INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



893 



applications to land court, sub-commissions, appeals to 

 the High Court of Appeals, 370 ; landlords dissatisfied, 

 370; reductions in rents, 370; war steamer blown up, 

 870 ; supposed conspiracy of Fenians, with headquarters 

 in New York, 370 ; schemes for destruction of property, 

 etc., in England, 370; the Home Secretary's statement, 

 870, 871 ; request made to the United States Govern- 

 ment, 871 ; some doubt as to the matter of infernal ma- 

 chines, etc., 371 ; pasturage increased, live-stock de- 

 creased, 872 ; criminal statistics, 372 ; decrease in graver 

 crimes, decrease in juvenile criminality, etc., 872 ; prog- 

 ress of popular education, number of schools, scholars 

 registered, etc., 872, 373 ; improvement in school-books, 

 increased number of teachers, voluntary schools, cost of 

 schools, 373; graduates of the universities to become 

 teachers, women also, 378 ; inspectors of schools, 373 ; 

 excise returns, estimate of the cost of beer, spirits, wine, 

 etc., 878 ; table of expenditures for various necessaries of 

 life, superfluities, etc., 878, 374. 



Greece. The King and roya^family, 874; area and popula- 

 tion, 874; receipts and expenditures, 374; foreign and 

 home debt, 374; army and navy, 874; imports and ex- 

 ports, value of, 374 ; telegraph lines, post-offices, news- 

 papers, 874 ; Thessaly and Epirus awarded to Greece by 

 the Berlin Conference, 374 ; new loan voted and the army 

 placed on a war footing, 874 ; no disposition to yield in 

 regard to the acquired territory, 374, 375 ; the Chamber 

 in session, stormy debates, 375; the Greek army in- 

 creased largely in view of war with Turkey, 875; prepara- 

 tions and movements of the Turks, 375 ; very unwilling 

 to cede anything to Greece, 375 ; circular note of the 

 French Minister for Foreign Affairs deprecating war 

 and advocating arbitration, 875; appeal to the Greek 

 Government not to fight, 876 ; circular note from the 

 Greek premier complaining of Turkish procrastination 

 etc., and demanding to be placed in possession of the 

 territory assigned, 876; preliminaries for a conference of 

 the powers at Constantinople, 876 ; views of the great 

 powers as to the boundary question, 876 ; complaints as 

 to the sufferings in Thessaly and Epirus, 876 ; agreement 

 to suspend all hostile action for the present pending the 

 conference, 876 ; the Turks propose to cede the Island of 

 Crete and part of Thessaly, 376; determinedly opposed 

 by the British representative, 377 ; further steps and the 

 result, 377 : Greece informed that she must agree to the 

 compromise or be left to fight alone, 877 ; the new 

 boundary-line, 377 ; territory ceded about two thirds of 

 the area awarded by the Berlin Conference, 877 ; popula- 

 tion various, 877 ; particulars as to the new boundary- 

 line, 377; excitement and indignation among the Greeks, 

 strong language of the press, 377, 878 ; the Greek Govern- 

 ment's acceptance of the proposed arrangement, 87S; the 

 Turks urged by the powers to come to a speedy settle- 

 ment, 878 ; Ottoman demands rejected, 379 ; the Turks 

 proceed leisurely to evacuate the ceded territory, 879; 

 some disputes, etc., 379 ; post-office question, 879. 



Guatemala. Boundary question with Mexico unsettled, 879; 

 population of the republic, 879; President and Cabinet, 

 879; troops and police force, 879 ; educational institutions 

 In excellent condition, 879, 8SO ; national revenue and ex- 

 penditures, 880; national debt, 880 ; returns of the Inter- 

 national Bank of Guatemala, 880 ; exports and imports, 

 with destinations and sources, 880 ; quantity and destina- 

 tion of coffee exported, 380; imports from and exports to 

 the United States, 880 ; railroad projects, 890. 



GFITEAU'S Trial. Question of jurisdiction, 3S1 ; settled In 

 favor of trial in the District of Columbia, 881 ; present- 

 ment of the grand jury, 381 ; Gultcau's published state- 

 ment as to the cause which led him to assassinate Presi- 

 dent Garfleld, 831 ; claims to be innocent and without 



malice, 881 ; the two points of the defense, vtz^ insanity 

 and that the shooting was not the cause of the death 

 of the President, 8*1 ; counsel and witnesses summoned- 

 881, 8S2; trial, 882-891; argument* before the jury 

 begun January 12th, 893; the prosecution occupy two 

 days, the defense nearly five days, 898; Guiteau allowed 

 to read a speech (already published), 898 ; closing ad- 

 dress for the Government, 898, 894 ; the judge's charge 

 to the jury quoted nearly in full, 894-897; conclusion of 

 the charge, giving the two pictures of the prisoner's 

 natural endowments and life and career, 898 ; the verdict 

 of the jury (January 25, 1882), " guilty as indicted," 8V8 ; 

 outbreaks of Guiteau, 89S ; his counsel's request to file 

 exceptions, etc., 898; the jury discharged, 899; Guiteau 

 sentenced to be hanged June 80th, 399. (See infra, 

 " Insanity as a Defense for Crime," pp. 480-435.) 



HALSTEAD, RICHARD FREDERICK. Major in the United State* 

 Army, biographical notice of, 899. 



HARRIS, I. 6. Senator from Tennessee, 187 ; on question of 

 paying the expenses of the Sanitary Commission at 

 Washington, 148. 



HAVEN, ERASTCS O. An American educator and clergyman, 

 biographical notice of, 399. 



HAYMERLE, HEIXRICH CARL, Baron. Austrian Prime Min- 

 ister, biographical notice of, 899, 400. 



Hearing, or Color- Hear ing. Meaning of the expression, 

 viz., certain colors accompanying the perception of music- 

 sounds or noises, 400 ; description of the phenomenon 

 with experiments, etc., 400; curious results, 400. 



Heating of Houses. Experiments of engineers, 400; arrange- 

 ment for burning coke and gas together in an open fire- 

 place, 400 ; Dr. Siemens' s ingenious grate, 400 ; greater 

 heat given out, and very economical, 400. 



HENNI, JOHN MARTIN. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mil- 

 waukee, biographical notice of, 400, 401. 



Iliddenite. New mineral found in North Carolina (named 

 after its discoverer, W. E. Hidden), 401 ; beautiful color, 

 hardness, etc., of the crystals, 401 ; most beautiful and 

 valuable of American gems, 401 ; called by lapidaries 

 lithia-emerald, 401 ; discover}- announced in 1879, 401. 



HILL, B. H. Senator from Georgia, 187 ; on the electoral 

 vote of Georgia, 179. 



HOLLAND, JOSIAII GILBERT. An American Journalist and 

 author, biographical notice of, 401, 402. 



Hungary. A part of tho Austro - Hungarian monarchy 

 (which see), 402 ; officers of the Government, 408 ; are* 

 and population, 408; receipts and expenditures, public 

 debt, 403; import tax adopted, 408; commercial relation* 

 with Germany, 408; new elections for the Diet, Govern- 

 ment gains, 403; settlement of the Military Frontier 

 with Croatia, 408 ; the city of Flume given to Hungary, 

 4C8; agitation against the Jews, 408; attitude of the 

 Government, 408, 404. 



HCRLBCT, STEPHEN A.-Mlnlster of the United SUtM to 

 Peru, 783; letter to Garcia, denying the constttutiooatttY 

 of the Pierola government, 788, 789 ; letter to the Chilian 

 Admiral Lynch on the conditions of peace, 7. 



Hydrodynamic Analogic to Electricity and Magnet- 

 fem.-Present view of electricity, 404 ; experiments of 

 Bjerknes of Christlanta, Norway, producing by simple 

 mechanical means most of the fundamental phenomena 

 of electricity and magnetism, 404; detail* (with illustra- 

 tions) of hi* experiment*, 404, 406; curious and Interest- 

 ing results, 405; outcome of tb*e experiment* a* to 

 magnetism, 405; Bjerknes still at work at his tore*llc- 

 tions, 405. 



