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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



isterial changes, 44; budget debate, 44; second change 

 in the Cabinet, 45 ; German demonstrations, 45, 46 ; pro- 

 vincial Diets, 45; the delegations, 46; affairs of Bosnia 

 and Herzegovina, 46; foreign relations, 46-48. 



Baptists Statistics, 48; societies, 48, 49; Southern Baptist 

 Convention, 49 ; German Baptist Conference, 49 ; Free- 

 Will Baptists, 49, 50; the Brethren, 50; British Regular 

 Baptists. 50, 51 ; General Baptists, 51. 



BAKEE, JOHN H. Member of Congress from Indiana, 136; 

 speech on payment of deputy-marshals, 158-160. 



Barometers, Water, 51, 52. 



Basutos. Kevolt against the English in South Africa, 82. 



BAYARD, JAMES ASHETON. United States Senator, biographi- 

 cal notice, 52. 



BAYARD, THOMAS F. Senator from Delaware, 136; on Con- 

 federate disabilities, 188 ; vote on his nomination for 

 President, 699. 



BECK, J. B. Senator from Kentucky, 136 ; on tariff commis- 

 sion bill, 1T3, 182, 183; on a transportation commission, 

 184-186; on Confederate disabilities, 190. 



Belgium. Boyal family, 52 ; area and population, 52, 53; 

 vital and religious statistics, 53; finances, 53; the school 

 question, 53, 54 ; the Jesuit question, 54 ; the bishops' 

 opposition to secular education, 54; the Pope denounces 

 the school laws, 54; legation at Eome withdrawn, 54; 

 elections, 55 ; semi-centennial of national independence, 

 55; international conventions, 55; opening of Parliament, 

 56. 



BENEDICT, ERASTUS C. American educationalist, biographi- 

 cal sketch, 56. 



BERNHARDT, SARAH. French actress, biographical sketch, 

 57 ; arrival in America, 58. 



BERRY, Indian agent, arrest by Colorado authorities, 118. 



BLAIR, HENRY W. Senator from New Hampshire, 136; on 

 an investigation into the conditions of transportation, 

 185, 186. 



BLAKE, ED-WARD. Canadian statesman, chosen leader of the 

 Liberal party, 211. 



Boers. Eevolt in the Transvaal, 83. 



Bolivia. President and Ministers, 58; army, 58; revenue, 

 58; debt, 58; British adjudication upon the railway loan, 

 59 ; American contractors petition Congress, 59 ; com- 

 mercial statistics, 59, 60 ; political and military situation, 

 60 ; confiscations for prosecuting the war, 60. 



Brazil. Slave population and the emancipation fund, 61; 

 immigration policy, 61 ; composition of the Government, 

 62 ; army and navy, 62 ; revenue and expenditures, 62, 

 63 ; tariff revision, 63 ; debt, 63 ; commerce, 64 ; Canadian 

 steamship line, 64; railways, 64, 65; speech from the 

 throne, 65. 



BRADLACGII, CHARLES. Controversy over his admission to 

 Parliament, 334. 



BRIGHT, JOHN. British Cabinet Minister, biographical no- 

 tice, 65, 66. 



BROCA, PAUL. French anthropologist, biographical sketch, 

 66. 



BROUGHAM, JOHN. American actor, biographical sketch, 66. 



BROWN, JOSEPH EMERSON. Senator from Georgia, bio- 

 graphical sketch, 311. 



Bulgaria. Area and population, 66, 67 ; foreign policy, 67 ; 

 financial position, 67; meeting of the assembly, 67; for- 

 mation of a Ministry, 67 ; movement in favor of amalga- 

 mation with Eastern Eoumelia, 67, 68 ; second session 

 of the National Assembly, 68 ; relations with Eussia, 

 68. 



Burmah. Diplomatic relations, 63, 09 ; failure of Burmese 

 envoys to reestablish diplomatic intercourse with India, 



69 ; insurrections, 69 ; warlike demonstration against 

 India, 69, 70. 



BURNSIDE, A. E. Senator from Ehode Island, 136 ; on Con- 

 federate disabilities, 192, 193. 



BUTLER, WILLIAM O. American general and politician, bio- 

 graphical sketch, 70, 71. 



California. Legislative enactments, 71-73; new revenue 

 law, 71, 72 ; tax levy, 72; the Governor on double taxa- 

 tion, 72 ; the debris question, 72-75 ; fisheries, 75 ; census 

 returns, 75 ; Penitentiary, 75, 76 ; settlers' rights in the 

 foot-hills, 76 ; Mussel Slough disturbance, 76 ; Working- 

 men's agitation and Citizens' counter-movement, 77; 

 San Francisco election, 77 ; sanitary regulations in the 

 Chinese quarter, 78 ; McClure charter rejected, 78 ; Be- 

 publican Convention, 78; resolutions, 78; Democratic 

 Convention and resolutions, 78 ; Workingmen's Conven- 

 tion, 78; census, 79. 



CAMERON, J. DON. Senator from Pennsylvania, 136; resolu- 

 tion to appoint a transportation commission, 183. 



Cape Colony and British South Africa. Annexations, 79; 

 area and population, 79; system of government, 79; 

 finances, 79; the Governor, 79 ; government of Natal, 80; 

 revenue and expenditures, 80 ; commerce, 80 ; the Gov- 

 ernor of Natal, 80 ; the Basutos, SO ; session of Colonial 

 Parliament, 80, 81 ; evacuation of Tsita Neck, 83 ; rout 

 of Umhlonhlo, 83; rebellion of the Boers of the Trans- 

 vaal, 83 ; British defeat at Middleburg, 83 ; Boer procla- 

 mation, 83. 



Census. Statistical Congresses, 83 ; scheme adopted by In- 

 ternational Congress, 84 ; former censuses in different 

 countries, 84; provisions for the United States census of 

 1880, 84; British census in 1881, 85; German census, 85. 



Central America. (See COSTA EICA, GUATEMALA, HONDU- 

 RAS, NICARAGUA, and SALVADOR.) 



CHALLEMEL-LACOUR. French ambassador in London, bio- 

 graphical notice, 285. 



CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH. British Cabinet Minister, biographi- 

 cal notice, 85. 



CHAPIN, EDWIN H. American clergyman, biographical 

 sketch, 85. 



Chemistry. Artificial diamonds, 86 ; liquefaction of ozone, 

 86 ; observed atomic weights, 86, 87 ; action of gases in 

 deterioration of bookbindings, 87 ; chemical industries, 

 88, 89 ; improvements in the manufacture of textiles and 

 dyestuffs, 89, 90; in rubber manufacture, 90; in glass 

 manufacture, .91 ; in china-wares, 91 ; chemistry of ar- 

 senical poisoning, 91, 92; nitrogenous constituents of 

 grain and flour, 92 ; new compound metal, 93 ; chemical 

 effects of cold, 93 ; luminous paint, 93 ; action of citric 

 acid on minerals, 93, 94 ; purification of water, 94 ; ethy- 

 lic bromide as an anaesthetic, 94; improved test for 

 sugar, 94; test for gallic acid, 95; gallium found in 

 American blendes, 95 ; spectra of vapors under pressure, 

 95 ; syntheses of salicylic and citric acids, glycerine, etc., 

 96. 



CHILD, LYDIA M. American authoress, biographical ac- 

 count, 96. 



CHILDERS, HUGH C. E. British Cabinet officer, biographical 

 notice, 96. 



C hili. Government officials, 97; army, 97; navy, 97; 

 finances, 97 ; monopoly of tobacco culture abolished, 98 ; 

 war expenses, 98 ; tax on nitrate, 98 ; national debt, 99 ; 

 statistics, 99; arbitration of disputes with Colombia, 99. 



C hina Area and population, 99, 100 ; abandoned land, 100 ; 

 military system, 100 ; strength of army, 100 ; commerce, 

 100, 101 ; navigation, 101 ; the Government disclaims the 

 treaty ceding Kulja to Eussia, 101 ; Eussia's threaten. 



