AActing, Richard Mansfield on,381.Actors, careers of,64,166,263,371,457,537;superstitions of,28.Actual Height of Sea Waves, The,177.Adams, John, death of,259; last words of,295;grave of,486.Adams, John Quincy, and his mother,308;elected President,258;death of,432;last words of,295;grave of,487.Adams, Maude, career of,457;story told by,304.Adeler, Max,89.Aden, annexation of,340.Advertisement, curious, of 1875,296.Afternoon dress,71.Age, how to tell,133.Age of the Earth, The,551.Air-Ship, development of the,107.Alamo, the, massacre of,339.Aleppo destroyed by earthquake,257.Alfieri, Vittorio, death of,43.Algiers captured by the French,260.Allen, Viola, career of,266.Allin, L.C., invents friction matches,525.All Kinds of Things,120,227,323,449,513.Allston, Washington, death of,430.Aluminum, discovery of,259.Ambergris, value of,519.America's Cup, the, first race for,531,557.Amiens, peace of,42.Ampère, André, death of,339.Anachronisms in art and literature,325.Anecdotes of Authors,241.Anglin, Margaret, career of,66.Animals, longevity of,521;remarkable endurance of,123.Annapolis, seeUnited States Naval Academy.Anthracite coal, first use of,45.April, traditions of,188.Aries, zodiacal sign of,187.Ariosto, Ludovico,174.Arithmetical signs, origin of,232.Arnold, Sir Edwin,363.Arnold, Thomas, death of,430.Arthur, Chester A., grave of,490.Ashburton, Lord, death of,432.Ashburton Treaty, negotiation of,429.Aspden, Joseph, invents Portland cement,1824.Asphalt, introduction of, as a pavement,246.Astor, John Jacob, and his mother,311.Astor Library, opening of,533.Astrology, traditions of,85.Athens, captured by Turks,259.Audubon, J.J., death of,531.Auerstadt, battle of,44.August, traditions of,560.Aungerville, Richard (Richard de Bury), on Books,281.Austerlitz, battle of,44.Australia: discovery of Gold,531.Status of women,55.Austria: Ferdinand I, accession of,339;abdication of,432.Francis I, death of,339.Francis Joseph, accession of,432.Hungary, rebellion of (1848-1849),432,433.Vienna captured by the French (1805),44.War with France (1800),41.War with France (1805),44.War with France (1809),46.War with France (1859),535.Authors, poor conversationalists,317.Avebury, Lord, on militarism,5.Average Ages of Animals, The,521.Ayacucho, battle of,257.BBacheller, Irving, anecdote of,241.Bachelors, famous,156.Badajos, stormed by British under Wellington,159.Balliet, T.M., on technical training,98.Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, opening of,260.Balzac, Honoré de,397;on women,346;death of,433.Banquet, Roman, description of,527.Bantry Bay, mutiny in,43.Baroda, Gaekwar of, visits the United States,551.Barr, Matthias,31.Barrett, Lawrence, and Wilton Lackaye,263.Barrows, Samuel J., on the indeterminate sentence,195.Bates, Blanche, career of,166.Battles fought in June,330.Bear-hunting, Theodore Roosevelt on,341.Beaumont and Fletcher,174.Beaux and Gallants of Former Days,525.Beethoven, Ludwig van,259;celibacy of,158;last words of,295.Beginnings of Stage Careers, The,64,166,263,371,457,537.Beginnings of Things, The,183,524.Behavior Book, The,497.Belasco, David, and Mrs. Carter,67.Belgium: Curious English from,121.Leopold I called to Belgian throne,337.Separation from Holland,260.Bell, Alexander Graham, career of,413.Bellew, Kyrle, career of,169.Bennett, H.H.,454.Bennett, James Gordon, career of,208.Béranger, Pierre Jean de, death of,534.Berlin captured by Napoleon (1806),44.Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste, seeSweden, Charles XIV of.Berry, Duc de, assassination of,163.Berzelius, Jons, death of,432.Bewick, Thomas, death of,260.Beyle, M.H. ("Stendhal"), death of,429.Bible, parallels between Shakespeare and,134;various editions of,134.Bierce, Ambrose,111.Billion, time needed to count a,453.Birds, ages of,453.Bismarck, Prince Otto von, love-letter of,110.Björnson, Björnstjerne, foible of,180.Bladensburg, battle of,161.Blaine, James G., early career of,331.Blake, William, death of,259.Blindness, Helen Keller on,387;R.W. Gilder on,387.Blind People Who Won Fame,405.Blood, circulation of,122.Blücher, Gebhard L. von, invades France,160;defeated at Ligny,161;death of,163.Blue Laws in Old New England,251.Boardman, George Dana, anecdote of,222.Bolivar, Simon, death of,260.Bonaparte, Charles Lucien, career of,550.Bonaparte, Jerome, visits America,549;marries Elizabeth Patterson,44;becomes King of Westphalia,44;is dethroned,160.Bonaparte, Joseph, King of Naples,44;King of Spain,45;residence in America,549;death of,430.Bonaparte, Letizia, death of,340.Bonaparte, Louis, King of Holland,44;death of,431.Bonaparte, Lucien, death of,340.Books, earliest printed,524;eaten by their authors,500;John Morley on,102;Richard de Bury on,281;smallest and largest,116;rejected books that proved successful,136.Borodino, battle of,159.Boston, railroad stations in,182.Bourdillon, Francis W.,305.Bozzaris, Markos, gallantry of,258;last words of,295.Brady, William A., and Wilton Lackaye,264.Brazil, foundation of the empire of,45;separation from Portugal,257;first railroad in,533.Breeches Bible, The,134.Breese, Edmund, career of,371.Britt, J.E., as an actor,38.Brooks, Phillips, last words of,295.Brotherhood of man, the, Dr. Parkhurst on,387.Brothers, eulogies on,170.Brothers to Sisters,234.Brown, Henry B., justice of United States Supreme Court, retirement of,470.Brown, John, execution of,535.Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,542.Browning, Robert, foible of,180.Brummel, Beau (George Bryan), death of,340.Brunel, Isambard K., death of,536.Bryant, William Cullen,172.Buchanan, James, inauguration of,535;grave of,489.Buckingham, Duke of (1592-1628), gorgeous costumes of,525.Buckwheat, origin of,183.Buena Vista, battle of,431.Bug Bible, The,134.Bulls in Parliament,244.Bulwer-Clayton treaty, negotiation of,433.Bunker Hill, Webster's speech on,283.Bunner, Marion Y.,85,187,282,376,468,560.Bunsen, Baron von, death of,536.Burnand, Sir Francis C., editor of "Punch,"101.Burns, John, career of,411.Burr, Aaron, trial and acquittal of,45;death of,339.Burritt, Elihu, career of,518.Burroughs, John, story told by,88.Burton, Frederick R., on the American Indians,384.Burton, Robert,174.Butler, Nicholas Murray, on the value of a college career,98.Butler, Samuel,174.Byron, Lord,462;death of,258;last words of,295;on woman,31.CCalhoun, John C., death of,433.California, occupied by Fremont,431;gold discovered in,432;pioneer journalism in,327.Camera-obscura, invention of,183.Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, on the tariff question,5.Canada: Development of,285.Railroad, first, opening of,339.Rebellion of 1837,339.Relations with the United States,286.Status of women in,55.Cancer, zodiacal sign of,468.Canning, George, death of,259.Cannon, Joseph G., on public life,474.Canova, Antonio, death of,257.Cape of Good Hope ceded to the British,160.Cards, symbolism of,556.Carlyle, Thomas, sketch of,175.Carnegie, Andrew, and spelling reform,194.Carroll, Charles, death of,338.Carroll, Lewis, seeDodgson, Charles L.Carter, Mrs. Leslie, career of,67.Cassatt, Alexander J., career of,150.Castelmary, Signor, death of,200.Castle, Henry A., on the humors of the postal service,227.Castlereagh, Viscount, suicide of,257.Cat, the, mysterious characteristics of,480.Catholic Emancipation Act,260.Cato, Marcus Porcius,368.Caxton Memorial Bible, the,134.Chalmers, Thomas, death of,432.Chamfort, Sebastien R.N., on happiness,119.Chance as a factor in inventions,245.Chapin, Benjamin, career of,460.Chapter on Puns, A,315.Chartist movement,338;petitions rejected,429,432.Chateaubriand, François René de, death of,432.Check written on pine shingle,124.Cherubini, Luigi, death of,429.Chesapeake, United States frigate, encounter with the Leopard,45;captured by the Shannon,160.Chess, popularity of, at Strohbeck,450.Chesterfield, Lord, last words of,295.Chevrial, Baron, Richard Mansfield as,65.Chicago organized as a town (1831),337.Chicago, University of, development under President Harper,10.Chile, independence declared by,163.Chillianwalla, battle of,433.China: Awakening of,6,388.America's opportunity in China,294.Chinese Commissioners in the United States,108.Taiping rebellion,433.China: Taou-Kwang, Emperor, death of,433.Chivalry, Southern, decay of,384.Choate, Joseph H., tribute to Franklin,81.Choate, Rufus, death of,535.Chopin, Frederick, anecdote of,79;death of,432.Churchill, Charles,174.Churchill, Winston, on tariff question,5.Cibber, Colley,174.City and Country Life,105.Clark, J.S., anecdote of,152.Clark, Marguerite, career of,459.Clarke, Joseph I.C.,390.Clarkson, Thomas, death of,431.Classics from Carlyle,175.Clay, Henry, death of,532.Clemens, Samuel L., seeTwain, Mark.Cleveland, Grover, on doctors and patients,106.Clinton, Sir Henry, letter to Sir John Burgoyne,516.Cloud, Virginia Woodward,30.Cobb, Colonel, speech of,427.Cobbett, William, death of,339.Coeducation: G. Stanley Hall on disadvantages of,9;David Starr Jordan on benefits of,196.Foundation of first coeducational college,532.Coincidence in a Paris court,120.Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, death of,339.College career, value of a,98.Collingwood, Admiral,43.Collins, Wilkie,272.Cologne, first use of,183.Colt, Samuel, career of,503.Columbus, Christopher, misled by birds,326;last words of,295.Commander, Lydia Kingsmill,51.Comte, Auguste, death of,534.Conde, Prince of, precocity of,392.Coné, Joe,303.Congress first meets in Washington,42.Connaught, Duke of, visits America,550.Conscience Fund of the United States Treasury,223.Constitution, United States frigate, sinks the Guerrière,159.Cooper, Sir Astley, death of,429.Cooper, James Fenimore, death of,531.Copenhagen, battle of,42.Corbett, James J., as an actor,38.Corelli, Marie, anecdote of,241.Cork, first use of,183.Corn, R.J. Oglesby's speech on,369.Corn Laws, controversy over,429;repeal of,431.Corn-mills, first records of,183.Cotton-mills, work and wages in,378."Counsels and Ideals," by Dr. William Osler,8.Cowper, William,174;death of,42;last words of,295.Crabbe, George, death of,338.Craigie, Mrs. (John Oliver Hobbes), on coeducation,9.Crane, Winthrop M., career of,410.Crawford, F. Marion, anecdote of,80;foible of,180.Creating Wealth from Waste,201.Crimean War,532,533.Cromwell, Oliver, love-letter of,110;last words of,295.Cunningham, Allan, death of,430.Cuvier, Georges, death of,338.DDaguerre, Louis J.M., perfects the daguerreotype process,183;death of,531.Dalton, John, death of,430.Daly, Augustin, and Wilton Lackaye,264.Damascus, antiquity of,301.Dantzig captured by the French,45.Darling, Grace, heroism of,340.Darrow, Clarence S., on public ownership,11.Darwin, Charles, foibles of,180.Daskam, Josephine D.,312.David, Jacques Louis, death of,258.Davies, Acton, criticism of Margaret Anglin,66.Davis, Sam,509.Davy, Sir Humphry, inventions of,43;death of,260.De Bury, Richard, on books,281.Decatur, Stephen, exploit in harbor of Tripoli,43;captures the Macedonian,159;captured by the British,161.Decoration Day, 1868-1906,250.Definitions of "A Friend,"70.Definitions of "Home,"481.De Kay, Charles, on industrial arts,100.Delaroche, Paul, death of,534.