INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



891 



value of exports and imports, 810; the merchant navy, 



310; railways, 810; the Press Bill, 811; M. Naquet's 



Divorce Bill, 811 ; the Franco-Tunisian question, 811 ; 



Gambetta and the scrutin de lift, . 811. 

 FBBLINGHUYSEJT. Instructions to Special Envoy Trescott, 



748, 747; correspondence with the Chilian Minister on 



the arrest of Calderon, 747. 

 Friends. Statistical reports, 812; marked features of recent 



history, 812; the Progressive party, 312; a suit in the 



State of Indiana, 312, 813. 

 fusion Disk. Useful apparatus in industrial applications, 



843 ; description, 813 ; a puzziing problem, 813. 



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GAMBETTA, LEON. Birth, 813; education, 818; career, 814- 

 316. 



GABFTELD, JAKES ABKAM. From his election to his inau- 

 guration, 317; Cabinet and appointments, 817; the at- 

 tack upon him at Washington, 318 ; treatment, decline, 

 and death, 818, 319 ; the autopsy, 320 ; letter resigning 

 Ohio senatorship, 700 ; obsequies at Cleveland, 700. 



OAKLAND, A. H. Senator from Arkansas, 137 ; on the frank- 

 ing privilege, 140, 141 ; on paying the expenses of the 

 Sanitary Commission at Washington, 145. 



German Imperial Parliament, The. Composition of, 

 Federal Council 59 in number, Reichstag or Diet 897 in 

 number, 837; the former appointed by the several states, 

 the latter elected by universal suffrage for a term of three 

 years, 887; annual sessions, may be prorogued or dis- 

 solved, convoked by the Emperor, 837 ; the Federal 

 Council presided over by the Imperial Chancellor, the 

 Diet by a president elected by the deputies, 337 ; seven 

 standing committees of the Federal Council (army and 

 navy ; tariff, excise, and taxes ; trade and commerce ; 

 railroads, posts, and telegraphs; civil and criminal law; 

 financial accounts ; and foreign affairs), 33S ; forming a 

 Parliament a very difficult question for the North Ger- 

 man Confederation at the start, 33S ; Bismarck's policy 

 on this subject, 83S ; system of double Chamber and 

 popular vote essential, though much opposed, 833 ; Bis- 

 marck adopts the electoral law of 1849 of the Frankfort 

 National Assembly, 888 ; opposition to the present com- 

 position of the Diet, 838 ; complaints by governmental 

 organs, 838 ; disintegration of parties, 888 ; Bismarck 

 wants a strong government (1. e., really to have con- 

 trolling power in his own hands), 838 ; opposed to a 

 strong Reichstag, 838, 839 ; Bismarck's efforts and plans 

 in that direction, 839 ; present strength of parties in 

 Parliament, 889; schemes of the Chancellor likely to 

 produce further trouble, 339. 



Germany, Empire of. Re-established January 18, 1871, 839 ; 

 the Emperor and royal family, 339 ; states composing the 

 empire, 839; table of area of the states, population, votes 

 in the Federal Council and Deputies, 889 ; table of rulers 

 of states (kings, grand dukes, princes, etc.) and heirs- 

 apparent, 840 ; population of the chief cities (over 25,000), 

 840; tabular view of growth of population since 1816, 

 840 ; emigration for the past five years, and destinations, 

 840 ; marriages, births, deaths, etc., 841 ; revenue and 

 expenditures, 841 ; public debt (consisting of three loans) 

 and floating debt, 841 ; issue of paper money, 841 ; mili- 

 tary forces. In time of peace, and how divided, 841 ; forces 

 in time of war, field army, reserves, and garrisons, 841, 

 842; seventeen districts, with corps cTarmee for each, 

 842 ; percentage of Illiterates among recruits, 842 ; navy, 

 vessels afloat and in course of construction, 842 ; commer- 

 cial navy, 842; trade and commerce under Zollvereln 

 (Customs Union), 342 ; tables of imports and exports, 

 842; movement of shipping in German ports, 842, 343; 



postal statistics, telegraphs, and railroads, 843; newspapers 

 (In thirty-one different languages), 848; tobacco-crop, 

 value, etc , 843, 344; Parliament opened in February, 

 844 ; speech from the throne, topics announced (Work- 

 ingmen's Accident Insurance BUI, trade-guilds, biennial 

 budgets, stamp and brewing tax, etc.), 844 ; organization 

 of Parliament, 844 ; Bismarck's defeats (tax bills, biennial 

 budgets, and sessions), 844; provisions of the Accident 

 Insurance Bill much modified, 844 ; debate oc the bill for 

 biennial sessions and budgets, 844 ; opposed by the Lib- 

 eral party, 844, 845; referred to a committee, 844,845; 

 report in favor of annual sessions, 845 ; Bismarck's con- 

 flict with Yon Bennigsen, 845 ; biennial budgets defeat- 

 ed, entire bill voted down, 845 ; Bismarck defeated on the 

 brewery -tax, stamp -tax modified, 845; new elections, 

 845; Bismarck's electoral programme (as to taxation, 

 finances, agriculture, etc.), 845; not satisfactory to the 

 Liberals, their declarations and claims, 345 ; strength of 

 parties in the new Parliament, 345 ; official statistics of 

 the election, 345, 346 ; on the whole, a Liberal gain, 846; 

 speech from the throne received coolly, measures an- 

 nounced, 846; organization of Parliament, 846; budget 

 discussed, 846; Richter's powerful speech against the 

 policy of the Government, 846 ; position of Hamburg as 

 a free port, 848; pressure to force it Into the Customs 

 Union, 846 ; terms of admission, 846 ; the Emperor 

 meets the Emperors of Austria and of Russia, 846; ne- 

 gotiations with the Papal power, concessions to, 846; 

 marriage of the Crown Prince to the daughter of the 

 Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, 846, 347. 



Germs, Vaccination with Disease. Pasteur's studies of 

 anthrax and chicken-cholera, 847 ; success and value of 

 his experiments for the protection of domestic animals, 

 847 ; microbes (germs), how cultivated and used, 847 ; 

 effect of oxygen upon them, 847 ; vaccination of fowls 

 acts as in case of vaccination for small-pox, 847 ; how mi- 

 crobes are propagated and multiplied, 347 ; by process of 

 scission, not by spores, 847 ; sheep infected In a strange 

 way, 347 ; effect of inoculating sheep with anthrax dis- 

 ease, 348 ; the micro-organism which produces the sheep- 

 disease, 843 ; experiment with the virus of hydrophobia 

 in case of animals, 343 ; valuable results looked for, 848. 



GIR ABDix, EMILE DE. French Journalist, born in Switzerland, 

 848 ; biographical notice of, 848, 849. 



Glacial Period. Proofs that a great part of Europe and 

 America was once within the region of perpetual Ice, 849 ; 

 complication of the problem, 849; different animal* in 

 the same geological strata, 849 ; Arctic plants in mount- 

 ainous regions of lower latitudes, and fossil plants of 

 warmer climes in the polar regions, 849 ; fossil remains 

 gathered by travelers, in Antarctic as well as Arctic re- 

 gions, 849; varied and remarkable distribution of plants, 

 849 ; variation in obliquity of the ecliptic and in eccen- 

 tricity of the earth's orbit commonly assigned as cause of 

 glaclation, 349; cycle of obliquity of ecliptic 81,000 years, 

 849; during half of this period cold Is greater in the 

 northern than in the southern hemisphere, and < <r*o, 

 849 ; ice accumulating at the south pole, 849 ; oscilla- 

 tions of the ecliptic of little account now, much more 

 Important in effect 800,000 or 100,000 years ago, M ; sup- 

 posed succession of gladal epoch, 850; the execration 

 of lake basins ascribed to glacial action, 850; enormous 

 glaciers which formed the Lake of Genera, 850. 



Glucote. Definition of, saccharine constituents of grape* snd 

 other fruits, etc., and saccharine products artincUMy 

 formed from the starches, 850; ordinary meaning, thick 

 sirup made from corn-starch, grape-sugar name firen 

 to the solid product from the same source, 850 ; the term 

 in chemistry, 860; two kinds of glucose, dextrogtaeoM 

 and Icroglucose, 800; the former known by 



