Part 50

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