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tions ordered, 879 ; results, 8T9 ; comparison of parties 

 in the two Parliaments, 8SO ; reopening of the Reichstag, 

 380 ; speech, 880 ; attempt on the Emperor's life stated, 

 880 ; Anti-Socialist bill, 380 ; remarks of the speakers, 380 ; 

 passage of the bill, 880 ; its provisions, 881 ; put into ef- 

 fect, 3S1 ; the attempts on the life of the Emperor, 881 ; 

 royal marriages in Berlin, 881 ; international exhibition 

 of paper and pasteboard, 881 ; letter to the Emperor from 

 Leo XIII., 381 ; reply of the Crown Prince, 381 ; a Papal 

 Nuncio visits Bismarck, 882 ; report of the negotiations, 

 882; letter of the Pope to Cardinal Nina, 882 ; change of 

 basis of negotiation, 383 ; improvement in the relations 

 with the French Eepublic, 383; MacMahon's telegram to 

 the Emperor, 383 ; German fine arts' section of the Paris 

 Exhibition, 383 ; consternation caused by the passage of 

 the Anti- Socialist bill, 383, 384 ; death of George, ex-King 

 of Hanover, 884 ; plan for the establishment of the fleet, 

 384 ; destruction of the German iron-clad Grosser Kur- 

 furst, 385 ; subsequent investigation, 385 ; a commission 

 to devise means to raise the revenue, 386 ; difficulty with 

 Nicaragua, 886; consumption of American articles in 

 Germany, 386; yield of the Westphalia coal-fields, 

 887. 



Germ Theory and Spontaneous Generation. Recent in- 

 vestigations, 387 ; question revived, 387 ; its history, 3S7 ; 

 experiments of Buffon and Needham, 887; doctrine 

 reviewed by Pouchet, 387; experiments of Pasteur, 

 387: his germ theory, 887; accepted by pathologists, 

 888 ; discovery of Pasteur, 888 ; further confirmation of 

 the germ theory, 888 ; Tyndall's attention, how attract- 

 ed, 888; his experiments, 889; tests of putrescible liquids, 

 889; experiments with hermetically sealed flasks, 389; 

 further details, 389 ; answer to the objection of Huxley, 

 890; temperature a matter of high importance to the 

 experimentalist, 390 ; results of experiments of Dr. Bas- 

 tian, 890. 



Gold and Silver Coinage, American. History of, 145. 



GORDON, JAMES B. Elected Senator from Georgia, 370. 



Grain. Crop in the United States, 121; in Europe, 121; 

 movement of, in five years, 122. 



Qrand Juries. Remarks in the Iowa Legislature on the ab- 

 olition of the system, 448. 



Great Britain and Ireland. The Queen and family, 391 ; 

 Cabinet, 391 ; composition of Parliament, 391 ; area and 

 population of the empire, 391 ; movements of population, 

 391 ; list of colonies and possessions, 391 ; area and popu- 

 lation of the United Kingdom, 392; population of the 

 principal cities, 392; emigration, 392; receipts and ex- 

 penditures, 393 ; public debt, 393 ; the British army, how 

 filled up, 393 ; its composition, 393; how distributed, 393 ; 

 military educational institutions, 393; navy, 894; imports 

 and exports, 394 ; value of the principal articles of export 

 and import, 395; movement of shipping for a series of 

 years, 395 ; commercial navy, 395 ; postal statistics, 395 ; 

 railroad statistics, 396; condition of the primary schools, 

 896; Parliamentary grant to schools, 396; finances, com- 

 merce, and movement of shipping in the British colonies, 

 896; attention to the Russo-Turkish and Afghan wars, 

 396; views of the course of the Government, 896; the 

 Queen's address at the opening of Parliament, 397; dec- 

 larations and notices of the Chancellor in the House of 

 Commons, 397; his explanations, 398; situation at Con- 

 stantinople explained, 398; statements on behalf of the 

 Government respecting the passage of the Dardanelles 

 by the fleet, 398; action of the House relative to the 

 army, 399 ; dissatisfaction with Lord Lyons as the repre- 

 sentative at the Congress, 899 ; message of the Queen 

 relative to calling out reserves, 399 ; resignation of Earl 

 Derby, -399 ; circular of the Government to the Powers on 

 the Eastern question, 399 ; removal of a conticgent of na- 



tive Indian troops to Malta ordered, 899 ; explanations of 

 the Chancellor, 400; discussion on the action of the Gov- 

 ernment, 400; constitutional aspect of the question, 400; 

 opposition withdrawn, 400 ; invitation from the German 

 Government to attend the Berlin Congress, 401 ; plenipo- 

 tentiaries, 401 ; document relative to an agreement be- 

 tween the Foreign Office and Russia, 401 ; tho convention 

 with Turkey announced to both Houses of Parliament, 

 401 ; Beacon sfleld's statement of the proceedings of the 

 Berlin Congress, 402 ; Earl Derby explains the reasons 

 for his retirement from the Cabinet, 402 ; resolution of 

 the Marquis of Hartington, 402; debate on the resolution, 

 402 ; Queen's message on the prorogation of Parliament, 

 408; most important domestic measure the act for the 

 Intermediate education in Ireland, 403; its nature, 408; 

 other educational acts, 403; the additional Bishoprics act, 

 408; report of the business committee of the House of 

 Commons, 404; commission on codifying the law of in- 

 dictable offenses, 404 ; discussion on the Russo-Turkish 

 policy of the Government, 404 ; effect of the refusal of the 

 Ameer to receive the British embassy, 405 ; Parliament 

 summoned, 405 ; the Queen's message, 405; address to 

 the Crown, 405 ; concealment of the origin of the Afghan 

 war, 406; changes in the composition of the House, 406; 

 notice of the marriage of the Princess Louise, 406 ; Im- 

 perial Order of the Crown of India, 406 ; meeting in favor 

 of the neutrality of the freed provinces of Turkey, 406; 

 murder of the Earl of Leitrim, 406; Fenian prisoners, 

 406; home rule in Ireland, 407 ; strike in the cotton-mills 

 at Lancashire, 407; depression of trade, 407 ; commercial 

 failures, 407 ; loss of the training ship Eurydice, 407 ; 

 explosion in the Prince of Wales colliery, 407. 



Greece. King and family, 408; area and population, 408; 

 the war excitement, 408 ; the ministry, 408; conflict in 

 Athens, 408 ; secret sittings of the Chamber, 408 ; rectifi- 

 cation of the Greek frontier, 408 ; new ministry formed, 

 408; agreement for the conversion of Greek stock, 4flS; 

 the Greek army, its composition, 409; military and naval 

 preparations, 409 ; angry feeling at the results of the 

 Berlin Congress, 409 ; Turkish circular on the demand of 

 the Greeks, 409 ; no genuine movement in Crete for a 

 separation, 410; the circular not well received by the 

 Powers, 410 ; Hobart Pasha's interview with the King, 

 410 ; military commission to examine the rectification of 

 the boundary, 410; stirring events in Crete, 410; con- 

 flicts with the Turks, 411 ; proposition to the Porte, 411 ; 

 normal schools at Athens, 411. 



Greek Church. How affected by changes in the map of En- 

 rope, 411; population connected with it, 412; affairs of 

 the Russian Church, 412 ; institutions, teachers, and pu- 

 pils, 422 ; death of the Archbishop of There, 412 ; open- 

 ing of the university at Czernovitz, 412. 



GBEENE, WILLIAM B. Birth, 412 ; writings and death, 418. 



GBEVY, FBANQOIS J. P. President of the French Republic, 

 418; career, 413-415. 



GBOOME, JAMES B. Elected Senator in Congress from Mary- 

 land, 520. 



Grosser Kurfurst.^ German Ironclad, 885 ; destruction of, 

 885 ; subsequent investigation, 885. 



Guatemala. Boundaries, 415; boundary line with Mexico, 

 415; President and Cabinet, 416; army, 416; national 

 finances, 416; national debt, 416; Bank of Guatemala, 

 416; its business, 416; exports, 417; commodities, 417; 

 overtrading, 417; line of railway from the Gulf to the 

 Pacific, 417; progress of the work, 417; anticipations of 

 its advantages, 417; wagon-road in the interior, 418; 

 steps taken to attract immigration, 418; telegraph lini-s, 

 418 ; public instruction, 418 ; courts of justice, 418. 



GCTZKOW, KABL F. Birth, 418; literary career, 418; writ- 

 ings and death, 419. 



