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277 ; population of divisions, 277 ; population 

 of chief cities, 277 ; receipts and expenditures, 

 277; navy, 277; commerce of Alexandria, 

 277; periodical press, 277; schools, 277, 278; 

 University of Cairo, 278 ; arrivals of vessels 

 in three principal ports, 278 ; railroads, 278 ; 

 mails, 278 ; telegraphs, 278 ; Suez Canal, 278 ; 

 receipts, 278 ; movement of shipping in, 278 ; 

 difficulties between Egypt and Abyssinia, 279. 



XIII. Khedive of Egypt, 272 ; heir-appar- 

 ent, 272 ; territory, 272 ; annexation of portion 

 of Central Africa, 272 ; area, 272 ; population, 

 272 ; revenue, 272 ; expenditures, 272 ; public 

 debt, 272 ; Khedive's debts, 272 ; army, 272 ; 

 imports, 272 ; exports, 272 ; commerce, 273 ; 

 Suez Canal, 273 ; railways, 273 ; telegraph- 

 lines, 273 ; marriage of the hereditary prince, 

 273; difficulties with Abyssinia, 273; report 

 of Sir Samuel Baker, 273 ; improvements, 273 ; 

 rapid growth, 7; relations with Turkey, 7; 

 grant from the Sultan, 273 ; Protestantism in 

 Egypt, 273. 



XIV. Its ruler, 275 ; territories, 275 ; popula- 

 tion by divisions, 275 ; nationalities, 275 ; pop- 

 ulation of cities, 276 ; debt, 276 ; revenues, 276-; 

 taxes, 276 ; commerce, 276 ; value of exports, 

 276; navy, 277; Suez Canal, 277; revenue, 

 277; army, 277; railroads, 277; education, 

 277; expedition into the interior of Africa, 

 277 ; command of Colonel Gordon, 278 ; war 

 with the Sultan of Darfour, 278; plague in 

 Egypt, 281 ; expeditions to Soudan, 281 ; in- 

 ternational tribunals, 281. 



XV. Sovereign, 262 ; large divisions, 262 ; 

 new acquisitions, 262 ; area and population, 

 262 ; debt, 262 ; tribute to Turkey, 262 ; rail- 

 ways, 262; letters and newspapers received 

 and sent, 262 ; business of the Suez Canal, 263 ; 

 expense of construction, 263 ; dispute between 

 Abyssinia and Egypt, 263 ; hostilities, 263 ; 

 loss of officers by Egypt, 263 ; the port of 

 Zeyla, 264 ; inauguration of the International 

 Court of, 264 ; sale of the Suez Canal, 265 ; 

 Darfour, capture of the Sultan of, 265 ; prep- 

 arations for the American Centennial, 265. 



ELDER, Rev. ALEXIS JOSEPH. XII. Obitu- 

 ary, 604. 



ELDRIDGE, CHARLES A. IV. Member of 

 Congress from Wisconsin, 219 ; offers a resolu- 

 tion relative to arrests, 222 ; resolutions rela- 

 tive to conscription, 315. 



VI. Representative from Wisconsin, 124; 

 on the civil-rights bill, 202. 

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VII. Representative from Wisconsin, 131 ; 

 on reconstruction, 210, 219, 236. 



VIII. Representative from Wisconsin, 124 ; 

 on the impeachment of the President, 142 ; on 

 the guarantee of a republican form of govern- 

 ment, 164. 



IX. Representative from Wisconsin, 120 ; 

 offers amendment to the Constitution, 121 ; on 

 enforcing the fourteenth amendment, 126-131 ; 

 on counting the vote of Georgia for President, 

 174. 



XI. Representative from Wisconsin, 132 ; 

 on the bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, 

 144. 



XIII. Representative from Wisconsin, 137 ; 

 on supplement to civil-rights bill, 139 ; on 

 Louisiana affairs, 181. 



XIV. Representative from Wisconsin, 150 ; 

 on the repeal of the salary law, 159. 



ELECTORAL VOTES, V. Counted by Con- 

 gress, 271-274. 



XIII. Proceedings in Congress relative to 

 counting of, 150-154. 



XV. Debates in Congress on, 117. 



ELECTRICITY. II. Measures of electric re- 

 sistance, 402 ; Mathieson's unit of resistance, 

 402 ; Weber's proposed absolute standard, 402 ; 

 electro - motive force of voltaic piles, 402; 

 measures of electrical quantities, 403 ; proposed 

 standard of electrical resistance, 403 ^Influence 

 of temperature on the conducting power of 

 metals, 404; mechanical effects of powerful 

 tension, 404 ; study of the electric spark by 

 the aid of photography, 404; production of 

 vibrations and musical sounds by electrolysis, 

 405; new experiments in electro-magnetism, 

 405; electricity developed during evaporiza- 

 tion and effervescence, 405 ; experiment with 

 the crural nerve of a frog, 406 ; electrical phe- 

 nomena of Vesuvius, 407 ; Ritchie's electrical 

 machines, 406 ; conducting power of pure and 

 alloyed copper, 407 ; electric lights for light- 

 houses, 408; Way's electric light with mer- 

 cury, 409 ; improvement in Holmes's magneto- 

 electric light, 409 ; Serrin's electric light-regu- 

 lator, 410 ; Baker's apparatus for electric lights, 

 410 ; present desideratum in electric lights, 

 410 ; electric light-signals, 410 ; application of 

 electric light to mining purposes, 411 ; engrav- 

 ing by electricity, 411 ; electric dispatch, 411. 



VI. Paradoxical phenomena in electro- 

 magnetic induction, 279 ; new and powerful 

 apparatus, 279 ; thermo-electricity, 280 ; eleo- 



