315;death of,429.Hopper, De Wolf, career of,265.Horoscope of the Months, A,85,187,282,376,468,560.Horse-cars, introduction of,525.Horses, the German emperor's rules for the care of,198.Hough, Emerson, anecdote of,241.Houghton, Rev. George H.,358.House That Jack Built, The, origin of,519.How They Got On in the World,145,207,331,409,501.How to Tell a Woman's Age,133.How "Yankee Doodle Came to Town,"464.Hudson River, tunnel under the,332.Hugo, Victor,491;on woman,63.Hull, General William, surrenders Detroit to the British,159.Humboldt, Friedrich Alexander von, death of,536;last words of,295.Humboldt, Wilhelm Karl von, death of,339.Humorists, American,103.Humphrey, W.B., on the American Indians,385.Hungary, rebellion of (1848-1849),432,433.Hunt, Leigh,94;love-letter of,109;death of,536.Hunter, Robert, on socialism,287.Hunting the Grizzly,341.Hutchinson, Dr. Woods, on rational diet,290.IIbsen, Henrik, reviewed by a Nevada critic,424.Ideals, Theodore Parker on,131.India:Burmese Wars,258.Hastings, Lord, victories of,162.Mahratta War,43.Red tape in,490.Scinde, annexation of,430.Indians, American, civilizing of,384.Industrial Arts, American neglect of,100.Ingalls, John J.,26.Ingalls, Rufus, anecdote of,221.Ingersoll, E.C., eulogy on,171.Ingersoll, Robert G.,404;eulogy on his brother,170;on Napoleon,469.In Nature's Wilds,176.Insects, sounds made by,515.Insurance policies sold by machines,232.Interest, increment of various rates of,50.Iodin, discovery of,160.Ireland:Famine in (1845),430.Irish Parliament, last meeting of,42.Irving, Sir Henry, death of,200.Irving, Washington,57;foible of,180;death of,535.Italy:Charles Albert of Sardinia, abdication of,433.Victor Emmanuel II, accession of,433.JJackson, Andrew, and his mother,307;takes Pensacola,161;wins battle of New Orleans,161;inauguration of,260;opposes the United States Bank,338;death of,431;grave of,488.Jacobs, Charles M., career of,331.Jacquard, Joseph, death of,339.Jail cut from solid rock,327.James, Edmund J., on China and the United States,294.Japan:Baseball in,448.First railroad in,410.Optimism of,6.Perry's mission to,532.Jefferson, Joseph, story told by,79.Jefferson, Thomas, and his mother,307;inauguration of,42;death of,259;last words of,295;grave of,487.Jeffrey, Lord, letter of,507.Jeffries, J.J., as an actor,39.Jena, battle of,44.Jenner, Dr. Richard, death of,258.Jerome, Jerome K., on American humorists,103.Jerome, William T., on criticisms of the United States Senate,292.Jerrold, Douglas,143;death of,534.Jews, prejudices against,288.Johnson, Andrew, grave of,489.Johnson, Samuel, and spelling reform,195.Joinville, Prince de, visits to the United States,550.Jordan, David Starr, career of,145;debt to his mother,310;on coeducation,196.Julian, Emperor, last words of,295.July, traditions of,468.June, the Month of Battles,330.June, traditions of,376.Junto Club, founded by Franklin,82.KKane, Elisha K., arctic expedition of,532,533.Kang Yu Wan on the new spirit in China,388.Kant, Immanuel, celibacy of,157;death of,43.Kean, Edmund, death of,200,338.Keats, John, foible of,180;last words of,295;death of,257.Keene, James R., career of,210.Keller, Helen, on the life of the blind,387;attainments of,405.Keller, Horace Seymour,415.Kellogg, Elijah,520.Kent, Duke of, in America,549.Key, Francis Scott,421;death of,430.Kinnosuke, Adachi, on Chinese students,7.Kipling, Rudyard,482;on literature,380.Kiser, S.E.,178.Kitty Fisher's Jig,465.Kléber, General, assassination of,41.Kleist, Heinrich B.W. von, suicide of,159.Knight, Stephen A., on old-time industrial conditions,378.Knott, James Proctor,320.Knox, William,27.Kosciusko, Thaddeus, death of,162.Kossuth, Louis, imprisonment of,339;leads insurrection in Hungary,432;flight of,433;visits England and the United States,531.Koszta, Martin, controversy in case of,532.Kotzebue, August von, assassination of,163.Kotzebue, Otto von, death of,431.Krehbiel, H.E., correspondence with Lafcadio Hearn,289.Krupp, Alfred, career of,146.Krupp, Friedrich, career of,146.LLackaye, Wilton, career of,263.Lafayette, Marquis de, visits the United States,258;death of,339.Laibach, Congress of,257.Lake Erie, battle of,160.Lamarck, J.B. de, death of,260.Lamb, Lady Caroline, death of,260.Lamb, Charles, anecdote of,558;death of,339.Lancaster, A.E.,358.Landor, Walter Savage, foible of,180.Languages, number of,324.Lanigan, George T.,141.Laplace, Pierre Simon de, death of,259.Last Words of Famous Men,295.Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While, The,3,97,190,284,378,470.Latimer, Hugh, last words of,295.Laughter of Childhood, The,404.Launcelot, Sir, eulogy on,170.Lavater, Johann C., death of,42.Lawrence, James, last words of,295;death of,160.Lawrence, Sir Thomas, death of,260.Lawson, Thomas W., anecdote of,559.Lee, Robert E., rebukes sectionalism,473.Legendre, Adrien M., death of,338.Legion of Honor, founded by Napoleon,42.Leigh, Henry S.,174.Leo, zodiacal sign of,560.Leo XII, Pope, death of,260.Leopardi, Alessandro, death of,339.Leslie, Eliza,497.Letters Famous for Brevity,507.Lever, Charles,137.Lewis and Clark expedition,43.Liang Cheng, Sir Chentung, on Chinese awakening,108.Light Brigade, the, charge of,533.Lighthouse, first,524.Lightning, statistics relating to,324.Lincoln, Abraham, and his mother,308;elected President,536;speech at Gettysburg,250;grave of,489;favorite poem of,26.Linguists, famous,324.Lion's Gratitude, A,88.Liquor dealers' approval of temperance,476.Literature, Rudyard Kipling on,380.Lithography, origin of,245.Little Gems from Webster,90.Little Glimpses of the Nineteenth Century,41,159,257,337,429,531.Little Stories of Big People,79.Locke, John,530.Locomotive, invention of,258;first American,260;Elihu Burritt's description of,518.Lodge, Henry Cabot, on journalistic exposures,292.Lodge, Sir Oliver, on science and the occult,479.Longevity of animals,521;of birds,453;of men in various occupations,231;of toads,124.Longfellow, Henry W.,165,455,485;foible of,180;death of wife of,164.Lossing, Benson J.,127.Louisiana, cession of,43.Lounsberry, Charles,403.Lovelace, Richard,319.Love-Letters of the Great,109.Lover, Samuel,33.Lowell, James Russell, memorial of, in Westminster Abbey,370.Lowell, Jessica H.,243.Lucy Walker, the, destruction of,451.Luncheons and breakfasts, dress for,73.Lundy's Lane, battle of,161.Luneville, Peace of,42.Luxembourg, claimed by Holland and Belgium,337.Lynch law, origin of,228.Lyte, Henry F.,269.MMacadamize, derivation of the word,514.Macaulay, Lord, foible of,180;death of,536;on the future of the United States,477.MacCracken, Henry M., on teaching as a profession,472.Macdonald, Etienne J.J., death of,340.McDonald, John B., career of,148.McGovern, Terence, as an actor,38.Machinery, increasing use of,232.McKinley, William, and his mother,308;last words of,296;grave of,490.Mackintosh, derivation of the word,514.Mackintosh, Sir James, death of,338.McLellan, Isaac,242.McMaster, Guy Humphreys,434.Madison, James, elected President,45;death of,339;grave of,487.Maeterlinck, Maurice, criticism of New York,100.Magenta, battle of,535.Maida, battle of,44.Maiook, Indian chief,367.Malibran, Marie, death of,339.Malory, Sir Thomas,170.Malta captured by the English,42.Malthus, Thomas R., death of,339;"Essay on Population,"43.Mamelukes, massacre of,159.Mammoth Cave, discovery of,46.Manin, Daniel, heads insurrection at Venice,432.Mann, Horace, death of,535.Mansfield, Richard, career of,64;on acting,381.Mantell, Robert B., career of,168.March, traditions of,86.Markham, Edwin, and his mother,310.Marlowe, Christopher,318.Marlowe, Ethel, death of,200.Marlowe, Owen, death of,200.Marlowe, Virginia, death of,200.Marriage, discussion of,289;unhappy marriages,314;proper age for,375.Marryat, Captain Frederick, death of,432.Marshall, James W., discovers gold in California,432.Marshall, John, death of,339.Martin, Edward S., on city life,105.Martin, W.A.P., on the awakening of China,6.Marvels of Precocity,392.Masham, Lord, career of,207.Masséna, Marshal, besieged in Genoa,41;driven from Portugal by Wellington,159.Matches, invention of,525.Mathematics, curiosities of,91.Mathew, Theobald, temperance crusade of,340.May, traditions of,282.May-Day, customs of,205.Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, death of,432.Menken, Adah Isaacs,389.Mérimée, Prosper,417.Metternich, Prince, death of,536.Mexico:Comonfort, Ignacio, becomes president,534;retires,535.Iturbide proclaims himself emperor,257;death of,258.Miramon, Miguel, becomes president,536.Santa Anna, Antonio de, establishes republic,258;loses battle of San Jacinto,339;becomes president,532;deposed and exiled,533.War with United States (1846-1848),431,432.Mezzofanti, Giuseppe C., linguistic abilities of,324.Miles, Nelson A., anecdotes of,304,559.Military Red Tape in India,490.Miller, Henry, career of,167.Miller, Hugh, death of,534.Miller, Joaquin,357,416.Millionaires, richest, list of,348.Milton, John,405.Mismated Men of Genius,314.Missolonghi, siege of,258;captured by Turks,259.Mitchell, John, and President Roosevelt,15,16.Money, John D. Rockefeller on,105;hidden in strange places,516.Monroe, James, becomes President,162;re-election of,163;death of,337;grave of,487.Monroe Doctrine, enunciation of,258.Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley,174.Moody, Dwight L., last words of,296.Moore, Sir John, death of,45.Moore, Thomas, verses on Robert Emmet and Miss Curran,125;death of,531.More, Hannah, death of,338.Moreau, General Jean V., wins battle of Hohenlinden,41;conspires against Napoleon,43;death of,160.Morgan, Walter V., on blessings of poverty,97.Morley, John, on books,102.Mormons, migration of, to Utah,340;rebellion of (1857),534.Morning dress,71.Morris, Gouverneur, death of,162.Mortality, Voltaire on,126.Morton, Levi P., and his mother,309.Moscow, burning of,160.Mount Vernon, Washington's farm at,513.Mourning dress,73.Mozart, W.A., precocity of,392.Munsey, Frank A.,1,95.Murat, Joachim, crowned King of Naples,45;two of his sons visit the United States,550.Murderers' Bible, The,134.Murray, Lindley, death of,259.Musicales, dress for,73.Musicians, longevity of,231.NNapier, Sir William, death of,536.Naples:Ferdinand II, death of,536.Francis II, accession of,536;expulsion of,536.Murat, Joachim, crowned king of,45.Napoleon, seeFrance.Narodny, on Russian freedom,386.Natal proclaimed a British settlement,430.National Guard, practical training for,8.National Liquor Dealers' Association, address issued by,476.Nation's Conscience Fund, The,