Harper’s Magazine. 
EARLY AERONAUTICS... 145 
Ii.LusTRAXioNS.—First Attempt at Military Aeronaxitics.—Besnier’s System.—Blanchard’s Coun¬ 
terpoise.—Blanchard’s Flying Balloon.—Public Ascensions in Paris.—Garnerin’s Descent.—Death 
of Madame Blanchard.—Young Guerin taken up.—Philosophy in the Air.—Form of the Gores.— 
Heroic Self-Sacridce. 
BORDER REMINISCENCES. 157 
Illustrations.— “’Light, Straauger!”—Houston bothered.—A long Time between Drinks.—No 
intende, Senor.—My Bridal Trip.—How’s your Wife? 
MAKING WATCHES BY MACHINERY. 169 
Illustr-ytions. —Sun-Dial in an English Church-Yard.—The Clepsydra.—Hour-Glass.—Old-fash¬ 
ioned Clock.—Ship Chronometer.—Skull Watch of Mary Stuart.—Old Verge Watch.—Automatic 
French Watch.—Old Barrel and Fusee.—The Town of Elgin.—TheElgin Watch Factory.—A Watch 
Factory Twenty Years ago.—The Elgin Machine Shop.—Punching the Wheels.—The Strip of Steel. 
—Ready for the Works.—The Train Room.—Screws.—The Compensation Balance, in the Rough, 
and Finished.—Cutting Wheel Teeth.—Baking the Dials.—Setting up the Watch.—Ready for the 
Case.—Ready for the Pocket. 
THE BIRDS OF PARADISE. 183 
Illustrations.— Natives of Aru shooting the Great Bird of Paradise. — The Red Bird of Paradise. 
—The King and Twelve-Wired Bird of Paradise.—The Magnificent Bird of Paradise.—The Six- 
Shafted Bird of Paradise.—The Superb Bird of Paradise.—Wallace’s Standard Wing, Male and 
Female.—The Long-Tailed Bird of Paradise. 
A NIGHT AT SEA. 135 
GIANTS AND DWARFS. 202 
GRANT ON THE BATTLE-FIELD. 210 
A STREET ARAB. 226 
With an Illustration. 
A BRAVE LADY. By the Author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.” . 227 
Illustrations. —A Remarkable Woman.—Helping Mother. 
THE LOVER’S INTERDICT. 243 
NOTES FOR TRAVELERS IN EUROPE. 244 
MY ENEMY’S DAUGHTER. By Justin M‘Cartiiy. 251 
Chapter XIX. Swearing Eternal Friendship. 
Chapter XX. An Explanation. 
Chapter XXI. Exile and Outcast. 
Illustration.— “How many Years ago?” 
FISHING IN MISTS. 266 
THE BUTTON-HOLE BOUQUET. 273 
SQUIRE SUFFOLK’S SUBSCRIPTION. 278 
MOTHER AND CHILD. 282 
EDITOR’S EASY CHAIR. 283 
The Meeting of the Boston Working-Women.—Plots for Home Tragedies.—Shop-Sewing and 
Kitchen-Serving.—The Dignity of Labor a Thousand Years ago. Now, and a Thousand'Years 
hence.—Brains, Muscle, and Respectability.—A Hint for the Parlor.—Cooks and Statesmen.—All 
honest Work respectable.—The Freedom of the Press.—Reporters and Public Men.—Key-Hole 
Correspondents.—Burlesque Reports.—Newspaper Personals.—The Editor and his Reporters.— 
Art, Artists, and the National Academy. 
EDITOR’S BOOK TABLE. 288 
Breaking a Butterfly.—Warwick; or. The Lost Nationalities of America.—Juliette; or. Now and 
Forever.—That Boy of Norcott’s.—Typhaine’s Abbey—Anne Severin.—Kathleen.—Men, Women, 
and Ghosts.—Springdale Abbey.—Loomis’s Elements of Astronomy.—The Wonders of Heat.—Mrs. 
Brown-Blackwell’s Studies in General Science.—The New American Farm-Book.—Farm Imjile- 
ments and Machinery.—The Horse in the Stable and the Field.—Parsons’s On the Rose.—Farming 
by Inches.—Fulton’s True Woman.—Tischendorf’s New Testament. 
MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS. 292 
The Pacific Railroad.—Histoi'y of the Enterprise.—The Ceremonies at the Opening.—Distances 
and Time of Transit.—National Importance of the Road.—Election ordered in Virginia.—Clauses 
of the Constitution to be separately voted upon.—Troubles in Alaska.—The President and the 
Eio'ht-Hour Law.—Proposed Reunion of the Presbyterian Church.—The Insurrection in Cuba.— 
BrTtish Views of Mr. Sumner’s Speech.—The French Elections.—Spanish Affairs. 
EDITOR’S DRAWER. 297 
Wanting a Hole.—Washing Feet.—Revival at Corning.—Dodging big Shot.—Zack Taylor and 
others satisfled.—Birth-Daj's.—Big-Footers.—Presbyterians not limited.—The Heart all right.— 
Comfortable Coffins in Scranton.—Bringing Jones Home.—Lawfully Married.—A learned Lawyer 
and an honest Man.—A Model Dedication.—About Crows and Whisky—Sitting on Crinoline 
The Stewpandect of Justinian.-Missing Mother.—A Soldier’s Farewell.—Wanted, an Umbrella.— 
Marcy’s White House Acquaintance.-Finding Indians.—Clean Shirt for a Window.—No Fighting, 
no Praying.—Enemies and Books.—Something in the Coffee.-Riches and Wings.—Anecdotes of 
Brown the Sexton.—Friendly Advice.—Treiitihg Fevers.—Manslaughter in Neva'da.—Ignoring the 
Bill.—The Red Man and the White Man, with Twelve Illustrations. 
