Synoptic Index 



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International Exhibition at Madrid 59 



The attitude of Portugal 59 



Relations with Russia 59 



British Columbia 60 



Drake Monument 60 



Lower California 61 



Japanese colonists to cultivate cotton in Mexico 



for international capitalists 62 



The South Seas 62 



Spelling-books for primary schools in the Philip- 

 pines 62 



Jury law reforms 63 



San Francisco Vigilance Committee 63 



Golden Gate Park 63 



The aviary 63 



Japanese bulbuls 64 



Birds, fish, and the larger animals 64 



North Beach water-lots 65 



A literary hoax 65 



" Though lost to sight, to memory dear" ... 65 



" Sweetheart, goodbye ! the fluttering sail " . . 67 



" Ruthven Jenkyns " 68 



Greenwich Magazine for Marines 68 



Publication in London of the bogus song ... 69 



A fictitious ancestral relative 69 



" Susan Coolidge," a fictitious chief mourner . . 70 



" Hermit of Mambrino" 71 



Necessities and eccentricities 71 



A constructive loss of $400,000 72 



King's loss of a contingent legacy 72 



A fortune saved from loss 73 



Don Horacio's usual dress 74 



His high hat in a railway wreck 77 



His strange meeting with a participant in the 

 "wonderful ghost-story" of All the Year 



Round 78 



Story of Alvah Clark and " Zeta Cancri" ... 81 



Letters of Edward Everett Hale 82 



Letter from the London Times correspondent in 



China (1SS1) 84 



Autographic letter of Emilio Castelar .... 85 



Letters from Clarence King 86 



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