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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



General Council, 460; views of the Council concern- 

 ing fundamental errorists, 461. 



Luxemburg. Government, 461; area and population, 461; 

 ecclesiastical statistics, 461; revenue, 461; expendi- 

 ture, 461; debt, 461; railroads, 461; neutrality, 461; 

 Prussia not bound to respect, 461 ; note of Bismarck 

 thereon, 461; attitude of England on the Prussio- 

 Luxemburg question, 462. 



MACLISE, DANIEL, R. A. British painter, 462; birth, 462; 

 death, 462; early training, 462; paintings, 462. 



Maine. Meeting of the Legislature, 462; legislation, 463; 

 Federal census, 463; Republican ConTention, 463; 

 resolutions, 463; Democratic Convention and resolu- 

 tions, 463; election results, 463; classification of 

 Legislature, 464; common schools, 464; teachers' in- 

 stitutes, 46-1; Reform School, 464; Insane Hospital, 

 464; finances, 464; debt, 464; sales of liquors, 464; 

 State banks, 464; savings-banks, 464; loans, 465; 

 Swedish colony, 465; litigation concerning Maine 

 Central Railroad, 465. 



Man. His stature and bulk, investigations of Dr. Beddoe, 

 465; general summary for Great Britain, 465; results 

 with reference to occupations, 465; results as to lu- 

 natics and criminals, 466; effect of locality, 466; dif- 

 ference of race, 466; effect of climate and of diet, 

 466; inferiority of town to country people, 467; rela- 

 tion between physical and mental characteristics, 467. 



Maryland. Meeting of Legislature, 467; rejection of the 

 fifteenth amendment, 467; school law, 467; " oyster 

 war" with Virginia, 467; railroads, 467; report of 

 committee of City Council of Baltimore on Danville 

 and Lynchburg Railroad, 468; ordinance granting aid 

 to same, 468; railroads, 468; election returns, 468; 

 celebration of ratification of fifteenth amendment, 468; 

 resolutions of colored citizens, 468; communication 

 of Republican State Committee to Governor Bowie, 

 requesting him to call extra session of Legislature, 

 469; reply of the Governor, 469; finances, 469; schools, 

 469; expenses and assessed value of property in the 

 several counties, 470; Statistics of city of Baltimore, 

 470; United States census, 470; population of Balti- 

 more, 470. 



Massachusetts. Meeting of Legislature, 470; biennial ses- 

 sions recommended by Governor, 470; prohibitory 

 law, 470; act requiring assessors of cities and towns 

 to make return of indebtedness thereof, 470; eight 

 hour and ten hour laws, 470; Knights of St. Crispin, 

 470; Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, 471; report 

 of committee of council on management of, 471; 

 Tnaucial condition of, 471 ; further State aid sought, 

 \71; passage of act granting it, 471; veto of Governor, 

 471; proceedings in Supreme Court against the com- 

 pany, 472; bankruptcy proceedings in United States 

 courts, 472; finances, 472; debt, 472; deposits in sav- 

 ings-banks, 472; recommendations of Governor as to, 

 472; HoQsac Tunnel, 472; railroad statistics, 472; re- 

 port of railroad commissioners, 473; recommenda- 

 tions of, 473; purchase of railroads by State, 473; 

 State constabulary, 473; politics, 473; resolutions of 

 Prohibitory party, 473; of Labor Reform party, 474; 

 Republican Convention and nominees, 474; resolu- 

 tions, 474; resolutions and nominations of Democratic 

 Convention, 475; Woman Suffrage Convention, 476; 

 resolutions, 476; presentation of memorial to Re- 

 publican Convention, 476; action thereon, 476; action 

 of Democratic Convention on same, 477; election re^ 



suits, 477; decrease in pauperism, 477; almshouse at 

 Tewksbury, 477; at Bridgewater, 477; at Monson, 477; 

 lunatic hospital at Northampton, 477; at Taunton, 

 478; causes of insanity, 478; lunatic asylum at Wor- 

 cester, 478; State-prison, 478; report of warden, 478; 

 State Reform School at Westborongh, 478; Industrial 

 School for Girls, 479; School for Idiotic and Feeble 

 minded Youth, 479; education of idiots, 479; Inebriate 

 Asylum, 479; public schools, 479; Federal census, 

 479; population of Boston, 479. 



MATTHEWS, JAMES M., D. D. Birth, 479; death, 479; ca- 

 reer, 479. 



McCLESfTOCK, Rev. JOHN, D. D., LL. D. Birth, 479; death, 

 479; scholarship, 480; patriotism, 480; literary pro- 

 ductions, 480. 



MEKIMEE, PBOSPEB. Birth, 480; death, 480; political ca- 

 reer, 480; scholarship, 480; literary works, 480; archae- 

 ological and other works, 481. 



Metals. The Henderson steel process, 481 ; the Sherman 

 process, 481; Brady's process, 482; Wheeler's process, 

 482; dephosphorization of iron, 482; treatment of iron 

 with alkaline metals, 482; Russian charcoal-iron, 483; 

 Bessemer metal, 483; malleable cast-iron, 483; iron 

 and steel crystals, 483; melting steel easily, 484; 

 bronze guns, 484; white brass, 484; copper in birds' 

 plumage, 484; selenium In commercial copper, 485; 

 desilvering lead, 485; a cold-tinning process, 485; tin 

 in California, 485; alloys with manganese, 485; alloy 

 of lead with platinum, 486; aluminium -weights, 486; 

 metallic zirconium, 486; silver and the chlorine treat- 

 ment, 486; reducing silver with zinc, 487; Claudet's 

 silver process, 487; economical gold-working, 487. 



MetJwdists. Methodist Episcopal Church, 488; statistics, 

 488; vote on lay delegation, 489; Book Concern irreg- 

 ularities, 489; finances, 489; missions, 489; general 

 summary, 489, 490; Methodist Episcopal Church 

 South conference, 491; memorial from Methodist 

 Episcopal Church on reunion, 491 ; action of confer- 

 ence, 491; missions, 491; relations with Methodist 

 Protestant Church, 491; colored conferences, 491; sta- 

 tistics, 492; Colored Methodist Episcopal Church- 

 organization, 492; constitution, 492; Methodist Prot- 

 estant Church meeting of conference, 492; action on 

 reunion with Methodist Episcopal and Methodist 

 Churches, 492; delegates from Methodist Episcopal 

 Church South, 493; statistics, 493; African Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, 493; Free Methodist Church, 493; 

 Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, 493; Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church in Canada, 493; Wesleyan Methodist 

 Church, 493; Primitive Methodists, 493; United Meth- 

 odist Free Churches, 493; Methodist New Connec- 

 tion, 493; Methodist Reform Union, 494. 



Mexico. Government, 494; area, 494; population, 494; 

 population of cities, 494; budget, 494; imports and 

 exports, 494;" shipping, 494; railroads and telegraphs, 

 494; political situation, 494; revolutionary proclama- 

 tions, 494; exactions of revolutionists, 495; action of 

 Government, 495; suppression of revolt, 495; opening 

 of Congress, 495; message of President, 495; report 

 of Minister Romero on the " free zone," 496; claims 

 against Treasury, 496; suspension of writ of habeas 

 corpus, 496; amendment to Constitution creating Sen- 

 ate, 496; seizure of the Forward, 496 (see Navy, U. S.); 

 defeat of revolutionary General Cardena, 496; remarks 

 of President Juarez on adjournment of Congress, 497; 

 earthquake, .497; General Martinez's rebellion, 497; 

 capture of Gnaymas by revolutionists, 497; capture 

 of the Forward by the Mohican, 497; capture of rebel 

 Generals Negrete and Villa, 497; reopening of Con- 

 gress and message of President, 498; amnesty bill, 



