PREFACE. 



urrences of the year are recorded in brief in the articles 



!il " Disasters of 1885," where the eye can run rapidly over 



iy of the work gives extended accounts of the most important 



11*0, together with a great deal of information that belongs to any proper 



history of the year's progress, but could not be mentioned in such a table. 



Three of the most eminent citizens of the United States passed away in 1885, 

 and we present extended sketches of their careers, with portraits engraved espe- 

 cially for this work. Ex-President Grant, the chief .hero of the great civil war ; 

 General McClellan, the organizer of the Army of the Potomac, and its com- 

 mander in its first two campaigns ; the Most Eminent John McCloftkey, the 

 first American Cardinal the lives of these three men involve a very large part 

 history, military, civil, and ecclesiastical. In the article on Gen- 



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ii are recorded under the title Engines iberg 



Blaauw-Krantz Bridge. 



ut of medicine, the events of r were the treatnu a' 



in Europe and the i ivdrophobia. The 



Dr. M. S. French, of i; and the artioi 



Hydrophobia S. Billings, of New Y vhose charge the children 



bitten in Ncv nt to Paris to be tre;< . 'asteur. 



In the articl< ; United States we prosenr a good portrait of each 



ber of President Cabinet. The President's portrait was given in last 



year's ANNUAL ( ; >IA. Several Staf a special census in i 



the principal fiV given in the an those States. The Can;; 



