 120

Carat, definition and weight of, 8

Carleton, Will, sketch of, 135-136

Carlotta, Empress, 122

Carlos, Don, sketch of, 147-148

Carlstadt, burning of, 50

CAROLINA—
Gold mines of, 57
Settlement of, 67

Cashmere fleeces, 44

Caspian Sea, depression of the, 184

Castle Garden, New York, 56

Casualties of the civil war, 74

Cathedrals, largest, 69

Catholics, Roman, in Canada, 35

CATTLE—
Estimating the weight of, 164-165
In the United States, 121, 127

Caucus, origin of the, 53-54

Cedar County, Neb., 31-32

Celts, record of British, 43

Cement, Chinese, 131

Cemeteries, National, 159

Central America, 94

CENTRAL AMERICANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Chaillu, Du, sketch of, 92

Chancellor, Lord and Chief Justice, 156-157

Channing, William E., sketch of, 169

CHAPLAINS—
Age required for, 138
In army and navy, 138
Of Congress, 99

Chapultepec, Lee at, 16

Chariots, scythed, 75-76

Charles, Elizabeth Rundle, 72

Charleston, S. C., burning of, 50

Cheers in a conference, 166

CHEESE—
Creamery, 27
Duty on, 11

Chess, origin of, 69-70

CHICAGO—
Burning of, 50, 181
Churches in, 76
Elevation of, 128
First slave in, 174
First white child born in, 161
Flower mission in, 73
Foreign population of, 23
Grain handled in, 17
Population of, 176
Pronunciation and meaning of, 181
Railroads entering, 133-134
Saloons in, 105

Chickens, what to feed, 85

China, distance and fare to, 124

Chinese cement, 131

CHINESE—
In Australia, 51
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23
Proverbs of, 167-168

China, treaties with, 126-127

Chore, derivation of the word, 175

Christadelphians, 157

Christiana, burning of, 49

Christian Era, when first used, 96

Christian institutions, 148

Christianity, the Logic of Creation, 8

Christmas and Easter, 116

Churches and membership in Chicago, 76

Church of England, 74

Churches, membership of, 182

Church reformations, 102-103

CITIES—
Altitudes of Western, 21
Largest in U. S. and Canada, 151
Of France and Great Britain, 131

Citizen’s League of Illinois, 77-78

Civil list of U. S., 28

CIVIL WAR—
Prisoners taken in, 134
Troops called for in, 176

Clarendon County Colony, 67

CLAY, HENRY—
And Liberia, 154
Descendants of, 108-109
Sketch of, 108-109
Presidential candidate, 108

Clearing House, London, 17

Clement VIII., 10

Cliff dwellings in Sonora, 165

Clocks and noon marks, 24

Clock and sun-dial, 97

Clydesdale horses, 78

COAL—
Area of the U. S., 157
Duty on, 11
First reported in U. S., 88
Oil for fence-posts, 176

Cobbett, Wm., sketch of, 100

Code Napoleon, 106

COFFEE—
First use of, 95
Mocha, 44-45

COIN—
An early Californian, 44
At a premium, 110
Early American, 19
Fineness of U. S., 20
Foreign, value of, 128
Rare, of the U. S., 122-123
Value of rare, 19-20

COLD—
Atmospheric condition of, 83
In Dakota and Chicago, 83

Cold Harbor, General Meade at, 184

Coles, Governor Edward, sketch of, 20

Cologne Cathedral, 69

Colombia, formation of, 25

Colosseum, dimensions of, 68-69

Columbia College, wealth and attendance, 134

Columbia, District of, area of, 180

Columbia River, 145-146

Columbus, wives and sons of, 73

Combe, George, 9

Comet of 1812 and 1813, 149

Committee of the Whole, 53

Communism, 79

Compass, variations of, 16

Compulsory Education Laws, 132-133

Concrete houses, 100-101

Confederacy, finances of, 123-124

Confederate losses, 74

Confucianism, 168

Congregationalists in Canada, 35

CONGRESS—
The Continental, 62, 140
First Chaplains of, 99
Members of, 185
Congressman “at large”, 70, 179
Members not United States officers, 177
Congressmen, occupations of, 88
Salaries of, 180
Congressional apportionments, 11
Congressional townships, 67

CONSTANTINOPLE—
Burning of, 49-50
Harbor of, 182

Constellations of the Zodiac, 30-31

CONSTITUTION—
Amendments to the, 104, 129
Framers of the, 177
Of the United States, 138

Consumption, deaths from, 125

Contestants of seats in Congress, 70

Continental Congress, Presidents of, 62

Convict labor, 95

Cook, Eliza, sketch of, 15

Cooper, J. Fenimore, sketch of, 13

Copenhagen, burning of, 49

Copper, where found and use, 14

COPYRIGHT—
How to secure a, 78
Penalties, 78

Cordova, Mexico, description of, 116

CORN—
Amount of alcohol in, 163
Crop of Iowa and Illinois, 124
Crop in 1882, 31
Duty on, 11
“Corn Laws”, 154
Leading county in, 181

Corn meal, duty on, 11

Cortez, Fernando, 48-49

Cotton, white and brown, 181

Cotton-gin, inventor of, 114

Counties, large, 118

Counties, number in the United States, 32

Court in banc, 85

Courts, high, 157

Cow, products of butter from, 39-40

Cox, “Sunset”, 179

Creamery, description of, 27-28

Creole, meaning of the term, 184

CRIME—
In Chicago, 77
On high seas, 51

Criminals, number of educated, 175

Cruelty to animals, 52

Cuba, slavery in, 23

Cummins, Maria S., 97

“Curfew Must Not Ring To-night”, 180

Cushing, Caleb, 126

Custer County, Neb., 145

Czar, income of the, 47

D.

DAKOTA—
“Bad Lands” of, 153-154
Brown County, 118
Cold in, 83
Corn in, 119-120
Entering land in, 43
Southeastern, 47

“Daisy Miller,” author of, 8

DANES—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Darius and the Scythians, 115

Dartmouth College, founding of, 109

Dates, how to find day of, 92

Date line, international, 144

Davis, Jefferson, sketch of, 71

Davy and the electric light, 21

Days of week, of old dates, 73, 92

Dead Sea, depression of the, 184

DEATHS—
From accident, 125
From consumption, 125
Rate of in cities, 119

Debate, questions for, 65

DEBT—
Funded and floating, defined, 54
Of the Confederacy, 123-124
Of France and Great Britain, 40
Of States, 98
Of United States, 30, 98
Of United States under Buchanan, 79
Of Virginia, 41
Reduction of National, 78-79
Repudiated, State, 43-44

Declaration of Independence, 183

Decoration Day, date of, 182

Democratic party, origin of the, 135, 161

Democrats, the rooster emblematic of, 124

DENOMINATIONS—
Statistics of, 9, 16
Statistics of in Canada, 35

Deposits, assessment of, 102

Derby, Captain Henry, “John Phœnix”, 18-19

“Desert Land Act”, 61, 78, 99

De Soto as a miner, 88

DIAMONDS—
Discovery of, 105-106
In ancient countries, 105
Manufacturing, 183
Noted ones, 105
Tariff on, 166

DISTANCES—
Between points on N. Pac. R. R., 61
San Francisco to Australia, 124
San Francisco to Sandwich Islands, 124
San Francisco to New Zealand, 124
San Francisco to China and Japan, 124
From St. Paul to Portland, Oregon, 183
From St. Paul to Chicago, 183

Distillery, largest, 177

Dixon, bridge, disaster at, 120

DOLLAR—
Trade, silver in a, 184
Not legal tender, 184

Dollars, rare old, 19-20

Don Carlos, sketch of, 147-148

Dower right, relinquishment of the, 181

Dram-shops, license for, 151

“Drink, strong” of the Hebrews, 146-147

Drinking from skulls, 38

Druggists, number of trained, 60

Du Chaillu, sketch of, 92

Dude, origin of the word, 177

Dumas’ works, order of, 20

Duncan, General Joseph, 64-65

DUTCH—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

DUTIES—
Rates of at various dates, 7
Tendency to increase, 7-8
On farm products, 11
On coal, 11

“Dying Californian,” author of, 96

E.

Earth, revolves 366 times in a year, 21

EARTHQUAKES—
Frequency of, 47
Causes of, 46-47

Easter, a movable feast, 116

“Ecce Homo,” author of, 177

Eclectic School of Medicine, 183

Eden, site of, 32-67

Edinburg, burning of, 49

Editorial rules governing manuscripts, 36-37

EDUCATION—
And Christians, 148
Of criminals, 175
Of Indians, 167

Egg, a remarkable, 159

Egypt, Napoleon in, 54

ELECTIONS—
Years for Presidential, 30

Electric Light, discovery of, 21

Electric Telegraphing, 79

ELECTRICITY—
Effect on watch, 179
Velocity of, 184

Elevated Railways, 22

Elgin, bridge disaster at, 120

Elizabeth, Queen, 9

Emmanuel, Victor, 135

Embargo of 1807, 184

Ember days, 114

ENGLAND—
Area of, 31
Church of, 74
Intemperance in, 34
Railway speed in, 28
Ship-building in, 17-18
Sovereigns of, 26
Wages in, 17
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Episcopalians in Canada, 35

Equinoxes, precession of the, 148-149

Era, Christian, 96

Erie and Michigan Canal, 10

Erie Canal, 177

Eugenie, ex-Empress of France, 31

Europe, Sunday schools in, 117

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS—
Of the Cabinet, 186
Salaries of, 107-108

Expenses of contestants for Congress, 70

Explorers in the Southwest, 94

F.

Falconry, 58

“Fall of Jerusalem,” the, 174

Fallows, Bishop, sketch of, 79

Fare to Australia, 124

“Farm Ballads”, 136

FARMS—
Bonanza, 97
Of the United States, 139

“Father of History”, 68

Feasts, Christian and Jewish, 116

February, five Sundays in, 62

Feeble-minded, State Institute for, 8, 161-162

Fencing lumber, grades of, 85

Ferrara, Duke of, 10

Fertilizer, bone dust as a, 64

Fessenden, Thomas G., sketch of, 179

Feudalism, 145

Fiat money in Japan, 113

Fillmore, President, descent of, 20

FIRES—
Caused by locomotives, 95-96
List of great ones, 49-50
London, Moscow, Chicago, 28
Fisk, Jas., and Black Friday, 104

FLAG—
At Bunker Hill battle, 29
At Fort Sumter, 88
History of the United States, 15
Of Colonial troops, 29
Of our Union, the, 151

Flagg, Azariah C., 52

Flooring, lumber, grades of, 85

Flower Mission, Chicago, 73

Ford, Governor, last years of, 182

Foreigners in Chicago and New York, 23

“Fourth Watch,” author of, 97

FOWLS—
Description of, 65
Houdan, how marked, 31
Sex of, 143-144

Fowler, Oscar Squire, 9

FRANCE—
Agriculture in, 103
Carrying trade of, 103
Chief cities of, 131
Commerce of, 103
Finances of, 142
Government of, 184
In Mexico, 26
Manufacturers of, 103
Mining in, 103
National debt of, 40
The President of, 161
Threatened war with, 82
Franco-German war, 40

Franchise in Great Britain, 81

Francis Joseph, 135

FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN—
Expedition of, 139-140
Search for, 88, 127
Last record of, 127

Fraudulent land claims, 48

FREMONT, J. C.,—
Character of, 180
Explorations of, 94

French explorations in the West, 90

French pools, 73

Friday, Good, Lincoln’s assassination on, 48

Froebel, sketch of, 82-83

Fuel, amount of wood consumed, 38

Fugitive slave laws, 57-58

Fur fisheries of Alaska, 174

Fusibility of alloys, 72

G.

Gall, Franz Joseph, 8

Garfield, descent of, 20

Gay-Lussac, sketch of, 90

Geikie, Professor, 111

Gelasius, Pope, 102

Gems, the language of, 8

Generals, U. S. A., rank of, 20-21

“Gentle Shepherd,” nickname of, 176

Geological divisions of time, 120

George Third, king in 1775, 181

Georgia gold mines, 57

Gere, C. H., 112

Germans in Chicago, 23

Germans in New York, 23

German Jews, 10-11

GERMANY—
Agriculture in, 103
Carrying trade of, 103
Commerce of, 103
Manufactures of, 103
Mining in, 103
Wealth of, 142

Gettysburg, Lee at, 16

Gettysburg and Waterloo, battles of, 47-48

Ginseng, export of, 183

Girard, Stephen, sketch of, 127

Glacial period, the, 7, 157

Glaciers, directions of, 7

Gladstone, W. E., sketch of, 172

Glaisher, the balloonist, 70

Glue, liquid, 131

Goats of Angora and Cashmere, 44

GOLD—
In sea water, 72-73
Localities and uses, 14
Mines, location and product, 57

Golden Horn, the, 182

Golden House of Nero, 112

“Golden Circle, Knights of the”, 130

Gonzales, General, 182

“Goose Hangs High,” origin of, 174

GORTSCHAKOFF—
And America, 38
At Sebastopol, 177

Gospels, when written, 21

GOTHAM—
Application to New York, 69
Traditions of, 69
Wise men of, 69

Gould, Jay, and Black Friday, 104

GOVERNMENT—
Land sales of, 71
Cost of, 107-108
Land sections, subdivision of, 94-95

GOVERNORS—
Of Alabama, 102
Of Kansas, 59
Of States, 57
Terms and salaries of, 57

GRAIN—
At Milwaukee and Chicago, 17
Price in England, since corn laws, 154

GRANT, U. S.,—
And Black Friday, 104
Descent of, 20

GREAT BRITAIN—
Agriculture in, 103
Carrying trade of, 103
Celts of, 43
Chief cities of, 131
Commerce of, 103
Debt of, 40
Emancipation in, 52
Franchise in, 81
High Court of, 157
Manufactures of, 103
Mining in, 103
Parliament of, 117-118
Rates of interest in, 63
Revenue of, 58-59
Schools in, 117
Sovereigns of, 26
Wealth of, 142

Great Dipper, revolution of, 12

“Great Eastern”, 183

GREEKS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

GREELEY, HORACE—
Bondsman of Davis, 183
Southern policy of, 183

GREENLANDERS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Greenwich, situation of, 174

Gregorian Calendar, 45-46

Grenville, George, 176

Grevy, President, salary of, 161

“Grimes, Old,” original of, 156

Grote, George, Sketch of, 75

Grout houses, 100-101

Guilds, 26

Guillotine, the, 102

Guinea pig, 115

Guiteau jury, names of, 10

“Gulliver’s Travels,” author of, 180

GUNS—
Choke-bore, 133
Different makes, 42
Duty on, 8
Points of a good one, 41-42

Gunpowder, invention of, 118

H.

Halbig, John, sketch of, 160

Hale, J. P., candidate for President, 120

Hallowe’en, history of, 146

Hamburg, burning of, 50

Hamilton, Alex., nationality of, 151

Hanford, murder of, 65-66, 184

Harmonica, the, 99

Harper’s Ferry, Lee at, 16

Harrison, descent of, 20

Harvard University, wealth and attendance, 134

Havana, burning of, 50

Hawks’ bills, 58

Hay, measuring, 155-156

Hayes, President, descent of, 20

Hayes, Dr., death of, 88

Hayes, President, and Arthur, 118

Headlight oil, 159

Hebrew, not a living language, 60

Helen and the Siege of Troy, 160-161

Henry, Gen. Jas. D., 65

Henry VIII., of England, 32-33

Hero and Leander, 75

HERODOTUS—
Sketch of, 68
Writings of, 42

High-binder, sporting term, 114

High Court, England, 157

High Seas, 51

Hill, Thos., original of Paul Pry, 22

Historians, American, 133

Historians, greatest American, 37

Historians, oldest, 42

Historical Societies, 171-172

“Hobson’s Choice”, 170

Hobson, Lieutenant, 127

Hochkirchen, battle of, 117

HOLIDAYS—
Legal, in Illinois, 177
National, 177

Holland, wealth of, 142

Homeopathy in the United States, 112

Homerian Riddle, 21

HOMESTEADS—
Abandonment of, 60
Act granting, 46
Claims, 174
Claims, fraudulent, 48
Not liable for debt, 143
Rights of women, 85
Soldiers, 29, 59, 176
Two applications for a, 178

Honey-dew, 175

Hot Springs, Las Vegas, 101

Houdan Fowls, how marked, 31

House of Representatives, 185

Howitt, Wm., 106

Hugo, Victor, works of, 114-115

HUGUENOTS—
In the Carolinas, 67
The picture of, 162

HULL, GENERAL—
Birth and rank, 151
In what battles, 55

Hull, Commodore, birth and rank, 151

Humane Society, 24

HUNGARIANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Hungary, Apostle of, 107

“Hunkers”, 52-53

Huron, D. T., elevation of, 128

Hussites, the, 103

I.

“I am dying, Egypt, dying”, 129

“I” and “We” in journalism, 121

Ice, anchor, 83-84

Igloos or Arctic huts, 69

Illustrations, copyrighted, 157

ILLINOIS—
Black laws, 89-90
Citizens’ League of, 77-78
Congressional districts of, 183
Constitutions of, 184
Corn crop of, 124
First railroad in, 92
General Assembly of, 184
Half votes in, 183
Institution for feeble-minded, 8
Leading corn county of, 181
Liquor drank in, 104-105
Orphan asylums in, 97
Railroads in, 149
Rainfall in 1882, 182
Saloons in, 105
Slavery in, 89-90
State normal schools, 180
Wealth of, 158
Wheat crop in 1882, 105

IMMIGRANTS—
Number of, 52
Vaccination of, 40

Immigration Commission, New York, 56

Immigration, foreign, 149

Imports, amount of, 175

Inauguration Day on Sunday, 180

INCUBATOR—
Artificial, 54-55
How to use, 84-85
Success of, 60-61

Independence, Declaration of, 140

INDEX—
Of periodical literature, 45
Poole’s, to magazines and reviews, 45

INDIANA—
Governors of, 165-166
Temperance in politics, 35

INDIANS—
Education of the, 167
Tribes of Michigan, 13

Industrial legislation, 46

Infallibility of the Pope, 103

Inks, recipes for, 15

Innocent I., Pope, 102

INTEMPERANCE—
In Chicago, 77
In England, 34
In Illinois, 104

INTEREST—
On notes, 55-56
Rates of, 63

“International date lines”, 144

Inter Ocean, when named, 174

Inventors, greatest Americans, 37

Invincible Club. Democratic, 130

IOWA—
Corn crop of, 124
Governors of, 66

IRELAND—
Area of, 31
Celts in, 43

IRISH—
Ancient language of the, 176
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Iron, where found, 14

“I sat alone with my conscience”, 106

Isinglass, 114

ITALIANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

ITALY—
Freedom of, 135
Wealth of, 142

J.

JACKSON, ANDREW—
Descent of, 20
Double marriage of, 28-29

Jamaica, emancipation in, 52

James, Henry, Sr. and Jr., 8

Jamestown, settlement of, 62

JAPAN—
Distance, and fare to, 124
Effects of low tariff in, 113
Japanese in Chicago, 23
Japanese in New York, 23

Jeannette expedition, 140

JEFFERSON, THOMAS—
Descent of, 20
Library of, 12
Sketch of, 11, 135
United States banks and, 12
Jeffersonianism, 11-12

Jersey cattle, 51

Jerusalem, burning of, 49

“Jerusalem liberated”, 10

Jesus Christ, date of birth of, 34

JEWS—
Nationality of the, 10-11
Rights of in various countries, 10
Scriptures, of the, 103

John Carver, 14

JOHNSON, ANDREW—
Descent of, 20
Impeachment of, 184

Johnson, Vice President, R. M., elected by Senate, 94

Johnston, General A. S., sketch of, 83

Johnston, General Joseph E., sketch of, 83

Josephine, Empress, divorce of, 106

Journalism, origin of, 80-81

Juarez, expelled by French, 26

Julian Calendar, 45

Julian, Geo. W., sketch of, 120

Jumps, highest, 68

Justices, Chief of the United States, 180

K.

KANE, DR. E. K.—
Sketch of, 88
Explorations of, 140

KANSAS—
Governors of, 59
Colored population of, 179
Made a State, 63
Senators of, 59
Topeka, Reform School of, 177

Keith, Marshall, sketch of, 116-117

Keokuk, 64

Kleber, General, 54

“Knights, American”, 130

“Knights of the Golden Circle”, 130

Knox, William, sketch of, 18

Konigsburg, burning of, 49

Kyrle, John, 131

L.

Labrador, tropical plants in, 113

Ladies members of Parliament, 63-64

“Lady Elgin,” loss of the, 50

Lady’s Day, 174

Lakes, the great, 51

LANDS, PUBLIC—
“Bad lands”, 153
Desert act, 78
Entries by women, 73-74
Entries in Dakota, 43
How much one person can enter, 43
In California, 99
In Nevada, 99
Omaha Reservation, 116
Sale of government, 71
Subdivisions of, 94
Unimproved, 52
Wrong surveys, 90

Land warrants, 96-97

“Language” and “Tongue”, 97-98

Language of gems, 8

Laodicea, council of, 102

Las Vegas hot springs, 101

“Last Supper,” painter of the, 182

Lathrop, Amy, 97

Laud, Archbishop, 71-72

LAWYERS—
As Presidents, 88
In Congress, 88-89

Lead-crystals, forms of, 42

Leander, 75

Leaps, longest, 25

Leap Year, why 1900 is not a, 45

Lee, Robert E., sketch of, 16

Legion, the number in, 150

Legislation for the people, 46

Leper settlement, Sandwich Islands, 6

LEPROSY—
Among Caucasians, 6
Case of Charles Derby, 6
In California, 6
In Sandwich Islands, 6

Lewis and Clarke, explorations of, 90-94

Liberia, history of, 154-155

Lice in chickens, to destroy, 182

LICENSES—
Dram-shop, 151
Of saloons in Illinois, 105

Life-boat, inventor of the, 140-141

Light, velocity of, 184

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM—
Descent of, 20
Day and date of assassination of, 48

Lincoln, monument to, 112-113
Vote for in 1860, 179

LIQUORS—
Revenue from, 172
Drank in Illinois, 104-105

Literati, American, 61

LITERATURE—
Definition of, 156
Poole’s Index of, 45

“Little Old Sod Shanty,” author of, 174

Liverpool, burning of, 50

Livermore, Mrs. Mary A., sketch of, 85-86

Livingstone, Dr., sketch of, 94

LOANS OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT—
During the Revolution, 80
In 1860, 163
See Debt, Index

Locomotives, fire caused by, 95-96
Fastest time of a, 180
Largest in United States, 39

Lollards, the, 103

LONDON—
Ancient facts regarding, 151
Burning of, 49
Clearing House of, 17
Derivation of its name, 151

Longevity of the Circassians, 149

Longitude and latitude at sea, 30

Lottery mail matter, 51

Louisiana, Capital of, 44

Louis Philippe, sketch of, 157-158

Lowe, the balloonist, 71

Lowell, J. R., sketch of, 146

LUMBER—
Grades of, 85
Weight of, 107

Luther, Martin, sketch of, 109

LUXEMBURGERS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Lytle, General W. H., sketch of, 129

M.

Maecenas, house of, 112

Mackenzie, sketch of, 15-16

Mackinac Island, history of, 13-14

Madison, President, descent of, 20, 135

Madison, Wis., elevation of, 128

Madonna, Sistine, 150-151

“Maid of the Mist” at Niagara, 103, 134

Mail, old California, 155

Mail-bags, pouch in, 146

Maine liquor law, 166

Mallet on earthquakes, 47

Mamelukes, slaughter of, 95

Man, antiquity of, 111-112

“Man of Ross,” the, 131

Manetho, writings of, 42

Manitoba, pronunciation of, 181

Manna, 85

MANUSCRIPT—
Postage on, 73
Rule governing, 36-37

Marcy. Hon. Wm. L., 52

Marine vessels, old, 146

Marquette, Jean, 13

MARRIAGE—
Between whites and blacks, 177
License in Wisconsin, 181

Martyrs in the Colosseum, 69

Massachusetts, wealth of, 158

Mason, Governor, of Michigan, 25

Mason, Sergeant, sentence of, 96

Mason & Dixon’s Line, 63

Matches, revenue from, 172

Mather, Cotton, 150

MAXIMILIAN, OF MEXICO—
And Carlotta, 122
In Mexico, 26
“Legions” of, 179
Sketch of, 97

McClellan’s “Minute Men”, 130

Meade, General, at Cold Harbor, 184

Measuring an acre, 21

Meat, ratio to live weight, 36

Medicine, eclectic school of, 183

Meerschaum—Sea Foam, 57

Mendoza, burning of, 50

Menon, General, in Egypt, 54

Merchants’ Club and the Caucus, 54

Mercury, locality and uses, 14

Mermaid Tavern, 168

“Merry Andrew,” origin of, 69

Metals, their location and uses, 14

Metals, yield in various countries, 14

Meteoric stones, 123

Methodists in Canada, 35

Metrical System, base of the, 149-150

Meuse, river, 180

MEXICANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

MEXICO—
Discovery of, 48-49
Government of, 182
The mines in, 58

Mica, 12

Michigan, first State election in, 25

Middleton, Thomas, 38

Mileage, railroads, 37

Miller, Joaquin, 64

Military heroes of America, 61

Military road in Arkansas, 6

Militia, called by the President, 176

Milk, amount of butter in, 176

Milman, H. H., 174

Milwaukee, grain handled in, 17

MINES—
Deepest in the world, 176
Oldest American, 88
Mines of Australia, 51
Mines of the Toltecs and Aztecs, 88

“Minnie Myrtle”, 64

Mints, U. S., 67

Miocene Period, man in, 111

MISSISSIPPI RIVER—
Does not run up-hill, 98-99
Fall of, 109
Length of, 115
Navigation of the, 162
Valley of the, 67

Missouri Compromise, 63

Missouri River, length of the, 115-116

Mitchell, Maggie, 71

Mizpah, meaning of, 184

Mocha, island of, 114

Mocha coffee, 44-45

Moffat, Robert, 94

Moldavian Desert, 115

Money, early American, 19

“Monitor,” the original, 173

Monroe, descent of, 20

Montreal, burning of, 50

“Moralism and Christianity”, 8

Moravian Brethren, the, 103

Morris, George P., sketch of, 151

Mortality in cities, 119

MOSCOW—
Burning of, 49-50
Siege of, 54
Who burned, 67

Moses, writings of, 42

MOUNTAINS—
Highest in Philippine Islands, 184
How measured, 177
Of Australia, 50-51

Movable feasts, 116

Munich, 87

Murad Bey, 95

Murders, annual number, 91

Mushroom gardening, 95

Mushroom and toadstool, 79

Music, effect on bridges, 40

Mutuals, Paris, 73

Mystics, the, 103

N.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE—
Banishment of, 11
Defeat of, 54
Sketch of, 31

NAPOLEON III, LOUIS—
And Maximilian, 26
Sketch and incidents of, 31, 122, 134

Nares Polar Expedition, 93

Nast, Thomas, sketch of, 97

National Banks, security of, 66

Nations of the Globe, 42-43

“Nature of Evil,” the, 8

NAVY, U. S.—
Chaplains in the, 138
Officers who turned rebels, 87
Period of 1861 to 1865, 87

NEBRASKA—
And Lincoln’s monument, 112-113
“Bad Lands” in, 153-154
Cedar County, 31-32
Description of, 144-145
Rainfall in, 91
State Normal, 169
Wheat crops in, 161

Negroes and Suffrage, 15

Negroes, schools for, 89

Neilson, Adelaide, 177

Nero, golden house of, 112

New Jersey, woman suffrage in, 134

New Orleans, La., 44

New South Wales, 51

NEWSPAPERS—
Circulation of, 132
Earliest, 80-81
Number in America, 81
New Troy, 151

NEW YORK CITY—
Burning of, 49
Charter of, 7
Elevated railways in, 22
Foreigners in, 23
Mayors of, 158
Sale of apples in, 178

NEW YORK, STATE OF—
Cost of new State Capitol, 9
Discovery and settlement of, 7
Immigration, Commissioners of, 56
Wealth of, 158

NIAGARA RIVER—
Descent of, 103
Facts concerning, 62
Shooting the rapids of, 134

Nicollet, John, 13

Nicknames of Southern States, 181

Nightingale, Florence, Sketch of, 76

Nightingale, the habitat of, 184

Night-glasses, 133

Nihilism, 78

NILE—
Battle of the, 54
Ruins along the, 170-171

Noble, Warren V., sketch of, 10

Noon marks, 24

Nordenskjold, sketch of, 79

NORMAL SCHOOLS—
Of Illinois, 180
Of Nebraska, 169

Norman horses, 78

North, Lord, Minister of England, 181

Northwest passage. See Arctic.

NORWEGIANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Notables, assembly of, 122

“Not one cent for tribute,” author of, 81-82

Novgorod, burning of, 50

O.

OATS—
Amount of alcohol in, 163
Duty on, 11

Oberammergau, 35

Occupations, number in United States, 136

Oceanica, Sunday-schools in, 117

“O-grab-me act”, 184

OHIO—
Institute for Feeble-minded, 8
Wealth of, 158
Wheat crops in, 161

Oil, headlight, 159

Omaha Reservation, 116

Opium war, 126

“Opus Majus”, 118

Orators, greatest American, 37

OREGON—
Crops and herds, 100
Description of, 99

Orphan asylums in Illinois, 97

Osage-orange, silk from, 129-130

Osier plantations, 101

“Other Shore,” author of, 97

“Ouida”, 177

Ounces, weight of, 177

P.

Paint, what makes it poor, 181

Painting, how to copyright, 184

Paintings, celebrated, 18

Pan-Presbyterian Council, 91

Papal infallibility, 103

Paris, burning of, 50

Paris Mutuals, 73

Parliament, members of, 63-64

Parris, Samuel, and Mass. witchcraft, 150

PARTNERS—
Effect of marriage of, 182
Special, 129

Passion-flower, 84

Passion Play, history of the, 35-36

Patch, Sam, 177

Patterson, Elizabeth (Bonaparte), 31

Patented articles, must bear notice, 174

Patti, Adelina, sketch of, 145

Pattie, Sylvester, 94

Paul Pry, 22

Pauper relatives, support of, 92

“Peace Organisation”, 130

“Peasant, the”, 106

Pedestrian, best, 143

“Peeler,” debt, 41

PEERESSES—
In Parliament, 145
Of England, 63-64

Peking, population of, 59-60

Penikese, Agassiz’s school on, 143

Pennsylvania, wealth of, 158

Pennsylvania Whisky War, 90

PENSION—
Attorney’s fees for, 158-159
Of soldiers of 1812, 151
Who inherits, 68

Periodicals, number of in U. S., 182

“Perkins, Eli”, 177

Perry, naval song of, 138

Peru, tin mines in, 58

Pestalozzi, sketch of, 82

Pewter, fusibility of, 72

Pharmacy Laws, 60

Philippine Islands, highest mountain in, 184

“Phœnix, John,” sketch of, 18-19

Phrenology, history of, 8-9

Pierce, President; descent of, 20

Pierre, Dakota, 184

Pigs, Guinea, 115

Pinckney, Chas. C., 81-82

Pisa, leaning tower of, 40-41

Pitch of a roof, 179

Pitman, Mary Ann, 130

Pittsburg, burning of, 50

Pittsburg Convention, 120

Planets in February, 1883, 18

Plants, tropical, in Labrador, 113

Platinum, locality and use, 14

“Plon Plon”, 31

Plows, steam, first, 152-153

Pocahontas, descendants of, 21

Poems, certain, authors of, see Authors, Index

Poets, greatest American, 37

Polar Explorations, the, 16-17

Pole, why weight increases at, 179

POLE, SOUTH—
Nearest approach to, 93
See Arctic.

POLES—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

Police, Metropolitan and city, 34

POLK, PRESIDENT—
Descent of, 20
Feud with Silas Wright, 52

Poll-tax, who pays, 175

Pontoon bridges, Prairie du Chien, 177

Poole, John, 22

Poole’s Index, 45

Pools, French, 73

“Poor as I am,” etc., 63

POPULATION—
Of the globe, 37-38
Of the United States, colored, 175

“Porte Crayon,” pseudonym of, 115

Porterhouse steak, origin of name, 29

Portland, Me., burning of, 50

Portsmouth, burning of, 49

PORTUGUESE—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

POSTAGE—
Cheap, legislation for, 46
Foreign, 159-160
Old rates of, 151
On manuscript, 73
On newspapers, 139

Postage stamp, origin of, 67

Postal expenditures, 158

Postal instructions, 185

Postal rates, old, 151-152

Postal service in the United States, 97

Postal system, history of the, 141-142

Postal time-table, 185

Postmaster General in the Cabinet, 143

Postmasters, salaries of, 138-139

Postoffices, origin of, 141-142

Posts, coal oil preserve, 176

Potatoes, duty on, 11

Poultry, artificial brooders, 76

Poultry Association, North American, 162-163

Pratt, Major, 152-153

Precession of the equinoxes, 148-149

PRE-EMPTIONS—
Claims, 174
“Continuous residence,” on, 137
Liable for debts, 143
“Proving up”, 137
When claims join, 178
Who can make, 176-178

Presbyterians in Canada, 35

Presidential dinners, who pays for, 49

Presidential election, years for, 30

PRESIDENTS—
And republics, 59
National descent of, 20
Of Continental Congress, 62
Professions of, 88
Pro-tem., of the Senate, 115, 185
Salary of, 107, 180-182

Printers’ wages in Chicago, 174

Prison labor, 95

Prize-ring, championship of, 175

Promissory note, interest on, 55-56

Property of a wife, 176

Proverbs, Chinese, 167-168

Providence Spring, 121

Pry, Paul, 22-23

Pseudonyms of authors, 131-132

Ptolemy Philadelphus, sketch of, 60

Pueblos of New Mexico, 64

Puget Sound, 24

Pullman cars, cost of, 182

“Puts and Calls”, 175

Pyramids, battle of the, 95

Q.

Quakers and suffrage, 15

Quaternary period, 111

Quebec, burning of, 50

“Queechey,” author of, 97

Queen Victoria, surname of, 98

Queen’s bench, 157

Queensland, 50-51

R.

Races, ten and twenty mile at Minneapolis, 180

Rae, Dr. John, 139

RAILROADS—
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, 101
Certain agreements between, 21
Disaster at Tay bridge, 59
Entering Chicago, 133-134
First, 179
First in Illinois, 92
In Illinois, number of, 149
Land grants to, 37
Lands, settlers on, 125
Michigan Central, 175
Mileage of, 37
Miles of, in United States, 157
Northern Pacific, 61
Pacific, finances of, 173
Southern Pacific, 72
Trains, speed of, 28
Union Pacific, 184

Railways, elevated, in New York, 22

RAINFALL—
In Nebraska, 91, 144-145
In United States, 82

Rain-gauge, how used, 93

RALEIGH, SIR W.—
Club of, 168
Execution of, 90

Randall, S. J., sketch of, 10

Randolph, Chief Postmaster, 141

Raphael, paintings by, 18

Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, 150-151

Rebellion, principal battles of, 109-110

“Red Line Poets”, 181

Red Sea, origin of name, 27

Reed, General Joseph, 63

Reform School at Topeka, Kan, 177

Relationships, 36

Relatives, pauper, legal claims of, 92

Religion, oldest form of, 175

RELIGIOUS SECTS—
Statistics of, 9, 76, 182
Statistics of, in Canada, 35

Representatives, Speaker of the House, 115

Republics, Chief Magistrates of, 59

“Republic of South Carolina”, 58

Republican legislation, effects of, 46

Requisition of Governor, 178

REVENUE—
From salt, in New York State, 173
Internal, 172-173
Of Great Britain, 58-59

Rhode Island, smaller than some counties, 118

Rice, introduction into United States, 180

Richmond, Lee at, 16

Richter, Jean P., sketch of, 113-114

Riddle, given to Homer, 21

Riddleberger, Bill, 41

Rifles, Sharpes, inventor of, 180

Rip Van Winkle, 179

RIVERS—
Amazon, 67
And harbors, cost of improving, 164
Fall of Western, 109
Length of, only estimated, 115
Longest in the world, 183
Meuse, the, 180
Miles of navigable, in United States, 157
Mississippi, 115
Missouri, 115

Road Laws of Illinois, 86

Robards, Mrs., union with Jackson, 28

Rock Island, elevation of, 109

Rome, burning of, 49

Roof, the pitch of a, 179

Rooster, the, a Democratic emblem, 124

Royal family of England, 72

Rulers of the World, 84

Runs, fastest, 68, 175

Runs, longest, 25

Ruskin, John, sketch of, 93-94

Russell, “Bull Run”, 182

Russia, wealth of, 142

RUSSIANS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

RYE—
Amount of alcohol in, 163
Duty on, 11

S.

Sacramento Valley, 24

Saint Simon, sketch of, 120

Safford, Truman Henry, 75

Saginaw salt wells, 175

SALARIES, U. S.—
Department, 107-108
Executive, 107-108, 177

Salem Witchcraft, 150

SALOONS—
In Chicago, 77, 105
In Illinois, 105
Keepers, nationality of, 178
Licenses in Chicago, 1880, 180

SALT—
Duty on, 11
Product of and tax in New York, 173
Regions, greatest, 175
Revenue from, 173

Salt Lake, description of, 166-167

Salvation Army, the, 110-111

SAN FRANCISCO—
Burning of, 50
Distance from Australian and other ports, 124
Fares from to various ports, 124

San Marino, 59

San Joaquin Valley, 24

Sand, George, 121-122

Sandeau, Jules, sketch of, 121-122

Sandpaper, 133

SANDWICH ISLANDS—
Leprosy in, 6
Natives of in Chicago, 23
Natives of in New York, 23

SANTA FE—
Age of, 64
Settlement of, 62

Savannah, burning of, 50

Sayers, Tom, 175

“Scalpers,” how they work, 154

Scandinavian, old ideas of heaven, 38

“Schonberg Cotta Family,” author of, 72

SCHOOLS—
First free, in the United States, 116
Of Britain and Ireland, 117
For colored race, 89
Temperance in, 34-35

Schwatka, Lieutenant, the explorer, 127

Schwerin, Field Marshal, sketch of, 86

Scientific societies, 171-172

Scio, earthquake on island of, 175

SCOTLAND—
Area of, 31
Natives of in Chicago, 23
Natives of in New York, 23

Scriptures, the Jewish, 103

Scythians and Darius, 115

SEA—
Finding latitude at, 30, 36
Gold and silver in, 72-73

Seas, the high, 51

Seasons, limits of the, 108

“Secret of Swedenborg”, 8

Secretaries, of States, 70

SECTIONS—
Government, 174
Of land, “long and short”, 90

Sects, religious, statistics of, 9

Sedan, battle of, 175

SENATE, U. S.—
Members of, 185
Presidents of, 115
Presidents, pro tem. salary of, 181

Senators of Kansas, 59

Septuagint, 60

Settlers on railroad lands, 125

Shakespeare, articles on, 45

Sharon, Hon. Wm., sketch of, 104

Sharps, Christian, 180

Shells, how to polish, 132

SHERIDAN, GENERAL PHIL—
At Sedan, 175
Name of wife of, 174

Shilling in various States, 54

Shilling, the York, 54

Ship, largest, 183

Ship-building, English and American, 17-18

Shipping, American sold, 98

Ship-wrecked, persons, care of, 179

Siding-lumber, grades of, 85

Signal service, 143

Signal station, elevation of, 127-128

Signals of storms, 5-6

Signs of weather changes, 24-25

Silk from osage-orange, 129-130

Silk-worms, development of, 182

SILVER—
Localities and uses, 14
In sea water, 72-73

Silver coins at a premium, 110

Silver-plating, cheap method, 101-102

Silver-ware, how to clean, 9

Sinaloa, route to, 72

Sing Sing, penitentiary at, 179

Sintuism, 168

Sirens, the, 91

Sirloin, derivation of, 56-57

Sistine Chapel, 18

“Skeleton in every closet,” a, 123

Skulls as bowls, 38

Slave, first negro in Chicago, 174

Slave trade, 51-52

Slaves, voting, value of, 11

SLAVERY—
First case of in Chicago, 174
In Cuba, 23
In Illinois, 89-90
In Jamaica, 52

Smith, “Extra Billy”, 179

Smut in wheat, 165

Smyrna, burning of, 49-50

Snake, hoop, 184

Snow-shoes, how to make, 174

Socialism, 79

Societies, art, historical, and scientific, 171-172

Soldiers’ Homesteads, 29-30

Solferino, battle of, 134-135

“Sons of Liberty”, 130-131

“Sore-heads”, 52

Sound and sense, 16

South, the, and protective tariff, 128-129

South Americans in Chicago, 23

South Americans in New York, 23

South Carolina, “Republic of”, 58

Southern Hotel, loss of life in, 180

Sovereigns of England, 26

Spain, wealth of, 142

SPANIARDS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE—
Right to appoint a chairman, 53
Salary of, 177
Who have been, 145

Specie, resumption of, 135

Speed, of railway trains, 28

Sphinx, the, 118

SPIRITS—
Production of, 171
Revenue from, 172

Spring, limits of, 108

Spurzheim, Dr., 9

St. Anastasias, sketch of, 107

St. Augustine, age of, 64

St. George’s Company and Ruskin, 93-94

St. Helena, 17

St. Ildefonso, treaty of, 179

St. John, age of at death, 178

St. Johns, burning of, 50

ST. LOUIS—
Burning of, 50
Elevation of, 109

St. Patrick, 181

St. Patrick’s Day, 178

St. Paul, Minn., elevation of, 128

St. Peter’s Cathedral, 69

St. Petersburg, burning of, 49-50

St. Thomas, burning of, 50

STAMPS, POSTAGE—
Origin of, 67
In a business letter, 182

Standish, Miles, wife of, 174

“Star Organization”, 130

Stars, steering by the, 30

STATES—
Debts of, 98
Formed from others, 62-63
Nicknames of, 181
Repudiating debts, 43-44
Returning to a Territory, 181
Security for U. S. loans, 79-80
Vote of in November, 1882, 23
Wealth of the, 98, 158

Statesmen, Eminent American, 61

Steamers, course across the Atlantic, 178

Steamship, fastest time of a, 177

Steel and Steel Rails, 66-67

Stock Yards, Chicago, 175

Stockholm, burning of, 49

Storm Signals, 5-6

Stratton, C. H., sketch of, 106

Strother, D. H., 115

Stubbs, Charles W., 106

Suffrage, history of, 14-15

Suicides, annual number of, 91

Sullivan, Alexander, 65-66

Sullivan-Hanford murder, 65-66

Summer, limits of, 108

Sumter, Ft., flag restored on, 88

SUN—
Days north of equator, 104
Days south of equator, 104
In the north window, 180
Visible zones of, 20

Sundays, five in February, 62

Sunday schools in the world, 117

Sun-dial and clock, 97

Sunlight, covers more than a hemisphere, 117

Survey, rectangular system of, 178

SWEDES—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

SWISS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

T.

Tahoe, lake, description of, 163

Taine, M., sketch of, 151

Talent, value of Hebrew, 180

Talleyrand insults United States, 82

Tarantulas, 137-138

TARIFF—
And parties, 8
Articles on, 45
Canadian, 86
Effect upon commerce, 103
High and cheap goods, 160
Low and fiat money, 113
Increase of, 7-8
In Great Britain, 58-59
On coal, 11
On diamonds, 166
On farm products, 11
On guns, 8
On tin, 119
Present duties, 7-8
Jackson on, 147
Jefferson on, 147
In the South, 128-129
Madison on, 147
Monroe on, 147
Van Buren on, 147
Washington on, 147
Who pays the, 160

Tasso, sketch of, 9-10

Tay Bridge disaster, 59

Taylor, President, descent of, 20

Taylor, “Father,” sketch of, 151

Tea, first use of, 95

TELEGRAPH—
Autographic, 183
Cable, to Ireland, 184
Electric, 79
Money and goods, 163
The printing, 79
Wheatstone’s, 79

Telephone and telegraph compared, 86-87

Telephone, how to operate, 87

Telescope—Night-glass, 133

TEMPERANCE—
Facts for in Chicago, 77
In common schools, 34-35
In Germany, 21
In Indiana politics, 35
Movement, origin of, 21-22
Societies, orders, etc., 21

Templars, Good, 22

Temperature, how observed, 93

Tennessee gold mines, 57

Terne plates, 119

Testament, the Old, 103

Texas admitted to the U. S, 184

THERMOMETERS—
Alcohol instruments, 177
Zero, point of, 58

Thoroughbred, meaning of, 175

“Those everlasting gardens,” etc, 157

Throop, Governor Enos T., sketch of, 24

Throws, longest, 25, 68

Thumb, Tom, sketch of, 106

TIMBER—
Act to encourage culture of, 99
Claims, fraudulent, 48
Culture act, 46
Lands in Dakota, 43

TIME—
Difference of between various places, 19
Geological divisions of, 120
Noon marks, 24

“Times that try men’s souls”, 67

TIN—
Mines, principal ones, 58
Plate Association, 119
Tariff on, 119
Where found and use, 14

Titus and the Colosseum, 68

Toadstool, 79

TOBACCO—
Crop for 1880 and 1881, 176
Revenue from, 172
Sale of by producer, 92-93

Tom Thumb, sketch of, 106

“Tongue” and “Language”, 97-98

Torpedoes, submarine, 125-126

Torrismond, 10

Tortugas, Dry, 178

Towers, government, for geodetic survey, 176

Townships, political and government, 67

Trade, as shown by clearings, 17

Trade marks, use of, 102

Trades unions, history of, 26-27

Training School for Nurses, 76

Treasury Department, salaries of, 107-108

Trent, Council of, 102

Trichinæ, 176

Trinity Church steeple, 174

Troy, N. Y., burning of, 50

Trotting, fastest, 175

Truesdell truss, 120

TURKS—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 28

U.

Ulysses and the sirens, 91

“Uncle Tom,” the original, 175

Union losses in civil war, 74

United Brethren, 114

UNITED STATES—
Agriculture in, 103
Army, cost of the, 164
Banks of, 12-13
Capital of the, 163
Capitals during Revolution, 62
Carrying trade of, 103
Cattle in the, 121, 127
Civil list of, 28
Coal area of, 157
Coins, fineness of, 20
Colored population of, 175
Commerce of, 103
Cultivated area of the, 139
Debt of, 30, 38, 78-79
Expenditures for government, 174, 183
Expenditures of for eighteen years, 75
First free schools in, 116
Gortschakoff’s attitude to, 38
Homeopathy in the, 112
Imports during 1881, 175
Islands belonging to, 136-137
Largest cities in, 151
Loans in 1860, 163-164
Loans, State security for, 79
Loans, when non-negotiable, 79
Manufacturers of, 106
Marine, size of, 97
Miles of navigable waters, 157
Miles of railroad in, 157
Militia, force of the, 162
Mining in, 103
Mints and assay offices, 67
Most level States of the, 176
National cemeteries of, 159
Number of occupations in, 136
Oldest settlements, 61-62
Railway speed in, 28
Rates of interest in, 63
Senators and Representatives, 177
Ship building in, 17-18
Signal service, 143
Tin mines in, 58
Treaties of with China, 126-127
Vast possessions of, 93
Wages in, 17
Wealth of, 42, 98

“Unless you can muse,” etc., 119

Utah, woman suffrage in, 166

V.

Vaccinating immigrants, 40

Vallandigham, C. L., 130

Valleys, greatest river, 67

Valparaiso, burning of, 50

VAN BUREN, PRESIDENT—
And President Polk, 52
Descent of, 20
Vice President, 49

Vauxhall Gardens, 164

Venezuela, freedom of, 25

Venice, burning of, 49

Vespasian and Colosseum, 68

Vessels, American, sold, 98

VICE PRESIDENT—
Election of, 94
Salary of, 177

Victoria, Province of, 51

Victoria, Queen, children of, 72

Surname of, 98

Victoria Nyanza, source of river Nile, 176

VIRGINIA—
And W. Virginia, 62-63
Description of, 183
Early history of, 126
Gold mines, 57
Population, 183
State debt of, 41

Vote of States, Nov., 1882, 23

VOTING—
Age required in different States, 181
Property qualification for, 145

W.

WAGES—
In England and America, 17
Of printers in Chicago, 174

WALES—
Area of, 31
Title of Prince of, 49

Walker, Captain J., sketch of, 170

Walking, best, 143

Wallace, Sir William, sketch of, 74-75, 169-170

WAR—
Civil, battles of the, 109-110
Franco-German, 40
Mexican, cause of, 183
Of 1812, cause of the, 183
Of 1861-65, killed and wounded, 74

Warner, Anna, 97

Warner, Susan, 97

Washington, descent of, 20

Washingtonian Society, 22

WASHINGTON TERRITORY—
Crops and herds of, 100
Description of, 99
Facts about, 87

WATCH—
First, 3
Affected by electricity, 179

“Watch and Ward”, 8

Water, why it freezes soft, 20

Waterloo, battle of, 47-48

Watts, Isaac, 178

Wealthiest States, 158

WEALTH—
Of Nations, 142
Of States, 98
Of United States, by States, 42

Weather signs, 24-25

WEIGHTS—
At poles and equator, 179
Of various kinds of lumber, 107
Of various substances, 183

“We” in journalism, 121

Wellington, Duke of, 54

WELSH—
In Chicago, 23
In New York, 23

West, French explorers in, 90

WEST INDIES—
Natives of in Chicago, 22
Natives of in New York, 23

WEST VIRGINIA—
How formed, 62
Capital of, 175

WHEAT—
Amount of alcohol in, 163
Duty on, 11
In Illinois, 1882, 105
In Ohio and Nebraska, 161
Smut in, 165

WHIG PARTY—
Death of the, 49
Origin of the, 19

WHISKY—
First use of, 95
Production of, 171

Whisky war in Pennsylvania, 90

White, Henry Kirke, 178

Whitney, Eli, inventor, 114

WIFE—
Dower, right of a, 144
Land entry by, 73-74
Property of, 176

WILLOW, BASKET—
Curing of, 113
Farming, etc., 101
Sale of, 101
White, how to kill, 176

Wilson, Henry, change of his name, 181

Wingfield, Edward M., 14

Winter, limits of, 108

Wise, Professor, the balloonist, 71

Witchcraft, history of, 150

Wolsey, Cardinal, sketch of, 32-33

WOMAN SUFFRAGE—
History of, 14
In New Jersey, 134

WOMEN—
Homestead rights of, 85
Married, rights of, 144
Of age, when, 177

WOOD IN UNITED STATES—
Amount used as fuel, 38-39
Amounts used for other purposes, 39

WORLD—
Nations of the, 42-43
Population of the, 37-38

Worms after a shower, 184

Wyoming massacre, 89

WYOMING TERRITORY—
Bad lands in, 153-154
Fossils in, 154
Governor’s term and salary, 57

Wright, P. C., 130

Wright, Silas, 52-53

X.

Xenophon, sketch of, 75

Xerxes’ army, size of, 176

Y.

YALE COLLEGE—
Founding of, 109
Wealth, attendance, etc., 134

Yeddo, burning of, 50

Yokohama, burning of, 50

York Shilling, 54

Younger, Cole, 177

Z.

Zero point of thermometer, 58

Zinc, where found and use, 14

Zodiac, signs of the, 30-31

Zones of the sun, visible, 20

Transcriber’s Notes

pg 7 Changed: But two thinge have not been explained
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pg 8 Changed: appeared in The Semi-Weelky Inter Ocean
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pg 8 Changed: Moralism and and Christianity
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