HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 



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KANSAS (Kan.) Indian word, signifying 

 "Smoky Water." The sobriquet is "Gar- 

 den of the West." 



KENTUCKY (Ky.) Indian name signifying 

 " The Dark and Bloody Ground. " The nick- 

 name is " The Corn-Cracker State." 



LOUISIANA (La.) Named in honor of King 

 Louis XIV. of France. " The Creole State." 



MAINE (Me.). So -called from Maine in 

 France. " The Pine Tree State." 



MARYLAND (Md.). Named in honor of 

 Queen Henrietta Maria of England. 



MASSACHUSETTs(Mass.) An Indian name, 

 signifying Blue Hills." The fanciful name 

 is "The Bay State." 



MICHIGAN (Mich.). Indian word, mean- 

 ing " The Lake Country." It is nicknamed 

 "The Lake State"; also "The Wolverine 

 State." 



MINNESOTA (Minn.). From Indian words 

 meaning " Cloudy Water." It is called " The 

 Gopher State." 



MISSISSIPPI (Miss.). Indian word for 

 " Father of Waters." It is nicknamed " The 

 Bayou State." 



MISSOURI (Mo.). Indian word, meaning 

 "Muddy Water." 



MONTANA (Mont.) From the Spanish, 

 meaning " Mountain Land." 



NEBRASKA (Neb.). An Indian word, mean- 

 ing " Shallow River." 



NEVADA (Nev.). Spanish word, signify- 

 ing "Snow-clad." The fictitious name is 

 "The Sage Hen State." 



NEW HAMPSHIRE (N. II.). Named from 

 Hampshire county, Eng. The sobriquet is 

 "The Granite State." 



NEW JERSEY (N. J.). Named for the Isle 

 of Jersey. The sobriquet is ' ' The Jersey 

 Blue." 



NEW MEXICO (N. M.). Spanish. Named 

 from the country of Mexico, meaning " The 

 Place of Aztec, God of War." 



NEW YORK (N. Y.). Named in honor of 

 the Duke of York and Albany. It is called 

 ' ' The Excelsior State ' ' and ' ; The Empire 

 State." 



NORTH CAROLINA (N. C.) Named, with 

 South Carolina, in honor of Charles II. oi 

 England. " The Old North State," "The Tar 

 State," and " The Turpentine State." 



OHIO. An Indian word, signifying " Beau- 

 tiful. ' ' Called < ' The Buckeye State. ' ' 



OKLAHOMA (Okl.). Signifies in Cherokee 

 " Home of the Red Man." 



OREGON (Ore.). Signifies "River of the 

 West." 



PENNSYLVANiA(Pa.). "Penn's Woodland" 

 is the signification. The sobriquet is "The 

 Keystone State." 



RHODE ISLAND (R. I.). Named from the 

 Isle of Rhodes, in the Mediterranean. Rhodes 

 signifies a "rose." It is nicknamed " Little 

 Rhody." 



SOUTH CAROLINA (S. C.) Named in the 

 same manner as North Carolina, which see. 

 i The sobriquet is " The Palmetto State." 



TENNESSEE (Term.) Derived from Indian 

 words signifying "River of the Big Bend." 

 It is nicknamed " The Big Bend State." 



TEXAS (Tex.). Spanish; said to signify 

 "Friends." It is nicknamed "The Lone 

 Star State." 



UTAH. Named from the Utes, or Utah 

 Indians. 



VERMONT (Vt.). From the French, signi- 

 fying "Green Mountain." It is called the 

 " Green Mountain State." 



VIRGINIA (Va.). Named for Elizabeth, 

 Queen of England the "Virgin Queen." 

 It is nicknamed " The Mother of States," also 

 "The Old Dominion." 



WASHINGTON (W.). Named for President 

 Washington. 



WEST VIRGINIA (W. Va.). It is nick- 

 named the " Panhandle State." 



WISCONSIN (Wis.) Named from its prin- 

 cipal river, and that from the French, mean- 

 ing " flowin g westward . ' ' The fictitious n ame 

 is " The Badger State." 



WYOMING (Wyo.). An Indian term, mean 

 ing " large plains." 



THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR. 



War began Thursday, April 21, 1898, 7.00 

 A. M. 



Peace Protocol signed Friday, August 12, 

 1898, 4.23 P. M. 



Treaty of Peace signed December 10, 1898. 



CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD. 



January 1-12. The North Atlantic Squad- 

 ron assembled in the neighborhood of Dry 

 Tortugas, Gulf of Mexico. 



January 15-20. Hostile demonstrations at 

 Havana by Spanish volunteers against Ameri- 

 cans caused the Governor-General to place a 

 guard around the United States Consulate. 



January 25. The battle-ship Maine arrived 

 at Havana on a friendly visit. 



February 8. A letter by Minister De Lome, 

 in which he wrote disparagingly of President 

 McKinley, was published. On learning of the 

 exposure the Minister requested his govern- 

 ment to accept his resignation. 



February 9. The United States Senate dis- 

 cussed intervention in Cuba. 



February 14. Resolutions requesting the 

 President to transmit information relative to 



