INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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operation of the new tariff, 219 ; commercial statistics, 

 219; canals, 219, 220; education, 220 ; criminal statistics, 

 220; convict-labor question, 220; bank statistics, 220; 

 post-office savings-bank, 220 ; insurance, 220 ; affairs of 

 British Columbia, 220 ; Manitoba, 220, 221 ; Quebec, 221 ; 

 Ontario, 221 ; Nova Scotia, 221 ; Prince Edward Island, 

 222; Newfoundland, 222. 



Dulcigno. Naval demonstration, 543, 544 ; cession to Mon- 

 tenegro, 544 ; description, 545. 



Du MOTAY, CYPRIEN TESSIE. American engineer, biograph- 

 ical sketch, 222. 



Earth, The. Latest statistics of area and population of con- 

 tinents, 222; previous estimates of aggregate population, 

 222; religious statistics, 223; statistics of sex, 223; rail- 

 roads in different continents, 224 ; postal statistics, 224; 

 the World's Postal Union, 224 ; telegraphic statistics 

 224. 



Eastern Question. Stipulations of the Treaty of Berlin 

 carried out, 224 ; Greece and Montenegro did not receive 

 the territorial enlargements promised, 224; Goschen's 

 mission, 224 ; incorporation of East Koumelia with Bul- 

 garia agitated, 67. 68; Bosnia and Herzegovina under 

 Austrian rule, 46; relations of Austria to Servia, 47, 48; 

 Montenegro insists on the cession of the promised terri- 

 tory, 542 ; Albanians seize the district, 542; expelled by 

 Turkish forces, 543; delay of the Turkish Government, 

 544; Dulcigno given to Montenegro, 545; dilatory atti- 

 tude of the Porte regarding the execution of the Berlin 

 treaty, 6S7; Goschen's embassy, 637; the Albanian 

 League, 688; Greek boundary question, 6S8; naval dem- 

 onstration, 689; reforms in Asiatic Turkey, 689; dis- 

 putes between Eoumania and Bulgaria, 659, 660; the 

 Danubian Commission, 660, Ears and Batoum under 

 Russian dominion, 666; questions considered by the 

 powers, 225; note sent to the Porte by the powers, 225, 

 226 ; conference of the powers at Berlin, 226 ; members 

 of the conference, 226; collective note adopted, 226; the 

 territory to be ceded to Greece, 226; its population, 226; 

 claims of Turkey and Greece, 227; character of the peo- 

 ple of the provinces to be ceded, 227 ; the cession not yet 

 made, 227 ; the Montenegrin question, 227. 



Eastern Roumelia. Area and population by races, 227; 

 political system, 227 ; finances, 227, 223 ; foundation of 

 the state, 228; agitation for consolidation with Bulgaria, 

 228 ; political disturbances produced by the agitators, 

 228; the Governor-General threatens to resign, 228 ; 

 extra session of the Provincial Assembly, 228 ; legislative 

 action, 223; financial legislation, 229; regular session, 

 229 ; proposed legislation, 229 ; proceedings of the East- 

 ern Eoumelian Commission, 229 : Greco-Bulgarian eccle- 

 siastical conflict, 229; insurrection of Mohammedans, 

 229. 



Ecuador. Members of the Government, 230; revenue and 

 finance, 230; commercial statistics, 230; agricultural 

 prosperity, 230; imports, 230; shipping, 230; Guayaquil 

 harbor dues, 230; political maladministration, 231. 



Egypt. The Khedive, 232; area and population, 232 ; foreign 

 population, 232; commercial statistics, 232: railroads, 

 232 ; Suez Canal, 232 ; its financial condition, 232 ; traffic, 

 232 : the Khedive on granting a Constitution, 232 ; Eiaz 

 Pasha on reforms, 233 ; finances, 233 ; scheme for the 

 settlement of the debt question, 233 ; tax reforms, 233 ; 

 International Commission of Liquidation, 234 ; the liqui- 

 dation law, 234; its provisions, 234; the Daira Sanieh, 

 234; debt payments. 234; the land-tax, 234: extension 

 of territory, 235; the slave-trade in the Soodan, 235; 

 efforts for its suppression, 235 ; evasion of the conven- 



tion with Great Britain, 235 ; the slave-trade carried on 

 openly, 286; relations with Abyssinia. 236; King John's 

 subjects in revolt, 286; no war to be expt-< 

 287. 



Electric Light, Vegetation under the. Dr. Siemens's ex- 

 periments with plants, 237 ; the electric light equal to 

 sunlight in promoting growth, 237 ; continuous lighting 

 produces double growth, 237 ; observations on the effects 

 of continuous sunlight on vegetable growth in high lati- 

 tudes, 237, 238. 



Electric Lighting. Improvement preventing the variations 

 of single lamps in a circuit from affecting the others, 283; 

 the Brush system of regulation, 238 ; Edison's incandes- 

 cent lamp, 23S, 239 ; Maxim's lamp, 239; improvements 

 in the Sawyer-Man lamp, 240. 



EATON, W. W. Senator from Connecticut, 136; bill for a 

 tariff commission, 172, remarks on same, 173, 177, 178, 

 179-182. 



EDMUNDS, G. F. Senator from Vermont, 136 ; on repealing 

 the disabilities of Confederates to serve in the army, 

 187, 188, 192 ; vote on his nomination for the Presidency, 

 696; reelected Senator, 707 ; biographical sketch, 281. 



ELIOT, GEORGE. English novelist, biographical sketch, 241. 



Engineering. Railroad-building in America, 242; canals 

 and water-works, 242, projected internal improvements, 

 242 ; important works in other countries, 242; the Platts- 

 mouth Bridge over the Missouri, 242, 243; bridge over 

 the Ohio at Beaver, 244; the Tay Bridge disaster, 244; 

 the Victoria Docks extension, 244, 245; Holyhead Harbor, 

 245 ; Milford Haven, 246 ; Hartlepool Docks, 246 ; St. 

 Gothard Tunnel completed, 246 ; Arlberg Tunnel in Tyrol, 

 247 ; Cape Cod ship-canal, 247-249 ; canals in Germany, 

 249; regulation of the channels of "Western rivers, 249; 

 New York Harbor improvements, 250; proposed Harlem 

 ship-canal, 250; ocean telegraphy, 250-252; underground 

 telegraphs for the United States, 252. 



Europe. Area and population of countries, 252, 253 ; East 

 ern Question, 253; Irish land troubles, 253 ; Nihilism in 

 Russia, 253; situation in Italy, 253, 254; in France, 254; 

 in Germany, 254; in Austria, 254. 



Evangelical Association. Statistics, 254; missions, 254. 



Exodus, Colored. Immigration of colored voters into Indi- 

 ana, 394 ; the Kansas immigration, 417 ; improvement in 

 Louisiana, 481. 



FAVRE, JULES. French statesman, biographical sketch, 255. 



FERDINAND, Prince of Hohenzollern. Elected successor to 

 the Roumanian throne, 660. 



FERRY, JULES. French Premier. 281 ; remarks on his edu- 

 cational bill, 281, 282. 



Finances of the United States. Statement of ordinary re- 

 ceipts and expenditures, 255; articles yielding over a 

 million of revenue each, 256; internal revenue receipts, 

 256; excess of receipts, 256; estimated excess in 1880- 

 '81, 256 ; text of sinking-fund act, 256 ; net receipts, ex- 

 penses, and surplus for fifteen years, 256; reduction of 

 the debt up to 1869, 256; law of 1870 directing purchased 

 bonds to be destroyed, 257 ; nature of the sinking-fund 

 law, 257 ; the apparent terms of the act have not been 

 complied with, 257; estimated requirements of the sink- 

 ing fund for ten years, 257; bonds redeemed in 1880, 

 257; refunding plan of the Secretary of the Treasury, 

 257 ; changes in the debt in 18SO, 25S ; character of assets 

 of the Treasury for three years, 258 ; business of the 

 Treasury, 258; national banks, 253; their aggregate re- 

 sources and liabilities, 259 ; their geographical distribu- 

 tion, 259; State banks and banking-houses, 259; busi- 

 ness of national banks in 1880, 259; their circulation, 



