INDEX 



Bear, Henry, 66 



Behel, Jacob, 115 



Belgian method of reaping, 6 



Belgians, King of the, 125 



Belgium, legislation against 

 speculation in, 225; con- 

 sumption of bread per capita 

 in, 239, 242 



Berlin, 214, 217 



Berthelot, 51 



Bessemer converter, 17, 49, 69, 

 210 



Bismarck, 136 



Black Death in England, 124 



Blackie, 1 



Blaine, Mrs. Emmons, 183 



Blanchard, inventor, 95 



Blue Ridge Mountains, 2, 36 



Board of Trade, none in Chi- 

 cago when Cyrus H. Mc- 

 Cormick came, 70 



Bonanza farms, 194 



Bull, Ole, 184 



Bonar, 1 



Bonner, Henry, publisher, 21 



Bottgher, 53 



Bourses, or European Ex- 

 changes, 222 



Bowyer, Col. John, 40 



Braila, Roumania, 216 



Bradshaw, Prof., 40 



Brains, John, 59 



Bread, making of, 237, 238; 

 record time from standing 

 grain to, 238; cheapness of, 

 238 



Bread tax, 240, 241 



Brokers, wheat, 219, 222. 224 



Brooks, Absalom, 58 



Brown, A. C., 66 



Brown, Senator, of Miss., 93 



Bryant, 76 



Buckle, 204 



Budapest, Bourse in, 222; 

 "new process" mills in, 235, 

 236 



Buenos Ayres, 218, 222, 229 



Buffalo, N. Y., 69, 216 



Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton, 

 130 



Burson, W. W., 115 



Bushnell, Reaper manufac- 

 turer, 103, 120 



Butler, E. K., 143, 148 



Butler, Gen., 36 



Cablegrams, 233 

 Calhoun, 164, 178 

 California, 51, 82, 190, 243 

 Calvin, John, 156, 157, 168 

 Canada, grain inspectors in, 



222; grain speculation in, 



225 

 Canada (western), wheat crop 



of, 209; railways of, 212, 



213; development of, 227, 



229 



Canadian Pacific Railway, 227 

 Canal, first, in Chicago, 75 

 Carlyle, 155 

 Carnegie, Andrew, 56 



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