horn on the end of its tail, which, when in rapid motion, looks like
a revolving hoop. It is found in Southern Illinois and Missouri, and
the country east and south of the same. It is popularly known as the
hoop snake. 2. Naturalists are generally agreed that the worms seen
after showers do not fall from the clouds; they are not fully agreed
as to the proper explanation of their sudden appearance at such
times. For further particulars address Professor Forbes, curator of
the Laboratory of Natural History, Normal, Ill.
* * * * *
M. S. H., Chicago.—Pierre, the present Western terminus of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad is the railway station nearest to
Deadwood, from which it is about 190 miles distant. The Northwestern
Express Stage and Transportation Company runs a line of Concord
stages between these points.
* * * * *
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.
* * * * *
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.
* * * * *
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.
* * * * *
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