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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Indians. Population of reservations, 28; agricultural statis- 

 tics, 28; schools. 28; policy of private proprietorship pro- 

 claimed by the Government, 28, 29. 



Iowa. Session of the Legislature, 396 ; proposed prohibition 

 amendment, 396; creation of a Board of Health, 396; of 

 an immigration commission, 396; political conventions 

 and platforms, 39T, 398; election returns, 398; census 

 returns, 898; property valuation, 898; railroads, 398, 

 899; public schools, 399; Penitentiary, 399. 



Ireland and the Irish Question. Decrease in population, 

 399 ; birth and death rates, 399 ; emigration statistics, 

 899; dwelling statistics, 399 ; illiteracy, 399,400; educa- 

 tional statistics, 400; use of the Irish language, 400; 

 representation, 400 ; religious statistics, 400; pauperism, 

 400 ; land tenure, 400 ; statistics of estates and owner- 

 ship, 401 ; Irish peers, 401 ; the land agitation, 401 ; his- 

 tory of land tenure in Ireland, 401, 402; former fixity 

 of tenure, 402 ; the Ulster custom, 402 ; decline of agri- 

 culture under competitive rents, 402 ; land act of 1870, 

 402; judicial definition of the Ulster right, 402, 403 ; law 

 of 1880 for land-improvement loans, 403; organization of 

 the Land League, 403; distress in 1S80, 403; relief sub- 

 scriptions, 404 ; Home-Rule demonstrations, 404 ; political 

 agitation, 404; agrarian outrages, 404; Boycott, 404; 

 Parliamentary inquiry, 405; ParnelPs declarations, 405; 

 prosecution of Land-Leaguers, 405. 



Italia Irredenta. Movement growing, 409, 410. 



Italy. Royal family, 406 ; area and population, 406 ; emigra- 

 tion, 406; population of cities, 406; the Ministry, 406; 

 educational statistics, 406 ; receipts and expenditures, 

 406,407; debt, 407; army and navy, 407; shipping, 407 ; 

 commerce, 40S; railroads and telegraphs, 408; Parlia- 

 mentary session, 408; the grist-tax, 408; the Duilio, 408; 

 Italia Irredenta, 408 ; dissolution of Parliament, 409 ; the 

 Ministry sustained in the elections, 409; the Tunisian 

 question, 409; Italia Irredenta agitation, 410; foreign 

 policy of the Government sustained, 410; resignation of 

 the Garibaldis, 410; decline of shipping, 410 ; republican 

 agitation, 410 



JACKSON, DE. CHARLES T. American scientist, biographical 

 sketch, 410, 411. 



Japan. The Mikado, 411 ; system of government, 411, 412 ; 

 area and population, 412 ; receipts and expenditures, 412 ; 

 religion, 412; education, 412; army, 412; navy, 412; 

 commerce, 412; shipping, 412 ; railroads and telegraphs, 

 412; postal service, 412; Loochoo Islands, 413; new 

 Ministers, 413; industrial progress, 413; colony of Fusan 

 in Corea, 413. 



JETER, J. B. American clergyman, biographical notice, 413, 

 414. 



Jews. Persecution in Morocco, 546, 547. 



JOHNSON, HERSCIIEL V. Ex-Governor of Georgia, biographi- 

 cal sketch, 414. 



Kansas.- -Receipts and expenditures, 414; debt, 414, 415; 

 local debts, 415; total taxation, 415; census, 415; prop- 

 erty valuation, 415; insurance, 415; prison statistics, 

 415; Insane Asylum, 415, 416; education, 416; new coun- 

 ties, 416; patrol guard on the Indian frontier, 416, 417; 

 colored exodus, 417; drought, 417; Oklahoma raid, 417; 

 telegraph war, 417, 418; drive-well dispute, 418; validity 

 of registry law, 418; county election contest, 418; ques- 

 tion of the constitutionality of representation from new 

 counties, 419; case of Senator Ingalls, 419; political con- 



ventions and platforms, 419, 420; prohibition amend- 

 ment ratified, 420; election returns, 420. 



KEARNEY, PHILIP. Arrest and imprisonment, 77. 



KEIFER, J. W. Member of Congress from Ohio, 137; on 

 army appropriation bill, 170-172. 



Kentucky. Legislative acts, 421; prevention of frauds on 

 the Treasury, 421; the debt extinguished, 422; judicial 

 amendments, 422 ; railroad commission established, 422 ; 

 Agricultural College founded, 422 ; pardons, 423 ; prison 

 reform, 423; navigation improvements, 424; appropria- 

 tions, 424 ; decisions on the law excluding negro jurors, 

 424, 425; prosecution of advertisers of a lottery, 425; 

 Regulators, 425; mining statistics, 425; the census, 425, 

 426; cereal production, 426; Democratic Convention, 

 426; platform, 426; election, 426. 



KEENAN, FRANCIS. Senator from New York, 13C; on the 

 Eaton tariff reform bill, 177. 



KIMBERLEY, Earl of. British Cabinet officer, biographical 

 sketch, 426. 



Kulja. Negotiations with China for its cession to Russia, 

 101-103. 



Kurds. Invasion of Persia, 623 ; their depredations in Asi- 

 atic Turkey, 690. 



Land League. Agitation in Ireland, 403, 405. 



LENOX, JAMES. American philanthropist, biographical ac- 

 count, 426, 428. 



LESLIE, FRANK. American journalist, biographical sketch, 

 428, 429. 



LEWIS, ESTELLA A. American poetess, biographical notice, 

 429. 



Liberia Members of the administration, 429; annexation of 

 Medina, 429; area and population, 429 ; finances, 429; de- 

 crease of civilized negroes, 429 ; educational institutions, 

 429. 



Lighthouse Establishment. First American lighthouses, 

 430; placed under the Treasury Department, 430; the 

 general superintendent of lights, 430 ; complaints, 431 ; 

 navy board report on extending the system, 481 ; Com- 

 mittee on Commerce on same, 432; investigation by naval 

 officers, 432; recommendation to reorganize, 432; the 

 superintendent exonerated, 432, 433; inspector's criti- 

 cisms, 433; caution in building recommended, 433; 

 European system studied, 433, 434 ; conclusions of the 

 commissioners, 434; improved apparatus and adminis- 

 tration recommended, 434 ; board of investigation, 434 ; 

 report, 434, 435 ; the Lighthouse Board created, 435 ; its 

 duties, 435; members, 434, 435; organization, 436 ; lentic- 

 ular apparatus introduced, 436; lard-oil and petroleum, 

 436; other improvements, 436 ; fog-signals, 436; river- 

 lights, 436 ; the lighthouse service, 437 ; early lighthouse 

 construction, 437; pile structures, 437-439 ; iron towers, 

 439 ; skeleton towers, 440 ; brick lighthouses, 440, 441 ; 

 Minot's Ledge stone lighthouse, 441: Spectacle Reef 

 structure, 441, 442 ; Tillamook lighthouse, 442, 443 ; early 

 apparatus, 444 , the first reflectors, 444 ; the magnifier, 

 444; improved reflectors, 444; the Fresnel lenticular 

 light, 444; economy, 444; early illuminants, 444; sperm- 

 oil, 445; colza, 445; lard -oil, 445; consumption and cost, 

 445; experiments with mineral oil, 445, 446; sub- 

 stitution in the smaller lights, 446; trial of gas, 446; 

 proposed testing of electric lighting, 446; sound-signal- 

 ing, 447; acoustic investigations, 447; the fog-trump st, 

 447; the siren, 448; the steam-whistle, 448, 449; bell- 

 buoys, 449; the whistling-buoy, 449; light-ships, 449, 

 450 ; the buoy service, 451 ; spar-buoys, 451 ; iron buoys, 

 451, 452; dangers to buoys, 452; buoys in New York 

 Bay, 452 ; the steamer service, 452, 453 ; light-keepers, 





